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whitepaper Configuring the IBM Global Mirror Secondary Disk Subsystem2008-02-25 IBM
  The purpose of this paper is to provide technical guidelines concerning the configuration of the secondary DS8000 in a Global Mirror configuration. The configuration of the disk subsystem at the remote or secondary location is an important consideration to ensure the optimum performance of a Global Mirror environment. This paper will address several aspects of proper configuration planning of the Global Mirror secondary.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper In the Coal Fields of Wyoming, wi4 Mesh Solutions Are Mining Enhanced Efficiency, Productivity and Profitability2008-02-13 Motorola
  Over more than 200 miles of windswept, desolate mining country, the company needed to connect hundreds and hundreds of assets in real-time. These include mega-sized haul trucks with half million-pound payloads, bulldozers, drilling equipment and the 110-car trains (with each car carrying 100 tons of coal) that leave the sites several times a day. To bring these multiple systems into a single network, the company needed a highly reliable, highly available technology that provided less than 50 milliseconds of latency. The company and 3D-P chose a solution that combined 3D-P's proprietary OHI (Obsolete Hardware Interface) with wi4 Mesh and wi4 Fixed solutions for information backhaul to a central command center.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper The Death of the Corporate Network2008-02-07 Extrasys
  This whitepaper looks at why the traditional approach to network security is no longer a viable option for corporate networks. More specifically, why businesses should consider a virtual IT environment that drives business growth, without having to manage the security of a corporate network.

Tags: Database Management, Remote Access - RA Servers		   
whitepaper IT Manager Webcast: Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure (Level 100)2008-02-07 Microsoft
  Organizations put a lot of value on mission-critical servers and rely on them heavily to run their businesses. As a result, server downtime can be very costly. For every benefit and advantage brought to an organization by an IT solution, technology and business decision-makers should also think about how to deal with the inevitable downtime of these solutions. This webcast discusses how Microsoft can help to avoid downtime and deliver an available infrastructure to meet the demands of the business and customers.   
whitepaper Minimizing Downtime in SAP Environments2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  SAP basis administrators face many challenges in a world of steadily growing and increasingly complex SAP landscapes. How to run systems on different hardware systems depending on demand and load? How to migrate and clone systems if necessary, preferably on a 24x7 basis with the least amount of resources. In addition, administrators must find solutions and resources for the additional requirements of different departments, such as creating new training landscapes and development systems.   
whitepaper The B&B Hotels Group Reduces Customer Service Response Time by 70%2008-02-01 Oracle
  For more than a decade, B&B Hotels Group has been designing and developing hotels with an innovative concept - combining low cost and quality. B&B Hotels Group wanted to implement an efficient Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution that is easy to deploy and ensure that employees across the organization can access and use the new CRM solution. The challenge was to offer customer service agents a CRM solution knowledge base, enabling them to expedite problem resolution and expand reporting capabilities to drive improved customer service. B&B Hotels Group selected a hosted CRM solution, Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand, to achieve high availability, flexibility and rapid deployment and deployed the solution in two months and within budget.

Tags: Customer Support Services, CRM Software		   
whitepaper Hermes Consolidates Information in a Robust Database2008-02-01 Oracle
  Hermes, an associate company of Brinks Inc., began operating in October 1985. Hermes wanted to unify information systems in a robust, reliable, and high-availability database for secure handling of the transport of valuables and integrated document management and centralize up-to-date information to achieve operational efficiency. The challenge was to automate administrative operations to accelerate operation and offer excellent service to clients as well as obtain financial and statistical information to accelerate timely decision making at a management level. Hermes worked with Oracle Consulting to guarantee high availability and reliability of information by unifying information systems with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and reduced time needed to collect up-to-date data from 20 days to two by centralizing information with Oracle Data Warehouse Builder.

Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Altis Semiconductor Improves Operational Efficiency and Bolsters Strategic Development2008-02-01 Oracle
  Altis Semiconductor, formerly a production company of IBM, is a major player on the semiconductor market in Europe. The company wanted to implement an IT solution to support the company's objectives - management independence, market expansion, and commercial development. The challenge was to ensure 24/7 availability of critical management processes, particularly in the areas of production and strategic data and reinforce interactivity with clients, partners, and shareholders. Altis Semiconductor worked with Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise applications for financial, procurement, production, and distribution management. They established an automated and high availability production chain, enabling the company to process 70,000 daily transactions as a result of the integration with the existing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) tool.

Tags: Supply Chain Management, Finance		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: High Availability With Hyper-V (Level 300)12008-01-30 Microsoft
  Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, is a hypervisor-based technology that provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. It is part of the ongoing effort at Microsoft to provide their customers and partners with the best operating system platform for virtualization. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to make Hyper-V highly available with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Symmetric Active/Active High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations2008-01-28 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  This paper summarizes the efforts over the last 3-4 years in providing symmetric active/active high availability for High-Performance Computing (HPC) system services. This work paves the way for high-level reliability, availability and serviceability in extreme-scale HPC systems by focusing on the most critical components, head and service nodes, and by reinforcing them with appropriate high availability solutions. This paper presents the accomplishments in the form of concepts and respective prototypes, discusses existing limitations, outlines possible future work, and describes the relevance of this research to other, planned efforts.

Tags: High Performance Computing