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Virtualizing the Infrastructure With Sun x86 Blades
Apr 2009
Sun Microsystems has a long history of engineering systems that are optimized for network-enabled workloads. In the age of blade servers, this is translating into new designs for network...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Customer Case Study: A L Filters
Nov 2009
Companies undergoing rapid expansion can all too soon find their IT infrastructures becoming unwieldy, inadequate and expensive to manage. Switching to virtualization with a consolidated and...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Snap-In, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade
Feb 2008
This white paper explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Quantifying the value of investments in Application Performance Management
Dec 2009
As distributed software systems have become an integral part of business, the need to manage service delivery and quality in a cost-effective manner has grown in importance. HP provides an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Dell Solution Helps National Yang-Ming University Hospital Reduce Server Footprint by 50 Percent
Feb 2009
National Yang-Ming University Hospital was faced with an existing IT infrastructure that could no longer provide the reliability and performance required to ensure the provision of quality...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Nanotechnology Specialist Deploys Dell High Performance Cluster in a Single Afternoon
Mar 2009
Software and services company in Silicio wanted to build a high-performance computing platform to help nanotechnology companies simulate complex manufacturing processes. The company added an...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Unitech Printed Circuit Board Corp Simplifies IT Infrastructure and Cuts Energy Consumption by 30 Percent With Dell PowerEdge Servers
Feb 2009
Unitech's overly high procurement expenditure and maintenance bills were weighing down the circuit board manufacturer. Unitech wanted to simplify its IT infrastructure, and adopt a robust solution...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Biophysics Institute Works Up to 80 Per Cent Faster to Map Proteins, Using HPC Blade Solution With Intel Xeon Processors
Aug 2009
Computational researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics needed to expand their high-performance computing cluster. With limited datacentre space and cooling capacity, the expansion had...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
French Hosting Provider Reduces Energy Costs by 40 Per Cent With Latest Dell Blades
Aug 2009
ASP Serveur had to control an increasingly complex server infrastructure. Because the company was buying new servers regularly, it was spending more resources on power, server space and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Blackboard Enriches the Educational Experience With Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers That Provide 99.7% Availability in the Classroom
Aug 2009
Blackboard needs a highly available, scalable platform for its mission-critical learning management system offered through managed hosting from six global data centers. Ease of set-up and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Geotrace Technologies Takes Multi-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Sea to Power an Onboard Processing Center for Oil and Gas Exploration
Apr 2009
Geotrace Technologies offers some of the world's most comprehensive petroleum reservoir imaging and analysis services. The company's proprietary software tools, which enable Geotrace to obtain...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Virtual Testing Software Specialist Chooses Intel Cluster Ready High Performance Cluster From Dell to Develop Life-Saving Applications
Mar 2009
ESI Group is a specialist in virtual testing software. The company needed to deploy a powerful and scalable high performance cluster quickly, to help develop its Pam-Crash application - the...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Sharp Brings Daily Reports to Life With IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator
Oct 2009
Sharp was using spreadsheets to collate and communicate business performance data throughout the company. With sixty manufacturing and sales sites worldwide, the collection process was slow and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
SECAR Revs Up Performance and Scalability With IBM BladeCenter Solution
Sep 2009
SECAR BOHEMIA, a.s., was founded in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1992. The company needed to upgrade their server environment to gain improved memory capacity, performance, and energy savings as...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
INTTRA Supports the Global Supply Chain With a World-Class IT Infrastructure From IBM
Aug 2009
INTTRA, short for "International trade," was formed in 2000 for the purpose of providing a multi-carrier e-commerce platform for the booking and documentation of ocean containerized shipping....
