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The Environment Agency Guards Against IT Disruption 2006-12-13 01:00:24 Hewlett-Packard

As the leading public body for protecting the environment in England and Wales, the Environment Agency has a wide spectrum of responsibilities. They include reducing and adapting to two major environmental risks: climate change and flooding. Some aspects of the agency's work, such as issuing flood warnings and responding to pollution incidents, are time-critical and often depend on IT systems to enable an effective response. The company wanted a solution that would enable them to restore the most business-critical systems within 72 hours, using mobile units furnished with all the required hardware and transported to a location specified by them. The contract was awarded to HP Business Continuity Services, which represented "The best value for money overall".

Business Solution Delivers Yearly Savings of U.S.$3.5 Million for Concrete Firm 2006-11-08 01:00:18 Microsoft

Oldcastle Precast, headquartered in the United States, produces a range of concrete products. The company historically managed its business processes using a 20-year-old UNIX-based software infrastructure. While this could still manage most of the company's operations, it was close to its limits in terms of scalability and financial viability. As a result, Oldcastle Precast decided to deploy a new business management system based on Microsoft Dynamics AX. This offers a central repository where management information from across the business is integrated. Enhanced visibility of operations has increased control over costs, reduced wastage and shrinkage, streamlined logistics processes, and improved customer service. The technology delivers deployment savings of U.S.$2.8 million and operational savings of U.S.$3.5 million annually.

Securing Your Future With HP: A Transition Guide for Tru64 UNIX Customers 2006-12-27 01:00:55 Hewlett-Packard

AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX have provided an excellent solution for delivering the performance, reliability and stability required in the IT environment. Following the Compaq-HP merger, HP concluded that while Tru64 UNIX on AlphaServer is an excellent product, it needed to focus its development investment on only one UNIX version to provide "Best-in-class" enterprise UNIX capabilities. The decision was made to standardize on HP-UX as the enterprise UNIX for Integrity servers, and to provide both AlphaServer customers and HP 9000 customers with a robust enterprise UNIX that delivered the enterprise capabilities they needed.

IBM System p5 and i2 Technologies Transportation Manager Benchmark 2006-07-18 IBM

IBM and i2 have achieved a remarkably successful benchmark test of i2 Technologies Transportation Manager (TM) v6.1 application on an IBM System p5 POWER5 Server. This benchmark on an IBM System p5-570 midrange server demonstrated a new level of performance for i2 TM customers that can give transportation customers a commanding lead over the competition. Increasing the pace is the goal of all success-oriented business, but none more so than the enterprises involved in the transportation of products from manufacturers to customers. This is the environment that separates those willing to go the extra distance and provide better service from the competition.

System Tunable Mapping: Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX 11i v2 2006-04-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

People often find that the general case for which systems are tuned fails to meet their needs. This paper provides some information on the more common parameters that are tuned for Tru64 UNIX and the equivalent HP-UX parameters. The paper also provides information for HP-UX 11i v2. On Tru64 UNIX, one can adjust the default resource limits with the dxkerneltuner or sysconfig commands. In order for the new values to take effect, some parameters require a system reboot but it is not necessary to rebuild the kernel. On HP-UX, one can change the default values with the kctune command or the kcweb GUI. In order for the changes to take effect, some parameters require a reboot but a kernel build is never required.

Tags: HP-UX

Controlling Application Memory Consumption 2006-03-23 04:32:03 IBM

pSeries nodes with large memories are often used for applications that expect to use all the available real memory, either for one serial application or in aggregate for the tasks of a parallel MPI job running on the node. If an application accesses real memory beyond the amount available, AIX 5L provides support for paging out less frequently used pages. However, paging is relatively slow compared to CPU speeds, and adversely affects the critical performance requirement of these applications. This paper describes mechanisms to help applications use maximum available real memory while protecting the integrity of the node by reducing the risk of paging by applications that demand more real memory than is available.

