WHITE PAPER - This chapter from Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) contains information to guide administrators and IT managers in the selection and installation of servers, systems and subsystems.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Blade Servers | Clustering | Data Centers | Grid Computing | Scalability Testing | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses how distributed computing technologies like grid infrastructures enable companies to avoid datacenter growth and contain power and cooling costs. The payoff is extremely beneficial for both the company and the environment.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 18, 2008


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Enterprise | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Grid Computing

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization technology is revolutionizing IT, it has taken root in large, medium and small enterprises throughout the world, and we are only just beginning to fully grasp the transformational potential of this technology.
Posted: October 7, 2008 | Published: October 7, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | ERP | Grid Computing | Server Virtualization | SOA | Utility Computing

WHITE PAPER - Grid computing is the preferred high performance data processing architecture in many companies, but storage response issues and added hardware increase costs and complexity. Read this white paper to learn about a storage technique for high performance...
Posted: September 16, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Financial Services | Grid Computing | Network File System Protocol | SAN | Storage Capacity

WHITE PAPER - Read this whitepaper to learn the best practices for dashboard formatting and layout. It also discusses nine dashboard design problems and solutions.
Posted: September 12, 2008 | Published: September 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Content Management | Dashboards | Design Verification | Grid Computing | Model Driven Architecture | Visual Basic

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores a completely new approach to availability for virtual machines-an approach recognized with the Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology award.
Posted: September 9, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Grid Computing | IT Managers | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | Windows

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the advantages of using SuperSockets with Dolphin Express to build scalable, high performance and highly cost-effective Oracle RAC clusters with industry standard servers and Dolphin components.
Posted: August 19, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Architectures | Cluster Management | Databases | Grid Computing | Hardware | High Performance Computing | Mainframe Operating Systems | Oracle (Product) | Remote Access Protocols

WHITE PAPER - This document summarizes experiences with deploying Univa UD UniCluster Express within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). UniCluster Express is a cluster tool-stack capable of deploying fully configured and integrated set of technologies.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Grid Computing | High Availability | High Performance Computing | Open Source | Open Source Software | Scripting | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g Grid is a portfolio of Sun and third-party products designed to reduce the risks, uncertainty, and costs associated with implementing an Oracle database.
Posted: January 16, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Grid Computing | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Information technology has matured to the point that the global economy almost completely depends on the ability to electronically share information. Learn how with Oracle Datbase 11g and enterprise grid computing busisess is now free to innovate.
Posted: October 15, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Change Management | Database Administration | Database Performance Management | Grid Computing | High Availability | ILM | IT Infrastructure | Oracle (Product) | SQL | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, we will review the common causes of application downtime and discuss how technologies available in the Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures.
Posted: October 15, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Cluster Software | Database Administration | Database Performance Management | Grid Computing | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Oracle (Product) | Productivity | Software Upgrades | Systems Maintenance