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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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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
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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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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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
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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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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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
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
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
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
Experiences With Oracle Database 10gRelease 2 With RAC Using 10GbE Networking on BladeCenter Servers Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5
Feb 2010
In August, 2009, IBM assembled a system consisting of an IBM BladeCenter H chassis loaded with fourteen IBM HS21 blade servers. The system was designed to run Oracle Database 10g Release 2 with...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Successful Desktop Assessments for VMware View with Liquidware Labs
Oct 2010
Liquidware Labs and VMware have teamed up to provide a solution for assessing end user experience in VMware View pilot environments. Stratusphere Fit, from Liquidware Labs, is a solution used to...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
High Availability SAP Solution Installation of IBM BladeCenter, N5300 Filer, and Red Hat Linux
Jan 2009
In this whitepaper, the author discuss in detail the procedure to setup HS21XM blade boot from iSCSI SAN using the N series N5300 storage system in multipath environment. The solution offers high...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 on IBM BladeCenter Hints and Tips
Jul 2008
The objective of this paper is to assist those who are installing Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on the IBM BladeCenter running the Linux Operating System. The information in this paper is...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Setting Up IBM BladeCenter S to Install Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 1 With RSSM on Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Nov 2009
This white paper documents the procedure that is used to install and configure Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 1 on IBM BladeCenter S servers with a RAIDed Shared Storage Module...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
University of Wyoming Built a State-of-the-Art Data Center Using Nexus and Catalyst, Switches
May 2009
The University of Wyoming offers undergraduate and graduate education, research, and outreach services. The University wanted to accommodate more data center users, applications and also wanted to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Bank of America Avoids Gridlock in Credit-Risk Scoring, Forecasts Using SAS
May 2010
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking,...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Alternate Client Architectures Overview
Mar 2008
Todays workstation class graphics processing units (GPUs) have surpassed CPUs in terms of complexity and, in some cases, raw processing power. This processing power has enabled software developers...
Provided by AMD
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White Papers
Database Virtualization and the Cloud
Dec 2009
In nature, small moves in tectonic plates cause pressure to build over time until it is released in sudden and violent earthquakes. The same principle applies to the world of computer technology....
Provided by ScaleDB
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White Papers
Consolidating SQL Server® 2008 Onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 and PowerEdge™ R905 using Microsoft's Hyper-V™
Nov 2010
This Guide is a companion to How-to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server® systems onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers using Microsoft's Hyper-V™. That Guide providers general virtualization and...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Consolidating Multiple SQL Server™ Systems Onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Servers Using Microsoft's Hyper-V™
Nov 2010
This Guide provides concepts and procedures that will help you successfully consolidate your Microsoft® SQL Server® instances from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server® 2008 system using...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Return on Investment: Migrating to Blade Servers
Jan 2010
IDC believes that IT technology will be a significant component to future business initiatives, whether it be expanding business internationally, dealing with M&As, adhering to regulations, or...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Vs. IBM WebSphere 7 StockTrader Benchmark Report
Jul 2010
This paper presents updated benchmark results based on extensive performance and scalability testing of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 using the .NET StockTrader benchmark workload as well as the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Modernize Your Infrastructure: Move From SPARC/Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP Servers
Jan 2010
Businesses around the world are achieving dramatic cost savings and improving performance by migrating from proprietary SPARC/Solaris environments to the open source, standards-based alternatives...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Optimize Your Infrastructure With HP BladeSystem for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Apr 2010
Now more than ever, the must grow the business with fewer resources on smaller budgets. They need innovative solutions that lower the operational costs and make the most of the IT infrastructure....
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Considering a Sun Alternative: HP + Red Hat. Your Platform of the Future
Aug 2009
In light of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, many IT teams are understandably concerned about the future of their Sun Solaris investments. In this live web conference, Red Hat and HP solution experts...
