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whitepaper Nemertes Research Report: Unified Communications: What, Why and How?2007-06-01 Nortel Networks
  Unified Communications can help your company dramatically improve the quality of its business communications while reducing costs and enhancing employee productivity.

To learn how, download this exclusive Unified Communications planning guide, compliments of Nortel Networks. It's a must-have resource if you're looking to integrate your organization's communication and collaboration capabilities.

Tags: Voice - Data Integration, ERP, Collaborative Web, High Performance Computing, Video Conferencing, Voice Mail, Telecom Services, Unified Communications		   
whitepaper Analyst Report: Multi-Entity Master Data Management: The 4th Generation of MDM - Is Your MDM Road Map "Strategic" or "Myopic"?2007-06-01 IBM
  Since 2006, the CDI-MDM Institute has semi-annually hosted in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific the world's largest gathering of IT professionals focused specifically on customer data integration (CDI), master data management (MDM), and data governance. These sold-out events offer MDM professionals and their business partners opportunities to: (1) create and grow a strong network of data integration colleagues; (2) validate and further their understanding of best practices and potential pitfalls; and, (3) stay current with the latest research, trends and technologies.

This report from 2007's CDI-MDM conference identifies the changing status of MDM from an early adopter to a Global 5000 business strategy, introduces SOA and how it partners with MDM as a solution, and speaks to the notion of multiple data and the concerns growing around what this means to companies.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper A Practical Application for Grid Computing2007-06-01 Enterprise Management Associates
  Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable of producing and consuming. Properly managed, storage and throughput scale linearly with computing power. Grids are a proven technology when it comes to HPC, but such sites are typically seen as a special case of computing, where computational performance is often the only criterion that really matters.   
whitepaper Data Pump in Oracle Database 11g: Foundation for Ultra High-Speed Data Movement Utilities2007-06-01 Oracle
  Data Pump is a callable feature in Oracle Database 11g that provides very high-speed loading and unloading of data and metadata. Command line export and import clients, expdp and impdp, that fully exploit the Data Pump infrastructure, are also provided with Oracle Database. They are implemented as complete supersets of the original exp and imp, and will replace these legacy clients going forward.

Tags: High Performance Computing, Database Applications		   
whitepaper HP Disaster Proof Solutions: Ensuring Application Availability2007-06-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  HP built a highly available, disaster tolerant multi-data center environment to test and demonstrate its availability and recoverability solutions. They then created a disaster that rendered the primary site immediately useless in order to show the effectiveness of the HP solution. This ESG paper provides views of the current business continuity market as well as thoughts on HP's role in the market.

ESG has found that there is an increase in the number of companies and organizations requiring 24 x 365 days of IT uptime. IN fact, ESG research indicates that 36% of enterprises indicating they will incur significant revenue loss of other adverse business impact if they have even an hour or less of downtime on their mission-critical applications. Almost 15% indicate they cannot tolerate any downtime. In the past, this type of business demand was only consigned to a relatively small group. However, many more organizations of all sizes, in all industries and located across the globe, now require applications to be running and data to be always available. The needs of these organizations go far beyond simply recovery, requiring an environment that maintains business continuity during and immediately after a disaster. To make it more interesting, the number and types of applications that require this level of protection is very diverse.

Tags: Quality of Service, High Availability, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Step-by-Step Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Tuning a High-Performance Compute Cluster2007-06-01 Microsoft
  This paper is a step-by-step guide based on the highly successful cluster deployment at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The cluster was built as a joint effort between NCSA and Microsoft, using commonly available hardware and Microsoft software. The cluster was composed of 450 x64 servers, achieving 4.1 teraflops (TFLOPs) on 896 processors using the widely accepted LINPACK benchmark.   
whitepaper Grid-Enabled Data Management and ETL2007-06-01 Univa UD
  This paper describes the Univa UD solution for enhancing Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) performance by combining parallel processing with an appropriate process architecture to reduce processing timeframes and increase responsiveness and productivity. With the recent explosion in produced, processed, and stored information, companies now have at their fingertips vast amounts of business data which, if well understood, can be used strategically to guide decision-makers to growth and success. Converting raw data from various sources and creating business-critical reports quickly and cost-effectively is key to staying competitive in today's economy.

Tags: Data Acquisition - ETL, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Data Center I/O Consolidation: From Ethernet in the Data Center to a Data Center Over Ethernet2007-05-31 Nemertes Research
  The "Data center network" is a myth. For nearly as long as there has been Data Centers (DC), there have been several DC networks that interact with and overlap one another, most importantly the data, storage and High-Performance Compute (HPC) networks. The desire to consolidate these networks onto a single fabric is as old as the networks themselves. As network vendors continue to reengineer and ramp up production of 10G Ethernet equipment, the promise of unifying data, HPC and storage networks onto a common technology - Ethernet - increases. Network vendors have some significant technical and engineering hurdles to clear before they can simultaneously meet the opposing pulls of storage, which demands lossless reliability, and high-performance applications, which demand very high throughput.

Tags: High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper IBCP Leverages Scali Clustering Technology to Defeat Debilitating Diseases0000-00-00 Scali
  The Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines (IBCP), located in Lyon France, is a research organization that focuses on understanding the sequence, structure and function of protein. Researching protein structure requires an enormous amount of data and compute power. IBCP currently has 2.6 TB data stored on its cluster. One of the Bioinformatics Group's key responsibilities is to ensure the availability of powerful computers to aid in the analysis of proteins. For its affordability and compute efficiency, IBCP turned to Linux high performance clustering technology to meet this requirement. After initial problems with alternative cluster management software, IBCP installed Scali Manage version 4 and later upgraded to version 5.

Tags: Linux Server OS, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Clustering Helps German Aerospace Center in the Fight Against Climate Change0000-00-00 Scali
  The German Aerospace Center, Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), is a research center focused on aeronautics and space exploration that also functions as the German space agency. The SCIAMACHY instrument gathers enormous amounts of data on atmospheric conditions for processing. The data is broken down into smaller, independent pieces to be analyzed and the results are then combined and sent to other divisions of DLR for further analysis. 1.7 GB of data must be analyzed on a daily basis. As a solution DLR decided to build its cluster with servers from Dell, system design and installation from Unisys and cluster management software from Scali.

Tags: Linux Server OS, High Performance Computing		   


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