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White Papers
Network Virtualization
Nov 2009
Virtualization is a hot topic on the IT market right now. Along with widespread solutions such as server virtualization, this approach is of increasing interest in other areas of information...
Provided by LANCOM Systems
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White Papers
Virtualization for MySQL on VMware: Best Practices and Performance Guide
Apr 2009
Performance variance is minimal on a properly configured system, as shown in tests on a typical small to medium business level server with MySQL running in a VMware virtualized environment. This...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Virtualization of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Oct 2008
Multiple organizations have discovered that SharePoint Products and Technologies provide for significant productivity enhancements, allowing knowledge workers to be more efficient in creating and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers: An Introduction to OS Virtualization and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Apr 2009
Today's IT organizations are dealing with the consequences of exploding IT infrastructure growth and complexity. While computing resources continue to increase in power, organizations are unable...
Provided by Parallels
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White Papers
VDI Sizing: A Competitive Comparison of VDI Solution Sizing Between Parallels VDI Versus VMware VDI
May 2009
Parallels VDI solution is an integrated desktop solution providing enterprise-class control and manageability to the organization while maintaining the existing end-user experience. Parallels VDI...
Provided by Parallels
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White Papers
Virtual Appliances: Improve Manageability & Automate Provisioning
Feb 2008
Virtual appliances have been gaining notoriety with IT organizations. Virtual appliances are a pre-packed ready to deploy instance of an application or a set of applications created in a virtual...
Provided by Parallels
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White Papers
More Efficient Virtualization Management: Templates
Feb 2008
Many IT departments have looked to hardware virtualization solutions such as VMware and Xen to solve server sprawl. Hardware virtualization consolidates servers and helps to solve the hardware and...
Provided by Parallels
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Whitepapers
Intelligent File Virtualization With F5 ARX
Aug 2009
Enterprises today face the challenge of managing and storing an ever-increasing amount of information. Not only is information being created at an unprecedented rate, but regulatory and business...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Availability Modeling and Analysis on Virtualized Clustering With Rejuvenation
Sep 2008
Nowadays, more stringent compliance regulations, businesses of all sizes are required to implement security measures to ensure their systems and data are readily available and quickly recoverable....
Provided by Korea Aerospace University
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White Papers
Virtual Tape Systems for IBM Mainframes: A Comparative Analysis
Jan 2009
Mainframe Virtual Tape is typically defined as magnetic tape file images stored on disk. In reality it is a little more subtle than that. Most discussions of Virtual Tape focus on the advantages...
Provided by Avenir Technologies
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White Papers
On a Class of Multistage Interconnection Network in Parallel Processing
May 2008
Parallel processing is an efficient form of information processing system, which emphasizes the exploitation of concurrent events in the computing process. To achieve parallel processing it's...
Provided by Guru Nanak Dev University
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White Papers
Parallelization of Noise Reduction Algorithm for Seismic Data on a Beowulf Cluster
Jan 2010
This paper presents the parallelization of a sequential noise reduction algorithm for seismic data processing into a parallel algorithm. The parallel algorithm was developed using C language with...
Provided by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
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White Papers
FTRH: Fault Tolerance Routing Algorithm for Hex-Cell Networks
Dec 2009
This paper describes a new fault tolerance routing algorithm for Hex-Cell networks. Hex-Cell is an interconnection network topology that employs an efficient routing algorithm and combines...
Provided by University of Jordan
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White Papers
Virtual Machine Monitor Execution Modes in VMware vSphere 4.0
Aug 2009
Included in VMware vSphere 4.0 is VMware ESX 4, the newest generation of a hypervisor deployed in hundreds of thousands of production environments. All versions of ESX comprise two components: the...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Protecting Mission-Critical Workloads With VMware Fault Tolerance
May 2009
As server virtualization becomes commonplace in the enterprise, IT organizations are growing increasingly reliant on the associated virtualization benefits: higher server consolidation ratios,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Open Virtualization: More Innovation Without Vendor Lock In
May 2009
For many organizations, virtualization is an attractive strategy to ensure that datacenter assets are better utilized. Virtualization solutions can also enable businesses to better manage their IT...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Site Recovery for Hyper-V With Citrix Essentials (Level 300)
Dec 2009
Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V adds new disaster recovery capabilities to Hyper-V with StorageLink Site Recovery technology. The attendee will get an up-close view of the new solution....