Configuring AIX 5L for Kerberos Based Authentication Using Windows Kerberos Service 2006-04-04 03:04:19 IBM

This paper describes the use of Kerberos as an alternative authentication mechanism to AIX using Windows 2000/2003 Server Kerberos Service. Authentication applications on AIX do not require any change to alternatively perform Kerberos authentication as it is woven into the fabric of the AIX security subsystem. By utilizing the loadable identification and authentication framework of AIX, the system directs authentication requests to use Kerberos instead of standard UNIX authentication.

HP-UX 11i - Approaching a Virtualized IT World With Confidence 2007-02-01 14:15:04 Hewlett-Packard

During the 1980s, IT was considered the panacea for achieving competitive advantage, and it was therefore suitably engulfed in funding. Today, IT is at the very heart of the business, and a company's survival may depend upon the reliability and flexibility of its IT architecture. Ironically, while IT continuity may be critical to the survival of the business and although inadequate IT deployment carries considerable business liability, there has been a parallel shift to reduce IT budgets. The pressure is on to do more with less - to provide more formal Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) with fewer dollars, fewer people, and less infrastructure.

Oracle10g for UNIX: Integrating With a Network Appliance Filer 2006-02-01 Network Appliance (NetApp)

This paper describes the steps necessary to integrate single-instance Oracle10g for UNIX with a Network Appliance filer. This paper only covers single-instance databases. The paper covers issues like: placing Oracle Home on a filer using NFS, creating an Oracle Home server with a filer, storing multiple Oracle versions on a filer, creating a new database with data files on a filer, migrating a database from local disk onto a filer.

Tags: NAS, Database Applications

SAS and IBM BI Reference Test - Why System p for SAS Business Intelligence 2006-01-27 IBM

