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A Comparison of High-Level Full-System Power Models

Dynamic power management in enterprise environments requires an understanding of the relationship between resource utilization and system-level power consumption. Power models based on resource utilization have been proposed in the context of enabling specific energy-efficiency optimizations on specific machines, but the accuracy and portability of different approaches to modeling have...

Tags: Sonoma State University, Resource Utilization, Performance Management, Research & Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations

White papers 2008-11-13

BOE Saves US$1 Million in Hardware Costs Through More Efficient Resource Utilization

Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. BOE wanted to monitor six database systems underlying the Computer Integrated Manufacturing CIM system and support continuous operation of the LCD production line as well as make better use of existing hardware to avoid excessive investment in new resources to run applications and databases....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Resource Utilization, BOE, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-01-01

Adaptive Control of Virtualized Resources in Utility Computing Environments

Data centers are often under-utilized due to over-provisioning as well as time-varying resource demands of typical enterprise applications. One approach to increase resource utilization is to consolidate applications in a shared infrastructure using virtualization. Meeting application-level Quality of Service QoS goals becomes a challenge in a consolidated environment as application...

Tags: QoS, Utility Computing, Resource Utilization, Resource, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-03-23

Sun Technology Unleashing 10 Gigabit Networks

Building on the foundation of consolidation technology, virtualization techniques are now becoming popular. Virtualization enables computing resources to be pooled and shared on an as-needed basis, further increasing resource utilization. By helping create a less complex IT environment based on a consistent architecture, consolidation and virtualization strategies help companies significantly...

Tags: Network, Sun Microsystems Inc., Resource Utilization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-03-01

Additional Resources

Adobe releases Flash, AIR betas; Gauging the potential of multi-touch on the desktop

Not surprising ....Not surprising, considering, Silverlight already supports multi-touch, as does WPF.Silverlight has potential......but platform availability is a factor. MS need to improve that greatly if they want to take a bite out of Flash's share.Rather, catch up[i]Adobe?s platform is appealing, but it?s in a race to stay ahead...

Tags: Network technology, Web browsers, desktop, 64-bit, Adobe Systems Inc., multi-touch

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-24

openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard

Ubuntu's Karmic Koala isn't the only hot Linux beta floating around. On October 1, the openSUSE project released Milestone 8 of openSUSE 11.2, which is slated for general release in November, just in time for the holiday season. Milestone 8 will precede two release candidates to be also released...

Tags: Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE, Object-oriented, KDE 4.3, openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Strategic Asset Management

An effective asset management system is designed to increase asset and resource effectiveness by providing a platform to support all types of asset classes and all types of work in a dynamic organization. In fact, proper use of an asset management system can significantly help maximize the utilization of...

Tags: Asset, Asset Management System, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2009-09-18

Mastering Virtualized Environments

Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implementations. Virtualization offers organizations of all sizes the opportunity to reduce the physical footprint of their data...

Tags: Service Management, Data Center, Environment, Virtual Environment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-09-18

More on Microsoft Project 2010

The Completeness of the PPM Solution Grows (More from the Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix) As the demonstrations of Project 2010 continue, I noted the following: 1) Microsoft has added a lot of functionality in its Resource Management and Time Entry...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Capability, Collaboration, Content Management, Groupware, Microsoft Project, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-16

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

Capacity Analyzer Standard Edition 4.1 (Windows)

VKernel's patent-pending Capacity Analyzer technology will enable you to achieve maximum performance with the right amount of resources. Capacity Analyzer is the only ESX monitoring software that actually predicts problems days before they occur so you have time to fix them. Designed for enterprise scalability, Capacity Analyzer proactively monitors shared...

Tags: Vkernel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Standard Corp., Capacity Analyzer, Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-21

Juniper offers up white paper on energy efficiency for networks

The efforts of Cisco and IBM to extend the energy efficiency debate out of the data center and out into the network have been highly publicized, but I've made a pledge to myself to actively explore what other networking equipemnt providers are doing in this area. (Note to any networking...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-10

MetroPower Achieves 100% Profitability on New Projects With Integrated Project Management Software

MetroPower, Inc. wanted to replace paper-based project management processes with an automated solution and ensure that the company has 'Zero losers' - engineering projects that lose money - and that it meets project deadlines. The challenge was to improve resource utilization, enabling MetroPower to efficiently move employees from project to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MetroPower, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...

Tags: Saving Energy, McKinsey & Co.

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR PC READER (Mobile)

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES (MARCH2003) gives concise yet complete summaries of the most important national clinical guidelines at your fingertips, and updates those guidelines regularly as new information comes out. ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE BOOKREVIEW: "Redi-Reference Clinical Guidelines Handbook is a powerful tool for bringing evidence-based medicine to the point of...

Tags: Mobile, Guideline, PC, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-10

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES 5.1 (Mobile)

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES (January 2005) gives concise yet complete summaries of the most important national clinical guidelines at your fingertips, and updates those guidelines regularly as new information comes out. ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE BOOKREVIEW: "Redi-Reference Clinical Guidelines Handbook is a powerful tool for bringing evidence-based medicine to the point...

Tags: Mobile, Guideline, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Backup for VMware ESX Environments With Veritas NetBackup PureDisk From Symantec

Traditional backup solutions are able to back up virtual guests on a VMware ESX host; however, the resource utilization on the host and the backup time required quickly become areas of concern. The NetBackup PureDisk client running in a virtual guest provides excellent deduplication at the source and can back...

Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, VMware Inc., De-duplication, VERITAS NetBackup, VMWare ESX, Backup Solution, Backups, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

A Quantitative Approach to ERP Server Platform Sizing

Under-sizing server platforms for an environment may lead to mid-life refresh, resulting in significant disruption to business operations, added logistical complexity, and an increase in total cost of ownership. Intel IT developed a quantitative model to assist with server sizing by analyzing the effects of many different factors on Enterprise...

Tags: ERP, Intel Corp., Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services

The folks at Platform Computing are at it again.  This time, they've announced a product to support cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service IaaS. They're calling it Platform Infrastructure Sharing Service ISF. As often is the case with a new product from a...

Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Platform Infrastructure Sharing Facility, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-24