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Scaling SAP in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment
Aug 2009
This paper describes the performance and scaling of SAP running in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 guests on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 host with the KVM hypervisor. The host was deployed on a...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Scaling Oracle 10g in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment
Aug 2009
This paper describes the performance and scaling of Oracle running in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 guests on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 host with the KVM hypervisor. The host was deployed on...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
TechNet Events Presents: TechNet Unleashed: The Microsoft Virtualization Tour - Live Meeting
Dec 2009
The presenters will highlights of Microsoft's great virtualization solutions. The presenters will go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot - a new feature for Windows 7...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Scaling the LAMP Stack in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment
Aug 2009
This paper describes the performance and scaling of the industry-standard LAMP web application stack running in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 guests on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 host with the...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Scaling Microsoft Internet Information Services in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment
Sep 2009
This paper describes the performance and scaling of an industry-standard Web benchmark, WebBench, running in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 guests under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 using the KVM...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
VMware vSphere Vs. Microsoft Hyper-V: A Technical Analysis
Aug 2009
The battle to be one's virtualization vendor is in full swing, and it has important ramifications for the vendors involved, and for your data center. The goal of this whitepaper is to analyze the...
Provided by Corporate Technologies
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White Papers
Virtualizing UC: Reaping the Benefits and Understanding the Issues for Real-Time Communications
Oct 2009
Unified Communications (UC) as an industry term is an apt description of the convergence in communications applications that will be deployed in the enterprise as new investments are made. UC is...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Extending Networking Into the Virtualization Layer
Oct 2009
The move to virtualization has created a new network access layer residing on hosts that connects the various VMs. Virtualized deployment environments impose requirements on networking for which...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
DeltaV and Virtualization
Jul 2009
There are many new and maturing technologies that are becoming available to help improve management and to reduce the costs of deploying computers. One of these maturing technologies is called -...
Provided by Emerson Process Management
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White Papers
PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Support in Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity
Jun 2008
As virtualized server deployment increases, virtualization technologies continue to evolve especially in the area of I/O performance. Within the industry, significant effort has been expended to...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Virtualization Awareness: Managing Disk Resources in a Virtual Environment
Sep 2009
As virtualization takes hold in most businesses and large enterprises, the proper management of a virtualized environment is becoming more important than ever. A key aspect of this management is...
Provided by Raxco Software
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White Papers
Virtual Reality: How Virtualisation Is Changing IT
Sep 2009
Virtualisation is the process of housing 2 or more computers within the same physical machine or "Host". An operating system which deals with the creation and maintenance of virtual machines is...
Provided by appiChar
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White Papers
VMready Virtual Machine-Aware Networking
Nov 2009
Data Centers are undergoing monumental paradigm shifts. Servers and more importantly the services they provide are expected to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by design. Enterprise data...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies
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Whitepapers
Exchange Virtualization Methodology: Successfully Deploying Exchange on vSphere Using Proven Methods
Oct 2009
Server virtualization has become a standard for many organizations to reduce capital and operational costs, increase corporate agility, and increase service availability. Early in the adoption of...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Introduction of Virtualization Technology to Multi-Process Model Checking
Mar 2009
Model checkers find failures in software by exploring every possible execution schedule. Java PathFinder (JPF), a Java model checker, has been extended recently to cover networked applications by...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
How to Get the Full Value of Virtualization
Aug 2009
With its ability to enable IT groups to reduce the number of servers they need through consolidation, virtualization technology helps cut costs in not only hardware and software, but also power...