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Delivers an Efficient IT Solution for Union de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA
Jul 2009
Union de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA is a Peruvian brewing company that operates numerous breweries in Latin America. The company had two main goals in mind when they began...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Banco ABC Brasil Improves Performance and Meets Regulatory Compliance With a New IBM Information Infrastructure Supported by Global Technology Services
Jul 2009
Over the past four years, Banco ABC Brasil had seen an astonishing 40 - 50 percent growth rate. Hampered by an antiquated IT infrastructure, the institution was having difficulty meeting increased...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Food Project (Siam) Co., Ltd. Teams With IBM to Build a Solid Foundation for Lawson ERP
Jun 2009
Food Project needed to standardize their IT infrastructure to improve efficiency by integrating disparate servers and applications, with the goal of reducing unnecessary complexity in their...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Dancerace Moves to a Leading-Edge Infrastructure With IBM i on BladeCenter
May 2009
With growing demand for a hosted version of its asset-based lending solution, Dancerace wanted to find a more flexible and compact alternative to its existing infrastructure. Outstanding...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Southwestern/Great American Virtualizes on IBM BladeCenter for Full Disaster Recovery
Apr 2009
Southwestern/Great American relied on multiple systems to manage its business for many years. But there was little application integration between the environments. Read this case study to see how...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Dell Adds Computing Muscle to 'Hulk' High-Performance Cluster at German University in Five Working Days
Aug 2009
A high-performance computer cluster at Jacobs University was reaching its limitations due to the increasing number of personnel using the facility to help with their research programmes. The...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
HP Insight Orchestration Template for HP BladeSystem Matrix - Microsoft SharePoint 2007 1000 User Configuration
Jun 2009
This white paper describes an example template for provisioning the infrastructure for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using HP BladeSystem Matrix with HP Insight Orchestration (HP IO)....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Importing the HP BladeSystem Matrix Application Template Kit for SAP Into HP Insight Orchestration
Jun 2009
HP has created reference architecture for the SAP environment focusing on using HP Insight Orchestration to provision an additional SAP application server (dialog instance) for a given SAP...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Using HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Blade Servers to Create a Virtualized Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Farm
Jun 2009
This paper documents the HP testing results achieved when evaluating a solution utilizing the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade server to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a highly...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Optimizing VMware View Desktop Virtualization With IBM System Storage N Series, System x and BladeCenter
Feb 2009
Users in the corporate environment depend on their desktop applications for a wide variety of day-to-day business functions. They regularly access sensitive information assets on a range of...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Blade Platforms and Network Convergence
Nov 2008
Organizations stand to gain significant improvements in operational efficiencies by deploying converged networks along with blade server deployments. Because of the dominance of Ethernet in the...
Provided by Blade
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White Papers
N-Port Virtualization in the Data Center
Mar 2008
As customers change their data center architectures to further consolidate data center resources, network-based technology must continue to change to help design and manage the number of devices...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco N-Port Virtualizer and FlexAttach: Simplify Large-Scale Blade Server Fibre Channel SAN Deployments
Aug 2008
Cisco recognizes that many customers are deploying blade servers. These customers often are looking for a simple and flexible SAN connectivity solution for large-scale blade server deployments....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada Finds Business Agility in IT Virtualization, Reducing Deployment Time for New Services and Eliminating 40 Percent of Its Physical Servers
Nov 2009
Harley-Davidson wanted to introduce new services to meet business requirements and ensure Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) with retail partners are met, while minimizing the maintenance load on a...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
e2M Improves Data Recovery Success Rate From 60% to 100%, Thanks to Dell and Symantec
Dec 2009
Engineering and environmental firm e2M manages large volumes of project data in 12 geographically separated offices. Each office was backing up all of its data locally and storing backups on site,...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
The AMD Opteron Processor Helps AISO Grow Its 'Green' Business by Courting Eco-Friendly Customers
Sep 2008
Affordable Internet Services Online, Inc. (AISO) founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Edmunds.com
May 2009
Fast responses like that make Edmunds.com the premier Web source for automotive information. The more quickly and efficiently its systems operations group can develop, test, deploy and maintain...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Virgin Media
Apr 2009
Like any organization in the current financial downturn, Virgin Media needs to bring its data center management costs under control and still meet the reliability and time-to-market requirements...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Dada S.p.A
Dec 2009
Dada refers to itself as 'The Music Movement' - an online community where individuals can network socially and share their musical tastes. However, few markets are growing and changing as quickly...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC BladeLogic Keeps Airport Flying During Data Center Move
Apr 2009
Operational Services GmbH & Co. wanted to move about 125 mission-critical applications to new data center - and move half of them to new hardware - with minimal downtime. After a detailed survey...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
Configuring and Installing HP Blade Servers
Apr 2004
The advantages of blade servers include greater versatility, ease of deployment and serviceability, and cost savings. When combined with VMware ESX Server, and optionally with VMware...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Server Consolidation With IBM System x and BladeCenter Power by Intel Xeon Processors: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
Jul 2009
In today's challenging economy organizations are focusing more than ever on how they can reduce costs while maintaining operations. With tightened liquidity and an uncertain economic outlook,...
