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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
Sponsored by VMware Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
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White Papers
Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
There are many reasons for organizations to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing. One of the most cited benefits is the economics of the Cloud. Yet while many people point...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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Case Studies
Does Your Cloud Storage Strategy Measure Up?
Mar 2012
What is your cloud level? It's probably no secret to you, data centers are moving at a rapid pace to a virtualized environment. Data growth, while a good thing, can quickly become data sprawl...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery: Best Practices White Paper
Jan 2003
A disaster recovery plan covers both the hardware and software required to run critical business applications and the associated processes to transition smoothly in the event of a natural or...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Building a Cloud Computing Specification: Fundamental Engineering for Optimizing Cloud Computing Initiatives
Aug 2010
The need for a specification for Cloud Computing has emerged. The commoditization of the term "Cloud Computing" for various marketing purposes has diluted, and in some cases compromised the...
Provided by Computer Sciences
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e-Books
Private Cloud for Dummies eBook
Nov 2011
Whether public, private, or hybrid, cloud computing is becoming an increasingly integral part of many companies' business and technology strategy. Many companies want to be able to have pools of...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Analysing the Risks Involved in Cloud Computing Environments
Oct 2010
In recent years, cloud computing has been an emerging computing model in the IT industry. Machines involved in cloud computing deliver services in a scalable manner. It provides efficient...
Provided by Malardalen University
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White Papers
Architectural Requirements for Cloud Computing Systems: An Enterprise Cloud Approach
Dec 2010
Cloud Computing is a model of service delivery and access where dynamically scalable and virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. This model creates a new horizon of...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Business Continuity Planning Description and Framework
Apr 2001
The term "Disaster Recovery" and "Business Continuity" are often used interchangeably. They are in fact, different but complementary components of a business's overall recovery and continuity...
Provided by Comprehensive Consulting Solutions
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White Papers
Essential Disaster Recovery Template
Jan 2008
Keeping your business running in any situation is critical to preserving customer trust and ensuring profitability. To do so requires a disaster recovery plan that you can quickly refer to in a...
Provided by Simply Continuous
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Webcasts
New Features in BMC CONTROL-M for z/OS Version 6.2
Jun 2007
This webcast will share some of the new features that may be less obvious, but are highly useful. Also highlighted will be installations of changes needed to take advantage of these new features...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
The Benefits of Cloud Computing
Oct 2011
Although the benefits of cloud computing are clear, so is the need to develop proper security for cloud implementations. The following whitepaper provides an overview of key security issues...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Managing Service Quality Objectives in a Virtualized Environment
Jun 2007
IT organizations seek to improve operational efficiencies and at the same time be more service oriented. IT needs to know whether systems & applications are performing and delivering service in a...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Big Data and Cloud Computing: Current State and Future Opportunities
Mar 2011
Scalable DataBase Management Systems (DBMS) - both for update intensive application workloads as well as decision support systems for descriptive and deep analytics - are a critical part of the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
What's New in BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite 7.6
Nov 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn how the leading suite of service management applications delivers added value in process optimization to reduce the cost of support, reduce risk of change,...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
DYA | Infrastructure: The Architectural Foundation for the IT Infrastructure
Jan 2008
Infrastructure has always been a notable omission in the field of architecture but at last a methodology has been developed to fill that gap. Sogeti is proud to announce the newest addition to the...
Provided by Sogeti
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Webcasts
Disaster Avoidance With VMware vSphere and EMC VPLEX
Aug 2010
EMC virtual storage vision breaks down traditional barriers to enable new ways of architecting virtualized data centers. The attendee of this webcast will see how EMC VPLEX and VMware vSphere...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Public Vs. Private Cloud: Which Version of Cloud Computing Will You Adopt?
Jan 2010
Gartner forecasts that by 2012, industrialized utility and cloud-based services will account for at least 50 percent of the new demand for managed IT infrastructure services. If one is looking to...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
Can Cloud Computing Ever Replace Traditional Desktop Computing?