Provided by Red Hat
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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
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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Case Studies
Unlocking Life's Secrets at Columbia University
Sep 2009
Can Intel processors enable progress on the most demanding life sciences applications - and do it within the strict floor space and power constraints of a Manhattan data center? One of the largest...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Get the Motor Running
Sep 2009
Deeley 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...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
A Radical Remodel
Sep 2009
Emerson's long-term business growth strategy called for fast, flexible computing and communications across all of its businesses, but the legacy IT infrastructure was made up of disparate systems....
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell Case Study: Flying Right
Sep 2009
Atlas Air plans to upgrade and relocate its IT infrastructure to accommodate business growth, but lacks the staff size and specialized expertise to plan and implement the necessary hardware and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge M610 Helps Soho VFX Deliver Hollywood Blockbusters Faster by Accelerating Rendering by 20 Percent
May 2009
With compute-intensive rendering processes, highly variable workloads, and dwindling space in its data center, visual effects studio Soho VFX depends on scalable high-performance servers to match...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd Reduces Server Footprint by 50 Percent and Energy Costs by 30 Percent
Feb 2009
Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd (PARI) was experiencing strong business growth and wanted to move to a centralized IT platform to support its existing applications and future...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Global Challenges of IT Automation
Jun 2009
Automate manual IT processes related to batch scheduling, change management, configuration management, alerting, regulatory compliance, and trouble-ticket resolution to simplify IT, cut costs, and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Mortgage Lenders' Moment of Truth
Sep 2008
The mortgage industry is in a state of crisis, as developments frequently surface on the nightly news. Secondary markets have been disrupted and are often illiquid - and volatility is reflected in...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dutch IT Service Provider Can Launch New Servers and Storage Up to 75 Per Cent Faster Thanks to Virtualization
Jan 2009
Info Support wanted to respond faster to client requests by creating a development environment where new projects, complete with servers and storage, were up and running in a couple of hours. The...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Accountancy Body in South Africa Consolidates Server Numbers by 66 Per Cent With Dell Blades
May 2009
SAICA wanted to make its server infrastructure more sustainable. It looked to consolidate server numbers with machines that used less power, took up less room and were simple to manage. In two...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Spanish University Reduces Processing Time From One Week to Approximately 60 Minutes With High-Performance Computing Environment
Jul 2009
An increasing number of researchers are using High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments to support their programmes. Apart from significant processing power, the institutions deploying these...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
University IT Centre Anticipates Energy Savings of Around 20 Per Cent With Dell Blade Servers
Jun 2009
RRZN, IT centre for Leibniz University Hannover, wanted to improve the manageability and efficiency of a key area of its IT infrastructure as storage and power requirements rose. The IT team also...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Building Careers With Better IT
May 2009
Thomas College's IT team needed a simplified system for providing cutting-edge laptops, desktops and portable computers to the school while managing the data center. The school migrated to...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Dell PowerEdge Servers: Energy Efficient and Powerful - The Best of Both Worlds
May 2009
Listen to Chad Fenner, product manager for Dell M Series blades, explain the new features of this series of servers.
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Drivers on Dell PowerEdge Servers
May 2008
Upgrading Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers to the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 OS also typically requires selecting, installing, and troubleshooting device drivers. Using tested and validated drivers...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Performing a Virtualization Assessment
Dec 2008
This animated tutorial outlines virtualization benefits, key features of Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization technology available in Windows Server® 2008.
