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Porting Database Engines to 64-bit 20080711 Itanium Solutions Alliance

This article introduces the solutions developed by S7 and assistant from HP to migrate existing 32-bit software systems to 64-bit platforms, in the form of a case study that S7 Software Solutions worked with a Fortune 100 company to turn its transaction processing application into a 64-bit application with some innovative techniques to ensure proper and optimal code execution.

Protégésoft Lowers Portfolio Management Costs, Increasing the Size of the Serviceable Market 20080711 Itanium Solutions Alliance

"The Financial Service Industry (FSI) is facing tremendous challenges from consolidation and convergence arising from a more globalize networked business environment. Individually, FSI firms are now faced with the following challenges:
· Competitive pressure from globalization (margin squeeze, rising supporting cost, ballooning list of substitute services)
· Rising customer expectation in terms of product range, ROI, transaction cost, timeliness of key information, convenience, etc
· Government regulatory requirements that will increases compliance cost e.g. anti-money laundering, Sarbane Oxley, Patriot Act etc

Protégésoft Ltd, a company services billions of funds and wining the Global Innovation Awards Itanium Solutions Alliance in Business Application Catalog. Its newly developed applications based on Itanium-based server help to solve FSI firms’ challenges. A comprehensive case study about how Protégésoft helps to solve the changes as well as the application detail has been developed."

Gateway Solutions Guide 2005-05-17 03:00:01 Gateway

Download this Gateway Solutions Guide to learn about the product innovations and service offerings that have made Gateway the third largest PC provider in the U.S. Whether you’re in business, government, or education, Gateway offers a complete line of desktops, notebooks, servers, and storage products to meet your ever-changing technology needs. This information-packed guide is an important decision support tool for any IT decision maker comparing Gateway’s impressive line of technology solutions against those of its competitors.

XP SP2: How Secure Will Your Company Be? 2005-05-12 03:00:01 Global Knowledge Network

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is a major security update effort from Microsoft. In this review, you will learn what SP2 does well and what needs further improvement.

VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software Backup and Restore Guide on Dell PowerEdge Servers and PowerVault Storage 2005-05-10 04:09:00 Dell

Virtual Machine data has the same operational maintenance requirements as physical machine data, including backup and recovery. This paper provides best practices for backup and recovery of Virtual Machines running on VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Servers. The paper describes how to use VERITAS Backup Exec 10.0 software to backup Virtual Machines to PowerVault Storage.

Deployment of VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers 2005-05-05 04:31:56 Dell

The purpose of this paper is to provide best practices for deploying VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers. This paper describes various configurations that are possible when installing VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Servers. Advantages and disadvantages for each configuration along with the steps to install are detailed in the paper.

Simplifying IT Operations by Leveraging Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 2005-05-05 04:30:49 Dell

Dell has created a toolkit, the Dell Deployment Toolkit, for managing the configuration of hardware including BIOS and disk configuration in a pre-OS environment. This paper focuses on how Dell customers can leverage Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers to reduce deployment times and increase deployment consistency by greatly simplifying the process of deployment.

Consolidating Storage With a Sun StorEdge 9960 System SAN Brings Availability, Scalability, Performance and Flexibility for Aircraft Sensor Industry Leader 2005-05-05 03:29:23 Sun Microsystems

Goodrich Sensor Systems division supplies ultra-reliable aircraft and engine sensors to makers of commercial, regional, business and military aircraft worldwide. Goodrich Sensor Systems wanted the flexibility to reallocate storage among multiple servers to accommodate business requirement fluctuations, such as elevated demand during month-end accounting periods. Goodrich Sensor Systems and EDS concurred that the Sun StorEdge 9960 system was the clear choice because of its advantages in performance, availability, scalability, pricing and support. The Sun StorEdge 9960 system's virtually flawless uptime performance during the first 12 months EDS worked with it resulted from the system's inherently high reliability and Sun's excellent support under the SunSpectrum PlatinumSM service program.

Considering Middleware Options in High-Performance Computing Clusters 2005-05-03 01:03:05 Dell

Middleware is a critical component for the development and porting of parallel-processing applications in distributed high-performance computing (HPC) cluster infrastructures. This paper describes the evolution of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard specification as well as both open source and commercial MPI implementations that can be used to enhance Dell HPC cluster environments.