May 2009
Cloud computing is a new and exciting technology that is more evolutionary in design than revolutionary. Broken down to its fundamental features, cloud computing is the movement from individual...
Provided by Bowie State University
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White Papers
Eco-mode: Benefits and Risks of Energy-saving Modes of UPS Operation
Oct 2011
Many newer UPS systems have an energy-saving operating mode known as "eco-mode" or by some other descriptor. Nevertheless, surveys show that virtually no data centers actually use this mode,...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Webcasts
IT Service Management for the Midsized Business
Jul 2009
The issues faced today by many midsized businesses are not that different than those faced by large enterprises. The pressure to keep IT systems running at peak performance, manage risk, and...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Transitioning to the Cloud: Implications for Reliability, Redundancy & Recoverability
Jul 2009
The attendee will hear from leading experts in cloud computing to gain real-world insight into how their customers are using cloud computing and achieving new levels of backup, recovery and...
Provided by RightScale
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Webcasts
What's New in Remedy ITSM 6.0
Feb 2006
This webcast helps one discover how Remedy IT Service Management for the Enterprise 6.0 can provide you with greater business value and process integration though the new BMC Atrium CMDB and BMC...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Services - A Comparison
Jan 2010
This paper aims Cloud Computing services and comparisons conducted amongst Cloud Computing service suppliers. Cloud Computing service is listed as one of the leading technologies till date by...
Provided by Torry Harris Business Solutions
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White Papers
Cloud Computing - A Classification, Business Models, and Research Directions
May 2009
The paper describes a technical classification of Grid and Cloud Computing for a profound discussion on the business opportunities of the Cloud Computing paradigm. For this purpose, the paper...
Provided by Universitat Karlsruhe
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White Papers
Based on Cloud Computing E-commerce Models and Its Security
Jul 2011
As a new concept, cloud computing has attracted the IT enterprise attention especially the e-commerce enterprise. At present, there is a great problem of environmental costs during the enterprises...
Provided by Shanghai University
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Case Studies
Global Managed Hosting and Cloud Service Provider
Feb 2011
INetU is a managed hosting and cloud service provider with six datacenters in the US. Their business need is to provide security and compliance services to increase revenue automate internal...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
Pre-Testing Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plans: The Network Simulation Solution
Nov 2007
Effective IT Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity planning is essential for every business. All businesses depend on their IT services for moment-to-moment operations. So they must all...
Provided by Shunra Software
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Webcasts
How the University of Texas Averted IT Disaster During Hurricane Dolly
Aug 2009
The presenter of this webcast discuss how they used the combination of CA XOsoft and VMware virtualization to implement a cost-effective disaster recovery environment at a remote "Hot site" in...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Improving IT Infrastructure With Change Management
Jan 2009
With more and more enterprise systems moving to virtual IT environments, it is important to take the necessary steps to safeguard the entire enterprise. The presenters describe how virtualization...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
How to Do Capacity Planning
Jan 2010
It is very common for an IT organization to manage system performance in a reactionary fashion, analyzing and correcting performance problems as users report them. When problems occur, hopefully...
Provided by TeamQuest
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White Papers
Data Security Model for Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
With the development of cloud computing, Data security becomes more and more important in cloud computing. This paper analyses the basic problem of cloud computing data security. With the analysis...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Basics About Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
What is cloud computing and how can an organization decide whether to adopt it? Cloud computing is a distributed computing paradigm that focuses on providing a wide range of users with distributed...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Workflow Engine for Clouds
Nov 2010
A workflow models a process as consisting of a series of steps that simplifies the complexity of execution and management of applications. Scientific workflows in domains such as high-energy...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Next Generation Cloud Computing Architecture
Apr 2010
Cloud computing is fundamentally altering the expectations for how and when computing, storage and networking resources should be allocated, managed and consumed. End-users are increasingly...
Provided by Kawa Objects
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White Papers
Autonomic Cloud Network Orchestration: A GENI Perspective
Jul 2010
Pervasive virtualization at the edge and in the network core drives the evolution of the IT infrastructure towards a service-oriented model. It permits a move from static arrangements of resources...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Cloud Enabled Business
Jul 2010
Cloud computing, a relatively recent term builds on decades of research in virtualization, distributed computing, utility computing, networking, web and software services. It provides a service...
