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Case Studies
DP World Drives Its Centralized Storage Strategy With NetApp Storage Solutions
Jul 2008
DP World is one of the largest marine terminal operators in the world, with 43 terminals and 13 developments across 28 countries. DP World in Australia faced a decentralized system with various IT...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Siemens Schweiz AG Builds 24x7 Exchange, SAP, and Hosting Environments on NetApp Storage
Sep 2008
Together with other Siemens Groups, Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) provides a unique range of comprehensive, fully integrated, and sector-specific IT solutions from a single expert...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
LightEdge Stores 70% More Volume With Same Footprint Using NetApp
Aug 2008
LightEdge Solutions Inc. is a leading provider of fully managed network and business services, voice services, and hosting for small- and medium-sized businesses in the Midwest and Southwest....
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Bimba Manufacturing Pulls the Plug on DAS, Air Conditioning, and High Costs
Sep 2008
A forward-thinking innovator of actuation technology, Bimba Manufacturing specializes in cutting-edge solutions for engineering challenges. The challenge was to build a virtual infrastructure with...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Manhattan Associates Streamlines Development, Optimizes IT Services With NetApp and VMware
Sep 2008
Manhattan Associates, founded in 1990, has since amassed over 1,200 global customers using its end-to-end supply chain management software solutions. The company needed mixed access to robust...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
MSA Grows Its Business, Not Its IT Budgets, With NetApp
Aug 2008
Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) is a leading manufacturer of sophisticated safety products, such as respirators, gas detection instruments, and body armor, that integrate electronics, mechanical...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Consolidates Critical Infrastructure
Aug 2008
Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. (SSMC) operates Siemens's biggest manufacturing facility outside Germany and the largest Siemens operating company in China. SSMC wanted to...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
TNO Science and Industry Accelerates High-Performance Computing With NetApp
Aug 2008
TNO Science and Industry is a core area of TNO's organization, focusing primarily on the business community. To process the data from the supercomputer, TNO needed a solution that could meet...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
MSA Accelerates Time to Deployment of SAP Applications With NetApp
Jul 2008
Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) is a leading manufacturer of sophisticated safety products - such as respirators, gas detection instruments, and body armor - that integrate electronics, mechanical...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
UHN Gains Fast, Secure Access to Medical Data With NetApp
Jul 2008
The University Health Network (UHN) is an umbrella organization encompassing three major hospitals in Toronto, Canada, and a group of medical laboratories and foundations. University Health...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
AutoTrader.com Fuels Business Growth With Infrastructure From NetApp
Apr 2008
AutoTrader.com, the world's leading online automotive marketplace, lists more than three million vehicles from 40,000 dealers and 250,000 private owners. The company could no longer manage storage...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Patients Rely on UTMB, and UTMB Relies on NetApp
May 2008
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is an academic medical center that funds health science professionals and researchers, cares for patients, and solves biomedical puzzles through...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Tucson Electric Power Accelerates Customer Response Time With NetApp
Apr 2008
At the end of 2000, TEP was on the brink of enormous growth in its storage needs. The company was expanding its Geographical Information System (GIS) with more high resolution photographs, which...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sentara Healthcare Powers "Continuous Patient Care" Program With NetApp V-Series Solution
May 2008
Sentara Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare provider serving more than two million Virginia and North Carolina residents. The company wanted to build a robust, scalable storage solution for...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Genome Sciences Centre Keeps Pace With Storage Growth and Network Performance
May 2008
The Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) carries out genomic research and bioinformatics using one of the most advanced computing platforms in the world. Centre wanted to scale network to...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sonol Israel Ltd. Oil Accelerates With High-Performing NetApp Solution
Apr 2008
Sonol markets and distributes refined petroleum products, lubricants, and related products. Sonol is one of the largest oil marketing companies in Israel. The company wanted to deploy...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Oracle GIT to Save $2 Million With Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and NetApp
May 2008
The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle develops software for data management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and supply chain...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Favrille Gains Flexibility, Scalability to Grow Rapidly With NetApp and VMware
Mar 2008
Favrille is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of patient-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system....