Performance Characterization of BLAST on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Dell PowerEdge Servers 2005-05-03 01:07:28 Dell

The Dell high-performance computing team recently explored the effect of Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) on the performance of the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), comparing BLAST performance on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This paper discusses the performance results obtained when the team tested Dell PowerEdge servers using three Intel processor technologies: a PowerEdge 1750 server with 32-bit Intel Xeon processors; a PowerEdge 1850 server with Intel EM64T architecture; and a PowerEdge 3250 server with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Porting Database Engines to 64-bit	20080711	Itanium Solutions Alliance
This article introduces the solutions developed by S7 and assistant from HP to migrate existing 32-bit software systems to 64-bit platforms, in the form of a case study that S7 Software Solutions worked with a Fortune 100 company to turn its transaction processing application into a 64-bit application with some innovative techniques to ensure proper and optimal code execution.
Protégésoft Lowers Portfolio Management Costs, Increasing the Size of the Serviceable Market	20080711	Itanium Solutions Alliance
"The Financial Service Industry (FSI) is facing tremendous challenges from consolidation and convergence arising from a more globalize networked business environment. Individually, FSI firms are now faced with the following challenges: · Competitive pressure from globalization (margin squeeze, rising supporting cost, ballooning list of substitute services) · Rising customer expectation in terms of product range, ROI, transaction cost, timeliness of key information, convenience, etc · Government regulatory requirements that will increases compliance cost e.g. anti-money laundering, Sarbane Oxley, Patriot Act etc Protégésoft Ltd, a company services billions of funds and wining the Global Innovation Awards Itanium Solutions Alliance in Business Application Catalog. Its newly developed applications based on Itanium-based server help to solve FSI firms’ challenges. A comprehensive case study about how Protégésoft helps to solve the changes as well as the application detail has been developed."
Gateway Solutions Guide	2005-05-17 03:00:01	Gateway
Download this Gateway Solutions Guide to learn about the product innovations and service offerings that have made Gateway the third largest PC provider in the U.S. Whether you’re in business, government, or education, Gateway offers a complete line of desktops, notebooks, servers, and storage products to meet your ever-changing technology needs. This information-packed guide is an important decision support tool for any IT decision maker comparing Gateway’s impressive line of technology solutions against those of its competitors.
XP SP2: How Secure Will Your Company Be?	2005-05-12 03:00:01	Global Knowledge Network
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is a major security update effort from Microsoft. In this review, you will learn what SP2 does well and what needs further improvement.
VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software Backup and Restore Guide on Dell PowerEdge Servers and PowerVault Storage	2005-05-10 04:09:00	Dell
Virtual Machine data has the same operational maintenance requirements as physical machine data, including backup and recovery. This paper provides best practices for backup and recovery of Virtual Machines running on VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Servers. The paper describes how to use VERITAS Backup Exec 10.0 software to backup Virtual Machines to PowerVault Storage.
Deployment of VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers	2005-05-05 04:31:56	Dell
The purpose of this paper is to provide best practices for deploying VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers. This paper describes various configurations that are possible when installing VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Servers. Advantages and disadvantages for each configuration along with the steps to install are detailed in the paper.
Simplifying IT Operations by Leveraging Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers	2005-05-05 04:30:49	Dell
Dell has created a toolkit, the Dell Deployment Toolkit, for managing the configuration of hardware including BIOS and disk configuration in a pre-OS environment. This paper focuses on how Dell customers can leverage Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers to reduce deployment times and increase deployment consistency by greatly simplifying the process of deployment.
Consolidating Storage With a Sun StorEdge 9960 System SAN Brings Availability, Scalability, Performance and Flexibility for Aircraft Sensor Industry Leader	2005-05-05 03:29:23	Sun Microsystems
Goodrich Sensor Systems division supplies ultra-reliable aircraft and engine sensors to makers of commercial, regional, business and military aircraft worldwide. Goodrich Sensor Systems wanted the flexibility to reallocate storage among multiple servers to accommodate business requirement fluctuations, such as elevated demand during month-end accounting periods. Goodrich Sensor Systems and EDS concurred that the Sun StorEdge 9960 system was the clear choice because of its advantages in performance, availability, scalability, pricing and support. The Sun StorEdge 9960 system's virtually flawless uptime performance during the first 12 months EDS worked with it resulted from the system's inherently high reliability and Sun's excellent support under the SunSpectrum PlatinumSM service program.
Considering Middleware Options in High-Performance Computing Clusters	2005-05-03 01:03:05	Dell
Middleware is a critical component for the development and porting of parallel-processing applications in distributed high-performance computing (HPC) cluster infrastructures. This paper describes the evolution of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard specification as well as both open source and commercial MPI implementations that can be used to enhance Dell HPC cluster environments.
Performance Characterization of BLAST on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Dell PowerEdge Servers	2005-05-03 01:07:28	Dell
The Dell high-performance computing team recently explored the effect of Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) on the performance of the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), comparing BLAST performance on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This paper discusses the performance results obtained when the team tested Dell PowerEdge servers using three Intel processor technologies: a PowerEdge 1750 server with 32-bit Intel Xeon processors; a PowerEdge 1850 server with Intel EM64T architecture; and a PowerEdge 3250 server with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.