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The need for a mixed load benchmark

The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change. Unfortunately people who want to do this face an unexpected problem: no good way to size the hardware short...

Tags: Paul Murphy, Resource Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software, Operating System, Data-processing, Sun Solaris, Servers

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Market-Oriented Cloud Computing: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering IT Services as Computing Utilities

This keynote paper: presents a 21st century vision of computing; identifies various computing paradigms promising to deliver the vision of computing utilities; defines Cloud computing and provides the architecture for creating market-oriented Clouds by leveraging technologies such as VMs; provides thoughts on market-based resource management strategies that encompass both customer-driven...

Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Resource Allocation, University Of Melbourne, Vision, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-07-24

SLA-Based Resource Allocation in Cluster Computing Systems

Resource allocation is a fundamental but challenging problem due to the complexity of cluster computing systems. In enterprise service computing, resource allocation is often associated with a Service Level Agreement SLA which is a set of quality of services and a price agreed between a customer and a service provider....

Tags: SLA, Resource Allocation, E-business Application, Service Provider, Allocation, Cluster Computing, Service Level Management, Business Services, Enterprise Software, It Operations, It service Management, Software

White papers 2007-12-21

Efficient Resource Allocation for Policy-Based Wireless/Wireline Interworking

This paper proposes efficient resource allocation techniques for a policy-based wireless/wireline interworking architecture, where Quality of Service QoS provisioning and resource allocation is driven by the Service Level Agreement SLA. For end-to-end IP QoS delivery, each wireless access domain can independently choose its internal resource management policies to guarantee the...

Tags: Resource Allocation, Policy, Domain, Allocation, Springer Science+Business Media, Service Level Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2006-05-23

Downlink Scheduling and Resource Allocation for OFDM Systems

This paper considers scheduling and resource allocation for the downlink of a OFDM-based wireless network. During each time-slot the scheduling and resource allocation problem involves selecting a subset of users for transmission, determining the assignment of available subcarriers to selected users, and for each subcarrier determining the transmission power and...

Tags: Resource Allocation, Northwestern University, Allocation, OFDM, Wireless

White papers 2006-02-27

Cross-Layer Congestion Control, Routing and Scheduling Design in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

This paper considers jointly optimal design of cross-layer congestion control, routing and scheduling for ad hoc wireless networks. The paper first formulates the rate constraint and scheduling constraint using multicommodity flow variables, and formulates resource allocation in networks with fixed wireless channels (or single-rate wireless devices that can mask channel...

Tags: Congestion Control, Advertisement, Constraint, California Institute Of Technology, Resource Allocation, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2006-01-05

DPusLight 1.0 (Windows)

DPus is a free GDI and memory leak detection software. Its purpose is to inspect process behavior by spying finely choosen API calls that the process make. Having this calls instrumented, DPusDLeak module can show you every resource that a process get. And more than that, you can discover all...

Tags: Resource Allocation, Memory Leak, Microsoft Windows, Allocation, DPus

Software downloads 2005-08-26

VavilonExpansion 1.0 (Mobile)

New abilities: 1) New unit: .2) New 9 maps for masters of Vavilon. Now game have 18 maps andrandom map.3) New building in villages: Doctor house.4) A little Better AI.Tricks and Tips.Economy: 1) Look at the screenshot on the left. The filled figures indicate people who do not work. Resource...

Tags: Mobile, Resource Allocation, Unit, palmOne Tungsten, Sergey Volchenkov, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-06-12

Performance Modelling of GSM/GPRS Cells With Different Radio Resource Allocation Strategies

This paper presents an analytical model for the performance evaluation of GSM/GPRS cells with different resource allocation schemes. The presented model is based on the Modified Engset Model with a finite number of users generating ON/OFF sessions in the cell. The closed formula following from the model is applicable for...

Tags: Performance, GPRS, Resource Allocation, Radio, France Telecom, Allocation, GSM, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2005-01-27

TechNet Webcast: Using Windows System Resource Manager With Windows Server 2003 (Level 200)

Managing and optimizing a large IT infrastructure is a huge challenge. Microsoft Windows System Resource Manager WSRM can help, and this webcast shows you how. WSRM provides the tools to manage resource allocation, including processor and memory resources among multiple applications based on business priorities. With WSRM, you can implement...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Resource Allocation, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, WSRM, Microsoft Windows, Server Consolidation, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

Webcasts

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Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

VMware to step up data center automation game

ResponseThis is great news for the IT world. These tools will greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual environments. And VMware is smart to focus on automation. They understand better than anyone that automation is the key to virtualization and then cloud computing.Without it, you?re not likely...

Tags: Server virtualization, Virtualization, VMware Inc., game, automation, provisioning, virtual server

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

Improving Utilization and Allocation With VMware vCenter Chargeback

Creating business accountability for IT resources in a virtualized environment requires accurate, flexible cost measurement. With the right cost measurement processes in place, IT organizations can make better resource utilization and allocation decisions by ensuring accurate measurement of the true costs of virtualized workloads. In turn, this helps end users...

Tags: Information Technology, Allocation, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-09-09

SigLM: Signature-Driven Load Management for Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Cloud computing has emerged as a promising platform that grants users with direct yet shared access to computing resources and services without worrying about the internal complex infrastructure. Unlike traditional batch service model, cloud service model adopts a pay-as-you-go form, which demands explicit and precise resource control. This paper, presents...

Tags: North Carolina State University, SigLM, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-04

Cloud Computing Initiative Using Modified Ant Colony Framework

Scheduling of diversified service requests in distributed computing is a critical design issue. Cloud is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of interconnected and virtual computers. It is not only the clusters and grid but also it comprises of next generation data centers. The paper...

Tags: University Of New Brunswick, Optimization Method, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-09-04

Decide to Survive: Four Imperatives that Make Better Decision Management Essential in Uncertain Times

Entering a global recession, companies must respond to increasingly complex markets, changing threats, and fleeting opportunities. They must show compliance with a growing regulatory burden and more layers of regulation at national and international levels, while also reducing operating costs. Companies must be able to serve customers who...

Tags: FICO, Imperative, Asset Management, Regulations, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Government

White papers 2009-09-01

VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network

To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to any service. To meet these goals, the paper presentsVL2, a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data...

Tags: Data Center, Network, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-08-21

Cisco's Q4: Things are looking better - but let's not get too happy just yet

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the company saw some return to normalcy during the fourth quarter specifically a "dramatic difference" from the large swings in order patterns from quarter to quarter that the company had been seeing during the year's first three quarters. But in a...

Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Police Department Ensures Super Bowl Security, Reduces Costs With New IT Tools

During Super Bowl week, more than a half-million people converge on the host city, which has an enormous responsibility to ensure the security and smooth flow of events for visitors, as well as citizens of the city. The 2009 Super Bowl required the Tampa Police Department TPD to coordinate 25...

Tags: Super Bowl, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Police Department, Security

Case studies 2009-07-20