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
NetApp Systems Simplify Massive Storage Growth for Gilead Sciences
Apr 2008
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a $3 billion research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet need. To support its double-digit...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
MASERGY Consolidates on NetApp Storage for Improved Customer Service
Apr 2008
MASERGY is a privately held global service provider specializing in simplifying wide area networks for enterprises. MASERGY urgently needed a secure, scalable, easy-to-manage storage system for...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
FirstHealth of the Carolinas Cures Information Growing Pains by Standardizing on NetApp
Mar 2008
FirstHealth of the Carolinas is a private, nongovernmental, not-for-profit health care network serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas. Support 100% annual data growth and 650 applications while...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Activision Protects Data and Transforms Development With NetApp
Apr 2008
Activision, Inc., is a leading worldwide video game publisher, developer, and distributor. Activision had standardized on a high-end Hitachi FC SAN infrastructure to manage its corporate-wide...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Stanley Electric Integrates Key Design Engineering Environment With NetApp
Apr 2008
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., specializes in the development and production of light-specific electronic products. The company wanted to integrate storage for CATIA V4 and V5 in UNIX and Windows...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Spin West VFX Achieves Greater Uptime and Growth Flexibility With NetApp Data ONTAP GX
Mar 2008
With headquarters in Toronto, SPIN Productions' Vancouver, B.C.-based franchise, SPIN West VFX, is owned by founding partner and visual effects industry veteran Doug Campbell. The company wanted...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Polysius Reclaims Space, Extends Storage Life With NetApp Deduplication and Datalink
Mar 2008
Atlanta-based Polysius Corporation has no shortage of smart, technical minds at its disposal when it's time to design, supply, install, or improve the performance of new or existing cement plants...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Blackboard ASP Speeds Development Work, Shortens Time to Market by 75% With NetApp
Mar 2008
Blackboard is a leading provider of e-education enterprise software applications and services. The company's challenge was to improve data replication capabilities and developer productivity to...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Image Engine Boosts Production Pipeline Performance With NetApp Data ONTAP GX
Mar 2008
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Image Engine is no stranger to applying equal parts technology and expertise to help produce award winning visual effects for television episodic and film projects. The...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Blue Ridge Paper Wraps Up Storage Savings, Availability With NetApp Storage
Mar 2008
Blue Ridge Paper manufactures a variety of papers for envelopes, cups, and plates, as well as paper packaging, including coated, uncoated, and ovenable paperboard. To reduce operating costs and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Woot.com Scales Using RightScale and aiCache
Mar 2010
Woot.com is a well known online e-commerce site, famous for creating the "One day one item sale" business model. Woot.com needed a solution to support their intense traffic spikes that would not...