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Simplifying the Data Center with Hyper-V™ and Dell
Sep 2009
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ offers virtualization capabilities that can help IT organizations simplify their data center and streamline the IT infrastructure. Dell provides a...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Reducing IT Deployment Time, Labor and Costs with Hyper-V and Dell
Sep 2009
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ offers virtualization capabilities that can help IT organizations reduce server deployment time, cut labor requirements and lessen operating costs. In...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
World's Largest Auctioneer Sees Nearly 40 Percent Savings With HP BladeSystem
Jun 2009
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is one company that understands this challenge well. Over fifty years ago the firm started in British Columbia, Canada, when three brothers held an auction to sell...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Agilysys Declares Direct Connect SAS From HP a Winner for Server Consolidation
Jun 2009
Agilysys, an HP Elite Business Partner, creates innovative technology solutions for different sizes of customers with multiple computing needs in a variety of industries. Their customer solution...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Demanding Growth at Wireless Distributor TESSCO Signals Need to Migrate Mission-Critical Applications to HP StorageWorks and BladeSystem Platform
Jun 2009
With FY2008 sales of $521 million, TESSCO Technologies is a leading provider of integrated product and supply-chain solutions for the wireless communications industry. It needed a robust and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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
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
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
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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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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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
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
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
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
Experiences With Oracle Database 10gRelease 2 With RAC Using 10GbE Networking on BladeCenter Servers Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5
Feb 2010
In August, 2009, IBM assembled a system consisting of an IBM BladeCenter H chassis loaded with fourteen IBM HS21 blade servers. The system was designed to run Oracle Database 10g Release 2 with...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Successful Desktop Assessments for VMware View with Liquidware Labs
Oct 2010
Liquidware Labs and VMware have teamed up to provide a solution for assessing end user experience in VMware View pilot environments. Stratusphere Fit, from Liquidware Labs, is a solution used to...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
High Availability SAP Solution Installation of IBM BladeCenter, N5300 Filer, and Red Hat Linux
Jan 2009
In this whitepaper, the author discuss in detail the procedure to setup HS21XM blade boot from iSCSI SAN using the N series N5300 storage system in multipath environment. The solution offers high...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 on IBM BladeCenter Hints and Tips
Jul 2008
The objective of this paper is to assist those who are installing Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on the IBM BladeCenter running the Linux Operating System. The information in this paper is...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Setting Up IBM BladeCenter S to Install Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 1 With RSSM on Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Nov 2009
This white paper documents the procedure that is used to install and configure Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 1 on IBM BladeCenter S servers with a RAIDed Shared Storage Module...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
University of Wyoming Built a State-of-the-Art Data Center Using Nexus and Catalyst, Switches
May 2009
The University of Wyoming offers undergraduate and graduate education, research, and outreach services. The University wanted to accommodate more data center users, applications and also wanted to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Bank of America Avoids Gridlock in Credit-Risk Scoring, Forecasts Using SAS
May 2010
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking,...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Alternate Client Architectures Overview
Mar 2008
Todays workstation class graphics processing units (GPUs) have surpassed CPUs in terms of complexity and, in some cases, raw processing power. This processing power has enabled software developers...
Provided by AMD
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White Papers
Virtual Desktops, Real Gains
Oct 2010
Client virtualization technology can optimize your infrastructure while cutting costs and complexity.
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Database Virtualization and the Cloud
Dec 2009
In nature, small moves in tectonic plates cause pressure to build over time until it is released in sudden and violent earthquakes. The same principle applies to the world of computer technology....
Provided by ScaleDB
-
White Papers
Consolidating SQL Server® 2008 Onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 and PowerEdge™ R905 using Microsoft's Hyper-V™
Nov 2010
This Guide is a companion to How-to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server® systems onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers using Microsoft's Hyper-V™. That Guide providers general virtualization and...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Consolidating Multiple SQL Server™ Systems Onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Servers Using Microsoft's Hyper-V™
Nov 2010
This Guide provides concepts and procedures that will help you successfully consolidate your Microsoft® SQL Server® instances from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server® 2008 system using...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Return on Investment: Migrating to Blade Servers
Jan 2010
IDC believes that IT technology will be a significant component to future business initiatives, whether it be expanding business internationally, dealing with M&As, adhering to regulations, or...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Vs. IBM WebSphere 7 StockTrader Benchmark Report
Jul 2010
This paper presents updated benchmark results based on extensive performance and scalability testing of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 using the .NET StockTrader benchmark workload as well as the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Modernize Your Infrastructure: Move From SPARC/Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP Servers
Jan 2010
Businesses around the world are achieving dramatic cost savings and improving performance by migrating from proprietary SPARC/Solaris environments to the open source, standards-based alternatives...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Optimize Your Infrastructure With HP BladeSystem for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Apr 2010
Now more than ever, the must grow the business with fewer resources on smaller budgets. They need innovative solutions that lower the operational costs and make the most of the IT infrastructure....
