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Software Developer Increases Product scalability With Access to the Right Resources: Multi-Systems, Inc. MSI wanted to improve the scalability of its next-generation hotel property management system. The company attended an Architecture Design Session and Proof-of-Concept Workshop at a Microsoft Technology Center, which gave MSI the knowledge needed to increase scalability and improve its load-testing practices. The experience also boosted MSI's confidence...; Tags: Software, Developer, Microsoft Access, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Property Management, Real Estate, Business Operations; Case studies 2008-04-01
Aerospace Fastener Group Upgrades System, Watches scalability and Productivity Soar: LFC has a sister company that generates invoices for both companies. Information was being driven back and forth between the companies, and this was not a long-term solution. In addition, the company's shop order and inventory systems were based on an MS-DOS platform and were not scalable. Finally, the company's...; Tags: Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace, LFC, LFC Industries, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-12
ConGES Consulting Embeds Security, scalability, and Performance Into Real-Time Collaboration for Utilities: Multi-utility consultancy ConGES develops turnkey mobile solutions that enable field engineers working for regional energy and water providers to capture orders, measure consumption, and monitor assets using PDAs or laptops. ConGES wanted to guarantee rapid, automatic, bidirectional rules-based data synchronization between field engineers and back-office staff and eliminate risk of...; Tags: Security, Collaboration, Oracle Corp., Performance, Mobile, Scalability, Oracle Database, ConGES Consulting, Asset Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2008-03-01
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Integrate Growing Data Volumes (Level 300): The attendee of this webcast will learn how to integrate growing volumes of data with the new enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It covers new technologies, like Change Data Capture and MERGE SQL statement, in addition to scalability improvements in SQL Server Integration Services, like lookup enhancements and data...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Webcasts 2008-02-25
New TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Performance and scalability: This webcast presents a discussion of Windows Server 2008 performance features, results, and references. In this webcast, the presenter explores the themes behind the performance investments on Windows Server 2008 and explains how they are applicable to real-world scenarios. Areas covered include: file, networking, Web, virtualization, Terminal Services, and general...; Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Scalability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Webcasts 2008-02-08

TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Performance and scalability (Level 300): This webcast discusses Windows Server 2008 performance features, results, and references. It explores the themes behind the performance investments on Windows Server 2008 and explains how they are applicable to real-world scenarios. Areas it covers include: file, networking, Web, virtualization, Terminal Services, and general scale-up advancements.; Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Scalability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Webcasts 2008-02-08
Hyperic and managing by exception: A short while ago, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Hyperic once again. The conversation originally centered on the topic of their new release, Hyperic HQ 3.2, but then went off on a very important tangent, managing resource by exception. Let's start with a quick...; Tags: Team, Information Technology, MySQL, Scalability, Hyperic 3.2, Management Environment, Team Management, Open Source, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability: Founded in 2003, Taobao.com is the leading shopping Web site in China, with a 70% share of the market and more than 40 million registered members. Taobao.com wanted to design more and better promotions to attract customers and make better use of business data to inform decision making and Web...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Grid Computing, Web Site Development, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Internet, It service Management, Networking; Case studies 2008-02-01
Mobilitie LLC Improves Business Agility and scalability With Integrated Applications: Mobilitie LLC, a US$600 million market capital company, is reinventing the way telecommunications assets - specifically communications towers and antennae - are managed for wireless providers. Mobilitie LLC wanted to manage multiple independent funds, as well as thousands of discrete properties and tenant relationships and focus on partnership approach with...; Tags: Tenant, Asset, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Mobilitie LLC, Human Capital, Asset Management, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Wireless, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance; Case studies 2008-02-01
Peta-Scale I/O With the Lustre File System: This paper describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. The features described deal with I/O and networking, lock management, recovery after failure, and other scalability-related issues. The Lustre file system first went into production in Spring 2003 on the Multiprogrammatic Capability Resource...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Scalability, Linux, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2008-02-01
