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- Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database With ASM on IBM DS4800 Storage Subsystems
- Owning state-of-the-art storage subsystems is not enough to excel in today's competitive business climate. Even with the best storage subsystems, the continuous demands upon the IT environment can create challenges unused capacity on expensive equipment becomes a financial waste. The purpose of this paper is to detail optimum performance settings...
- Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Subsystem, Best Practice, Oracle Real Application Cluster, IBM Corp., Storage Subsystem, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Consistent FlashCopy of LVM Mirrored Applications
- Many applications running on AIX are mirroring their data using the Logical Volumes Manager LVM. Purpose of the mirror is to provide redundancy in order to continue with operation in case of a failure in the storage environment. The mirrors are usually allocated in physically different storage subsystems, to ensure...
- Tags: Mirror, Storage Subsystem, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-04
- Installing a Two Node Exchange Server 2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC) in a Virtual Server Test Environment - Part 1: Preparing the Virtual Environment
- Exchange Server 2007 supports two types of cluster setups - Cluster Continuous Replication CCR and Single Copy Clusters SCC. This paper will show how to install and configure a two node active/passive Single Copy Cluster in a Virtual Server 2005 R2 test environment. An Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster is...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Environment, Microsoft Exchange Server, Virtual Environment, Single Copy Cluster, Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster, Storage Subsystem, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-19
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- $299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!
- The large format version of the Kindle, the $489.00 DX, pictured above, is capable of displaying native PDF files. So what's preventing the cheaper and smaller model from doing this? Oh Amazon. You taunt me. Like Lucy Van Pelt, just as about I'm...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Amazon.com Inc., PDF Feature, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- HP StorageWorks 2000i G2 Modular Smart Array (MSA2000i G2) 700 Mailbox Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
- The information discussed in this solution brief highlights the tested performance results and configuration best practices for an Exchange server supporting 700 Exchange users. Testing was performed with the HP StorageWorks 2000i G2 Modular Smart Array using twenty (20) 146 GB 10K rpm SAS disks for Exchange database storage and...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Mailbox, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-07-01
- XP Smoker Pro 5.6 (Windows)
- Improve the performance for your computer drastically. You can also stop and disable useless services in Windows XP. And in the end, you will reduce subsystem bottlenecks, increase application and boot speeds, and ultimately increase the stability of your system. Simple for Beginners. Powerful for Experts. And it really works....
- Tags: WareSoft Software, XP Smoker Pro, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Software downloads 2009-06-17
- Virtual Instruments launches VirtualWisdom
- Mark Urdahl, CEO, and Len Rosenthal, VP Marketing, of Virtual Instruments stopped by to let me know about VirtualWisdom, a product the company launched while at EMCword. Their product is designed to help organizations moving to a virtualized environment gain insight into and manage their virtual storage infrastructure. ...
- Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VirtualWisdom VirtualWisdom, VMware Performance Bottleneck, Virtualization, Performance Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
- Data warehouse player Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and HP so much so that you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about. Teradata is a company that has come up frequently through my various case studies in a past life....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- When (and why) do you buy a new PC?
- When and why do you buy a new PC?Just before a new release of Windows ...... providing OEM's offer a 'free' upgrade to the next version of the OS. That way you get a copy of XP and an upgrade to Vista/ copy of Vista and upgrade to Windows7 (which...
- Tags: Notebooks, Games, dell laptop, new-PC, laptop computer, game, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows: Dynamic Multi-Pathing Competitive Comparisons
- Multi-pathing software provides the intelligence necessary to manage multiple I/O paths between a server and a storage subsystem. When configured for redundancy, a single path is dedicated to I/O transfer, while other paths are in standby mode. The software manages failover between the I/O paths, thus eliminating the potential for...
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, I/O, Microsoft Windows, Path, Multi-pathing Software
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Microsoft combines storage and SOA units -- what's that all about?
- Microsoft combines storage and SOA units -- what's that all about?What storage products does M$ offer?Since they are a software company, and storage is mostly hardware - just where is the connection? My definition of storage is the subsystem that holds data and the means to access it. Other than...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), storage, Microsoft Corp., SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-04-03
- The SAS Scalable Performance Data Server - Controlling the Beast!
- Achieving maximum scalability in order to fully exploit symmetric multiprocessing and parallel I/O hardware has always been a challenge. The SAS Scalable Performance Data Server, a multi-threaded server, answers that challenge by using the capabilities of a Symmetric Multiprocessing SMP platform to provide scalable and high-performance data storage and access....
- Tags: Performance, Data Server, SAS Institute, Server, SAS Scalable Performance Data Server
- White papers 2009-03-09
- Running SAS on Windows 32-Bit Systems: Ceilings, Limitations, and Realities
- Budgetary and IT support constraints are causing many SAS shops to deploy large applications on the Microsoft Windows environment. SAS 9.1.3 on x64 hardware is supported only as a 32-bit application in the Microsoft Windows environment, with 64-bit support coming with SAS 9.2. This paper is designed to help one...
- Tags: 32-bit System, 64-bit, Environment, SAS Institute, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Steve Wozniak: Chief Scientist - of a storage company?
- You'd think after co-founding one of the great success stories of the last 35 years - Apple Computer - Steve Wozniak would be done with startups. And you'd be wrong. But a storage startup? How sexy is that? The Woz gets storage Really,...
- Tags: Steve Wozniak, Disk, Apple Inc., Woz, Steve, Fusion-io, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array Configuration Guide for SAP Business Suite: 3rd Edition
- Good distribution of SAP components on the HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array MSA storage family enables sufficient disk storage space and reliable data availability with a high level of I/O performance. As the disk subsystem is the most critical component in terms of access time for a SAP system, it...
- Tags: Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, SAP AG, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Move over, Psystar: EFi-X USA to sell Mac OS X-capable PCs
- A company named EFi-X USA plans to offer a desktop PC that could allow customers to create their own Mac systems with the help of an internal adapter that allows many generic PCs to run Mac OS X. The EFi-X USA Millennium 4, as the machine is...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- StarWind 3.5.5 (Windows)
- This software combined with StarPort iSCSI initiator running on client allows you to export any local CD and DVD burners to the network users all CD and DVD recording applications running on a client side are supported, export local tape drives for backup and restore on client machine (all of...
- Tags: Disk Drive, Network, CD, Microsoft Windows, Rocket Division Software, Backups, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- xkoto launches support for Microsoft SQL Server
- Today xkoto announced that they've added Microsoft's SQL Server to the list of database management systems that they're supporting in GRIDSCALE, fulfilling a promise to expand their offering to support many databases made when they exited stealth mode in December 2007. For those keeping track, I introduced xkoto GRIDSCALE and...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Server, SQL, Microsoft Corp., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services
- Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with servicesDetails and all thatMail is an interesting choice.Does this mean that MAPI is history, for instance? Or that MAPI now only works through Microsoft's mail system and not others?It's funny how functions that were until recently defended as being essential...
- Tags: Windows Live Wave 3, MAPI, subsystem, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live team, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, team
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
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