Provided by Avocent
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White Papers
Virtualization Architecture Synergies: Hitachi Data Systems and VMware
May 2008
This paper describes the unique synergies and complementary architectures VMware server customers can expect from Hitachi Data Systems and its line of industry leading storage virtualization...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Accelerating Virtualization Adoption With Application Awareness
Aug 2009
Server virtualization is helping companies take a giant leap forward by maximizing their ROI on IT assets and helping streamline routine IT tasks. Many IT professionals, business owners, and the...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Virtualized SAP Performance With VMware vSphere 4
May 2009
SAP provides a range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to manage and run the business processes of an entire company. The mission critical role of this software requires...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server (Level 300)
Nov 2009
Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. The presenter will...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Performance Evaluation of Virtual Appliances
Apr 2008
Virtualization technology has become standard in many computing environments. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are now using virtual machines to deliver multiple software appliances. However,...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
VMware Reference Configurations for Midsize Companies
Sep 2009
Midsize companies can obtain significant advantages by using virtualization to consolidate functions, thereby reducing management effort, cost, and energy consumption. This Sun white paper...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Overshadow: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Retrofitting Protection in Commodity Operating Systems
Mar 2008
Commodity operating systems entrusted with securing sensitive data are remarkably large and complex, and consequently, frequently prone to compromise. To address this limitation, the author...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Goal Programming Approach for Selection of COTS Components in Designing a Fault Tolerant Modular Software System under Consensus Recovery Block Scheme
Jan 2012
The application of computer systems has now crossed many different fields. Systems are becoming more software intensive. The requirements of the customer for a more reliable software led to the...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Computing Detection Delays in Industrial Alarm Systems
Jul 2011
False and nuisance alarms are major problems in the process industry. Techniques like deadbands, delay-timers, and filtering can significantly reduce these false and nuisance alarms. The...
Provided by AACC
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Whitepapers
Concepts of Fault Tolerant Computing
Dec 2011
This paper analyses different aspects of fault tolerance system. Meaning of fault tolerance system is given in detail then concepts related to fault tolerant computing are defined for example...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
Complete Decentralized Mechanism Design for Online Machine Scheduling
Apr 2009
The authors study an online version of the classical parallel scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time in a total decentralized setting: both the jobs and the machines are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Checkpoint Interval and System's Overall Quality for Message Logging-Based Rollback and Recovery in Distributed and Embedded Computing
Apr 2009
In distributed environment, message logging based checkpointing and rollback recovery is a commonly used approach for providing distributed systems with fault tolerance and synchronized global...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Fault Tolerant Nano-Memory With Fault Secure Encoder and Decoder
Jan 2011
Traditionally, memory cells were the only circuitry susceptible to transient faults the supporting circuitries around the memory was assumed to be fault-free. Due to the increase in soft error...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Internal Threats Avoiding Based Forwarding Protocol in Social Selfish Delay Tolerant Networks
Apr 2011
In traditional Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), there exists a potential assumption that the nodes are willing to help others for packet forwarding. However, in the real application scenarios, such...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Irregular Augmented Four Tree Network
Sep 2011
Parallel processing is an efficient form of information processing system, which emphasizes the exploitation of concurrent events in the computing process. To achieve parallel processing it's...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
MC-MIPOG: A Parallel t-Way Test Generation Strategy for Multicore Systems
Feb 2010
Combinatorial testing has been an active research area in recent years. One challenge in this area is dealing with the combinatorial explosion problem, which typically requires a very expensive...
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
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Case Studies
Miele & Cie: Appliance Manufacturer Saves Euro1.5 Million With Global Virtualization Solution
Aug 2010
Miele & Cie is a manufacturer of premium household appliances that are distributed worldwide. They need to reduce server sprawl and data center costs, they had deployed a large virtualization...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Cluster Management in a Virtualized Server Environment
Feb 2008
One of the most attractive topics of today is server virtualization. Sever virtualization is not a new concept. However technologies and market demand are increasing the use of server...
