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Datacenter Virtualization: Enabling a Dynamic Datacenter With Microsoft Virtualization
Jul 2008
This paper examines strategies for moving an organization toward more dynamic IT using datacenter virtualization technologies. Datacenters evolve from manual and reactionary to automated and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Data Center Virtualization and Orchestration: Business and Financial Justification
Jul 2007
Over the past several years, virtualization of server, network, and storage resources has received a lot of IT, media, and vendor attention because of its promise for reducing both capital and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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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...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies
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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...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Building BugTolerant Routers With Virtualization
May 2008
Implementation bugs are a highly critical problem in wide area networks. The software running on core routers is subject to vulnerabilities, coding mistakes, and misconfiguration. Unfortunately,...
Provided by Princeton University
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Virtualizing the Data Plane Through Source Code Merging
Aug 2008
Virtualization is a key technology that enables multiple research groups to test new protocols simultaneously on the same physical network and also allows service providers to incrementally add...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
GPU Virtualization on VMware's Hosted I/O Architecture
Dec 2008
Modern Graphics co-Processors (GPUs) can produce high fidelity images several orders of magnitude faster than general purpose CPUs, and this performance expectation is rapidly becoming ubiquitous...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Ground Station Virtualization
Jan 2010
This paper discusses the application of the end-to-end principle to ground station systems. It states that lower layers of systems should support the widest possible variety of services and...
Provided by Stanford University
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Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen
Jan 2010
This paper reports on improvements to Xen's networking performance resulting from the re-design and the re-implementation of certain aspects of its network virtualization and better support for...
Provided by Rice University
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Predictor Virtualization
Mar 2008
Many hardware optimizations rely on collecting information about program behavior at runtime. This information is stored in lookup tables. To be accurate and effective, these optimizations usually...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment
Nov 2009
Performance models provide the ability to predict application performance for a given set of hardware resources and are used for capacity planning and resource management. Traditional performance...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
The Heisenberg Measuring Uncertainty in Lightweight Virtualization Testbeds
Jul 2009
The need for large-scale experimentation testbeds involving several hundred, or even thousands, of nodes is undeniable. Testbeds including Emulab, and Deter are heavily used for both research and...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Are Virtualized Overlay Networks Too Much of a Good Thing?
Feb 2009
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have recently become one of the hottest topics in OS research. Starting with the explosion of popularity of Napster, researchers have become interested because of the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Parallel Objects: Virtualization and In-Process Components
Jan 2010
Developing complex parallel applications that run efficiently on large parallel machines is dif-cult because the programmer has to handle many interrelated issues. Two issues that are of interest...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
VEAL: Virtualized Execution Accelerator for Loops
Mar 2008
Performance improvement solely through transistor scaling is becoming more and more difficult, thus it is increasingly common to see domain specific accelerators used in conjunction with general...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Towards an Understanding of Anti-Virtualization and Anti-Debugging Behavior in Modern Malware
Apr 2008
Many threats that plague today's networks (e.g., phishing, botnets, denial of service attacks) are enabled by a complex ecosystem of attack programs commonly called malware. To combat these...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
TrapperKeeper: Using Virtualization to Add Type-Awareness to File Systems
May 2009
TrapperKeeper is a system that enables the development of type-aware file system functionality. In contrast to existing plug-in-based architectures that require a software developer to write and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Does Virtualization Make Disk Scheduling Passé?
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...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
At-Scale Experimentation With Resource Virtualization in a Metro Optical Testbed
May 2008
This paper describes several efforts to explore integrated approaches to resource virtualization in a metro-scale optical testbed dubbed BEN (Breakable Experimental Network) located in Research...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Efficient Data Management Support for Virtualized Service Providers
Nov 2008
Virtualization has been lately introduced for supporting and simplifying service providers' management with promising results. Nevertheless, using virtualization introduces also new challenges...
Provided by Technical University of Catalonia
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White Papers
Elastic Management of Tasks in Virtualized Environments
Dec 2009
Nowadays, service providers in the Cloud offer complex services ready to be used as it was a commodity like water or electricity to their customers. A key technology for this approach is...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
VrtProf: Vertical Profiling for System Virtualization
Sep 2009
As data centers and end users become increasingly reliant on virtualization technology, more efficient and accurate methods of profiling such systems are needed. However, under virtualization the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Woes of the Art of Virtualization Benchmarking
Mar 2008
Virtualization is a growing field with new technologies constantly emerging. Because of this increase in the number of options, virtualization benchmarking is becoming more important. The current...
