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- Sma Supermercati Gains Enterprise-Wide Visibility With Highly Available, Web-Based System Architecture
- Sma Supermercati wanted to create a secure, Web-based IT infrastructure with a high level of availability to align the company's IT foundation with new business needs in the competitive supermarket sector and centralize IT system management to improve availability and reduce costs. The challenge was to provide a flexible, scalable...
- Tags: Web, System Architecture, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Business Continuity, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Investigate how cascading failures occur across layers within your system architecture
- The standard system architecture for enterprise systems, including Web sites and Web services, comprises a collection of functionally distinct farms or clusters often referred to as layers that are interconnected through some form of load balancing. When system failures start, they usually begin with a crack that comes...
- Tags: System Architecture, Crack
- Book chapters 2007-07-06
- Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server and Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server System Architecture
- Sun Fire x64 servers featuring AMD Opteron processors are more than just a family of servers. These systems provide the modular infrastructure organizations need to rapidly deploy new solutions and adjust to changing business demands. The Sun Fire X2100 and Sun Fire X2200 servers set a new standard for low...
- Tags: System Architecture, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- General-Purpose Blade Infrastructure for Configurable System Architectures
- Bladed servers are increasingly being adopted in high-density enterprise datacenters by virtue of the improved benefits they offer in form factor density, modularity, and more robust management for control and maintenance with respect to rack-optimized servers. In the future, such servers are likely to form the key foundational blocks for...
- Tags: System Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-21
- Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p: Virtual I/O Server Deployment Examples
- This paper provides a number of high-level system architecture designs using the Advanced POWER Virtualization feature available on IBM System p5 servers. These high-level architecture designs are referred to as scenarios and they show different configurations of the Virtual I/O Server and client partitions to meet the needs of various...
- Tags: System Architecture, Scenario, Virtualization, I/O, IBM Corp., Advanced POWER Virtualization Feature
- White papers 2007-02-01
- System x3755 Technical Introduction
- Delivering an industry-leading, 64-bit framework for high performance computing and business computing, the IBM System x3755 is built for speed. The x3755 eliminates system architecture bottlenecks through the use of separate, high-speed links between the processors, main memory, and I/O. The AMD Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport technology combined with...
- Tags: System Architecture, High-performance Computing, High-performance, IBM Corp., X3755, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2007-01-03
- HP BladeSystem c-Class: System Architecture
- Have insight into everything across the infrastructure, with data securely at fingertips, and easy to use commands. Plus, more bays for more throughput and flexibility at every turn.
- Tags: System Architecture, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Importance of Incorporating Security Requirements Within System Architecture Rather Than Retro-Fitting Controls to an Insecure Design
- Security is one of a number of 'Nonfunctional' requirements any system and solution needs to cater for; others include performance and usability. Ignoring any of them during the design phases of a project is likely to cause problems later on in the project or after the system has gone live....
- Tags: System Architecture, Security
- White papers 2006-09-15
- System Architecture of Storage Arrays
- When the original Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) specification was drafted it was assumed that the disks used in a system would be connected using a simple daisy chain approach into a logical loop, this is the original Just a Bunch Of Disks JBOD system. The JBOD has the big...
- Tags: System Architecture, Disk, Storage, Loop, JBOD
- White papers 2006-08-04
- XM-Flow: An Extensible Micro-Flow for Multimodal Interaction
- This paper presents a synchronization module in multimodal dialogue system architecture based on the Model-View-Controller MVC pattern for human-computer interaction. The MVC pattern is based on a clear separation of objects into three categories, i.e. model for defining and maintaining data, view for rendering interactions based on the data, and...
- Tags: System Architecture, Interaction
- White papers 2006-07-07
- Understanding the System Architecture of SAS/ETL and SAS/EBI Server for Federal Enterprise Architecture Requirements
- This paper describes some of the key points learned through: many conversations with SAS Institute, and persistence to understand how the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server and the Extraction, Transformation, and Loading Server work. These new Enterprise offerings of SAS Institute require planning to install and knowledge of the system...