Provided by International Telecommunication Union
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Whitepapers
Towards Exitless and Efficient Paravirtual I/O
Jun 2012
Virtualization is a prominent technology used in data centers around the world. While many kinds of workloads can run at near-native performance even when virtualized, I/O intensive workloads...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Rethink the Virtual Machine Template
Mar 2011
Server virtualization technology facilitates the creation of an elastic computing infrastructure on demand. There are cloud applications like server-based computing and virtual desktop that...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Sharing-Aware Algorithms for Virtual Machine Colocation
Jun 2011
Virtualization technology enables multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server. VMs that run on the same physical server can share memory pages that have identical content,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
An Empirical Study of Memory Sharing in Virtual Machines
May 2012
Content-based page sharing is a technique often used in virtualized environments to reduce server memory requirements. Many systems have been proposed to capture the benefits of page sharing....
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Whitepapers
In-Memory Cluster Computing
Mar 2012
The authors present Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), a distributed memory abstraction that lets programmers perform in-memory computations on large clusters in a fault-tolerant manner. RDDs...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
VMFlow: Leveraging VM Mobility to Reduce Network Power Costs in Data Centers
Apr 2011
Networking costs play an important role in the overall costs of a modern data center. Network power, for example, has been estimated at 10-20% of the overall data center power consumption....
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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Whitepapers
A Case for Virtualization of Content Delivery Networks
Nov 2011
Content Delivery Networks have gained a popular role among Application Service Providers (ASPs) and infrastructural companies. A CDN is an overlay network that gives more control of asset delivery...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Small Is Big: Functionally Partitioned File Caching in Virtualized Environments
May 2012
File cache management is among the most important factors affecting the performance of a cloud computing system. To achieve higher economies of scale, virtual machines are often overcommitted,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Discretized Streams: An Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Model for Stream Processing on Large Clusters
May 2012
Many important "Big data" applications need to process data arriving in real time. However, current programming models for distributed stream processing are relatively low-level, often leaving the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Autonomic Computing Strategy for Server Virtualization
Apr 2010
This paper presents a technique specially adapted for the implementation of some techniques for self-supply and self-optimization for autonomic computing with application in server virtualization....
Provided by University of Craiova
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Case Studies
CA Endevor SCM Accelerates Development of CA Technologies Mainframe Solutions
Sep 2010
CA Technologies helps thousands of organizations simplify IT management across mainframe, physical, virtual and cloud environments. The company has more than 30 years' CA Technologies helps...
Provided by CA Technologies
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Podcasts
Top 4 Differences Between ESXi and Server 2
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers explain about VMware ESXi & VMware Server 2. The speakers also explain the differences, technical considerations to implement and they will share a scenario plus tips...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
KVM for ARM
Jun 2010
As ARM CPUs grow in performance and ubiquity across phones, netbooks, and embedded computers, providing virtualization support for ARM-based devices is increasingly important. The authors present...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
A Simulator for Adaptive Parallel Applications
Jan 2009
Dynamically allocating computing nodes to parallel applications is a promising technique for improving the utilization of cluster resources. Detailed simulations can help identify allocation...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
A Debugger for Flow Graph Based Parallel Applications
Jan 2009
Flow graphs provide an explicit description of the parallelization of an application by mapping vertices onto serial computations and edges onto message transfers. The authors present the design...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Server Virtualization: Increase IT Efficiency Through Virtual Data Center Automation
Apr 2012
This paper explores the concept of Server virtualization technology that offers enormous possibilities for autonomic management of datacenter which runs a heterogonous mix of workloads through the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Learning Process Behavior for Fault Detection
Jul 2011
Recently, there has been an increased interest in self-healing systems. These types of systems are able to cope with failures in the environment they execute and work continuously by taking...
