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whitepaper Financial Risk-Analysis Firm Enhances Capabilities With Dynamic Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  RiskMetrics Group's Risk Management Business delivers risk management services to the world's leading asset managers, banks, and institutions to help them measure and model complex financial instruments. To meet increasing market demand for risk analysis, RiskMetrics needed to accommodate increasing peak loads on its computing infrastructure for specific periods of time. The company used the Windows Azure platform - an Internet-scale services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers - to provide on-demand computing capacity for its analytics applications. Now RiskMetrics can complement its on-premises capabilities with a flexible, reliable solution that can support bursts in computing activity over short periods of time, deliver enhanced services for more customers, empower innovation, and provide the company with increased business agility.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Developer Scales Search-and-Rescue Application to Help Save More Lives at Sea2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Responding to high numbers of deaths at sea in the fishing industry, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution contracted Active Web Solutions (AWS) to create an automated sea-safety application. AWS developed a location-based service infrastructure, code-named GeoPoint, which transmits position data to a centralized tracking and alerting system. AWS used GeoPoint to build MOB Guardian, a search-and-rescue application for fishing vessels. To extend GeoPoint to more scenarios, AWS migrated it to the Windows Azure platform. By hosting GeoPoint in the "Cloud," in Microsoft data centers, AWS attained massive scalability, richer functionality, and lower infrastructure costs. AWS was able to quickly convert its application to a hosted service and avoid the expense of building and managing a data center.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Company Efficiently Delivers Advanced Forecasts With Scalable Software-Plus-Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Lokad is a software development company that delivers sales, demand, and call volume forecasts for more than 300 customers - from one-person eCommerce companies to multinational retailers. To improve its forecasting capabilities, the company developed advanced forecasting tools and models. However, the more powerful forecasting models required significantly more computing resources than the company had available. Lokad decided to implement its software-plus-services forecasting application on the Windows Azure platform - a quick, efficient process. As a result, Lokad reduced IT maintenance costs compared to traditional approaches, delivered more powerful and accurate forecasts to its customers, and improved its ability to expand into new markets.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Improved Scalability Boosts Agora's Ability to Deliver Web-Based Advertising2009-10-01 Oracle
  Agora SA wanted to improve the performance of the ad server supporting Gazeta.pl and address a sudden increase in the volume of ads in the system, stemming from Agora's launch of an ad network providing services to other portals and Web sites. The challenge was to reduce, by several times at least, the response time for reading and writing information to and from the ad server database. Agora SA deployed Oracle Coherence on 18 instances of Java Virtual Machines and three physical entry-level machines to achieve a scalable ad-publishing system, which had previously been impossible without a dramatic increase in data processing time.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Mexico Improves Analysis With Integrated Information System2009-10-01 Oracle
  Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz wanted to create a robust, flexible, and scalable information system to facilitate information gathering and provide access to up-to-date information for objective decision making and provide a secure data warehouse to extend information visibility throughout the organization. The challenge was to establish performance analysis indicators for administration, finances, collections, service to citizens, drivers licenses, and public safety - with easy access to state directives. Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz created an integrated system for analysis of 50,000 yearly citizen requests - providing easy, secure access to accurate data for decision making and established a robust data warehouse - facilitating the gathering and exploitation of information to help manage [ss1] areas such as administration, collections, citizen services, and public safety.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Management Strategy for Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure2009-09-30 American Power Conversion (APC)
  When choosing a management solution for the physical infrastructure of IT networks, management of individual devices is necessary in order to have visibility to the many data points required for the reliable operation of network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI). Element management solutions offer the optimum approach as they manage a particular type of device and have the ability to assimilate and, more importantly, make manageable the large volume of data necessary for network availability.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Security Administration, Network Management, Mobile and Wireless		   
whitepaper VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network2009-08-21 Association for Computing Machinery
  To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to any service. To meet these goals, the paper presentsVL2, a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data centers with uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services, and Ethernet layer-2 semantics. VL2 uses flat addressing to allow service instances to be placed anywhere in the network, Valiant Load Balancing to spread traffic uniformly across network paths, and end-system based address resolution to scale to large server pools, without introducing complexity to the network control plane.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper eHarmony, Inc. Increases Database Scalability and Availability, Improves Customer Service2009-08-01 Oracle
  eHarmony, Inc. is a pioneer in using relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships. Its services, available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, present users with compatible matches based on key dimensions of personality that are scientifically proven to predict highly successful long-term relationships. It needed to improve scalability of the company's data infrastructure to support a rapidly growing client base and to ensure high availability and performance of the company's applications, including its U.S. and international Web sites. eHarmony Deployed Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters to create a highly scalable data management solution that supports the company's rapid growth.

Tags: Network Management, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Tublip S.A. Sustains an Active User Market on the Web With a Solid, Scalable IT Infrastructure2009-07-01 Oracle
  Tublip wanted to implement a solid, flexible, and scalable Web-based platform to promote and sell musical and artistic content online and provide a robust, high-availability database to manage large volumes of user and subscriber data and sustain Tublip's growth. The challenge was to create a Web-based music platform to enable registered musicians to expose their musical content and get content based on their preferences, establishing their own guidelines and conditions. Tublip implemented a solid, flexible, and scalable Web-based platform based on Oracle Database Standard Edition to facilitate the development and commercialization of online content for musicians and artists and established a robust, highly available database - enabling the company to manage large volumes of user data.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Telenet Meets Growing Customer Demand for Digital Television Service With Highly Scalable IT Platform2009-07-01 Oracle
  Telenet wanted to meet the growing demand for digital television services and provide a new core server platform for digital television services to support the company's elevated growth rate and provide the scalability necessary for mission-critical applications. The challenge was to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability to successfully deliver Telnet's digital television services to its customers. Telenet worked with Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Coherence Grid Edition as a core server platform and enabled the company to offer a wide range of applications on its customers' equipment, including monitoring, rating, video on demand, electronic program guide, and broadcast applications.

Tags: Data Tools