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Solutions Brief:Â Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V:Â Enabling The Next Generation Virtualized Data Center | 2009-11-04 | Dell EqualLogic |
| Server virtualization is one of the most significant technology trends in IT environments today, and a key enabler of the next generation virtualized data center. Server virtualization relies on hypervisors to provide the abstraction layer between the operating systems and the physical hardware, allowing IT administrators the ability to consolidate server capacity, increase hardware utilization, and optimize their infrastructure all while improving service levels and network security.
Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware |
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Technical Report:Â Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V with PS Series Arrays | 2009-11-04 | Dell EqualLogic |
| Server virtualization is a common practice is today's data centers for server consolidation, power reduction, rapid provisioning, high availability, and data protection. All of these reasons lead to lower data center costs and TCO. Virtual servers together with intelligent virtual storage increase the chances for successful deployments of virtual data centers.
Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware |
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Power Solutions Article:Â A Smart Path to Virtualization | 2009-11-04 | Dell EqualLogic |
| As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How will they migrate to a fully virtualized environment? How should the IT infrastructure be configured for maximum business benefit? Dell is partnering with other industry leaders to build a flexible, industry-standard approach that helps simplify the transition.
Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware |
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Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V | 2009-11-04 | Dell EqualLogic |
| Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If a physical server fails, all the virtualized applications running on that server could become unavailable. Even temporary downtime can impair worker productivity and jeopardize revenue.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Server Platforms - OS, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware |
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GuestLogix Gains Deeper Business Insight With the Help of SQL Server 2008 | 2009-11-03 | Microsoft |
| GuestLogix Inc. is a leading provider of onboard retail technology to the passenger travel industry. The Toronto-based company delivers innovative products and services to enhance the customer experience and drive ancillary revenue growth for airlines. The company wanted capitalize on current market trends and increased industry demand for onboard retail solutions. To achieve this, GuestLogix first needed to improve its Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting capabilities and enable staff to access a single view of operational performance to evaluate sales efforts and make meaningful forecasts. With this in mind, GuestLogix has developed a new BI environment based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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Market-Leading Data-Modeling Tools: Research Report from the Burton Group | 2009-11-01 | Sybase |
| The Burton Group provides an in-depth research report on Market-Leading Data-Modeling Tools. According to their research, basic data modeling tools have become commoditized - basic features are yesterday's news! Today's emphasis is less on data modeling features and more on Architecture. According to this research; Sybase PowerDesigner is the only modeling tool that supports architecture frameworks. We believe that after reading this assessment, if your IT department has needs beyond basic data models, you WILL want to hear more about PowerDesigner.
Tags: Software Development Tools, Software Development Tools, Internet and Web, Data Infrastructure |
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U.S. Foodservice Optimizes Lead Management With Hosted Customer Relationship Management Solution | 2009-11-01 | Oracle |
| U.S. Foodservice wanted to provide an easy-to-use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that enables U.S. Foodservice to standardize account and lead management nationwide and increase visibility into the sales pipeline and expand reporting capabilities to improve decision-making. The challenge was to tailor information access controls and CRM processes to match the complex, multilayered organizational structure of the company, which employs a large field team for selling and distributing food and related products and services. U.S. Foodservice implemented Oracle CRM On Demand to provide U.S. Foodservice employees with access to consolidated customer data, using Oracle Business Intelligence Suite to standardize and improve visibility into lead and account management.
Tags: Data Tools |
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Essent Consolidates IT Infrastructure to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by 50% | 2009-11-01 | Oracle |
| Essent wanted to increase computing capacity to better service the processes and reduce costs by standardizing and consolidating IT infrastructure. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance for business-critical systems such as customer registration and energy consumption forecasting, which is performed every five minutes. Essent worked with Oracle Partner IBM Nederland B.V. to implement an Oracle Database grid with Oracle Real Application Clusters on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server consisting of 28 Intel Xeon servers, each with eight cores and 32 gigabytes of RAM.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure |
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AngloGold Ashanti's Clustered Database Environment Makes Transactional Data Sets Highly Available | 2009-11-01 | Oracle |
| AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. wanted to ensure optimal implementation of Oracle Database 11g and stream 50 terabytes of spatial information from a central point to all global operations, for both greenfields and brownfields. The challenge was to deliver highly available platform for Oracle 11g environment to facilitate dissemination of data for global exploration teams and accommodate future growth in data volumes and access demands. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. implemented a two-node system of Oracle Real Application Clusters across special and online transactional datasets and guaranteed future scalability and availability.
Tags: Network Management, Data Tools |
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MVS Television S.A. de C.V. Integrates Information and Increases Its Competitiveness | 2009-11-01 | Oracle |
| MVS Television wanted to fully integrate quality financial information to allow for rapid and informed executive decision making and accelerate response times for consolidating and accessing financial information to increase the company's productivity. The challenge was to improve the organization's financial procedures and operating efficiency of its businesses and maintain the company's competitive advantage by providing the highest possible client service and improving its business intelligence capacity. MVS Television worked with Oracle Partner ERP Soluciones to implement integrated Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand applications, consolidating quality financial information online and in real time.
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