Hyperic HQ (2): Hyperic network management software lets you monitor and manage every layer of your infrastructure with Hyperic HQ, from the OS up to your app servers. You can track configuration, log, and security events. Hyperic autodiscovers hardware and software inventory, and can be run remotely. This package is the free, open...; Tags: MySQL, Scalability, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-01-15
FTOS: A Modular Switch/Router OS Optimized for Resiliency & scalability: As Ethernet switch/routers continue to scale in terms of link speed and port density, device resiliency is becoming an indispensable system attribute. For example, high degrees of traffic aggregation mean that even short periods of interrupted operation can disrupt a large number of traffic flows and user/subscribers, potentially violating numerous...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Scalability, Ethernet, Service Level Management, Network Technology, Networking, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Performance and scalability Benchmark: Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Industry Applications and Oracle 10gR2 DB on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 Servers Running the Solaris 10 OS: This paper describes the performance and scalability capabilities of Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management CRM Applications Release 8.0. The benchmark comprised 10,000 concurrent users running Siebel CRM Release 8.0 industry applications and Oracle 10gR2 DB on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 Servers. All servers ran the Solaris 10 operating system. Oracle's...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Solaris 10, Performance, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Industry, Scalability, Siebel Systems Inc., Sun Sparc, CRM, Sun Solaris, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
How Cisco IT Upgraded Intrusion Detection to Improve scalability and Performance: Comprehensive network security has no substitute. Firewalls are Cisco IT's first line of network defense, protecting against most intrusions from outside the network and intrusions into data centers. Firewalls are effective but limited in scope. Cisco IT needed more security at the network perimeter. Cisco deployed 35 Cisco IDS 4230...; Tags: Intrusion Detection, Performance, Network, Information Technology, Network Security, Scalability, Cisco Systems Inc., Firewalls, Networking, Security; Case studies 2007-12-19
Radhakrishna Foodland Integrates Key Business Processes and Extends Business Capabilities to Its Customers With SAP ERP: Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd. Foodland is a part of the Radhakrishna Group of companies. Business process integration; mix of various software packages unable to 'Communicate with each other'; scalability issues related to opening new distribution centers in time. Even as Radhakrishna Foodland was broad-basing its business, it had to grapple...; Tags: Business Process, Scalability, SAP AG, ERP, Radhakrishna Foodland; Case studies 2007-12-04
NetMotion Mobility XE scalability: Designed to support mobile deployments of any size, NetMotion Mobility XE Mobile VPN software scales easily to accommodate growing mobile workforces, and to provide failover and redundancy. The size of the mobile deployment and the load on the network determines whether a single server or a pool of servers should...; Tags: NetMotion Mobility, Mobile, Scalability, Advertising & Promotion, Servers, Marketing, Hardware; White papers 2007-12-01
Benchmark Results: scalability of Alfresco Content Management System in a Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server Environment: Alfresco is the leading Open Source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of Open Source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The Open Source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed Open Source technologies and contributions from the Open Source community to get higher quality software...; Tags: Unisys Corp., Environment, Scalability, Alfresco, Open Source; White papers 2007-12-01
Java SE 6 Performance White Paper: One of the principal design centers for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) was to improve performance and scalability by targeting performance deficiencies highlighted by some of the most popular Java benchmarks currently available and also by working closely with the Java community to determine key areas where...; Tags: Performance, Scalability, Programming Languages, Java, Performance Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-12-01
Performance and scalability of a Large OLTP Workload With DB2 9 for System z on Linux: This paper demonstrates data server scalability for DB2 9 running on IBM System z with Linux. It captures the best practices for deploying IBM DB2 9 for mission critical OnLine Transaction Processing OLTP workloads in their product environment. IBM System z technologies offer a rich set of platform-deployment features ranging...; Tags: Linux, Performance, Scalability, OLTP, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-12-01
The $80 data center: cheap computing or head in the cloud?: The $80 data center: cheap computing or head in the cloud?Need Information about NAS and DatacentersPlz, if anyone replying to this message is a technician i need information about Network Attached Storage, i've searched CNET, PCMAG and some other sites to find about best NAS in the market, and the...; Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Data centers, Storage, INTERNET, Cloud Computing, scalability, NAS, data center, server; Discussion threads 2007-11-20