Provided by Alinean
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White Papers
Low-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing
Aug 2009
Enterprise and scientific data sets double every year, forcing similar growths in storage size and power consumption. As a consequence, current system architectures used to build data warehouses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Extreme Computing: HP's New Blades Target HPC, Cloud Computing, and the Next-Generation Datacenter
Jun 2008
HP understands that blade-based systems will not meet the requirements of all users; therefore, the company includes the BladeSystem c-Class as an option in its overall Unified Cluster Portfolio....
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Integrated Hypervisor Virtualization Technologies in HP BladeSystem ProLiant Server Blades and ProLiant Servers
Jul 2008
The enterprise has quickly adopted virtualization, which has stimulated development of new methods for deploying the hypervisor (the virtualization layer). HP ProLiant iVirtualization integrates...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Implementing Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) Solution With IBM BladeCenter Using BNT Virtual Fabric Switch and QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module
Jun 2009
This paper illustrates the technical details of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) implementations with IBM BladeCenter, BNT 10 port 10G switch modules and the QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Deploy Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) Solution With IBM BladeCenter and System x Using the IBM Converged Switch B32 (Brocade 8000)
Jun 2009
This paper illustrates the technical implementation details of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution with IBM BladeCenter. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the configuration...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Managing IBM System X Servers, Blades, and BladeCenter Chassis Using Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager and the IBM Hardware Management Pack
Sep 2010
The IBM Hardware Management Pack is imported easily into System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Once installed, the SCOM discovery wizard can discover IBM System x Servers, Blades, and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware vSphere on IBM System x3850 X5
Oct 2010
Virtualization plays a major role in driving improvements in SAP landscapes. IBM System x and BladeCenter servers with eX5 Technology offer customers benefits including higher utilization, reduced...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Context and Value of a Fully Virtualized Storage Infrastructure
Nov 2009
HP is one of only a very few organizations today that could even attempt what is represented by the Virtualized Storage Infrastructure and its umbrella superstructure, the Converged...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Red Hat Solutions Deliver Performance and Savings Boosts for CQUniversity Australia (Central Queensland University)
Oct 2008
CQUniveristy Australia (Central Queensland University) was founded in 1967 as the Queensland Institute of Technology (Capricornia). They wanted to migrate from an HP Tru64 Unix environment to a...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Swedish National Police Board Experiences Impressive Cost Savings With JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Jan 2010
Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) is the law enforcement agency for the country of Sweden. The SNPB wanted to replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Wincor Nixdorf Improves Performance and Reduces Costs by Over 80 Percent Using VMware Solutions
Jul 2010
As one of the world's leading providers of IT solutions and services for retail banks and commercial enterprises, Wincor Nixdorf aims to optimize business processes in branches of banks and...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Monash University Health Sciences Gets Research Results in a Week Instead of Months Using a Dell and Red Hat-Based High-Performance Computing Cluster
Jan 2010
Melbourne-based Monash University, Australia's largest university is known as a worldwide leader in biomedical research. Monash University needed to construct a high-performance computing (HPC)...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Etisalat Sri Lanka Transforms I.T. Infrastructure With Scalability and Cost Savings of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Apr 2010
Etisalat Sri Lanka was the first cellular network to be established in the island nation. Etisalat wanted to set up a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective IT infrastructure to support the...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Southwestern/Great American, Inc.