Provided by Clarkson University
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White Papers
CloudBLAST: Combining MapReduce and Virtualization on Distributed Resources for Bioinformatics Applications
Feb 2009
This paper proposes and evaluates an approach to the parallelization, deployment and management of bioinformatics applications that integrates several emerging technologies for distributed...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Virtualization Guide: Red Hat Virtualization
Jan 2010
A functional Red Hat Virtualization system is multi-layered and is driven by the privileged Red Hat Virtualization component. Red Hat Virtualization can host multiple guest operating systems. Each...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Building Bug-Tolerant Routers With Virtualization
Aug 2008
Implementation bugs are a highly critical problem in wide-area networks. The software running on core routers is subject to vulnerabilities, coding mistakes, and misconfiguration. Unfortunately,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A New Framework for On-Demand Virtualization, Repurposing and Fusion of Heterogeneous Sensors
Mar 2009
This paper describes the first step towards the realization of complex and large scale cross-organization virtual observatories by presenting a new semantically-enhanced "Sensor Network as a...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
A Comparison of Virtualization Technologies for HPC
Nov 2008
Virtualization is a common strategy for improving the utilization of existing computing resources, particularly within data centers. However, its use for High Performance Computing (HPC)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dynamic Heterogeneity and the Need for Multicore Virtualization
Jan 2009
As the computing industry enters the multicore era, exponential growth in the number of transistors on a chip continues to present challenges and opportunities for computer architects and system...
Provided by Google
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Whitepapers
Desktop Virtualization: Overcoming Five Real-World Challenge
Jan 2009
The business case for desktop virtualization is compelling, especially when a large or variable number of end-users work using similar OS and applications platforms. Organizations can unlock...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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White Papers
Large-Scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed
Apr 2008
Network emulation is valuable largely because of its ability to study applications running on real hosts and "somewhat real" networks. However, conservatively allocating a physical host or network...
Provided by University of Utah
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White Papers
Managing Virtualization With Fujitsu Server View Resource Coordinator VE
Nov 2009
Enterprises are entering a phase of deep technological change, as challenging macroeconomic conditions and shrinking IT budgets force a rethink of the way IT infrastructure works and the adoption...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance
Aug 2009
VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability to virtual machines, eliminating downtime and disruption - even in the event of a complete host failure. This paper gives a brief...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
VMware Fault Tolerance Recommendations and Considerations on VMware vSphere 4
Nov 2009
As dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. Many enterprise hardware components have built-in redundancies, such as RAID storage,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
The Economics of Virtualization: Moving Toward an Application-Based Cost Model
Nov 2009
Server virtualization technologies have quickly become the default platform for today's datacenters. IT organizations are putting in place formal virtualization deployment policies and are...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop
May 2008
An increasing number of IT managers are finding themselves challenged with scaling out and supporting desktop environments that are becoming increasingly complex, and at the same time, business...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Enhanced Server Fault-Tolerance for Improved User Experience
Jun 2008
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environment....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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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...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
IDS Scheer Shows How Virtualization Dramatically Simplifies a Complex IT Infrastructure
Dec 2009
IDS Scheer wanted to meet demanding customer service level agreements, including: capable of near-continuous operations; rapid recovery in case of unplanned outage; scalable systems able to meet...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Duff & Phelps: Financial Firm Speeds Acquisitions by 75 Percent, Trims $1.5 Million With Hyper-V
Nov 2011
Duff & Phelps, global financial advisor, enjoyed rapid growth but sought a faster and more cost-effective way to add the IT resources needed to support its growth. Its answer was to switch from...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Towards the Context-oriented Model of Project Management for Virtual Enterprises
Jun 2010
A virtual enterprise is a dynamically formed coalition of parties from different organizations who want to cooperate with one another to reach a common goal, often within a very short time frame....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Pre-Injection Analysis for Identifying Fault-Injection Tests for Protocol Validation
Oct 2010
Fault-Injection (FI) based techniques for dependability assessment of distributed protocols face certain limitations in providing state-space coverage and also incur high operational cost. This is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Research on Hybrid Assessment Algorithm Based on Local Search for Risk Management in Virtual Enterprise
Dec 2010
This paper presents a hybrid assessment algorithm based on local search for the risk management problem in virtual enterprise. Using this method, the entire risk level of the virtual enterprise is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Information Fusion Based Fault Location Technology for Distribution Network
May 2011
Along with the increasing the level of distribution network intelligence and the network complexity, the automatic fault location technology for distribution network is particularly important. But...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Scheduling Light-Weight Parallelism in ArTCoP