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Considering a Sun Alternative: HP + Red Hat. Your Platform of the Future
Aug 2009
In light of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, many IT teams are understandably concerned about the future of their Sun Solaris investments. In this live web conference, Red Hat and HP solution experts...
Provided by Red Hat
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Whitepapers
2010, The Year of Data Center Transformation
Dec 2010
The bottom line: Coming out of the global recession, businesses this year increasingly are looking to virtualize the servers that they're buying. Analysts say businesses are seeing not only the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Application Aware Virtualization
Dec 2010
Please join Monica Kumar to discuss the value of application aware virtualization. She will discuss the ability to deploy, manage and support applications is critical to organizations using...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Transforming Desktop Virtualization: VMware View on the New IBM System x and BladeCenter eX5 Servers and IBM System Storage DS3500
Jul 2010
Today, optimizing the IT infrastructure is imperative for reducing costs while maintaining a nimble business environment day after day. To that end, many companies are leveraging consolidation and...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Desktop Virtualization on IBM BladeCenter and System x Servers: Taking Back Control of the Desktop
Sep 2008
Operational efficiency is imperative in today's competitive marketplace. Thus, the IT strategies and data center management at the heart of any organization need to be cost-effective and...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Dramatic Improvement in Web Sales System Performance for Network Partners (Sales Agents / Distributors)
Jan 2011
Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TEL) provides solutions to the electronics industry. TEL wanted to achieve smooth migration to an open environment and stable system use and also wanted to work...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
TIS Inc. Chooses Fujitsu's Blade Servers for Internal Control Assurance, Sales Process Innovation and Future Growth
Jan 2011
Systems integrator TIS, is active in providing the very best in optimized solutions to its clients. TIS needed to resolve emerging compliance issues and improve sales process within a strict time...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Secure and Robust Disaster Recovery With Great Cost-Efficiency Using iSCSI
Jan 2011
Taiheiyo Cement Corporation (hereafter called Taiheiyo Cement) is a leading company in the cement production industry. Taiheiyo Cement wanted to improve backup process from the standpoint of...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: BOC International Holdings Limited
Jun 2009
BOC International Holdings Limited ("BOCI") is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of China Limited ("BOC"). BOCI wanted to ensure efficient and reliable performance of mission-critical systems of...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
SwitchBlade: A Platform for Rapid Deployment of Network Protocols on Programmable Hardware
Sep 2010
The authors present SwitchBlade, a platform for rapidly deploying custom protocols on programmable hardware. SwitchBlade uses a pipeline-based design that allows individual hardware modules to be...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Blades and Virtualization: A Perfect Match?
Oct 2007
Two of the more recent trends in data center optimization are the adoption of blade servers and the deployment of server virtualization. Each of these can bring benefits to business. What's more,...
Provided by CDW
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Case Studies
Created New Revenue Generating Opportunity for BNP
Sep 2010
BNP Paribas is a leader in European banking and financial services, with a significant and growing presence in the United States and leading positions in Asia. Standards-based infrastructure...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Whitepapers
Designing a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Architecture With HP BladeSystem
Sep 2008
Through the years, the process of business communication has changed. From the handing out of written memos, to the telephone, and finally to email, each change in the communications medium has...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Cisco Unified Computing System Delivers Blades and More
Jun 2009
Cisco has released an evolutionary data center architecture, innovative services, and an open ecosystem of partners to help customers develop next-generation virtualized data centers. Cisco is...
Provided by Current Analysis
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White Papers
Modular Architecture for Business and Mission Critical Applications and High Performance Computing
Feb 2008
The emerging Participation Age is marked by radically increasing individual connectedness, and participation in a wide range of networked global communities. With ever-increasing demands from...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