Sep 2008
Southwestern/Great American has a long history: 153 years, to be precise. In 1855, the company's focus was religious tracts, but today it has a dozen distinct lines of business, including direct...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Sheremetyevo Cargo
Jul 2010
Sheremetyevo Cargo wanted the upgrade of central IT infrastructure and provisioning of high level performance, reliability and fault tolerance for data storage and processing operations for high...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Red Hat Provides Spanish Financial Services Association, ATCA, With a Stable and Scalable Solution for Its Electronic Banking System
Dec 2009
Asociacion Tecnica Cajas de Ahorros (ATCA) was founded in 1990 by several savings banks with the purpose of establishing a collaboration framework to help improve customer service. They wanted to...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Arabian Automobiles Transforms Its Business Technology Infrastructure With Itanium 2 - Based HP Integrity Servers Running Linux
Nov 2007
Arabian Automobiles is one of the largest automobile distributors in the Middle East and the sole distributor for Nissan, Infiniti, and Renault in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. Arabian...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
ITI Neovision Deploys Red Hat Virtualization Technology on HP Bladesystem to Improve Hardware Efficiency and Achieve Cost Savings
Oct 2009
The ITI Group is Poland's leading media and entertainment group. ITI Neovision looked to replace its enterprise platform solution, with a virtualized environment that could be supported by local...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Australian Administration Services (AAS)
Jan 2008
AAS is one of the leading specialists in superannuation administration, delivering backend superannuation services to 280,000 employers and four million members in Australia. Australian...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Religare Securities
Aug 2008
Religare Securities Limited is one of India's leading equities and securities firms and offers services spanning equity broking, depository participant, portfolio management, institutional...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Radio Television of Serbia Builds Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Using VMware Infrastructure to Deliver Press Center Desktops During Eurovision Song Contest '08
Aug 2009
Radio Television of Serbia faced a significant challenge in delivering desktop resources to around 3500 journalists covering the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Radio Television wanted to create an...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Forbes Marshall
Oct 2009
Headquartered in Pune, India, and with 1,000 staff across 20 locations, Forbes Marshall supplies steam engineering and control instrumentation products to customers internationally. Forbes...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
BMC Control-M for BMC Bladelogic Customers
Aug 2010
Virtualization management is quickly becoming a standard requirement for effective enterprise workload automation. Learn how two of the leading solutions from BMC Software Inc., BMC Control-M...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
Heart Link Online N.V.-Belgium Launches Telemedicine Solution on Highly Scalable Hardware Platform
Jun 2010
Heart Link Online N.V. wanted to create a hardware infrastructure for the company's new telemedicine solution that is not only highly reliable and secure, but that can, scale to serve millions of...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Hisar School Reduces Hardware Costs by 75% and Accelerates Server Backups by 90%
May 2010
Hisar School wanted to consolidate 15 servers to reduce space and power consumption and ease server management while providing a stable, around-the-clock availability learning environment and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems From Oracle
Jun 2010
Blade server architecture offers considerable promise toward addressing these issues through increased compute density, improved serviceability, and reduced levels of complexity. Unfortunately,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Sun Constellation System Supports Complex Numerical Flow Simulations
Oct 2008
C2A2S2E, the Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), is a globally recognized interdisciplinary center of excellence for...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
High-Performance Computing Consortium Gains Breakthrough Performance and Eco Efficiency With Sun Constellation System
Nov 2009
Founded in 2001, CLUMEQ is part of Compute Canada, a network of high-performance computing installations throughout Canada. Based in the province of Quebec, CLUMEQ operates supercomputing...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Don't Miss the Oracle Virtualization Online Forum
Aug 2010
Join us for the live Virtualization Online Forum, as Oracle's Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, and John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems, kick-off a full agenda of analyst,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Standard Chartered Pooled Resources, Repurposed as Needed
Jul 2009
One of the world's most international banks, with operations in more than 50 countries, Standard Chartered PLC selected the Primergy system for its core retail-banking application globally....
