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Helping Those With Vision Loss With Five Nines of Uptime, Thanks to the HP BladeSystem
CNIB has been providing community-based support, knowledge, and a national voice to ensure that Canadians who are blind or partially sighted have the confidence, skills, and opportunities to fully participate in life. CNIB wanted to provide server and storage infrastructure to handle expanding data and avoid outgrowing the data center. CNIB virtualized on VMware and HP BladeSystem to keep physical server count at 64 rather than 180 and remain in data center with limited footprint and consolidate storage on HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 8000.
76 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)INTTRA Supports the Global Supply Chain With a World-Class IT Infrastructure From IBM
INTTRA, short for "International trade," was formed in 2000 for the purpose of providing a multi-carrier e-commerce platform for the booking and documentation of ocean containerized shipping. Serving 30 of the world's leading carriers and more than 20,000 customer locations around the world, INTTRA requires a robust IT infrastructure that delivers high performance - and the scalability to support a company that has grown more than 1100 percent in the last seven years. Working with IBM Premier Business Partner VSS, Inc., INTTRA has consolidated their servers on IBM BladeCenter and IBM Power Systems servers, and has achieved a 95 percent virtualization rate by virtualizing at every tier.
219 days ago by IBMLow-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing
Enterprise and scientific data sets double every year, forcing similar growths in storage size and power consumption. As a consequence, current system architectures used to build data warehouses are about to hit a power consumption wall. This paper proposes a novel alternative architecture comprising large number of so-called Amdahl blades that combine energy-efficient CPUs with solid state disks to increase sequential read I/O throughput by an order of magnitude while keeping power consumption constant. The paper also shows that while keeping the total cost of ownership constant, Amdahl blades offer five times the throughput of a state-of-the-art computing cluster for data-intensive applications.
226 days ago by Association for Computing MachineryDell Adds Computing Muscle to 'Hulk' High-Performance Cluster at German University in Five Working Days
A high-performance computer cluster at Jacobs University was reaching its limitations due to the increasing number of personnel using the facility to help with their research programmes. The university scaled the cluster with support from Dell consultants, using Dell blade servers powered by Intel Xeon Processors and modular blade enclosures.
229 days ago by DellServer Consolidation With IBM System x and BladeCenter Power by Intel Xeon Processors: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
In today's challenging economy organizations are focusing more than ever on how they can reduce costs while maintaining operations. With tightened liquidity and an uncertain economic outlook, preserving capital and avoiding unnecessary expenditures is a popular short term financial tactic. This paper examines the old adage, "If it isn't broke, don't fix it." being firmly embraced by many CFOs. Even in this tough economy can IT modernization reduce operating costs and improve service levels without increasing current expenditures? Many organizations are discovering that replacing older servers with more powerful and efficient servers can lower operating costs and improve responsiveness without jeopardizing current capital. This paper examines a recent server consolidation project by large retail company in the United States.
260 days ago by AlineanDisaggregated Memory for Expansion and Sharing in Blade Servers
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contributed by memory systems to total datacenter costs and power consumption during typical usage is increasing. In response to these trends, this paper re-examines traditional compute-memory co-location on a single system and details the design of a new general-purpose architectural building block - a memory blade - that allows memory to be "Disaggregated" across a system ensemble. This remote memory blade can be used for memory capacity expansion to improve performance and for sharing memory across servers to reduce provisioning and power costs.
267 days ago by Association for Computing MachineryUsing HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Blade Servers to Create a Virtualized Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Farm
This paper documents the HP testing results achieved when evaluating a solution utilizing the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade server to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a highly available virtualized environment using Hyper-V virtualization technology. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization feature included in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and designed to utilize the virtualization technology included in the current generation of Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. By virtualizing key roles of Office SharePoint Server 2007, such as Web Front End/Query and Indexing, one can now deploy fewer HP ProLiant servers to handle the tasks that once took many physical servers.
290 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)Realizing TCO Savings With HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology
HP Virtual Connect technology is an interconnect option for HP BladeSystem designed to simplify the connection of blade servers to datacenter networks. Virtual Connect creates pools of LAN and SAN addresses that can be assigned dynamically to server bays. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 builds on the core HP Virtual Connect technology by extending I/O virtualization to the Network Interface Card (NIC) ports on each blade server. Networking hardware costs and support burdens are reduced as only a single HP Virtual Connect interconnect module is required to support up to four "FlexNICs" compared with the four switches that would have been required with previous-generation blade I/O technology. Additionally, Flex-10 has the capability to throttle the bandwidth to ensure a more efficient use of networking resources.
321 days ago by IDG (International Data Group)Virtualizing the Infrastructure With Sun x86 Blades
Sun Microsystems has a long history of engineering systems that are optimized for network-enabled workloads. In the age of blade servers, this is translating into new designs for network enablement that improve the rate at which data is transmitted to and from the blades themselves. Sun has innovated by developing a sophisticated shared Network Interface Card (NIC) called the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE Network Express Module (Sun Blade Virtualized NEM), which takes the place of embedded physical switches within the blade platform - and speeds the performance of the system, especially for enterprise applications accessing large data sets.
351 days ago by IDG (International Data Group)Top Four Reasons for Deploying Radisys ATCA Blades Based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Platform: Evaluating Compute Performance, Overall Cost, Upgrade Path and Thermal Requirements
Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) are in a race against ever-increasing network bandwidth and application deployment. Their service provider customers are quickly moving to 10 gigabyte Ethernet networks, which is placing even more demands on equipment such as media servers, 3G and LTE wireless infrastructure and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). These systems require very high capacity computing blades - the faster, the better. System developers are accustomed to making tradeoffs that strike the right balance between performance, price and time to market. In the past, deploying higher performance hardware solutions typically forced compromises on power consumption and cost. Now, such concessions are history, as demonstrated by the RadiSys ATCA-4500 Single Board Computer (SBC) ATCA blade based on breakthrough Intel processor technology.
382 days ago by RadiSys