Provided by RightScale
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Case Studies
Removing Obstacles to Research
Mar 2010
J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) needed powerful x86-based servers in a small form factor to construct a High-Performance Computing (HPC) grid for genomic analysis. The institute also wanted to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Welch's Grows a Strong Storage Strategy With IBM XIV System Storage
Mar 2010
Headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, Welch's has been in business since 1869. Today, its products are sold in more than 35 countries and territories around the globe. To meet the company's...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Scalable Infrastructure With VMware VStorage VMFS and 3PAR Utility Storage
Apr 2010
IT administrators today rely on infrastructure that is dynamically scalable and highly available. A scalable, resilient datacenter is achieved by augmenting or replacing hardware and software,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Dynamic Storage Provisioning: Considerations and Best Practices for Using Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning
Nov 2009
VMware vSphere 4 introduces many new features that enable greater efficiency, control, and choice for storage resources. With the full support for thin provisioned virtual disks, VMware has...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Storage Considerations for VMware View
Feb 2009
VMware View is an enterprise?]class virtual desktop manager that securely connects authorized users to centralized virtual desktops. It provides a complete, end?]to?]end solution that improves...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
VMware Distributed Power Management Concepts and Use
Mar 2010
Consolidation of physical servers into virtual machines that share host physical resources can result in significant reductions in the costs associated with hardware maintenance and power...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Scalable Storage Performance
Jun 2008
VMware ESX enables multiple hosts to share the same physical storage reliably through its highly optimized storage stack and VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). Centralized storage of...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
The Medical Image Storage Dilemma: Why Hosted Archiving Makes Sense
Jan 2010
Secure storage capacity and lowering costs - do these seem like mutually exclusive propositions in the healthcare industry? Most healthcare organizations can't keep adding storage capacity to keep...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
SQL Server Consolidation With Server Virtualization on NetApp Storage
Mar 2010
NetApp solutions provide storage efficiencies that offer numerous advantages for Microsoft SQL Server database consolidation, especially when virtualization is a part of the architectural...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Streamlining Engineering Operations With Perforce SCM Software
Feb 2010
The Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system has become an industry-leading solution because of its low cost, ease of use, high performance, and flexibility. Users of Perforce often...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
Dec 2009
A 2008 ESG survey of nearly 400 enterprises revealed that, on average, organizations spend 28% of their IT budgets on storage inclusive of systems, software, and services. In another ESG study...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Optimal Control of End-User Energy Storage
Mar 2012
An increasing number of retail energy markets exhibit price fluctuations and provide customers such as data centers and residential users the opportunity to buy energy at lower than average...
Provided by Cornell University
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Webcasts
A 40% Faster Backup and 40% Lower Storage Volumes With Symantec
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter explains about Symantec Backup Exec 2012 and its benefits. The presenter explains his benefits which is accelerated backup by 40% and reduced the volume of stored...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Optimal Control of Residential Energy Storage Under Price Fluctuations
Jul 2011
An increasing number of retail energy markets exhibit price fluctuations and provide home users the opportunity to buy energy at lower than average prices. However, such cost savings are hard to...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Fine-Grained Power Management Using Process-Level Profiling
Jan 2012
Low-power hardware design itself is not enough to solve the power problem of computer systems. Operating system level power saving strategies have been proved as effective complement to hardware...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
TaP: Table-Based Prefetching for Storage Caches
Jan 2008
TaP is a storage cache sequential prefetching and caching technique to improve the read-ahead cache hit rate and system response time. A unique feature of TaP is the use of a table to detect...
Provided by University of New Hampshire
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White Papers
Sequential Prefetch Cache Sizing for Maximal Hit Rate
Jun 2010
The authors propose a prefetch cache sizing module for use with any sequential prefetching scheme and evaluate its impact on the hit rate. Disk array caches perform sequential prefetching by...
Provided by Palo Alto Research Center
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White Papers
Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage
Apr 2012
The authors present Masstree, a fast key-value database designed for SMP machines. Masstree keeps all data in memory. Its main data structure is a trie-like concatenation of B+-trees, each of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Adaptive Granularity Memory Systems: A Tradeoff Between Storage Efficiency and Throughput
Jun 2011
The authors propose adaptive granularity to combine the best of ne-grained and coarse-grained memory accesses. They augment virtual memory to allow each page to specify its preferred granularity...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Lane Decoupling for Improving the Timing-Error Resiliency of Wide-SIMD Architectures
Apr 2012
A significant portion of the energy dissipated in modern integrated circuits is consumed by the overhead associated with timing guard-bands that ensure reliable execution. Timing speculation,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Balancing DRAM Locality and Parallelism in Shared Memory CMP Systems
Feb 2012
Modern memory systems rely on spatial locality to provide high bandwidth while minimizing memory device power and cost. The trend of increasing the number of cores that share memory, however,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
CAPRI: Prediction of Compaction-Adequacy for Handling Control-Divergence in GPGPU Architectures
May 2012
Wide SIMD-based GPUs have evolved into a promising platform for running general purpose workloads. Current programmable GPUs allow even code with irregular control to execute well on their SIMD...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
The Dynamic Granularity Memory System
Apr 2012
Chip multiprocessors enable continued performance scaling with increasingly many cores per chip. As the throughput of computation outpaces available memory bandwidth, however, the system...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Enhancing LRU Replacement Via Phantom Associativity
Jan 2012
In this paper, the authors propose a novel cache design, Phantom Associative Cache (PAC), that alleviates cache thrashing in L2 caches by keeping the in-cache data blocks for a longer time period....
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Image-Adaptive Watermarking Using 2D Chirps
Jan 2009
Linear chirps, a special case of polynomial phase exponentials, have recently been proposed for digital watermarking. In this paper, the authors propose a known-host-state methodology for...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Simulation Analysis of Download and Recovery Processes in P2P Storage Systems
Jun 2009
Peer-to-peer storage systems rely on data fragmentation and distributed storage. Unreachable fragments are continuously recovered, requiring multiple fragments of data (constituting a "Block") to...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Contributing Storage Using the Transparent File System
Aug 2007
Contributory applications allow users to donate unused resources from their personal computers to a shared pool. These applications harvest idle resources such as CPU cycles, memory, network...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
RDM 11 Architecture and Features
Mar 2012
RDM 11.0 is a product developed by programmers for programmers. Its packages, APIs and utilities can be employed in countless combinations, assuming the responsibility for data collection,...
Provided by Raima
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Case Studies
Leading Renewable Energy Operator Uses Red Hat Storage to Manage Business-Critical Weather Prediction Data
Nov 2011
As one of North America's leading renewable energy operators of wind, solar, and transmission assets, Pattern Energy is focused on developing, constructing, owning, and operating energy-producing...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Graphical Models of Separation Logic
Jun 2009
Graphs are used to model control and data flow among events occurring in the execution of a concurrent program. The authors' treatment of data flow covers both shared storage and external...
Provided by University of Texas
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Podcasts
Dwight Merriman on Replication
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker discusses about database replication. As application data size and throughput have outgrown the processing and storage needs of commodity servers, replication has...
Provided by Software Engineering Radio
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White Papers
Flikker: Saving DRAM Refresh-Power Through Critical Data Partitioning
Mar 2011
Energy has become a first-class design constraint in computer systems. Memory is a significant contributor to total system power. This paper introduces Flikker, an application-level technique to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
On-Demand Recovery in Middleware Storage Systems
Aug 2010
This paper presents a recovery architecture for in-memory data management systems. Recovery in such systems boils down to solving two problems: retrieving and installing the last committed image...
Provided by EPFL
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White Papers
Belisarius: BFT Storage With Confidentiality
Jun 2011
Traditional approaches to byzantine fault-tolerance have mostly avoided the problem of confidentiality. Current confidentiality-aware solutions rely on a heavy infrastructure investment or depend...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Decoupled Dynamic Cache Segmentation
Feb 2012
The Least Recently Used (LRU) replacement policy performs poorly in the Last-Level Cache (LLC) because temporal locality of memory accesses is filtered by first and second level caches. The...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Towards Optimizing Energy Costs of Algorithms for Shared Memory Architectures
Jun 2010
Energy consumption by computer systems has emerged as an important concern. However, the energy consumed in executing an algorithm cannot be inferred from its performance alone: it must be modeled...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Modelling and Non Linear Control of a Photovoltaic System With Storage Batteries: A Bond Graph Approach
Jun 2011
This paper presents a bond graph modelling of a PhotoVoltaic source (PV). The insolation variation during the day poses the problem of energy storage. For that, the authors used electrochemical...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
A Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking
May 2008
Benchmarking is critical when evaluating performance, but is especially difficult for file and storage systems. Complex interactions between I/O devices, caches, kernel daemons, and other OS...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Model Predictive Control for Memory Profiling
Mar 2009
The authors make two contributions in the area of memory profiling. The first is a real-time, memory-profiling toolkit they call Memcov that provides both allocation/deallocation and access...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Type-Safe Disks
Jan 2012
The authors present the notion of a Type-Safe Disk (TSD). Unlike a traditional disk system, a TSD is aware of the pointer relationships between disk blocks that are imposed by higher layers such...