Off late SAS and IBM proved the power of their alliance by performing a SAS Business Intelligence Benchmarking Scenario test suite that leveraged the power of IBM's technology. This Reference Architecture was developed by SAS as a means to show customers the scalability of their solutions on various hardware platforms. The IBM System p family of products brings the technology, products and services to develop and deploy SAS Business Intelligence solutions successfully and at a very competitive return on investment.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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Title	Date Added	Company
The Environment Agency Guards Against IT Disruption	2006-12-13 01:00:24	Hewlett-Packard
As the leading public body for protecting the environment in England and Wales, the Environment Agency has a wide spectrum of responsibilities. They include reducing and adapting to two major environmental risks: climate change and flooding. Some aspects of the agency's work, such as issuing flood warnings and responding to pollution incidents, are time-critical and often depend on IT systems to enable an effective response. The company wanted a solution that would enable them to restore the most business-critical systems within 72 hours, using mobile units furnished with all the required hardware and transported to a location specified by them. The contract was awarded to HP Business Continuity Services, which represented "The best value for money overall".
Business Solution Delivers Yearly Savings of U.S.$3.5 Million for Concrete Firm	2006-11-08 01:00:18	Microsoft
Oldcastle Precast, headquartered in the United States, produces a range of concrete products. The company historically managed its business processes using a 20-year-old UNIX-based software infrastructure. While this could still manage most of the company's operations, it was close to its limits in terms of scalability and financial viability. As a result, Oldcastle Precast decided to deploy a new business management system based on Microsoft Dynamics AX. This offers a central repository where management information from across the business is integrated. Enhanced visibility of operations has increased control over costs, reduced wastage and shrinkage, streamlined logistics processes, and improved customer service. The technology delivers deployment savings of U.S.$2.8 million and operational savings of U.S.$3.5 million annually.
Securing Your Future With HP: A Transition Guide for Tru64 UNIX Customers	2006-12-27 01:00:55	Hewlett-Packard
AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX have provided an excellent solution for delivering the performance, reliability and stability required in the IT environment. Following the Compaq-HP merger, HP concluded that while Tru64 UNIX on AlphaServer is an excellent product, it needed to focus its development investment on only one UNIX version to provide "Best-in-class" enterprise UNIX capabilities. The decision was made to standardize on HP-UX as the enterprise UNIX for Integrity servers, and to provide both AlphaServer customers and HP 9000 customers with a robust enterprise UNIX that delivered the enterprise capabilities they needed.
IBM System p5 and i2 Technologies Transportation Manager Benchmark	2006-07-18	IBM
IBM and i2 have achieved a remarkably successful benchmark test of i2 Technologies Transportation Manager (TM) v6.1 application on an IBM System p5 POWER5 Server. This benchmark on an IBM System p5-570 midrange server demonstrated a new level of performance for i2 TM customers that can give transportation customers a commanding lead over the competition. Increasing the pace is the goal of all success-oriented business, but none more so than the enterprises involved in the transportation of products from manufacturers to customers. This is the environment that separates those willing to go the extra distance and provide better service from the competition.
System Tunable Mapping: Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX 11i v2	2006-04-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
People often find that the general case for which systems are tuned fails to meet their needs. This paper provides some information on the more common parameters that are tuned for Tru64 UNIX and the equivalent HP-UX parameters. The paper also provides information for HP-UX 11i v2. On Tru64 UNIX, one can adjust the default resource limits with the dxkerneltuner or sysconfig commands. In order for the new values to take effect, some parameters require a system reboot but it is not necessary to rebuild the kernel. On HP-UX, one can change the default values with the kctune command or the kcweb GUI. In order for the changes to take effect, some parameters require a reboot but a kernel build is never required. Tags: HP-UX
Controlling Application Memory Consumption	2006-03-23 04:32:03	IBM
pSeries nodes with large memories are often used for applications that expect to use all the available real memory, either for one serial application or in aggregate for the tasks of a parallel MPI job running on the node. If an application accesses real memory beyond the amount available, AIX 5L provides support for paging out less frequently used pages. However, paging is relatively slow compared to CPU speeds, and adversely affects the critical performance requirement of these applications. This paper describes mechanisms to help applications use maximum available real memory while protecting the integrity of the node by reducing the risk of paging by applications that demand more real memory than is available.
Configuring AIX 5L for Kerberos Based Authentication Using Windows Kerberos Service	2006-04-04 03:04:19	IBM
This paper describes the use of Kerberos as an alternative authentication mechanism to AIX using Windows 2000/2003 Server Kerberos Service. Authentication applications on AIX do not require any change to alternatively perform Kerberos authentication as it is woven into the fabric of the AIX security subsystem. By utilizing the loadable identification and authentication framework of AIX, the system directs authentication requests to use Kerberos instead of standard UNIX authentication.
HP-UX 11i - Approaching a Virtualized IT World With Confidence	2007-02-01 14:15:04	Hewlett-Packard
During the 1980s, IT was considered the panacea for achieving competitive advantage, and it was therefore suitably engulfed in funding. Today, IT is at the very heart of the business, and a company's survival may depend upon the reliability and flexibility of its IT architecture. Ironically, while IT continuity may be critical to the survival of the business and although inadequate IT deployment carries considerable business liability, there has been a parallel shift to reduce IT budgets. The pressure is on to do more with less - to provide more formal Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) with fewer dollars, fewer people, and less infrastructure.
Oracle10g for UNIX: Integrating With a Network Appliance Filer	2006-02-01	Network Appliance (NetApp)
This paper describes the steps necessary to integrate single-instance Oracle10g for UNIX with a Network Appliance filer. This paper only covers single-instance databases. The paper covers issues like: placing Oracle Home on a filer using NFS, creating an Oracle Home server with a filer, storing multiple Oracle versions on a filer, creating a new database with data files on a filer, migrating a database from local disk onto a filer. Tags: NAS, Database Applications
SAS and IBM BI Reference Test - Why System p for SAS Business Intelligence	2006-01-27	IBM
Off late SAS and IBM proved the power of their alliance by performing a SAS Business Intelligence Benchmarking Scenario test suite that leveraged the power of IBM's technology. This Reference Architecture was developed by SAS as a means to show customers the scalability of their solutions on various hardware platforms. The IBM System p family of products brings the technology, products and services to develop and deploy SAS Business Intelligence solutions successfully and at a very competitive return on investment. Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing