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- 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
- ABSOLUTE SCALABILITY: SoftLayer improves IT staff efficiency by 15% while introducing more flexible services for customers with Dell storage
- These days, just about all organizations need to invest in information technology in one form or another, whether it's managed in-house or via an outsourcing arrangement. Either way, deciding on the amount of IT resources to purchase is usually a guessing game. Companies often overbuy to accommodate peak demand, wasting...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Storage, Scalability, Dell EqualLogic, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- White papers 2009-05-18
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
- Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...
- Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- IT Firm Boosts Productivity and Scalability by 20 Percent With New Operating System
- Productiv is an IT solutions consulting firm in Brisbane, Australia, that provides productivity solutions to government and private organizations. The company has three locations and 26 employees. Productiv wanted to further enhance worker productivity by improving computer performance, stability, and usability. It also wanted to reduce desktop management and support...
- Tags: Information Technology, Operating System, Scalability, Worker, Productiv, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- HP Service Activator Solution Bundles Software, Services, Hardware to Ensure Scalability, Functionality, and On-Time, On-Budget Delivery
- Tatung, a 90-year old global electronics company based in Taiwan, is no stranger to wireless technology: its portfolio has long featured products like wireless phones and terminals. The company wanted to deploy a new WiMAX infrastructure to deliver broadband wireless telecommunications services. Tatung designed and implemented an infrastructure that features...
- Tags: Software Service, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tatung Co., Telecommunications Service, Scalability, Hardware, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Scalability of Table Lookup Techniques
- This paper will examine the issues of memory and disk space consumption and performance considerations for various table lookup techniques using large amounts of data. These techniques include PROC FORMAT in association with the PUT function, the DATA step hash object, DATA step merging, the KEY= option of the SET...
- Tags: Technique, Performance, Scalability, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Avoid Scalability Problems With Data Migration to New Releases: Two Patterns That Reduce Workload Release-to-Release
- Software that's based on a database, and is regularly upgraded with new releases, can generate myriad combinations of migration paths. As the number of releases grows, the increasing number of migration paths to be supported becomes time-consuming and expensive. This paper learns how two migration patterns can help one avoid...
- Tags: Release, Scalability, Data Migration, Migration, Migration Path
- White papers 2009-01-23
- A New Approach to Construct Multicast Trees in MPLS Networks
- This paper presents a new approach to construct multicast trees in MPLS networks. This approach utilizes MPLS LSPs between multicast tree branching node routers in order to reduce forwarding states and enhance scalability. In authors approach only routers that are acting as multicast tree branching node for a group need...
- Tags: MPLS, Scalability, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management on IBM Power System 570 Server, IBM System Storage DS8300, and AIX 6.1
- IBM and Oracle have been working together for more than a decade to optimize Oracle Database on the IBM POWER architecture running the AIX operating system. Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters Oracle RAC 10g are well proven to take advantage of IBM's POWER6 architecture and high I/O...
- Tags: Revenue, Billing, Oracle Corp., Performance, IBM AIX, Storage, IBM eServer, Scalability, Revenue Management, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Databases, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management, Finance
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Quelle GmbH Optimizes Scalability and Availability With High-Capacity Data Warehouse Solution
- Quelle GmbH wanted to extract detailed and compressed information for optimal customer orientation and construct an extensive data warehouse that offers high performance and availability. The challenge was to replace the company's Symmetric MultiProcessing SMP architecture with a cluster architecture to increase performance and reduce costs. Quelle GmbH implemented Oracle...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Quelle GmbH, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Major International Cruise Line Relies on Progress OpenEdge for Extensive Reservation System Scalability and Open Interfaces to Multichannel, Third-Party Applications
- Costa Crociere S.p.A., a premier Italian travel company based in Genoa, includes the brands Costa Crociere, AIDA Cruises, and Iberocruceros. Costa Crociere S.p.A. wanted to grow and manage a central database capable of continuously scaling to support company expansion. The company chose to leverage Progress OpenEdge to implement reliable transactions...
- Tags: Progress Software Corp., Scalability, Branding, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-11-18
- Managing Internet growth
- The Internet is growing by 1 zettabyte a year, fueled by images, videos, gaming, and peer to peer file sharing. Pieter Poll, CTO of Qwest, asks whether this is growth manageable.
- Tags: Growth, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Corporate Communications, Marketing, whiteboard, internet, growth, cost, scalability, routers, computers, usage, energy
- Whiteboards 2008-11-12
- CTC Solves Complex Scalability Problem and Improves Productivity With ZL Unified Archive
- In the fast paced technological society of Japan, being prepared to meet the always changing demands of the marketplace is crucial. CTC's role as an IT solutions company requires them to be ahead of this market, so they can supply their numerous customers with the best products without being bogged...
- Tags: Scalability, E-mail Archiving, ZL Technologies, CTC, E-mail, Online Communications
- Case studies 2008-10-24
- A moment of lucidity
- It is not often I agree with social media people. Most of the time I find they're full of it and return pointed questions with dopey answers. Today is an exception. Shel Israel, one of the earliest and most prolific arm wavers for all thing social has finally 'fessed up...
- Tags: Sustainability, Scalability, Social Media, ROI, Shel, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- University of Otago Improves Application Availability and Scalability With Grid Technology
- Founded in 1869, the University of Otago is New Zealand's oldest university. In 2004, the University decided to replace the long-standing and outdated corporate database and application server platform, which was too costly to maintain. It was extremely time-consuming to build additional application services on that platform - and one...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Application Server, Scalability, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Application Servers, Middleware, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) 6.5 Delivers Enhanced Performance and Scalability - Part Three
- The presenter gives an overview of the new products and features in EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management ECM 6.5 for Documentum developers, administrators, and information architects. EMC Documentum ECM 6.5 introduces impressive capabilities for high-speed ingestion, database storage, and XML handling. The attendee will out how to get the performance...
- Tags: Performance, Scalability, EMC Corp., Documentum, Content Management, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-08-19
- Warm Beach Christian Camps Experiences Affordable Scalability, Reliability and Performance With AMD, HP and Microsoft IT Infrastructure
- Warm Beach Christian Camps and Conference Center WBC was growing in popularity, its camps were increasingly sold out and seasonal events such as "The Lights of Christmas" were bringing in tens of thousands of people within narrowly constrained timelines, creating huge and somewhat unpredictable spikes in demand for IT capacity....
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Scalability, AMD Opteron, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2008-07-25
- ACNielsen Corporation Gains Scalability and Flexibility Required to Meet Diverse Customer Requirements
- As the world's leading marketing information provider, ACNielsen Corporation provides measurement and analysis of marketplace dynamics and consumer behavior to clients in more than 100 countries. ACNielsen wanted to deliver market analysis to clients in a timely manner and enable data infrastructure scalability that allows the company to add more...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, ACNielsen, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and M8000 Servers Running the Solaris 10 OS
- Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management BRM on Sun SPARC Enterprise servers running Solaris 10 provides a high-performance, scalable, and secure solution for enterprises using Oracle 10g and Oracle 10g Real Application Cluster RAC. This highly scalable solution helps service providers accelerate the launch of new services; enable monetization of...
- Tags: Revenue, Billing, Oracle Corp., Sun Solaris 10, Performance, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scalability, Sun Sparc, Revenue Management, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-07-01

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