Provided by Stony Brook University
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White Papers
DHIS: Discriminating Hierarchical Storage
May 2009
A typical storage hierarchy comprises of components with varying performance and cost characteristics, providing multiple options for data placement. The authors propose and evaluate a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evaluating Performance and Energy in File System Server Workloads
Jan 2010
Recently, power has emerged as a critical factor in designing components of storage systems, especially for power-hungry data centers. While there is some research into power-aware storage stack...
Provided by Stony Brook University
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White Papers
On the Energy Consumption and Performance of Systems Software
Jun 2011
Models of energy consumption and performance are necessary to understand and identify system behavior, prior to designing advanced controls that can balance out performance and energy use. This...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Exporting Kernel Page Caching for Efficient User-Level I/O
Aug 2011
The modern file system is still implemented in the kernel, and is statically linked with other kernel components. This architecture has brought performance and efficient integration with memory...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Efficient Multi-Tier Tablet Server Storage Architecture
Oct 2011
Distributed, structured data stores such as Big Table, HBase, and Cassandra use a cluster of machines, each running a database-like software system called the Tablet Server Storage Layer or TSSL....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Extracting Flexible, Replayable Models From Large Block Traces
Apr 2012
I/O traces are good sources of information about real-world workloads; replaying such traces is often used to reproduce the most realistic system behavior possible. But traces tend to be large,...
Provided by Stony Brook University
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White Papers
Azor: Using Two-Level Block Selection to Improve SSD-Based I/O Caches
Jul 2011
Flash-based Solid State Drives (SSDs) exhibit potential for solving I/O bottlenecks by offering superior performance over hard disks for several workloads. In this paper, the authors design Azor,...
Provided by University of Crete
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White Papers
Hierarchical Codes: A Flexible Trade-Off for Erasure Codes in Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Apr 2009
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and maintained. The...
Provided by EURECOM
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White Papers
Evolutionary Discriminative Confidence Estimation for Spoken Term Detection
Nov 2011
Spoken Term Detection (STD) is the task of searching for occurrences of spoken terms in audio archives. It relies on robust confidence estimation to make a hit/False Alarm (FA) decision. In order...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Self-Organizing Sensing Infrastructure for Autonomic Management of Green Datacenters
Aug 2011
The scale and complexity of modern datacenters are growing at an alarming rate due to the rising popularity of the cloud computing paradigm as an effective means to cater to the ever increasing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
CASFI Data Sharing Platform
Apr 2009
Effective data management has become a key in promoting data sharing within measurement-based research community. In this paper, the authors propose a framework that helps one to share not only...
Provided by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Case Studies
MSA Accelerates Time to Deployment of SAP Applications With NetApp
Jul 2008
Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) is a leading manufacturer of sophisticated safety products - such as respirators, gas detection instruments, and body armor - that integrate electronics, mechanical...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
UHN Gains Fast, Secure Access to Medical Data With NetApp
Jul 2008
The University Health Network (UHN) is an umbrella organization encompassing three major hospitals in Toronto, Canada, and a group of medical laboratories and foundations. University Health...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
AutoTrader.com Fuels Business Growth With Infrastructure From NetApp
Apr 2008
AutoTrader.com, the world's leading online automotive marketplace, lists more than three million vehicles from 40,000 dealers and 250,000 private owners. The company could no longer manage storage...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Patients Rely on UTMB, and UTMB Relies on NetApp
May 2008
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is an academic medical center that funds health science professionals and researchers, cares for patients, and solves biomedical puzzles through...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Tucson Electric Power Accelerates Customer Response Time With NetApp
Apr 2008
At the end of 2000, TEP was on the brink of enormous growth in its storage needs. The company was expanding its Geographical Information System (GIS) with more high resolution photographs, which...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sentara Healthcare Powers "Continuous Patient Care" Program With NetApp V-Series Solution
May 2008
Sentara Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare provider serving more than two million Virginia and North Carolina residents. The company wanted to build a robust, scalable storage solution for...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Genome Sciences Centre Keeps Pace With Storage Growth and Network Performance
May 2008
The Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) carries out genomic research and bioinformatics using one of the most advanced computing platforms in the world. Centre wanted to scale network to...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sonol Israel Ltd. Oil Accelerates With High-Performing NetApp Solution
Apr 2008
Sonol markets and distributes refined petroleum products, lubricants, and related products. Sonol is one of the largest oil marketing companies in Israel. The company wanted to deploy...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Oracle GIT to Save $2 Million With Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and NetApp
May 2008
The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle develops software for data management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and supply chain...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Favrille Gains Flexibility, Scalability to Grow Rapidly With NetApp and VMware
Mar 2008
Favrille is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of patient-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system....