Provided by World Scientific Publishing
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerance and Permutation Analysis of ASEN and Its Variant
Mar 2010
High performance computing systems can be designed using parallel processing. The effectiveness of these parallel systems rests primarily on the communication network linking processors and memory...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Ontological Matchmaking in a Duty Trip Support Application in a Virtual Organization
Nov 2008
In the authors' work, an agent-based system supporting workers in fulfilling their roles in a virtual organization has as its centerpiece ontologically demarcated data. In such system, ontological...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Podcasts
The Mainframe With Jeff Frey
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker discusses about the ultimate computing platform the mainframes. This leading virtualized infrastructure is not just hardware, but advanced sets of operating system,...
Provided by Software Engineering Radio
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White Papers
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Deferred Update Replication
Jan 2011
Replication is a well-established approach to increasing database availability. Many database replication protocols have been proposed for the crash-stop failure model, in which servers fail...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Byzantine Fault-Tolerance With Commutative Commands
Sep 2011
State machine replication is a popular approach to increasing the availability of computer services. While it has been largely studied in the presence of crash-stop failures and malicious...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Improved Live VM Migration Using LRU and Splay Tree Algorithm
Mar 2012
Live migration is a technology with which an entire running Virtual Machine (VM) is moved from one physical machine to another. Migration at the level of an entire VM means that in-memory state...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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White Papers
Jettison: Efficient Idle Desktop Consolidation With Partial VM Migration
Apr 2012
Idle desktop systems are frequently left powered, often because of applications that maintain network presence or to enable potential remote access. Unfortunately, an idle PC consumes up to 60% of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Performance Modeling in Industry: A Case Study on Storage Virtualization
May 2010
In software engineering, performance and the integration of performance analysis methodologies gain increasing importance, especially for complex systems. Well-developed methods and tools can...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Graphical Model Based for Robust Fault Diagnosis
Mar 2012
In this paper, robust Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) design in nonlinear uncertain dynamic system, with chemical and thermodynamic phenomenon, is addressed. The methodology using a Bond Graph...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Quantitative Comparison of Xen and KVM
Jun 2008
The authors present initial results from and quantitative analysis of two leading open source hypervisors, Xen and KVM. This paper focuses on the overall performance, performance isolation, and...
Provided by Clarkson University
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White Papers
Balance Principles for Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design
Apr 2011
The authors consider the problem of "Co-design," by which they mean the problem of how to design computational algorithms for particular hardware architectures and vice-versa. Their position is...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Podcasts
ISS Technology Brief HP BladeSystem C3000 Enclosure Technologies, 2nd Edition: Part 1
Jan 2009
In this podcast, the speaker talks about Blade system. The speakers also explains about this technology and overview of the HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, including Thermal Logic power and...
Provided by HP
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White Papers
Virtualizing UC: Reaping the Benefits and Understanding the Issues for Real-Time Communications
Oct 2009
Unified Communications (UC) as an industry term is an apt description of the convergence in communications applications that will be deployed in the enterprise as new investments are made. UC is...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Extending Networking Into the Virtualization Layer
Oct 2009
The move to virtualization has created a new network access layer residing on hosts that connects the various VMs. Virtualized deployment environments impose requirements on networking for which...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
DeltaV and Virtualization
Jul 2009
There are many new and maturing technologies that are becoming available to help improve management and to reduce the costs of deploying computers. One of these maturing technologies is called -...
Provided by Emerson Process Management
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White Papers
PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Support in Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity
Jun 2008
As virtualized server deployment increases, virtualization technologies continue to evolve especially in the area of I/O performance. Within the industry, significant effort has been expended to...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Virtualization Awareness: Managing Disk Resources in a Virtual Environment
Sep 2009
As virtualization takes hold in most businesses and large enterprises, the proper management of a virtualized environment is becoming more important than ever. A key aspect of this management is...
Provided by Raxco Software
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White Papers
Virtual Reality: How Virtualisation Is Changing IT
Sep 2009
Virtualisation is the process of housing 2 or more computers within the same physical machine or "Host". An operating system which deals with the creation and maintenance of virtual machines is...