Provided by Institute of Management Technology
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White Papers
Towards a Security Management Reference Model for Vertical and Horizontal Collaborative Clouds
Jul 2011
The re-perimeterization and the erosion of trust boundaries already happening in organizations is amplified and accelerated by Cloud Computing. Security controls in Cloud Computing are, for the...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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Webcasts
Healthcare: Best Practices for Transforming Patient Care
Dec 2007
Delivering quality healthcare today is more critical and challenging than ever. The attendee of this webcast will learn how hospitals of all sizes are enabling faster, smarter patient care via...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) (Level 300)
Mar 2006
The Windows Management Interface (WMI) is a pervasive component of Microsoft Windows that is often useful in critical situations. Many enterprise management applications rely on WMI, so it is...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Top 10 Failure Points in Information System Implementation - How to Avoid the Press
May 2008
The most common failure in any information system implementation is end user rejection. This is true of many projects including ERP, EDRMS, and FMIS. One must therefore acknowledge that unlike...
Provided by Hindin Solutions
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White Papers
Data Center Hosting Optimization - Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies play a major role in optimizing the data centers and servers hosting aspect. This help to modernize the data center with an improvement of saving...
Provided by Versatile Solutions
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White Papers
Clearing the Clouds a Study of Emerging Scale-Out Workloads on Modern Hardware
Mar 2012
Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources. However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space and power, limiting further...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Synergy2Cloud: Introducing Cross-Sharing of Application Experiences Into the Cloud Management Cycle
Apr 2012
Automatically managing collocated cloud applications for improved performance is a hard problem due to the unprecedented scale and the dynamics of the multiplexed cloud environment. Compounding...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
A Light-Weight Solution to Preservation of Access Pattern Privacy in Un-Trusted Clouds
Jun 2011
Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that is gaining in-creased popularity. More and more sensitive user data are stored in the cloud. The privacy of users' access pattern to the data...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Maximizing Revenue With Dynamic Cloud Pricing: The Infinite Horizon Case
Feb 2012
The authors study the infinite horizon dynamic pricing problem for an infrastructure cloud provider in the emerging cloud computing paradigm. The cloud provider, such as Amazon, provides computing...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Pricing Cloud Bandwidth Reservations Under Demand Uncertainty
Apr 2012
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-as-you-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, the authors consider a novel...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation With Hybrid Cloud Pricing
Apr 2012
Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes - the subscription option...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Postcard: Minimizing Costs on Inter-Datacenter Traffic With Store-and-Forward
Apr 2012
It is typical for cloud providers to operate a number of geographically distributed datacenters, where inter-datacenter traffic constitutes a large portion of a cloud provider's traffic demand...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Intelligent Building Management Systems Using Multi Agents: Fuzzy Approach
Feb 2011
Growing needs of humanity have forced him to use modern technology in all aspects of his life. Intelligent buildings are one of these modern technologies that have great advantages for people....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
A Perspective Approach on Energy Efficiency and Cloud Faster of Mobile in Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
In this paper, the authors propose an analysis of the critical factors affecting the energy consumption of mobile clients in cloud computing and consideration to make performance very fast by...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Non-Intrusive Transaction Mining Framework to Capture Characteristics During Enterprise Modernization on Cloud
Apr 2012
The growth in the popularity of Cloud Computing, proposes to transform the way IT is consumed and managed. With promises from on-demand scaling, Cost effective solutions, faster time to market and...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Performance Measurement of Cloud Computing Services
Apr 2012
Cloud computing today has now been growing as new technologies and new business models. In distributed technology perspective, cloud computing most like client-server services like web-based or...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility Based on a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process
Aug 2011
With increasing social awareness on the issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the measurement of CSR has received considerable attention in both academic literature and managerial...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Private Virtual Infrastructure (PVI) Model for Cloud Computing
Jan 2012
Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift from the mainframe to client-server in the early 1980s. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model of IT services based on...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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White Papers
Grid Computing and Its Applications-A Survey
Oct 2011
This paper is to present the concept of cloud computing and its applications. The Grid is rapidly emerging as the dominant paradigm for wide area distributed computing. It's goal is to provide a...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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White Papers
Interoperability of Cloud Computing With Web Services
Jan 2012
Cloud Computing is regarded as the fastest growing and evolving technology in the field of computer science nowadays. Many researchers have undertaken various research projects in this field....
