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Sanyo Semiconductor Cuts Downtime, Improves Productivity With Help From Global Sapphire Inc. 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Philippines (SSMP) began experiencing irregular system outages and longer transaction processing time as its aging production server struggled to cope with an increase in workload. This resulted in data losses, long report generation times, a decrease in overall productivity, and frustrated, overworked staff. Maintenance costs were also skyrocketing. In 2005, SSMP engaged Oracle Partner Global Sapphire Inc to migrate its database and applications to Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters running on Red Hat Linux.

Quova Inc. Pinpoints IT Savings and Scalability 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

Quova Inc. provides geolocation data and services that empower online businesses to target customers and safeguard their assets. The company wanted to deploy a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure to support core business processes. The challenge was to maintain 24x7 performance of critical business applications and streamline IT management to optimize existing DataBase Administrator (DBA) resources. Quova deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Database to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform. The company deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux to further reduce IT costs.

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System Ensures High Availability of Clinical Data at Lower Cost 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System has provided compassionate healthcare to Houstonians for almost five decades from its location in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. St. Luke wanted to reduce hardware expenditures required when SMP servers running McKesson patient care applications reached maximum capacity. The challenge was to keep care providers online 24/7 by eliminating downtime for upgrades and enhance disaster recovery strategies cost-effectively. St. Luke reduced hardware expenditures by deploying Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters on Linux on low-cost Intel-based servers, per McKesson's advice.

Repetitive Task Management on Multiple Linux Images 2006-11-16 IBM

Often, it is desirable to perform tasks remotely on a Linux system(s) without actually doing a manual log in. This may be especially true when a specific set of repetitive tasks needs to be done on one or more systems. In this paper, examples will be discussed to illustrate how this can be accomplished with the use of readily available tools. These tools can range from the very simple to the more complex, but all tools referenced in this paper are relatively easy to implement and detailed examples are provided for the code and execution. In the cases of 'C' code, both the source code and compile commands are provided.

Fedora Linux - Quick Start: Installing Fedora 2006-10-01 O'Reilly Media

Fedora is a powerful, fast-changing, freely available operating system. It can be used as a productive desktop or server environment, or it can be used to learn about Linux and experiment with new technologies. There are many different Linux distributions, each with a different set of features, aimed at a different type of user. Before one invests time and effort in Linux, one needs to decide if Fedora is the right distribution.

Pre-Virtualization: Soft Layering for Virtual Machines 2006-07-15 University of Karlsruhe

Para-virtualization ties a guest operating system and a hypervisor together, which restricts the system architecture; e.g., when Linux uses the Xen API, Linux is unable to run on alternative hypervisors such as VMware, Linux itself, or a security kernel such as EROS. Furthermore, the lock-in obstructs evolution of its own para-virtualization interface - virtual machines provide the vital ability to run obsoleted operating systems alongside new operating systems, but para-virtualization often lacks this feature, requiring all concurrent instances to be the hypervisor's supported version. Even general purpose operating systems have weaker restrictions for their applications.

Tags: Virtualization

SUSE Linux Enterprise 10: Systems Management 2006-07-01 Novell

While business depends on reliable information systems, hardware and software platforms are the bedrock on which these systems are based. With an ideal combination of hardware and operating systems, IT managers can concentrate on providing applications and services that meet strategic business requirements. Unfortunately, such platforms present businesses with numerous challenges. Some leading proprietary platforms include compromising reliability and security flaws that disrupt IT systems. These disruptions force administrators to spend too much effort and money on stabilizing this foundation. At the same time, continually increasing demand for current services coupled with the ongoing need to add new services further taxes the resources of even the largest organizations.

SUSE Linux: Package Management 2006-07-01 O'Reilly Media

The labs in this paper will show how to find new packages, how to install them, how to find out what's already installed, and how to build applications from source. The underlying package management technology is RPM, but there are several fancy package management tools that build on top of this, as one will discover.

Tags: Application Development

Ubuntu Hacks: Configure a Touchpad 2006-06-01 O'Reilly Media

Most laptops today include a touchpad as a method of controlling the mouse pointer. These touchpads have various configuration options that most people aren't even aware of. Here's how to get all these advanced features working under Linux. Ubuntu includes the synaptics mouse driver by default, and if the laptop's touchpad is detected during installation, it will be automatically installed and configured.

Cost-Effective Scalability With Informatica PowerCenter 8 on HP Grid on Linux 2006-05-01 Informatica

Maintaining adequate performance and scalability in the face of increasing workload has been the persistent roadblock to realizing the economic benefits of grid computing. Informatica Corporation has developed a viable performance and scalability alternative that allows IT organizations to realize the benefits while honoring their data service level agreements to the business. In May 2006, Informatica introduced the Enterprise Grid Option as part of the release of Informatica PowerCenter 8. PowerCenter is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise at any speed.