Provided by appiChar
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White Papers
VMready Virtual Machine-Aware Networking
Nov 2009
Data Centers are undergoing monumental paradigm shifts. Servers and more importantly the services they provide are expected to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by design. Enterprise data...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies
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Whitepapers
Exchange Virtualization Methodology: Successfully Deploying Exchange on vSphere Using Proven Methods
Oct 2009
Server virtualization has become a standard for many organizations to reduce capital and operational costs, increase corporate agility, and increase service availability. Early in the adoption of...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Introduction of Virtualization Technology to Multi-Process Model Checking
Mar 2009
Model checkers find failures in software by exploring every possible execution schedule. Java PathFinder (JPF), a Java model checker, has been extended recently to cover networked applications by...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
How to Get the Full Value of Virtualization
Aug 2009
With its ability to enable IT groups to reduce the number of servers they need through consolidation, virtualization technology helps cut costs in not only hardware and software, but also power...
Provided by Avocent
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White Papers
Virtualization Architecture Synergies: Hitachi Data Systems and VMware
May 2008
This paper describes the unique synergies and complementary architectures VMware server customers can expect from Hitachi Data Systems and its line of industry leading storage virtualization...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Accelerating Virtualization Adoption With Application Awareness
Aug 2009
Server virtualization is helping companies take a giant leap forward by maximizing their ROI on IT assets and helping streamline routine IT tasks. Many IT professionals, business owners, and the...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Virtualized SAP Performance With VMware vSphere 4
May 2009
SAP provides a range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to manage and run the business processes of an entire company. The mission critical role of this software requires...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server (Level 300)
Nov 2009
Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. The presenter will...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Performance Evaluation of Virtual Appliances
Apr 2008
Virtualization technology has become standard in many computing environments. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are now using virtual machines to deliver multiple software appliances. However,...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
VMware Reference Configurations for Midsize Companies
Sep 2009
Midsize companies can obtain significant advantages by using virtualization to consolidate functions, thereby reducing management effort, cost, and energy consumption. This Sun white paper...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Overshadow: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Retrofitting Protection in Commodity Operating Systems
Mar 2008
Commodity operating systems entrusted with securing sensitive data are remarkably large and complex, and consequently, frequently prone to compromise. To address this limitation, the author...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
LAN Machine: A Virtualized Network for Developing & Testing Network & Cloud Applications on a Single Machine
Nov 2009
This paper proposes a platform that aims at creating a virtualized network on a single machine. It mainly focuses on network level virtualization. It aims at the consolidation of network level...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Virtualized Games for Teaching About Distributed Systems
Mar 2009
Complex distributed systems are increasingly important in modern computer science, yet many undergraduate curricula do not give students the opportunity to develop the skill sets necessary to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Optimized Virtualization With Citrix, Dell and Intel
Sep 2009
To succeed in today's increasingly complex and demanding business environments, IT departments must be able to take on greater workloads, support greater demand for user productivity and manage...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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White Papers
NetApp Virtualization Solutions for Citrix XenApp Environments
Feb 2009
Server virtualization has emerged as the most dramatic market trend of the decade and has resulted in millions of dollars in savings. The positive effects on business, technical and operational...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Accountability in Hosted Virtual Networks
Aug 2009
Virtualization enables multiple networks, each customized for a particular purpose, to run concurrently over a shared substrate. One such model for managing these virtual net-works is to create a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
VIRTU: An Open Virtualization Framework to Test Ground Systems
Oct 2009
The recent developments in virtualization change completely the panorama of the Hardware/OS deployment. New bottlenecks arise in deployment of application stacks where IT industry will spend most...