Oct 2007
The authors present the design and prototype implementation of the scheduling component in ArTCoP (architecture transparent control of parallelism), a novel Run-Time Environment (RTE) for parallel...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Characterising E Ective Resource Analyses for Parallel and Distributed Coordination
Jul 2010
An important application of resource analysis is to improve the performance of parallel and distributed programs. In this paper key resources are time, space and communication. Given the spectrum...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Context-Aware Fault Localization via Control Flow Analysis
Oct 2011
Coverage-based fault localization techniques are effective to support program debugging. However, these techniques assess the suspiciousness of program entities individually. Such calculation...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
The Application of AE Signal in Early Cracked Rotor Fault Diagnosis With PWVD and SVM
Oct 2011
To further enhance the early diagnose precision and efficiency for rotor crack under condition of strongly noise, AE signals is applied to extract fault feature of early rotor cracks with the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
3-D nFPGA: A Reconfigurable Architecture for 3-D CMOS/Nanomaterial Hybrid Digital Circuits
Nov 2007
In this paper, the authors introduce a novel reconfigurable architecture, named 3-D Field-Programmable Gate Array (3-D nFPGA), which utilizes 3-D integration techniques and new nanoscale materials...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Hardware Radial Basis Function Neural Network Automatic Generation
Apr 2011
This paper presents a parallel architecture for a Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network used for pattern recognition. This architecture allows defining sub-networks which can be activated...
Provided by UNICEN
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White Papers
High Availability for Parallel Computers
Oct 2010
Fault tolerance has become an important issue for parallel applications in the last few years. The parallel systems' users want them to be reliable considering two main dimensions, availability...
Provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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White Papers
Semantics-based Color Assignment in Visualization
Apr 2010
The active use and manipulation of visual representations makes many complex and intensive cognitive tasks feasible. A visual representation is able to convey relationships among many elements in...
Provided by Universidad Nacional del Sur
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White Papers
SVD-Aided Power Allocation and Iterative Detection Scheme for Turbo-BLAST System with Imperfect Channel State Information
Jun 2011
A new technique that combines adaptive power allocation and iterative detection based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is introduced for the modified Turbo-BLAST system with Imperfect Channel...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Mixed-Signal Parallel Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios
Jan 2010
Wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radios requires very demanding Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) speed and dynamic range. In this paper, a mixed-signal parallel compressive sensing...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Gaussian Pulse-Based Two-Threshold Parallel Scaling Tone Reservation for PAPR Reduction of OFDM Signals
Apr 2011
Tone Reservation (TR) is a technique proposed to combat the high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) problem of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals. However conventional TR...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
An Interface for a Decentralized 2D Reconfiguration on Xilinx Virtex-FPGAs for Organic Computing
Aug 2009
Partial and dynamic online reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a promising approach to design high adaptive systems with lower power consumption, higher task specific...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Parallel Processor for 3D Recovery from Optical Flow
Oct 2009
3D recovery from motion has received a major effort in computer vision systems in the recent years. The main problem lies in the number of operations and memory accesses to be performed by the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Selected Papers from the 17th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW2010)
Apr 2011
This special issue of IJRC includes papers selected from the 17th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2010) held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in April 29-30, 2010. RAW 2010 was associated with the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Sustainable Modular Adaptive Redundancy Technique Emphasizing Partial Reconfiguration for Reduced Power Consumption
Jun 2011
As reconfigurable devices' capacities and the complexity of applications that use them increase, the need for self-reliance of deployed systems becomes increasingly prominent. Organic computing...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
A Decimal Floating-Point Accurate Scalar Product Unit with a Parallel Fixed-Point Multiplier on a Virtex-5 FPGA
Nov 2010
Decimal Floating Point operations are important for applications that cannot tolerate errors from conversions between binary and decimal formats, for instance, commercial, financial, and insurance...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Remus: High Availability Via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication
Feb 2008
Allowing applications to survive hardware failure is an expensive undertaking, which generally involves re-engineering software to include complicated recovery logic as well as deploying...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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Podcasts
Microsoft Align IT: Episode 9: Virtualization Technology: Cost-Effective Data Recovery and Remote Access
Oct 2007
Many organizations rely on tape backup and manual processes as the main components of their disaster recovery plans. These offer good protection - but can only restore data to the point of the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Mastering (Virtual) Networks A Case Study of Virtualizing Internet Lab
Feb 2009
In this paper, the authors describe a single-server-based system they developed for a large scale networking laboratory. The system, based on virtual machines, is capable of running many...
Provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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White Papers
A Visualization of Anomaly Memory Behavior of Full-Virtualized Windows OS Using Virtual Machine Introspection
May 2009
Nowadays, a variety of applications of Windows OS has become more sophisticated and the complexity of its behavior has also been increased. Large scale applications generate the vast size of...
Provided by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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White Papers
A SOM Based Malware Visualization System Using Resource Access Filter of Virtual Machine
Dec 2010
Modern operating system such as Windows OS has become so sophisticated that its behavior is too complicated for the ability of information processing of human being. Besides, malware (malicious...
Provided by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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White Papers
Deobfuscation of Virtualization-Obfuscated Software
Oct 2011
When new malware are discovered, it is important for researchers to analyze and understand them as quickly as possible. This task has been made more difficult in recent years as researchers have...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A New Model for Virtual Machine Migration in Virtualized Cluster Server Based on Fuzzy Decision Making
Feb 2010
In this paper, the authors show that performance of the virtualized cluster servers could be improved through intelligent decision over migration time of Virtual Machines across heterogeneous...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Scalable Group Management in Large-Scale Virtualized Clusters
Apr 2010
To save cost, recently more and more users choose to provision resources at the granularity of Virtual Machines (VMs) in cluster systems, especially of data centres, and virtualized clusters...
Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences
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White Papers
The Impact of Management Operations on the Virtualized Datacenter
Jun 2010
Virtualization has the potential to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership of data centers and increase the flexibility of deployments for general-purpose workloads. If present trends...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Live Virtual Machine Migration With Adaptive Memory Compression
Aug 2009
Live migration of virtual machines has been a powerful tool to facilitate system maintenance, load balancing, fault tolerance, and power-saving, especially in clusters or data centers. Although...
Provided by Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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White Papers
Monitoring in a Virtualized Environment
Aug 2010
Monitoring solutions for Virtualized Infrastructure (VI) should evolve to collect, analyze and provide configuration recommendation based on a broader range of operational metrics. A virtualized...
Provided by Persistent Systems Limited
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White Papers
Complementarity Between Virtualization and Single System Image Technologies
Jul 2008
Nowadays, the use of clusters in research centers or industries is undeniable. Since few years, the usage of Virtual Machines (VM) offers more advanced resource management capabilities, using...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Performance Comparison of Common Server Hardware Virtualization Solutions Regarding the Network Throughput of Virtualized Systems
Mar 2011
Hosting virtual servers on a shared physical hardware by means of hardware virtualization is common use at data centers, web hosters, and research facilities. All virtualization platforms include...
Provided by University of Wurzburg
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White Papers
Resource Allocation Algorithms for Virtualized Service Hosting Platforms
Jun 2010
Commodity clusters are used routinely for deploying service hosting platforms. Due to hardware and operation costs, clusters need to be shared among multiple services. Crucial for enabling such...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Apr 2008
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O Memory Management Units...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
Experimental Study of Virtual Machine Migration in Support of Reservation of Cluster Resources
Nov 2007
Virtual Machines are becoming increasingly valuable to resource consolidation and management, providing efficient and secure resource containers, along with desired application execution...
Provided by University of Florida
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White Papers
How Server and Network Virtualization Make Data Centers More Dynamic
Jan 2009
Server virtualization has become commonplace, and the question of whether to virtualize has been replaced with "Are the people moving fast enough?" But what are the barriers that keep firms from...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
Virtualization as a Strategy for Maintaining Future Access to Multimedia Content
Apr 2009
Virtualization and emulation techniques are getting better and better, and it feels thus natural to apply them to address the problem of data preservation for future content access. In this paper,...
Provided by Norwegian Computing Center
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Case Studies
Corporate Express Implements Flexible, Scalable IT Infrastructure With VMware Virtualization
Jul 2011
Corporate Express is a supplier of office essentials with 45 locations across Australia and New Zealand. Their challenge is to provide a dynamic, flexible infrastructure to deliver key...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Woes of the Art of Virtualization Benchmarking
Mar 2008
Virtualization is a growing field with new technologies constantly emerging. Because of this increase in the number of options, virtualization benchmarking is becoming more important. The current...
