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Scalability lessons from a megaservice

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Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Ringtone, scalability

Discussion threads 2009-11-07

Law Enforcement Solution Developer Revitalizes Approach at Technology Center

Total Computer Group develops software for the law enforcement industry and wanted to ensure the scalability of its Total Enforcement solution so that it could confidently approach larger municipalities. The company attended a Proof of Concept workshop at a Microsoft Technology Center, which helped it increase the solution's scalability, improve...

Tags: Developer, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Law Enforcement, Law Enforcement Solution Developer, Total Computer Group, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2009-10-27

Logalty Ensures Scalability and High Service Levels With Service-Oriented Architecture

Logalty wanted to provide a platform to enable the certification of electronic documents and support a high volume of transactions - starting at 10 terabytes of data - while ensuring high system availability and comprehensive security. The challenge was to provide a scalable and flexible IT architecture to accommodate the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Servers, Enterprise Software, Databases, Web Services, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society Ensures Organizational Scalability With Consolidated Enterprise Messaging Solution

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society wanted to replace legacy communication collaboration applications to provide the organization with a modern, highly available and unified messaging platform and provide a scalable solution that can meet the needs of the growing not-for-profit organization that must communicate among 230 facilities and its headquarters....

Tags: Unified Messaging, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Messaging, Collaboration, VOIP, Data Centers, Groupware, Telecommunications, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-10-01

Improved Scalability Boosts Agora's Ability to Deliver Web-Based Advertising

Agora SA wanted to improve the performance of the ad server supporting Gazeta.pl and address a sudden increase in the volume of ads in the system, stemming from Agora's launch of an ad network providing services to other portals and Web sites. The challenge was to reduce, by several times...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Scalability, Agora S.A.

Case studies 2009-10-01

Sage dresses SoSaaS in cloud clothing

AgreedSo true! A single-tenant SaaS! What next? A desktop cloud app! But I guess unless there's a certifying/standardisation authority, anything can be labelled to be a SaaSy cloud app!SoSaaS is not Half-SaaSedI can't argue with your comment, Phil, on the Sage announcement. It just proves once again (to paraphrase what...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

AVIT Deploys Intel Architecture to Enhance Performance and Scalability of IT Services for Egyptian Civil Aviation

As the organisation responsible for providing Information and Communication Technology ICT services and solutions to Egyptian airports, airlines and government bodies, AVIT is dedicated to incorporating the best technologies into its offerings. Wanting to get better performance and support from its IT infrastructure at a more compelling price, it migrated...

Tags: IT Services, Performance, Information Technology, Scalability, Information And Communication Technology, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, AVIT, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

Scalability lessons from a megaservice

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Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, DVD, Flash memory, Apple iPod, scalability

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Insurance Brokerage Saves $3 Million, Boosts Competitiveness With Unified Communications

Extend Health was experiencing 100 percent annual growth and bumping against the scalability limits of its Cisco-based call center. To eliminate those limits, the company turned to a custom solution based on Microsoft unified communications technologies. The solution immediately scaled to support almost twice as many agents as the Cisco...

Tags: Agent, Outsource, Unified Communications, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Insurance Brokerage, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Insurance, Collaboration, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Corporate Insurance

Case studies 2009-07-29

Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?

Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?Scalability vs. MultitenancyIt appears that from the Forrester perspective that scalability = multitenancy. Wondering if this is the case? While multitenancy would probably help with the "ease" of scalability, can single tenant applications scale?

Tags: scalability, Business ByDesign

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Geoprocessing in the Clouds

Cloud Computing is one of the latest hypes in the mainstream IT world. Spatial Data Infrastructures SDI with its classical publish-find-bind paradigm have not been affected yet by this emerging trend. This paper reviews this novel technology and tries to identify the paradigm behind it. In particular, the scalability aspect...

Tags: Scalability, Paradigm, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-08

EMC Helps Save US$3 Million and Ensures Scalability With Consolidated Grid Computing Solution

EMC Corporation wanted to contain costs for the large, global services provider by enabling the company to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware and provide the flexibility to host databases in multiple ways to optimize energy efficiency and minimize operating costs. The challenge was to ensure scalability to support EMC's...

Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Grid Computing, EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Allegro Group Ensures Enterprise Scalability With Flexible, Integrated Data Warehouse Solution

Allegro Group wanted to build a scalable enterprise data warehouse that meets business users' performance and quality of service expectations and deliver a single point of truth with integrated metadata, from data integration through to enterprise reporting tools. The challenge was to provide flexible reporting and analysis tools, including sophisticated...

Tags: Data Warehouse, QoS, Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Dashboard, Online Auction, Performance Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Cubus Embeds Unrivalled Performance and Scalability Into First-to-Market Project and Strategy Planning Tool

Cubus wanted to build on success of Cubis' customizable, Excel-based planning tool, ABC for OLAP, with a solution that consolidates project management, financial management, and strategy management and enable clients to replace disconnected standalone Excel, Word, and PowerPoint-based planning tools with a single application. The challenge was to integrate structured...

Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Performance, Scalability, Cubus, Microsoft Excel, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Finance, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Online Restaurant Booking Service Boosts Speed and Scalability With Web Technology

Online restaurant booking service toptable was becoming the victim of its remarkable popularity. First launched in 2000, the Web site was struggling to deal with 15,000 bookings a day. In 2008, the company's management team decided to rebuild the Web site using Microsoft ASP.NET. toptable expects that the improved user...

Tags: Web, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Toptable, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Case studies 2009-06-01

e-Rewards, Inc. Achieves Near Real-Time Reporting, Increasing Capacity and Scalability for Members

e-Rewards, Inc wanted to provide fast response time whenever members enter online responses to surveys and meet service level requirements of members, clients, and internal users. The challenge was to align IT resources to support e-Rewards' unique business model and integrate legacy systems and databases to increase scalability and capacity...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, Hardware Upgrade, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical

Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service QoS. They demand extreme and predictable performance, unlimited and linear scalability, continuous availability, efficient manageability and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a...

Tags: QoS, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-06-01

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Scalability Benchmark Executive Summary

Download the Executive Summary to learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivered a new CRM industry scalability benchmark record and redefined the price-performance equation with 50,000 concurrent users and 0.12 second response times on a hardware setup that cost less than $35,000.

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Scalability, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM

Case studies 2009-06-01

Intel: New Nehalem chip has "dramatic" performance gains

Intel said today that it will start producing a new, more powerful Xeon processor, called Nehalem-EX, later this year. The chip will feature eight cores and will support 16 threads and 24 MB of cache. In a statement, the company called the increased performance "dramatic, posting the highest-ever jump from...

Tags: Performance, Scalability, Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Inside SQL Server 2008 - Exploring High Availability and Scalability Enhancements

SQL 2005 introduced High Availability and scalability enhancements, such as database mirroring and improved failover clustering from earlier versions. Microsoft is shooting for close to zero downtime with the launch of SQL 2008 by incorporating availability and recovery features that were previously only available in third-party solutions. These features include...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, High Availability, Scalability, Microsoft SQL Server 2008

White papers 2009-05-20