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Case Study: Valbury Asia Securities
Jul 2010
Established in February 2000, Valbury Asia Securities (VAS) is a brokerage investment company that focuses on the equity and bond market. Valbury needed to revamp its IT infrastructure to...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Case Study: Siemens Indonesia
Jul 2010
Siemens has been actively engaged in supporting Indonesia's infrastructure with innovative technologies since 1855. Siemens needed to consolidate IT resources after facing complexity in managing...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Whitepapers
HP BladeSystem Matrix: Delivering the Converged Infrastructure
Jun 2010
Private clouds delivered through converged systems will be commonplace in the datacenter of the future due to reductions in both capital and operation expenses, as well as the business agility...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
DreamWorks Gets Closer to Setting More Records
Jun 2010
It's one of life's most universal pleasures: enter a movie theatre, sit back in a comfortable chair, watch a screen, and be swept away. DreamWorks Animation SKG (DreamWorks) delivers this pleasure...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Using VDI for Telecommuting
Jan 2010
In February 2010, an epic snowstorm struck Washington, D.C. The U.S. government lost nearly $70 million a day due to lost productivity. The workers have their own union with specific service-level...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Call Center Deploys Virtual Blade Technology to Streamline Infrastructure
Oct 2008
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, LiveOps provides the leading on-demand call center platform that provides greater flexibility, quality, scalability, and control than traditional call...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Wind Farm Developer Assesses Sites 20 Times Faster and Cuts Power Use by Around 75 Per Cent With Dell Blade Cluster
Apr 2010
Voted one of the UK's top 50 green companies by The Sunday Times, RES (Renewable Energy Systems) is one of the world's leading renewable energy developers, having built more than 80 wind farms...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Australia's University of Southern Queensland Uses Dell Technology to Expand Online Learning While Improving Energy Efficiency by Approximately 40 Percent
May 2010
University of Southern Queensland wanted to enhance online learning programs to serve a growing worldwide student population and add new server capacity to support the programs - without exceeding...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Avoids Data Center Expansion, Reduces Rack Space Required to Scale by 50% With Dell Blades and VMware
Jul 2010
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center needed to simplify and upgrade its IT infrastructure to meet tight space requirements and higher performance standards, while providing a scalable solution...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Accelerating Dell PowerEdge Blade Server Migration With Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7
Jan 2008
The total cost of ownership benefits of a modular blade enclosure has resulted in physical consolidation on blades becoming increasingly popular. Designed as Dell's fastest deployment server ever,...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Fujitsu's PRIMERGY BX620 S4 Blade Server for Solving Server Consolidation Problems
Jan 2008
Based on a technical analysis of about 9000 business talks given by Fujitsu for customers, the paper found that amid the ongoing IT system optimization at enterprises, blade servers had become an...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
dell ebook refresh
Jul 2010
Even amidst the enforced frugality of a recession, some expenditures are worthwhile. For the cost-consious IT departments of small and midsize businesses (SMB's), refreshing server hardware is one...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
dell ebook virt
Jul 2010
Not big enough for virtualization? Think again! Survey shows SMB's reap the same benefits as the enterprise, including reduced costs, improved reliability and disaster recovery and a measurable ROI.
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Food Project (Siam) Co., Ltd. Teams With IBM to Build a Solid Foundation for Lawson ERP
Jun 2009
Food Project needed to standardize their IT infrastructure to improve efficiency by integrating disparate servers and applications, with the goal of reducing unnecessary complexity in their...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Dancerace Moves to a Leading-Edge Infrastructure With IBM i on BladeCenter
May 2009
With growing demand for a hosted version of its asset-based lending solution, Dancerace wanted to find a more flexible and compact alternative to its existing infrastructure. Outstanding...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Southwestern/Great American Virtualizes on IBM BladeCenter for Full Disaster Recovery
Apr 2009
Southwestern/Great American relied on multiple systems to manage its business for many years. But there was little application integration between the environments. Read this case study to see how...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Dell Adds Computing Muscle to 'Hulk' High-Performance Cluster at German University in Five Working Days
Aug 2009
A high-performance computer cluster at Jacobs University was reaching its limitations due to the increasing number of personnel using the facility to help with their research programmes. The...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
HP Insight Orchestration Template for HP BladeSystem Matrix - Microsoft SharePoint 2007 1000 User Configuration
Jun 2009
This white paper describes an example template for provisioning the infrastructure for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using HP BladeSystem Matrix with HP Insight Orchestration (HP IO)....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Importing the HP BladeSystem Matrix Application Template Kit for SAP Into HP Insight Orchestration
Jun 2009
HP has created reference architecture for the SAP environment focusing on using HP Insight Orchestration to provision an additional SAP application server (dialog instance) for a given SAP...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Using HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Blade Servers to Create a Virtualized Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Farm
Jun 2009
This paper documents the HP testing results achieved when evaluating a solution utilizing the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade server to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a highly...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Optimizing VMware View Desktop Virtualization With IBM System Storage N Series, System x and BladeCenter
Feb 2009
Users in the corporate environment depend on their desktop applications for a wide variety of day-to-day business functions. They regularly access sensitive information assets on a range of...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Blade Platforms and Network Convergence
Nov 2008
Organizations stand to gain significant improvements in operational efficiencies by deploying converged networks along with blade server deployments. Because of the dominance of Ethernet in the...