Provided by Clarkson University
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White Papers
CloudBLAST: Combining MapReduce and Virtualization on Distributed Resources for Bioinformatics Applications
Feb 2009
This paper proposes and evaluates an approach to the parallelization, deployment and management of bioinformatics applications that integrates several emerging technologies for distributed...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Virtualization Guide: Red Hat Virtualization
Jan 2010
A functional Red Hat Virtualization system is multi-layered and is driven by the privileged Red Hat Virtualization component. Red Hat Virtualization can host multiple guest operating systems. Each...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Building Bug-Tolerant Routers With Virtualization
Aug 2008
Implementation bugs are a highly critical problem in wide-area networks. The software running on core routers is subject to vulnerabilities, coding mistakes, and misconfiguration. Unfortunately,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A New Framework for On-Demand Virtualization, Repurposing and Fusion of Heterogeneous Sensors
Mar 2009
This paper describes the first step towards the realization of complex and large scale cross-organization virtual observatories by presenting a new semantically-enhanced "Sensor Network as a...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
A Comparison of Virtualization Technologies for HPC
Nov 2008
Virtualization is a common strategy for improving the utilization of existing computing resources, particularly within data centers. However, its use for High Performance Computing (HPC)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dynamic Heterogeneity and the Need for Multicore Virtualization
Jan 2009
As the computing industry enters the multicore era, exponential growth in the number of transistors on a chip continues to present challenges and opportunities for computer architects and system...
Provided by Google
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Whitepapers
Desktop Virtualization: Overcoming Five Real-World Challenge
Jan 2009
The business case for desktop virtualization is compelling, especially when a large or variable number of end-users work using similar OS and applications platforms. Organizations can unlock...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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White Papers
Large-Scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed
Apr 2008
Network emulation is valuable largely because of its ability to study applications running on real hosts and "somewhat real" networks. However, conservatively allocating a physical host or network...
Provided by University of Utah
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White Papers
Managing Virtualization With Fujitsu Server View Resource Coordinator VE
Nov 2009
Enterprises are entering a phase of deep technological change, as challenging macroeconomic conditions and shrinking IT budgets force a rethink of the way IT infrastructure works and the adoption...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance
Aug 2009
VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability to virtual machines, eliminating downtime and disruption - even in the event of a complete host failure. This paper gives a brief...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
VMware Fault Tolerance Recommendations and Considerations on VMware vSphere 4
Nov 2009
As dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. Many enterprise hardware components have built-in redundancies, such as RAID storage,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
The Economics of Virtualization: Moving Toward an Application-Based Cost Model
Nov 2009
Server virtualization technologies have quickly become the default platform for today's datacenters. IT organizations are putting in place formal virtualization deployment policies and are...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop
May 2008
An increasing number of IT managers are finding themselves challenged with scaling out and supporting desktop environments that are becoming increasingly complex, and at the same time, business...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Enhanced Server Fault-Tolerance for Improved User Experience
Jun 2008
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environment....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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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...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
IDS Scheer Shows How Virtualization Dramatically Simplifies a Complex IT Infrastructure
Dec 2009
IDS Scheer wanted to meet demanding customer service level agreements, including: capable of near-continuous operations; rapid recovery in case of unplanned outage; scalable systems able to meet...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
HP Modular Cooling System Saves Data Center After Air Conditioning Fails
Nov 2009
The Costa Rica Justice Authority oversees the nation's entire legal system, and in some ways it functions like the U.S. Supreme Court. The Costa Rica Justice Authority wanted to provide dependable...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Small Swiss Company Cross-Works Realizes Big Gains From Using IBM Marketing Benefits and Technical Resources
Jan 2009
With fewer than 10 employees, IBM Business Partner, cross-works ag, headquartered in Switzerland, has expertise in Lotus products. Because it is a small company, cross-works needed help withits...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IT Outsourcing Firm Consolidates 145 Servers to 29 Virtualized Ones, Saves on CapEx
Aug 2009
MphasiS had a lot of end-of-life server hardware which had to be phased out. At the same time, the company wanted to explore how they could consolidate their infrastructure server environments. It...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Construction Firm Virtualizes Servers to Boost Agility and Availability, Cut Costs