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
NetApp Systems Simplify Massive Storage Growth for Gilead Sciences
Apr 2008
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a $3 billion research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet need. To support its double-digit...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
MASERGY Consolidates on NetApp Storage for Improved Customer Service
Apr 2008
MASERGY is a privately held global service provider specializing in simplifying wide area networks for enterprises. MASERGY urgently needed a secure, scalable, easy-to-manage storage system for...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
FirstHealth of the Carolinas Cures Information Growing Pains by Standardizing on NetApp
Mar 2008
FirstHealth of the Carolinas is a private, nongovernmental, not-for-profit health care network serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas. Support 100% annual data growth and 650 applications while...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Activision Protects Data and Transforms Development With NetApp
Apr 2008
Activision, Inc., is a leading worldwide video game publisher, developer, and distributor. Activision had standardized on a high-end Hitachi FC SAN infrastructure to manage its corporate-wide...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Stanley Electric Integrates Key Design Engineering Environment With NetApp
Apr 2008
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., specializes in the development and production of light-specific electronic products. The company wanted to integrate storage for CATIA V4 and V5 in UNIX and Windows...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Spin West VFX Achieves Greater Uptime and Growth Flexibility With NetApp Data ONTAP GX
Mar 2008
With headquarters in Toronto, SPIN Productions' Vancouver, B.C.-based franchise, SPIN West VFX, is owned by founding partner and visual effects industry veteran Doug Campbell. The company wanted...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Polysius Reclaims Space, Extends Storage Life With NetApp Deduplication and Datalink
Mar 2008
Atlanta-based Polysius Corporation has no shortage of smart, technical minds at its disposal when it's time to design, supply, install, or improve the performance of new or existing cement plants...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Blackboard ASP Speeds Development Work, Shortens Time to Market by 75% With NetApp
Mar 2008
Blackboard is a leading provider of e-education enterprise software applications and services. The company's challenge was to improve data replication capabilities and developer productivity to...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Image Engine Boosts Production Pipeline Performance With NetApp Data ONTAP GX
Mar 2008
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Image Engine is no stranger to applying equal parts technology and expertise to help produce award winning visual effects for television episodic and film projects. The...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Blue Ridge Paper Wraps Up Storage Savings, Availability With NetApp Storage
Mar 2008
Blue Ridge Paper manufactures a variety of papers for envelopes, cups, and plates, as well as paper packaging, including coated, uncoated, and ovenable paperboard. To reduce operating costs and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Woot.com Scales Using RightScale and aiCache
Mar 2010
Woot.com is a well known online e-commerce site, famous for creating the "One day one item sale" business model. Woot.com needed a solution to support their intense traffic spikes that would not...