Provided by Blade
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White Papers
N-Port Virtualization in the Data Center
Mar 2008
As customers change their data center architectures to further consolidate data center resources, network-based technology must continue to change to help design and manage the number of devices...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco N-Port Virtualizer and FlexAttach: Simplify Large-Scale Blade Server Fibre Channel SAN Deployments
Aug 2008
Cisco recognizes that many customers are deploying blade servers. These customers often are looking for a simple and flexible SAN connectivity solution for large-scale blade server deployments....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada Finds Business Agility in IT Virtualization, Reducing Deployment Time for New Services and Eliminating 40 Percent of Its Physical Servers
Nov 2009
Harley-Davidson wanted to introduce new services to meet business requirements and ensure Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) with retail partners are met, while minimizing the maintenance load on a...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
e2M Improves Data Recovery Success Rate From 60% to 100%, Thanks to Dell and Symantec
Dec 2009
Engineering and environmental firm e2M manages large volumes of project data in 12 geographically separated offices. Each office was backing up all of its data locally and storing backups on site,...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
The AMD Opteron Processor Helps AISO Grow Its 'Green' Business by Courting Eco-Friendly Customers
Sep 2008
Affordable Internet Services Online, Inc. (AISO) founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Edmunds.com
May 2009
Fast responses like that make Edmunds.com the premier Web source for automotive information. The more quickly and efficiently its systems operations group can develop, test, deploy and maintain...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Virgin Media
Apr 2009
Like any organization in the current financial downturn, Virgin Media needs to bring its data center management costs under control and still meet the reliability and time-to-market requirements...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Dada S.p.A
Dec 2009
Dada refers to itself as 'The Music Movement' - an online community where individuals can network socially and share their musical tastes. However, few markets are growing and changing as quickly...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC BladeLogic Keeps Airport Flying During Data Center Move
Apr 2009
Operational Services GmbH & Co. wanted to move about 125 mission-critical applications to new data center - and move half of them to new hardware - with minimal downtime. After a detailed survey...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
Configuring and Installing HP Blade Servers
Apr 2004
The advantages of blade servers include greater versatility, ease of deployment and serviceability, and cost savings. When combined with VMware ESX Server, and optionally with VMware...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Server Consolidation With IBM System x and BladeCenter Power by Intel Xeon Processors: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
Jul 2009
In today's challenging economy organizations are focusing more than ever on how they can reduce costs while maintaining operations. With tightened liquidity and an uncertain economic outlook,...
Provided by Alinean
-
White Papers
Low-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing
Aug 2009
Enterprise and scientific data sets double every year, forcing similar growths in storage size and power consumption. As a consequence, current system architectures used to build data warehouses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Extreme Computing: HP's New Blades Target HPC, Cloud Computing, and the Next-Generation Datacenter
Jun 2008
HP understands that blade-based systems will not meet the requirements of all users; therefore, the company includes the BladeSystem c-Class as an option in its overall Unified Cluster Portfolio....