Provided by European Space Agency
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Webcasts
Virtualization Solution Portfolio for Hosting Providers
Sep 2009
The presenter will discuss Microsoft's current and future Virtualization portfolio of solutions for the hosting providers. Primarily, the presenter will discuss in detail the current Hyper-V V2 in...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Performance Aware Regeneration in Virtualized Multitier Applications
May 2009
Virtual machine technology enables highly agile system deployments in which components can be cheaply moved, cloned, and allocated controlled hardware resources. This paper examines in the context...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Fast Memory State Synchronization for Virtualization-Based Fault Tolerance
Apr 2009
Virtualization provides the possibility of whole machine migration and thus enables a new form of fault tolerance that is completely transparent to applications and operating systems. While...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
An Evaluation of Multiple Communication Interfaces for Virtualized SMP Clusters
Mar 2009
Clusters with multiple CPU nodes are becoming increasingly popular due to their cost/performance ratio. Due to its many potential advantages, interest in using virtualization on these systems has...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Modeling Virtualized Environments in Simalytic Models by Computing Missing Service Demand Parameters
Dec 2009
System Virtualization allows multiple O/S images to execute on a single physical host computer. Measuring the host resource usage is straightforward and the necessary tools are included with most...
Provided by Simalytic Solutions
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Whitepapers
Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know
Aug 2009
The allure of virtualization is clear. For the business, it means faster time-to-market for new technology?enabled services and a strong foundation for new strategic initiatives, such as green...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
HEP Specific Benchmarks of Virtual Machines on Multi-Core CPU Architectures
May 2009
Virtualization technologies such as Xen can be used in order to satisfy the disparate and often incompatible system requirements of different user groups in shared-use computing facilities. This...
Provided by University of Victoria
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White Papers
On I/O Virtualization Management
Aug 2009
The quick adoption of virtualization technology in general and the advent of the Cloud business model entail new requirements on the structure and the configuration of back-end I/O systems....
Provided by University of Munich
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Whitepapers
EMC Performance Optimization for VMware Enabled by EMC PowerPath/VE
Sep 2009
This white paper is an overview of the tested features and performance enhancing technologies of EMC PowerPath /VE 5.4. The performance and reliability of EMC PowerPathVE are compared to the...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Virtualization Cookbook: Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on IBM System x
Aug 2009
As servers have grown increasingly powerful, with multiple cores per CPU socket, gigabytes of memory and terabytes of storage, system administrators have been looking for ways to leverage this...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Real-World Virtualization Testing on the HP ProLiant DL785 G5: A Network and Systems Architecture Consultant's Review of HP's x86 8-Socket Server
Feb 2009
The basis for this paper is to detail the suite of tests run on the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 as a single-entity server and in a virtualized infrastructure, and also to detail some potential...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Multiple z/OS Virtual Machines on z/VM
Apr 2009
This IBM Redpaper describes some of the possible ways to configure a z/VM system and a set of z/OS virtual machines for use in testing z/OS-based tools and products. By supplying each tester with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Virtualization in the Core of the Network: New Dimensions of Flexibility and Scale in Service Provider Networks
Feb 2009
This paper is essential reading for business decision makers (up to the CxO level) in both service provider and large enterprise environments. The paper describes a unique solution set for...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
A Platform Built for Server Virtualization: Cisco Unified Computing System
Dec 2009
This paper discusses how the core features of the Cisco Unified Computing System contribute to the ease of deployment, management, performance, and security of virtualized environments. It...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Scalability Study for Deploying VMware View on Cisco UCS and EMC Symmetrix V-Max Systems
Jun 2009
This paper reports the results of a study evaluating the scalability of the VMware View virtual desktop environment on a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) connected to EMC Symmetrix V-Max...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
IBM Systems Director Announcement
Jan 2010
Welcome to the new world of heterogenous virtualization management! Does one struggle with managing multiple virtualization technologies for multiple server platforms? In this webcast, IBM is...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Forrester on Virtualization: Unraveling Advanced Virtualization Architectures & Techniques
Jan 2010
Virtualization continues to be the dominant buzz-word for businesses wanting to reduce IT costs, and ultimately create a more flexible, efficient and automated applications workload environment...
Provided by IBM
