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- Server Management Solution Comparison on Dell PowerEdge R710 and HP ProLiant DL385 G5p Servers
- Server management provides ease of use for end users during various tasks they perform. For this comparison, they used each manufacturer's application to perform the following tasks: initial operating system installations, firmware updates, diagnostics, and remote management setup. On the Dell PowerEdge R710, they used the Unified Server Configurator USC,...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1
- The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name Service DNS servers from BIND 8 running on Solaris 9 to BIND 9 running on Solaris 10. This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated migration of...
- White papers 2009-02-10
- How-To Guide: Consolidating Multiple SQL Server Systems Onto Dell PowerEdge Servers Using Microsoft's Hyper-V
- This paper provides concepts and procedures that will help successfully consolidate Microsoft SQL Server instances from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server 2008 system using Microsoft's Hyper-V. This paper uses the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers. Depending on the version of SQL Server are using...
- White papers 2009-01-29
- OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
- Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare performance and power for online transaction processing OLTP of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSD5), standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The paper focused on a single usage scenario: that of a user...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on Dell R900 With Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition
- The Dell PowerEdger R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical database applications from Oracle 9i running on Solaris 9 to Oracle 11g, the latest release of Oracle's data management platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL 5.2). This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies PT...
- White papers 2008-11-13
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Dell, HP, and IBM Blade Solutions
- Dell Inc. commissioned principled TechnologiesPT to compare the total cost of ownership TCO of three blade solutions, which is listed in alphabetical order: Dell PowerEdge M1000e, HP BladeSystem c-Class and IBM BladeCenter H Type 8852. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center...
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Thoughts on Principled Technologies' Vista vs. XP reports
- Thoughts on Principled Technologies' Vista vs. XP reportsIf Vista and XP are so close what is the uproar about?This confirms what I have experienced myself on a dual boot system - both OS are about the same, give or take. Yet so many out there claim Vista is a slow...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
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- Dell aims to poach Sun customers
- Popular computer company Dell is attempting to make it easy for customers to migrate from proprietary server platforms and outdated legacy datacenters to more open, flexible, standards-based technology. In other words: Sun customers, Dell's headed your way. Dell's ProConsult Infrastructure Consulting service is positioned...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Staff Cost Savings Models to Justify RISC Migration
- In the past, RISC-based servers delivered performance and memory advantages that made them the workhorses of corporate computing. And even though the systems used expensive, proprietary components and were expensive to operate, many organizations ran their critical business applications - including database, ERP, CRM, DNS server, and others - on...
- White papers 2009-04-08
- Windows Media Load Simulator Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
- Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare the performance and power of two types of disk drives when streaming Windows Media: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives SSDs, Standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The author used the Windows Media Load Simulator WMLS test tool. WMLS...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up
- Given that I've made numerous posts relating to benchmarking Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this blog over the past few weeks I thought that many readers would appreciate a single post that pulled together all the individual posts and which drew together the thoughts, findings and conclusions from the individual...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Thoughts on Principled Technologies' Vista vs. XP reports
- Yesterday I noticed that Principled Technologies had released updated reports that examined the overall responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 to Windows XP SP 2 for common business and home tasks. Given that I've examined the effect of SP1 on Vista in great detail, I feel that I should comment on...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Reconfiguration of Resources in Middleware
- The monolithic and inflexible nature of current middleware has made it difficult to deal with emerging technologies such as multimedia. The authors believe that reflection provides a principled means to achieve the flexibility and adaptation required. The main focus of this paper regards the reconfiguration of resources in middleware within...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Leveraging Linux to sell yourself
- If you work at a fairly junior level in the typical corporate IT environment your bosses will probably be treating you as a technician of categorised skills whose opinions and expertise outside of the narrow job box they have you in are neither of interest nor of value. Basically...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Google at Risk: YouTube class action lawsuit changes DMCA copyright game
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., a copyright infringement class action pending in the United States...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change
- I've been wracking my brain for a commandment which would fit with the theme this week, and I figured that the commandment "Thou Shalt Recognize the Inherent Superiority of Microsoft Software" might be a tad too partisan, particularly coming from guy who works for Microsoft in its IPTV division (queue...
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Patent reform bill surfaces in Congress, but it is too little, too late?
- Patent reform bill surfaces in Congress, but it is too little, too late?That seems backwards.It was my understanding that major European nations are against the idea of software patents. And that US is one of the few (only?) nations that currently grant software patents. Perhaps I'm misinformed. ...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-10
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