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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White Papers
NAMD Package Benchmarking on the Base of Armenian Grid Infrastructure
Feb 2012
The parallel scaling (parallel performance up to 48 cores) of NAMD package has been investigated by estimation of the sensitivity of interconnection on speedup and benchmark results - testing the...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
Manufacturing in the Cloud
Apr 2012
Cloud services will be a leading driver of productivity for manufacturers over the next decade, according to a new study by IDC Manufacturing Insights. Cloud-based services provide the opportunity...
Provided by inKumo
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White Papers
Desktop Virtualization in the Cloud
Jul 2011
Gartner says cloud computing is "A style of computing where massively scalable, IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service across the Internet to multiple external customers." IDC says it...
Provided by GTSI
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White Papers
A Generalized Framework for Building Scalable Load Balancing Architectures in the Cloud
Jan 2012
Load Balancing in cloud computing is dissimilar from conventional load balancing techniques, because of the limitations in conventional load balancing techniques if the authors are deployed in the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Clustering Technique to Interpret Numerical Weather Prediction Output Products for Forecast of Cloudburst
Jan 2012
With the advent of digital computers and their continuous increasing processing power, the 'Numerical Weather Prediction' (NWP) models which solve a close set of equations of atmospheric model,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Improving Contrast in Random Grids Based Visual Secret Sharing
Jan 2012
In the existing random grids based (n, n) Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) schemes, decryption is done with the help of human visual system by stacking the cipher grids. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Science and Engineering Research Support soCiety
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Case Studies
Cloud One Delivers IBM Rational Development Tools in the Cloud Using an Elastic, Highly Scalable, and Economical SaaS Model, Powered by VMware
Oct 2011
CloudOne is a market leader that provides business customers with a full set of IBM Rational tools for development in the cloud. CloudOne is a SaaS provider that enables businesses to deploy IBM...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Stanley Consultants: Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Enable Exchange Consolidation and Serverless Offices for Global Consulting Company
Jul 2009
Stanley Consultants is a worldwide provider of engineering, environmental and construction services. Stanley Consultants needed to optimize its email performance in order to help its members...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Lionbridge Technologies: Global Translation Provider Simplifies Private Cloud Administration With Portal
Jul 2010
Lionbridge translates and adapts technology products and web content to meet the linguistic and technical needs of clients around the world. Lionbridge used server virtualization to simplify its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Uni Micro: ISV Uses Virtualization Solution to Speed Development, Optimize Cloud Investments
Nov 2011
Uni Micro, a Norway-based software development firm, needed to increase its capacity to respond to new market opportunities. After successfully using Microsoft virtualization tools to trim...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Progel IT: IT Firm Uses Cloud Management Solution to Boost Agility, Customer Service
Nov 2011
Progel IT, a managed services provider in Italy, wanted better management tools to build private clouds in its virtualized development environment and to automate management of its production...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Redynamics Asia: IT Provider Adopts Private Cloud Model to Reduce Costs by $1.5 Million, Grow Faster
Nov 2011
Redynamics Asia is a fast-growing IT services provider that wanted to remove the technology barriers that limited business growth. The constant demand for more server and desktop computers...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hostway: Hosting Provider Saves $100,000, Increases Reliability With Cloud Management Solution
Nov 2011
In 2010, hosting provider Hostway used Microsoft virtualization software to launch a line of cloud computing services. Before it could expand its cloud business, it wanted a more comprehensive...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Walsh Group: Construction Firm Builds On-Demand IT Infrastructure With Private Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
Although, The Walsh Group specializes in building big things, it wanted to shrink its data center. The Chicago, Illinois - based builder of highways, skyscrapers, and subways sought to reduce...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Government of Albania: Albania Standardizes Government IT With Cloud Services, Lifts Productivity 70 Percent
Feb 2012
The ministries and agencies of the Albanian government were making great strides in their use of technology - but that became a problem. A growing number of decentralized applications ran on a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
NetBenefit: Hosting Provider Reduces Costs 40 Percent, Provisions Servers Faster With Cloud Services
Mar 2012
NetBenefit is a managed hosting provider in the United Kingdom that continuously refreshes its technology to stay competitive. It recently upgraded to Microsoft System Center 2012, so that it...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
DenizBank: Bank Delivers IT as a Service Using Private Cloud Model, Avoids $12 Million Expense
Mar 2012
DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth - but data center costs were spiraling upward. To reduce costs and speed the delivery of IT...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Housing Service Delivers New Features Faster With Hyper-V-Based Cloud Solution
Mar 2012
The customer is a national online apartment search service. To stay competitive, it needs to roll out new services quickly and deliver outstanding performance for approximately 6 million visitors...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
T-Systems: Hosting Provider Aims to Fix 60 Percent of IT Incidents With Automation Solution
Apr 2012
T-Systems was eager to adopt cloud computing so that it could aggressively drive down IT costs and improve service availability. To create a cloud computing environment as quickly as possible,...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Availability Metrics for Cloud Vibrant Behaviour With Benchmarks Influence on Diverse Facets
Jan 2012
Cloud computing is the record significant encroachment used in emergent industries and additional miniature and huge sized corporations, so the demand on accessing the quality of cloud...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Reducing Total Power Consumption Method in Cloud Computing Environments
Mar 2012
The widespread use of cloud computing services is expected to increase the power consumed by ICT equipment in cloud computing environments rapidly. This paper first identifies the need of the...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for Academic Environment
Feb 2012
In traditional computing, the authors install software programs on system (computer) update the hardware as per their requirements. Documents they create or save are stored in their computer....
Provided by IRPN Press
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White Papers
Architecting the Cloud: Prospects and Problems
Mar 2012
Highly-available and scalable web hosting can be a complex and expensive venture. Traditional scalable web architectures have not only needed to implement complex solutions to ensure high levels...
Provided by IRPN Press
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White Papers
Comparative Study of Scalability and Availability in Cloud and Utility Computing
Dec 2011
Cloud computing and Utility computing paradigms are two resource sharing architectures. The vivid and multi-institutional natures of these environments instigate different challenges in context of...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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Webcasts
Role of Automation in Cloud Computing
Oct 2010
Data Center Automation has become exciting again, especially in the cloud: find out why in this webinar. In recent years innovations like virtualization and cloud computing have created new...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Elastic, Scalable, On-Demand IT Services for Everyone
Apr 2010
Cloud computing promises enormous opportunities for organizations to cut costs and speed time to market while eliminating the heavy investment in IT capital and operating expenses traditionally...
Provided by Cloud.com
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White Papers
Designing IT Infrastructure to Meet Your Business Goals
Mar 2007
Designing an IT infrastructure plan that meets the current and future business goals is well worth the time and energy required. Mistakes or lost opportunities can be expensive and limit growth in...
Provided by J.P. Schwartz
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White Papers
VCONF: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Virtual Machines Auto-Configuration
Jun 2009
Virtual Machine (VM) technology enables multiple VMs to share resources on the same host. Resources allocated to the VMs should be re-configured dynamically in response to the change of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Provisioning Spot Market Cloud Resources to Create Cost-Effective Virtual Clusters
Aug 2011
Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are offering their unused resources in the form of variable-priced Virtual Machines (VMs), known as "Spot instances", at prices significantly lower than their...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
A Scheduling Algorithm for Private Clouds
Jul 2011
In contrast with public clouds, private clouds have some unique features, especially when related to workflow scheduling. Of course, the trade-off problem between power and performance remains to...
Provided by Shanghai University
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White Papers
Review of Trust-Based File Sharing in Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
The recent advances in cloud computing have risen a number of unforeseen security related issues in different aspects of cloud environments. Among these, the problem of guaranteeing secure access...
Provided by University of Brasilia
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White Papers
Parallel and Distributed Simulation From Many Cores to the Public Cloud
Jun 2011
In this paper, the authors will firstly review some basic simulation concepts and then introduce the parallel and distributed simulation techniques in view of some new challenges of today and...
Provided by University of Bologna
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White Papers
Can Cloud Computing Ever Replace Traditional Desktop Computing?
May 2009
Cloud computing is a new and exciting technology that is more evolutionary in design than revolutionary. Broken down to its fundamental features, cloud computing is the movement from individual...
Provided by Bowie State University
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White Papers
Transit Portal: Bringing Connectivity to the Cloud
Jun 2009
Computing in the cloud is becoming more common as companies migrate their applications into cloud computing platforms to reduce maintenance costs and increase availability. Cloud hosting...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
There are many reasons for organizations to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing. One of the most cited benefits is the economics of the Cloud. Yet while many people point...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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White Papers
Building an 'Agile' Response to Change
Oct 2008
Agility is the ability of an organisation in whole, or in part as required, to transform itself competently in order to manage or exploit a new situation. Systemic agility is achieved by preparing...
Provided by Hitachi
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Case Studies
IBM Helps Honolulu Fast-Track a Technology Overhaul
Dec 2007
When Mufi Hannemann took office as mayor of the City and County of Honolulu on January 2, 2005, he brought with him a deep appreciation for information technology- and a keen understanding of what...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Workforce Management Specialist Anchors IT Architecture With HP Hardware
Mar 2009
Fieldglass is the leading provider of a unified technology application for acquiring contingent workers, service providers and direct hires. Fieldglass wanted to minimize technology hardware...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Classes' Compact Format, Hands-On Practice Target Critical Excel Skills
Nov 2008
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is critical to Customer Operations staff that supports HP's Australian Outsourcing Services (OS) organization. They wanted to improve proficiency in...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Saurabh Harmony Business Analysis
Jan 2009
As future unfolds for an organization, it should be the organization's Endeavour to blend new thoughts and ideas into their Organization culture. The organization culture of harmony embodies the...
Provided by Amazon.com
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White Papers
Microsoft Infrastructure Guidance: Overview
Oct 2008
The Healthcare Platform Optimisation Guidance and Tools an accelerated approach to planning, designing, deploying and operating an infrastructure solution in accordance with current best practices...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
White Paper on Internationalization
Apr 2009
At an internationalized university, the international arena is not seen as one more dimension of the courses offer, the researches undertake, or the experiences offer students. Instead, it forms...
Provided by University of Kentucky
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White Papers
The Uppsala Model and the Internationalization of Fast-Moving e-Commerce Companies
Aug 2007
This paper has suggested that the Uppsala model of internationalization cannot fully outline the internationalization of e-commerce companies which tends to be more time-compressed and imply...
Provided by Kizuna
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White Papers
The Internationalisation Process of the Smaller Firm: An Examination of the Craft Microenterprise
Dec 2008
This work involves an examination of the internationalisation process of the smaller firm, focusing on the craft enterprise in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Craft sector analysis...
Provided by University of Stirling
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White Papers
Paving the Way for a Dynamic and Mature ICT Infrastructure in Education: A Case for Schools in Emerging Markets
Oct 2007
According to the Gartner Group, more than 70% of the Information Technology budget in today's enterprises is destined to maintenance. The IT (Information Technology) infrastructure in schools is...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Five Critical Recovery Flaws Your Last Disaster Recovery Test Missed
Apr 2009
Businesses today are spending millions of dollars to develop and maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructures that will ensure business continuity. But despite such huge investments of time and...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Major Online Lender Uses Infrastructure Optimization to Help Manage Growth, Profits
Jun 2009
Quicken Loans, the top online mortgage lender, needed to know if its core technology infrastructure was optimized to support its business and its rapid growth. To do so, it turned to BT, a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Government IT Uses System Rationalization Plan to Identify Cost Savings for Schools
Jun 2009
C2k is a government agency that provides central IT services to approximately 1,200 schools throughout Northern Ireland. C2k's suppliers include HP for Wide-Area Network (WAN) services and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
HP Helps Alphawest Enhance the Availability and Performance of Its Clients' IT Infrastructure
Jun 2009
Alphawest is one of Australia's leading national Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Services companies, providing innovative solutions to the government, legal, educational and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Sun Solutions for the Public Sector: Maximizing the Value of Stimulus Fund Investments
Apr 2009
With the establishment of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), vital funds are being allocated to state and local governments - particularly in the areas of municipal,...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Building a Low Latency Infrastructure for Electronic Trading
Feb 2009
As the global financial markets continue to shift towards electronic trading, the speed at which trading is able to take place establishes the winners and the losers among participants in the...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Deploying and Implementing a Unified Communications Solution
Nov 2008
A Unified Communication (UC) infrastructure opens the door for employees to communicate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently. The business advantages of UC are clear: increased...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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White Papers
DYA | Infrastructure: The Architectural Foundation for the IT Infrastructure
Jan 2008
Infrastructure has always been a notable omission in the field of architecture but at last a methodology has been developed to fill that gap. Sogeti is proud to announce the newest addition to the...
Provided by Sogeti
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Webcasts
IT Service Management for the Midsized Business
Jul 2009
The issues faced today by many midsized businesses are not that different than those faced by large enterprises. The pressure to keep IT systems running at peak performance, manage risk, and...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Reduce the Effort Related to Configuration Change by Up to 90 Percent
Mar 2009
BMC Service Automation automates repetitive, manual tasks (such as provisioning, patching and compliance) to reduce the margin for error and allow IT to get things done more quickly. It also makes...
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Webcasts
Mirror-Based Disaster Recovery and Your Batch Environment
Feb 2008
Everyone is familiar with the havoc that problems in the nightly batch schedule can cause with the start of the "Online day." If one's site has implemented a mirror-based disaster recovery process...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Intel Setup and Configuration Service: Deployment and Capacity Model White Paper
May 2008
This SCS deployment and capacity planning white paper presents architectural and infrastructure guidance for deploying Intel setup and configuration service in various enterprise scenarios. The...
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White Papers
APM: The Key to EITM Success
Apr 2009
Running a streamlined and efficient IT organization that is aligned with the goals of the business is critical for today's leading-edge companies. However, IT must not simply support the business;...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
Bucks New University and HP Provide Students With State-of-the-Art Facilities
Oct 2008
Bucks New University is a mature, dynamic and forward looking institution, which provides inclusive and relevant education that prepares graduates for their future employment and enhances career...
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Case Studies
KCP&L Powers Kansas City With Help From End-to-End HP Business Technology
Apr 2009
KCP&L powers Kansas City wanted to simplify, consolidate and unify storage and server infrastructure with HP as primary provider, for a more forward-looking, cost-effective electric utility that...
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! Getting Started in IT Consulting (Level 100)
Aug 2009
Thinking of making the leap into IT consulting? Want to join the ranks of small business owners making their own mark in the world? One can! The presenter of this webcast will discuss the...
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Webcasts
Enable Efficient Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Platforms and Applications
Jul 2009
Under pressure to meet high recovery point and recovery time objectives, many organizations are struggling to create a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan for their Microsoft platforms and applications....
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Providence Health & Services - Oregon: Case Study in OS Streaming and Application Virtualization
Nov 2008
Driven by the need to control costs of desktop management, Providence Health & Services - Oregon (PH&S - Oregon) recently undertook an initiative to gain greater control and standardization of...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Berendsen Increases Earnings by 2% and Reduces Auditing Costs Through Automation and Expanded Visibility
Aug 2009
A/S rents, launders, and supplies textiles and hygiene solutions to customers in the private and public sectors. Dynamic and flexible pricing is vital in this competitive market, where Berendsen...
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