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Download Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to support server virtualization 2008-08-30 Microsoft

Server virtualization, also known as hardware virtualization, is a hot topic in the IT world because of the potential for serious economic benefits. Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). With server virtualization, you can consolidate workloads across multiple underutilized server machines onto a smaller number of machines. Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. With Windows Server 2008, everything needed to support server virtualization is available as an integral feature of the operating system--Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Server Consolidation, x86-standard Servers, Virtualization

MSDN Webcast: Integrating SAP Software With Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Server (Level 300) 2008-06-30 Microsoft

This webcast provide an overview of how to integrate SAP software with client programs in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The presenter discusses building Web services within SAP, integrating SAP Web services with a custom Microsoft Office client program, and integrating SAP Web services with the SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (BDC). The webcast also provide a brief overview of other ways to integrate SAP with Microsoft Office.

Tags: Business Management, Application Servers

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Advanced Scenarios (Level 300) 2008-05-16 Microsoft Tips

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit includes database integration that uses methods to automate multiple aspects of Windows Vista operating system deployment. The configuration database is a logical extension of the configuration settings that would normally exist in CustomSettings.ini. However, rather than configuring the CustomSettings.ini file, one can centrally store multiple values for settings in the database which is, in turn, referenced to retrieve the values for the properties stored in it. The specific values for those properties are then retrieved from the database at deployment time to customize the deployment without interaction.

Tags: Database Management, Windows Vista

QICT Improves Visibility and Control Over Financial Data With Integrated System 2008-05-01 Oracle

Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) is a modern international terminal based at Port Muhammad Bin Qasim in Pakistan. QICT wanted to ensure visibility and control over financial data across the organization and better assess working capital requirements and speed up the completion of cash forecasts. The challenge was to create a single repository of financial data that can be easily accessed by all business units. QICT engaged Oracle Certified Partner Jaffer Consulting to integrate Oracle with an existing Container Terminal Management System and created a single enterprise-wide repository of corporate financial information, accessible in real time.

Tags: ERP, Warehouse Inventory Management

Introduction to HiperDispatch Management Mode with z10 2008-04-27 CPExpert

HiperDispatch was introduced with IBM's z10 server, and is available (via PTFs) on z/OS V1R7, z/OS V1R8, and z/OS V1R9. HiperDispatch was designed to (1) minimize the z10 hardware performance degradation caused by processor cache misses, and (2) maximize the amount of CPU processing power associated with any single logical processor. To achieve these design objectives, HiperDispatch implemented new designs within z/OS and PR/SM, and implemented a regular exchange of information between PR/SM and z/OS. By exchanging information, z/OS is aware of the topology between logical processors and physical processors and PR/SM is aware of an affinity between workload executing on logical processors and the physical processors providing the processor capacity.

This paper provides an overview of the z10 implications that require HiperDispatch, explains the algorithms that existed before HiperDispatch, presents an introduction to HiperDispatach concepts, and describes performance considerations when implementing HiperDispatch.

Tags: Mainframes, UNIX, Linux Server OS

MSDN Webcast: 2007 Office System Interoperability With Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200) 2008-04-11 Microsoft Tips

Like the 2007 Microsoft Office system? Like Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? Well, just like chocolate and peanut butter, Microsoft blends the two together to show the creamy richness of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). For those who have only heard about it and seen it in grainy videos (just like Bigfoot), can now experience it all.

Tags: Application Development

AbeTech Tackles Fast Growth With Integrated Technology System 2008-03-26 Microsoft

As happens with many fast-growing firms, AbeTech expanded rapidly through a collection of disparate technology systems. AbeTech realized that with so many different repositories of data, the entire process of working with customers was not as efficient as it could be and decided a unified approach would benefit their business as well as their customers. Doing so would streamline the company's processes allowing for greater workflow and provide employees with tools to improve customer experience. AbeTech sought a way to integrate its data to provide the visibility, speed and accuracy it needed to compete as a fast-growing business. The company worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Olsen Thielen Technologies (OTT) of Minneapolis/St. Paul to develop a customer relationship management strategy to achieve these goals.

Tags: CRM Software, Accounting Applications

SUSE Linux Enterprise: Differentiation Through Interoperability 2008-03-03 Novell

Heterogeneous IT environments are a fact of life in large organizations. According to recent Gartner research, more than two thirds of all enterprise data centers operate mixed hardware and software environments. So, however appealing a technology monoculture might seem to hard-pressed administrators, most will have to continue making the best of messy, organic diversity.

IT managers don't need another forklift roadmap from their vendors to perfect order and efficiency, but hardware and software products that work together simply, reliably, securely and affordably. They need the flexibility to grow and adapt their environments to changing business needs without forced choices that limit their future options.