- Tags: System Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, SAS Institute
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Anasil (exe)
- Anasil is a software network analyzer and protocol decoder for distributed Ethernet networks. System architecture is based on remote Agent modules that enable IT managers to monitor and manage a multi-segment networks and control stations remotely. Anasil consists of three modules: network discovery and mapping, network traffic monitoring and frame...
- Tags: System Architecture, Network, Anasil, Networking
- Software downloads 2006-01-27
- The Amigo Service Architecture for the Open Networked Home Environment
- The Amigo project aims to develop a networked home system enabling the ambient intelligence / pervasive computing vision by effectively integrating devices and their hosted services in nowadays home. The Amigo system architecture poses limited technology-specific restrictions, supporting interoperability among heterogeneous services. This paper outlines the Amigo service-oriented system architecture...
- Tags: System Architecture, Environment, Amigo
- White papers 2005-09-15
- Evaluation of GPRS Enabled Secure Remote Patient Monitoring System
- This paper presents a methodology for monitoring patients remotely without geographical barriers using a General Packet Radio Service GPRS enabled embedded system. The system architecture is described and performance has been evaluated in the context of data security needs. The suitability of the GPRS connectivity is considered in the context...
- Tags: System Architecture, Patient, GPRS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-04-27
- System Architectures for Integrating Web-Based User Interfaces Into (Legacy) Database Applications
- The Web has been increasingly used for the user interfaces of software applications. There are a range of technologies that can be used for integrating Web-based user interfaces into software applications. To make informed decisions, it is important for the software engineers to be aware of the range of alternatives...
- Tags: Software, Web, System Architecture, Database, User Interface, Channel Management, Marketing
- White papers 2005-03-12
- Importance of an Open System Architecture in the Semiconductor Industry
- The semiconductor industry has historically been an extremely dynamic, high-growth industry, with new device technologies being brought to market every day. That environment has prompted the rapid emergence and maturation of many application-specific processing tools and software solutions to meet manufacturing and time-to-market requirements. This paper describes the underlying architecture...
- Tags: System Architecture, Northrop Grumman Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2004-09-22
- The System Architecture Process
- The System Architecture Process is positioned in the business context. This process bridges the gap between the Policy and Planning Process and the Product Creation Process. The purpose of the System Architecture Process is to provide the Integral Technical overview and consistency, and to maintain the integrity over time. Subjective...
- Tags: System Architecture, System Architecture Process
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Enhancing System Architecture Through Improved Interfaces and Quality Control Systems
- Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides virtually every type of exploration and production service required during the life of an oil and gas reservoir. Schlumberger Oilfield Services is implementing SAP R/3 worldwide. When upgrading its SAP system, Schlumberger Oilfield Services looked to EMC Documentum Consulting for collaboration on the architectural design of...
- Tags: Schlumberger Ltd., System Architecture, Quality Control, EMC Corp., Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Jini Technology Keeps Orbitz Moving: Adaptive System Architecture Is Key to Company's Growth and Success
- Orbitz was formed by leading U.S. airlines to access the rapidly growing online travel industry, to address consumers' need for an unbiased, comprehensive display of fares and rates in a single location, and to establish a lower-cost distribution channel for suppliers. As a low-cost provider in an industry that has...
- Tags: System Architecture, Jini, Orbitz, Jini Technology, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- Continental Lowers Costs, Improves Security, and Achieves 99.9 Percent Server Reliability
- Continental AG had out-of-date and disparate client-server infrastructure that needed groupwide standardization. This more involved providing than 80 sites worldwide with a total of 24,000 new workstations and portable computers, installing new server computers, and setting up modern operating systems and applications. Continental first tested a Linux solution, but the...
- Tags: Security, System Architecture, Client-server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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