Tags: High Performance Computing, Data Sharing and Integration

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Title	Date Added	Company
Sanyo Semiconductor Cuts Downtime, Improves Productivity With Help From Global Sapphire Inc.	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Philippines (SSMP) began experiencing irregular system outages and longer transaction processing time as its aging production server struggled to cope with an increase in workload. This resulted in data losses, long report generation times, a decrease in overall productivity, and frustrated, overworked staff. Maintenance costs were also skyrocketing. In 2005, SSMP engaged Oracle Partner Global Sapphire Inc to migrate its database and applications to Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters running on Red Hat Linux.
Quova Inc. Pinpoints IT Savings and Scalability	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
Quova Inc. provides geolocation data and services that empower online businesses to target customers and safeguard their assets. The company wanted to deploy a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure to support core business processes. The challenge was to maintain 24x7 performance of critical business applications and streamline IT management to optimize existing DataBase Administrator (DBA) resources. Quova deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Database to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform. The company deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux to further reduce IT costs.
St. Luke's Episcopal Health System Ensures High Availability of Clinical Data at Lower Cost	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
St. Luke's Episcopal Health System has provided compassionate healthcare to Houstonians for almost five decades from its location in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. St. Luke wanted to reduce hardware expenditures required when SMP servers running McKesson patient care applications reached maximum capacity. The challenge was to keep care providers online 24/7 by eliminating downtime for upgrades and enhance disaster recovery strategies cost-effectively. St. Luke reduced hardware expenditures by deploying Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters on Linux on low-cost Intel-based servers, per McKesson's advice.
Repetitive Task Management on Multiple Linux Images	2006-11-16	IBM
Often, it is desirable to perform tasks remotely on a Linux system(s) without actually doing a manual log in. This may be especially true when a specific set of repetitive tasks needs to be done on one or more systems. In this paper, examples will be discussed to illustrate how this can be accomplished with the use of readily available tools. These tools can range from the very simple to the more complex, but all tools referenced in this paper are relatively easy to implement and detailed examples are provided for the code and execution. In the cases of 'C' code, both the source code and compile commands are provided.
Fedora Linux - Quick Start: Installing Fedora	2006-10-01	O'Reilly Media
Fedora is a powerful, fast-changing, freely available operating system. It can be used as a productive desktop or server environment, or it can be used to learn about Linux and experiment with new technologies. There are many different Linux distributions, each with a different set of features, aimed at a different type of user. Before one invests time and effort in Linux, one needs to decide if Fedora is the right distribution.
Pre-Virtualization: Soft Layering for Virtual Machines	2006-07-15	University of Karlsruhe
Para-virtualization ties a guest operating system and a hypervisor together, which restricts the system architecture; e.g., when Linux uses the Xen API, Linux is unable to run on alternative hypervisors such as VMware, Linux itself, or a security kernel such as EROS. Furthermore, the lock-in obstructs evolution of its own para-virtualization interface - virtual machines provide the vital ability to run obsoleted operating systems alongside new operating systems, but para-virtualization often lacks this feature, requiring all concurrent instances to be the hypervisor's supported version. Even general purpose operating systems have weaker restrictions for their applications. Tags: Virtualization
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10: Systems Management	2006-07-01	Novell
While business depends on reliable information systems, hardware and software platforms are the bedrock on which these systems are based. With an ideal combination of hardware and operating systems, IT managers can concentrate on providing applications and services that meet strategic business requirements. Unfortunately, such platforms present businesses with numerous challenges. Some leading proprietary platforms include compromising reliability and security flaws that disrupt IT systems. These disruptions force administrators to spend too much effort and money on stabilizing this foundation. At the same time, continually increasing demand for current services coupled with the ongoing need to add new services further taxes the resources of even the largest organizations.
SUSE Linux: Package Management	2006-07-01	O'Reilly Media
The labs in this paper will show how to find new packages, how to install them, how to find out what's already installed, and how to build applications from source. The underlying package management technology is RPM, but there are several fancy package management tools that build on top of this, as one will discover. Tags: Application Development
Ubuntu Hacks: Configure a Touchpad	2006-06-01	O'Reilly Media
Most laptops today include a touchpad as a method of controlling the mouse pointer. These touchpads have various configuration options that most people aren't even aware of. Here's how to get all these advanced features working under Linux. Ubuntu includes the synaptics mouse driver by default, and if the laptop's touchpad is detected during installation, it will be automatically installed and configured.
Cost-Effective Scalability With Informatica PowerCenter 8 on HP Grid on Linux	2006-05-01	Informatica
Maintaining adequate performance and scalability in the face of increasing workload has been the persistent roadblock to realizing the economic benefits of grid computing. Informatica Corporation has developed a viable performance and scalability alternative that allows IT organizations to realize the benefits while honoring their data service level agreements to the business. In May 2006, Informatica introduced the Enterprise Grid Option as part of the release of Informatica PowerCenter 8. PowerCenter is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise at any speed. Tags: High Performance Computing, Data Sharing and Integration