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
-
Whitepapers
Integrated Hypervisor Virtualization Technologies in HP BladeSystem ProLiant Server Blades and ProLiant Servers
Jul 2008
The enterprise has quickly adopted virtualization, which has stimulated development of new methods for deploying the hypervisor (the virtualization layer). HP ProLiant iVirtualization integrates...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Technologies in HP ProLiant G5 c-Class Server Blades
Aug 2009
This technology brief describes the architecture and the implementation of major technologies in HP ProLiant G5 c-Class server blades based on Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. These...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Designing Routed Fibre Channel SANs Using the HP StorageWorks FC Multi-Protocol Routers and Blades, and HP StorageWorks 1606 SAN Extension Switch and Extension Blade
Oct 2009
Storage Area Networks (SANs) are networks primarily intended to provide connectivity between hosts and storage devices such as disks, RAID arrays, and tape libraries. SANs, unlike LANs, simply...
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Case Studies
HP Technology Facilitates Growth, Patient Management
Jan 2010
Several years ago, the Coronation Dental Specialty Group based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, was at a crossroads. Coronation Dental Specialty Group wanted to provide reliable desktop and...
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Webcasts
Stay Ahead of the Curve with New System x and BladeCenter Servers
Mar 2010
With the portfolio of Intel® Xeon® processor-based rack, blade and iDataPlex servers from IBM System x and BladeCenter, your business has access to even more processing power, memory, storage and...
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem Environment
Sep 2008
HP has a rich history in providing highly available and scalable computing architectures based on best-in-class technology. Now, together with Microsoft and F5, HP builds upon this history by...
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Whitepapers
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Clustering With HP BladeSystem and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
Mar 2009
This paper presents a general-purpose architecture designed for the high-availability deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Hyper-V) on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure with HP...
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Whitepapers
Performance Report for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory on HP ProLiant Server Blades
Apr 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (AD) Domain Services scalability often plays a key role in the scalability of applications that require domain authentication and are dependent upon...
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Whitepapers
SAP on the HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade: Deploy and Optimize SAP Resources in Real Time Based on Business Priorities
Jun 2008
In a world where business conditions can change in an instant, the IT infrastructure has to be flexible. The success of the enterprise and the business depend on deploying solutions that maximize...
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White Papers
10GbE ISCSI Performance With Blade Servers
Oct 2007
To gain the full benefits of blade server technologies and to provide headroom for future growth requires the latest in networking technology. Today that means 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) - the...
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White Papers
Disaggregated Memory for Expansion and Sharing in Blade Servers
Jun 2009
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contributed by memory...
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Case Studies
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: VTB Bank
Jan 2010
VTB Bank is one of the leaders in the Russian banking sector with a strong position across all banking areas. VTB Bank wanted to deploy a resilient, secure and efficient IT infrastructure to...
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Case Studies
Helping Those With Vision Loss With Five Nines of Uptime, Thanks to the HP BladeSystem
Jan 2010
CNIB has been providing community-based support, knowledge, and a national voice to ensure that Canadians who are blind or partially sighted have the confidence, skills, and opportunities to fully...
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Case Studies
Rabobank Continues Its Tradition of Using Leading-Edge Technology by Adopting HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem
Dec 2009
Netherlands-based Rabobank has 9.5 million clients in 46 countries, a triple-A credit rating, and consistent growth of payment and Internet transactions of around 25% per year. Rabobank wanted to...
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Case Studies
Extracting Value With HP BladeSystem Servers
Dec 2009
Drilling for oil in the 21st Century is a far cry from Jed Clampett accidentally discovering a gusher while "Shooting at some food" as told in the intro for the '60s sitcom "The Beverly...
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Case Studies
Gaining Up to 20% More Learning Time in a School Day
Dec 2009
Tri-Center Community Schools wanted to use computer technology to increase the quality of learning while minimizing costs. Tri-Center Community Schools deployed HP Compaq desktops and laptops; HP...
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Case Studies
HP Client Virtualization With Thin Clients Slashes Costs, Improves Service and Security
Dec 2009
Do more with less. That was the imperative that led CIO Jorge Mata of Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) to migrate from a distributed desktop PC architecture to an HP Client...
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Case Studies
HP Workstations Unleash Creative Vision of Award-Winning Filmmakers
Dec 2009
ImageMovers Digital wanted to continually push the envelope of great storytelling through performance capture and computer graphics imagery. ImageMovers Digital build state-of-the-art movie studio...
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