Provided by RightScale
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Case Studies
Removing Obstacles to Research
Mar 2010
J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) needed powerful x86-based servers in a small form factor to construct a High-Performance Computing (HPC) grid for genomic analysis. The institute also wanted to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Welch's Grows a Strong Storage Strategy With IBM XIV System Storage
Mar 2010
Headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, Welch's has been in business since 1869. Today, its products are sold in more than 35 countries and territories around the globe. To meet the company's...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Scalable Infrastructure With VMware VStorage VMFS and 3PAR Utility Storage
Apr 2010
IT administrators today rely on infrastructure that is dynamically scalable and highly available. A scalable, resilient datacenter is achieved by augmenting or replacing hardware and software,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Dynamic Storage Provisioning: Considerations and Best Practices for Using Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning
Nov 2009
VMware vSphere 4 introduces many new features that enable greater efficiency, control, and choice for storage resources. With the full support for thin provisioned virtual disks, VMware has...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Storage Considerations for VMware View
Feb 2009
VMware View is an enterprise?]class virtual desktop manager that securely connects authorized users to centralized virtual desktops. It provides a complete, end?]to?]end solution that improves...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
VMware Distributed Power Management Concepts and Use
Mar 2010
Consolidation of physical servers into virtual machines that share host physical resources can result in significant reductions in the costs associated with hardware maintenance and power...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Scalable Storage Performance
Jun 2008
VMware ESX enables multiple hosts to share the same physical storage reliably through its highly optimized storage stack and VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). Centralized storage of...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
The Medical Image Storage Dilemma: Why Hosted Archiving Makes Sense
Jan 2010
Secure storage capacity and lowering costs - do these seem like mutually exclusive propositions in the healthcare industry? Most healthcare organizations can't keep adding storage capacity to keep...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
SQL Server Consolidation With Server Virtualization on NetApp Storage
Mar 2010
NetApp solutions provide storage efficiencies that offer numerous advantages for Microsoft SQL Server database consolidation, especially when virtualization is a part of the architectural...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Streamlining Engineering Operations With Perforce SCM Software
Feb 2010
The Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system has become an industry-leading solution because of its low cost, ease of use, high performance, and flexibility. Users of Perforce often...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
Dec 2009
A 2008 ESG survey of nearly 400 enterprises revealed that, on average, organizations spend 28% of their IT budgets on storage inclusive of systems, software, and services. In another ESG study...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
NetApp Storage Efficiency Guide
Sep 2009
Data proliferation is a fact of life. Harnessing the spread of data is a near impossibility, but correcting provisioning inefficiencies; managing storage allocation for test and development, data...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Storage Efficiency in an Oracle Environment
Aug 2009
This paper discusses various design decisions that can be taken when implementing data center infrastructure for Oracle Database and application environments to maximize storage efficiency. This...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Using the Performance Accelerator Module II in Online Transaction Processing
Aug 2009
The storage industry is undergoing a major transformation as flash memory technology transitions from a tool for storing cell-phone address books into an enterprise-ready performance acceleration...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Data Deduplication Solutions - IBM System Storage N Series
Jan 2010
This paper offers an overview of the data management tool, deduplication, and a brief understanding of the variety of deduplication solution types. In an era of burgeoning data growth, reductions...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
ESG Lab Validation Report: NetApp Ethernet Storage Protocol Independent Convergence With FCoE
Feb 2009
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an emerging standard that maps Fibre Channel storage traffic over an Enhanced 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. NetApp is the first storage vendor to support...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
DR Validation for SAP Solutions With VMware Site Recovery Manager and NetApp Storage and Products
Aug 2009
SAP provides a range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to manage and run the complete business of a company. Companies that have deployed such products depend on...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Why Visibility and Manageability Are Critical to the Adoption of iSCSI
Oct 2008
This paper explores some of the challenges that have slowed the adoption of iSCSI and discusses several ways to optimize iSCSI SANs. It also details several policies that can be created to...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
NearStore: Network Appliance and Quantum Solutions
Jun 2008
The expectations for the performance, reliability, and quality of backup systems grow significantly every year. While the amount of data that needs to be backed up continues to grow exponentially,...
Provided by NetApp