Read this Novell paper to see why these managers must continue to contend with data centers divided between two dominant operating environments--Linux and Windows--with minimal interoperability, separate management tools, and distinct administrative skill sets, why that's a perfect prescription for institutional inefficiency, and how they can address that inefficiency with Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise product.

Tags: Data Center, Linux Server OS, Virtualization

Distributor Simplifies Operations, Supports Global Growth With Management Solution 2008-02-01 Microsoft Tips

Based in the Netherlands, Kannegieter distributes electrical products and cable solutions to installers of communication networks. The company needs to continually improve services to help distinguish itself in a competitive market. Having originally deployed a former version of Microsoft Dynamics AX, it wanted to take advantage of the support and integration possibilities available in a later release of the product. Kannegieter worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner eBECS to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0, and has since customized the new, robust system to meet its specific needs. Logistics employees have consolidated their administrative processes by using the solution, freeing an hour a day for more productive work.

Tags: ERP

Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments 2008-01-25 NetApp

The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization--an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an entity that focuses on delivering and maintaining applications, not infrastructure. In order to achieve IT transparency, IT's visibility needs to be eliminated, since all anyone ever sees are the problems and road blocks IT creates which inhibit business flexibility, growth and potential revenue. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) speaks with hundreds of IT end-users and the majority of them share a common goal of driving down capital and operational costs, simplifying ongoing management, reducing maintenance overhead and improving asset utilization (doing more with less). With such demands, it is hardly plausible for IT to become invisible -- or is it?

To make IT invisible, consider a popular science experiment that demonstrates the different states of matter as we learn how water changes from a solid to a liquid. Conversion between these two vastly different states is called a phase transition which is exactly what IT needs to undergo to become invisible. IT needs to find ways to make the transition from a solid to a liquid. The silos that have been built within the IT organization need to be re-architected with a fluid infrastructure that connects the disparate pieces and flows with the business.

Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs. ESG believes that server virtualization is acting as a catalyst for virtualization at all layers within the data center, a concept ESG refers to as Infrastructure Virtualization. The server virtualization market is red hot and is only showing signs of increased adoption. Businesses are running production workloads on virtual machines and finding the

Tags: Storage Management, IT Reliability, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization

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Title	Date Added	Company
Download Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to support server virtualization	2008-08-30	Microsoft
Server virtualization, also known as hardware virtualization, is a hot topic in the IT world because of the potential for serious economic benefits. Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). With server virtualization, you can consolidate workloads across multiple underutilized server machines onto a smaller number of machines. Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. With Windows Server 2008, everything needed to support server virtualization is available as an integral feature of the operating system--Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Tags: Windows Server 2008, Server Consolidation, x86-standard Servers, Virtualization
MSDN Webcast: Integrating SAP Software With Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Server (Level 300)	2008-06-30	Microsoft
This webcast provide an overview of how to integrate SAP software with client programs in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The presenter discusses building Web services within SAP, integrating SAP Web services with a custom Microsoft Office client program, and integrating SAP Web services with the SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (BDC). The webcast also provide a brief overview of other ways to integrate SAP with Microsoft Office. Tags: Business Management, Application Servers
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Advanced Scenarios (Level 300)	2008-05-16	Microsoft Tips
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit includes database integration that uses methods to automate multiple aspects of Windows Vista operating system deployment. The configuration database is a logical extension of the configuration settings that would normally exist in CustomSettings.ini. However, rather than configuring the CustomSettings.ini file, one can centrally store multiple values for settings in the database which is, in turn, referenced to retrieve the values for the properties stored in it. The specific values for those properties are then retrieved from the database at deployment time to customize the deployment without interaction. Tags: Database Management, Windows Vista
QICT Improves Visibility and Control Over Financial Data With Integrated System	2008-05-01	Oracle
Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) is a modern international terminal based at Port Muhammad Bin Qasim in Pakistan. QICT wanted to ensure visibility and control over financial data across the organization and better assess working capital requirements and speed up the completion of cash forecasts. The challenge was to create a single repository of financial data that can be easily accessed by all business units. QICT engaged Oracle Certified Partner Jaffer Consulting to integrate Oracle with an existing Container Terminal Management System and created a single enterprise-wide repository of corporate financial information, accessible in real time. Tags: ERP, Warehouse Inventory Management
Introduction to HiperDispatch Management Mode with z10	2008-04-27	CPExpert
HiperDispatch was introduced with IBM's z10 server, and is available (via PTFs) on z/OS V1R7, z/OS V1R8, and z/OS V1R9. HiperDispatch was designed to (1) minimize the z10 hardware performance degradation caused by processor cache misses, and (2) maximize the amount of CPU processing power associated with any single logical processor. To achieve these design objectives, HiperDispatch implemented new designs within z/OS and PR/SM, and implemented a regular exchange of information between PR/SM and z/OS. By exchanging information, z/OS is aware of the topology between logical processors and physical processors and PR/SM is aware of an affinity between workload executing on logical processors and the physical processors providing the processor capacity. This paper provides an overview of the z10 implications that require HiperDispatch, explains the algorithms that existed before HiperDispatch, presents an introduction to HiperDispatach concepts, and describes performance considerations when implementing HiperDispatch. Tags: Mainframes, UNIX, Linux Server OS
MSDN Webcast: 2007 Office System Interoperability With Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200)	2008-04-11	Microsoft Tips
Like the 2007 Microsoft Office system? Like Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? Well, just like chocolate and peanut butter, Microsoft blends the two together to show the creamy richness of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). For those who have only heard about it and seen it in grainy videos (just like Bigfoot), can now experience it all. Tags: Application Development
AbeTech Tackles Fast Growth With Integrated Technology System	2008-03-26	Microsoft
As happens with many fast-growing firms, AbeTech expanded rapidly through a collection of disparate technology systems. AbeTech realized that with so many different repositories of data, the entire process of working with customers was not as efficient as it could be and decided a unified approach would benefit their business as well as their customers. Doing so would streamline the company's processes allowing for greater workflow and provide employees with tools to improve customer experience. AbeTech sought a way to integrate its data to provide the visibility, speed and accuracy it needed to compete as a fast-growing business. The company worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Olsen Thielen Technologies (OTT) of Minneapolis/St. Paul to develop a customer relationship management strategy to achieve these goals. Tags: CRM Software, Accounting Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise: Differentiation Through Interoperability	2008-03-03	Novell
Heterogeneous IT environments are a fact of life in large organizations. According to recent Gartner research, more than two thirds of all enterprise data centers operate mixed hardware and software environments. So, however appealing a technology monoculture might seem to hard-pressed administrators, most will have to continue making the best of messy, organic diversity. IT managers don't need another forklift roadmap from their vendors to perfect order and efficiency, but hardware and software products that work together simply, reliably, securely and affordably. They need the flexibility to grow and adapt their environments to changing business needs without forced choices that limit their future options. Read this Novell paper to see why these managers must continue to contend with data centers divided between two dominant operating environments--Linux and Windows--with minimal interoperability, separate management tools, and distinct administrative skill sets, why that's a perfect prescription for institutional inefficiency, and how they can address that inefficiency with Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise product. Tags: Data Center, Linux Server OS, Virtualization
Distributor Simplifies Operations, Supports Global Growth With Management Solution	2008-02-01	Microsoft Tips
Based in the Netherlands, Kannegieter distributes electrical products and cable solutions to installers of communication networks. The company needs to continually improve services to help distinguish itself in a competitive market. Having originally deployed a former version of Microsoft Dynamics AX, it wanted to take advantage of the support and integration possibilities available in a later release of the product. Kannegieter worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner eBECS to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0, and has since customized the new, robust system to meet its specific needs. Logistics employees have consolidated their administrative processes by using the solution, freeing an hour a day for more productive work. Tags: ERP
Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments	2008-01-25	NetApp
The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization--an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an entity that focuses on delivering and maintaining applications, not infrastructure. In order to achieve IT transparency, IT's visibility needs to be eliminated, since all anyone ever sees are the problems and road blocks IT creates which inhibit business flexibility, growth and potential revenue. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) speaks with hundreds of IT end-users and the majority of them share a common goal of driving down capital and operational costs, simplifying ongoing management, reducing maintenance overhead and improving asset utilization (doing more with less). With such demands, it is hardly plausible for IT to become invisible -- or is it? To make IT invisible, consider a popular science experiment that demonstrates the different states of matter as we learn how water changes from a solid to a liquid. Conversion between these two vastly different states is called a phase transition which is exactly what IT needs to undergo to become invisible. IT needs to find ways to make the transition from a solid to a liquid. The silos that have been built within the IT organization need to be re-architected with a fluid infrastructure that connects the disparate pieces and flows with the business. Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs. ESG believes that server virtualization is acting as a catalyst for virtualization at all layers within the data center, a concept ESG refers to as Infrastructure Virtualization. The server virtualization market is red hot and is only showing signs of increased adoption. Businesses are running production workloads on virtual machines and finding the Tags: Storage Management, IT Reliability, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization