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whitepaper NHS EMIS - Intel? Xeon? processors Transform National Healthcare Supplier's Data CentreNHS EMIS - Intel? Xeon? processors Transform National Healthcare Supplier's Data Centre2008-10-22 Intel
  EMIS is the UK's leading IT supplier in primary healthcare. As the market segment leader for general practice systems, it is widely acknowledged as being at the forefront of medical informatics. Around 56% of doctors in the UK currently use EMIS software each day. EMIS primary care systems host over 39 million electronic patient records (EPRs) in total, equating to 250 terrabytes of data. An evaluation showed that the Quad-Core Intel? Xeon? processor 5300 series ticked all the necessary boxes to help transform EMIS into a Predictive Enterprise: superior compute power, built-in virtualisation technology, and great scalability and reliability. A Predictive Enterprise is one that uses technology to maximise return on investment (ROI) and business growth by developing business processes and infrastructure that are connected and adaptive.

Tags: Processors, IT Manufacturing, Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture2008-08-22 Association for Computing Machinery
  Today's data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with significant aggregate bandwidth requirements. The network architecture typically consists of a tree of routing and switching elements with progressively more specialized and expensive equipment moving up the network hierarchy. Unfortunately, even when deploying the highest-end IP switches/routers, resulting topologies may only support 50% of the aggregate bandwidth available at the edge of the network, while still incurring tremendous cost. Non-uniform bandwidth among data center nodes complicates application design and limits overall system performance. This paper shows how to leverage largely commodity Ethernet switches to support the full aggregate bandwidth of clusters consisting of tens of thousands of elements.

Tags: Network Design, Data Center		   
whitepaper Improve Branch Office Admin with Flexible Server Solution2008-06-04 Microsoft
  Paul Smith, a global fashion designer, wanted to improve management of its remote infrastructure. A small IT team in England centrally managed the company's entire infrastructure, including distant branch offices. Without local IT support, branch offices could be difficult to manage. Further, local systems could place the whole network at risk if they became compromised. To improve management and stability, Paul Smith is implementing the Server Core installation option of Windows Server® 2008. By taking advantage of hardened services and installing only the server roles required at each location, Paul Smith is reducing risk. With fewer components running on each server, the network will be less vulnerable to attack and software maintenance will be easier. Finally, Paul Smith can implement a remote infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 that is more strategically designed and managed.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Systems Integration, Network Security, Warehouse Inventory Management		   
whitepaper Massively Scalable NAS: Pre-Empting Tomorrow's Data Overload With Today's Technology2008-05-01 Enterprise Management Associates
  NAS has always been simple...unless IT managers wanted to grow their NAS storage significantly. Then the simplicity evaporated. Now, with massive storage build-outs a necessity, a simply managed, highly scalable NAS environment is a must. For the first time, storage administrators are thinking in terms of managing petabytes of data. Fortunately, new technologies make such systems available even to IT shops with limited budgets. Now smaller firms as well as large enterprises can scale their storage to meet demands, and can align their storage investment to accommodate a need for more storage, for faster storage, or both.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper Massively Scalable NAS - Pre-Empting Tomorrow's Data Overload With Today's Technology2008-05-01 Enterprise Management Associates
  NAS has always been simple?unless IT managers wanted to grow their NAS storage significantly. Then the simplicity evaporated. With massive storage build-outs a necessity, a simply managed, highly scalable NAS environment is a must. For the first time, storage administrators are thinking in terms of managing petabytes of data. Fortunately, new technologies make such systems available even to IT shops with limited budgets. Smaller firms as well as large enterprises can scale their storage to meet demands, and can align their storage investment to accommodate a need for more storage, for faster storage, or both.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper Scalable Non-Blocking Infrastructure Management: A Comparative Study2008-03-25 OnPATH Technologies
  Today's enterprise environments impose demands for a large-scale, highly available, fault tolerant physical layer infrastructure. Typical storage area and data communication network environments, within a single data center or across geographically dispersed sites, can easily require several thousand ports of connectivity. The ability to plan for and build out network infrastructure in such a way that it is cost-effective, scalable, non-blocking, fault tolerant, and can be monitored and managed more effectively, is of great value to businesses. OnPATH Technologies' Universal Connectivity System 2900 (UCS 2900) family of switch products provides a cost-effective solution to automating enterprise connectivity by scaling from a few hundred non-blocking ports to 4096 non-blocking ports and by simplifying overall infrastructure management.

Tags: Infrastructure Management		   
whitepaper Peta-Scale I/O With the Lustre File System2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  This paper describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. The features described deal with I/O and networking, lock management, recovery after failure, and other scalability-related issues. The Lustre file system first went into production in Spring 2003 on the Multiprogrammatic Capability Resource (MCR) cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The MCR cluster was one of the largest clusters at that time with 1100 Linux compute nodes as Lustre clients. Since then, the Lustre file system has been deployed on larger systems, notably the Sandia Red Storm deployment, with approximately 25,000 liblustre clients, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Jaguar system, which is of similar scale and runs Lustre technology both with Client-Node Linux (CNL) and with Catamount.

Tags: File and Network Servers		   
whitepaper Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Performance and Scalability - User Scalability for the Enterprise2008-02-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is designed to help enterprise organizations attain a 360-degree view of customers, achieve reliable user adoption, adapt quickly to business change, and accelerate project delivery and returns-all on a platform that provides enterprise levels of scalability and performance. This white paper focuses on user scalability.

Microsoft, together with Unisys Corporation, completed benchmark testing of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 running on the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software. Benchmark results demonstrate that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can scale to meet the needs of an enterprise-level, mission-critical workload of 24,000 concurrent users while maintaining performance at sub-second response times.

Microsoft Dynamics provides powerful software that helps organizations drive down costs, improve operations, retain and build customer relationships and continue to innovate in challenging economic times.



Tags: CRM Software, IT Reliability, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Virtuozzo Containers for Windows Capacity and Scaling2008-02-11 Parallels
  One of the keys to a successful virtualization project is the effective management of virtualized servers. Without proper optimization, your virtual infrastructure may experience performance and even stability issues.

This white paper provides IT managers with the tools to plan and implement a Parallels Virtuozzo virtualization project, including how to evaluate and optimize the performance of virtualized severs. Read detailed information about consolidation ratios, resource usage and evaluation, and system density to ensure you achieve the full benefits of a virtualized infrastructure.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Streams, Security and Scalability2008-01-01 AT&T Labs-Research
  Network-based attacks, such as DDoS attacks and worms, are threatening the continued utility of the Internet. As the variety and the sophistication of attacks grow, early detection of potential attacks will become crucial in mitigating their impact. This paper argues that the Gigascope data stream management system has both the functionality and the performance to serve as the foundation for the next generation of network intrusion detection systems.

Tags: Network Security