Nov 2009
PEAB is a leading Swedish construction and civil engineering firm serving the Nordic region. To keep up with rapid business growth, PEAB needed to accelerate server deployment and keep critical...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
City Council Cuts Deployment Time From Hours to Minutes With Virtualisation Solution
Aug 2009
Until recently, the server environment at Grad Osijek City Council made it time-consuming and expensive to deploy software. Each application required its own physical server, which had to be...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Audio Retailer Makes Sound Decision With Virtualization, Saves $245,000 in Hardware
Aug 2009
Crutchfield sells consumer electronics through its mail-order catalog and its e-commerce Web site. The IT staff turned to virtualization to cut data center costs, improve IT staff productivity,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hosted Service Provider Cuts Operational Costs by a Third With Virtualisation
May 2009
Faced with an increasingly competitive market, French hosting service provider Ikoula sought an alternative offering to low-cost dedicated servers. It deployed both the Windows Server 2008...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
VTB Bank Reaps Practical Benefits From Consolidation and Virtualization
Jan 2010
VTB Bank is one of the leaders in the Russian banking sector with a strong position across all banking areas. The objective was to Deploy a resilient, secure and efficient IT infrastructure to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
For HP Partner Compudyne, Virtualizing on HP Servers Makes Them Easier to Sell
Jan 2010
Compudyne is also the area's exclusive provider of EDGE Pro, a comprehensive remote IT service that helps clients monitor and proactively manage and maintain their hardware infrastructure. As...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Real-World Education
Feb 2008
The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space,...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
EMC's IT Virtualization Journey - Updated
Mar 2010
Interested in discovering how EMC IT is saving more than $23 million in just five years with virtualization? The attendee of this webcast will view this exclusive, updated look at EMC's...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Speed and Extend Your Virtualization Initiatives
Mar 2010
Virtualization makes small and medium businesses flexible and responsive to new requirements - while saving money. The attendee of this webcast will find out how to develop virtualization...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Virtualizing Desktops - An Inside Look at EMC IT
Feb 2010
What is a private cloud? It's everything IT wants from a cloud, but with the control and migration path IT needs. This same private cloud can support client and desktop experiences that follow...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Increasing Productivity and Reducing Operational Costs With Virtualization
Feb 2010
There is clear evidence that virtualization reduces capital expenditures, but what about operational cost savings? The presenter will share recent research findings and customer case studies that...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Virtualization: The State of Trends and Technology
Feb 2010
The presenter of this webcast looks at current trends from consolidation to agility to the cloud, and Intel experts covering new hardware-assisted virtualization technologies.
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Virtualization 2.0 Demo
Aug 2008
Virtualization 1.0 delivered energy efficiency and provided more performance in less space with less power. Virtualization 2.0 expands beyond consolidation focusing on business continuity, agility...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Discussing Virtualization
Jun 2008
The presenters of this webcast interact on the topic of virtualization. The pair discusses energy-efficiency, lower maintenance and software costs, performance issues and data center real estate...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Sentry Data Systems Reduces Its Server Footprint and Boosts Computing Power
Nov 2008
Sentry Data Systems' (Sentry) core infrastructure required substantial computing power and high-speed storage. Four difficult-to-administer racks of large servers supported the company's...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Zappos.com Keeps Pace With Rapid Growth on IBM BladeCenter
May 2009
Zappos.com has seen phenomenal growth since its inception in 1999, establishing itself as a leader in online shoe sales. Zappos now stocks more than 3.5 million items and serves a customer base of...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Univar Extends Computing Capabilities With IBM System z9
Sep 2009
Univar USA is the leading industrial chemical distributor in the United States, providing chemical products and distribution services. After acquiring a competitor and taking on additional...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Umea University Launches Green Windows-Based Supercomputing on an IBM BladeCenter Cluster
Mar 2010
Collaboration is a hallmark of research and education, especially at Umea University, where a unique collaborative effort has led to the development and implementation of Akka, the fastest...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
PKWARE Accelerates Software Development With IBM System z9
May 2009
PKWARE, Inc. is the largest global software company providing ZIP solutions. Their products, PKZIP and SecureZIP, are the industry standard in cross-platform data compression and encryption...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Atos Origin Boosts Mainframe Efficiency and Value With IBM
Mar 2010
Atos Origin is a major international IT services provider, employing 50,000 professionals in 50 countries. The company wanted to deliver improved price-performance; introduce faster, more...
Provided by IBM
