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- 78% of US employees feel burned out on the job
- 78% of American workers told CareerBuilder they feel burned out. 46% feel their workload has increased over the last six months. 45% described their current workload as heavy or too heavy. 23% said they are dissatisfied with their current work/life balance. 54% of workers said their companies offer some sort...
- Tags: Job, Workload, Worker, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- SAP Transaction Banking: IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS Large Database Measurements
- The SAP TRansaction BanKing TRBK application has evolved significantly over time. Not only does it provide significantly more function for banks, it now exploits functions such as Unicode and SAP's NetWeaver. These measurements, as well as the previous TRBK measurements, show that both the posting and balancing workloads can exploit...
- Tags: Measurement, Workload, SAP AG, IBM z/OS, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Banking, Enterprise Software, Databases, Financial Services, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-23
- Server Consolidation Using Quad-Core Processors
- This resource looks at how Intel IT used the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series to consolidate test workloads from eight physical machines into virtual machines VMs running on a single server.The dual-socket server completed the workloads 66 percent faster than the original eight servers based on the Intel Pentium...
- Tags: Server Consolidation, Workload, Server, Quad-core Processor, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-05-13
- The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads with a New Blend of Server and Storage
- This IDC report shows how the digital world has become more varied over time, and the types of data that must be stored as part of regulatory and compliance standards encompass more formats than ever before. Video images, medical images, document images, audio files, and large data sets generated by...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Workload, Server, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Analysis: Server Side Java energy efficiency versus load
- With the arrival of the latest standardized energy efficiency benchmark from SPEC, we have a good way to measure server efficiency. In light of the recent controversy over flawed energy efficiency studies that have unfortunately been touted by so many in the press instead of SPEC, I thought I'd offer some more in-depth analysis...
- Tags: Performance, Java, Workload, Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Analysis, Intel Corp., Energy Efficiency, SPEC, Neal Nelson, Performance Management, Servers, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- An Evaluation of Server Consolidation Workloads for Multi-Core Designs
- While chip multiprocessors with ten or more cores will be feasible within a few years, the search for applications that fully exploit their attributes continues. In the meantime, one sure-fire application for such machines will be to serve as consolidation platforms for sets of workloads that previously occupied multiple discrete...
- Tags: Workload, Multi-core, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-13
- Capacity Management and Demand Prediction for Next Generation Data Centers
- Advances in server, network, and storage virtualization are enabling the creation of resource pools of servers that permit multiple application workloads to share each server in the pool. This paper proposes and evaluates aspects of a capacity management process for automating the efficient use of such pools when hosting large...
- Tags: Data Center, Workload, Capacity Management, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Solving 9 Common IT Challenges Through Workload Profiling and Portability
- By helping to dissolve the bonds between software and hardware, virtualization encourages organizations to see the data center in a different way â€" not as a heterogeneous mix of different servers, operating systems, applications and data, but as a set of portable workload units. At the most basic level, a...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Information Technology, Workload, Data Centers, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software
- White papers 2007-07-06
- Review of Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3 Product/Workload Scenarios
- The speaker of this webcast discusses how Windows Server "Longhorn" has been designed around server roles and workloads that meet customers' needs. The listener will get an understanding of how roles map to workloads, how workloads combine to deliver clear value in specific customer scenarios and why the speaker have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Workload, Microsoft Longhorn, Beta, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-05-08
- FlashDB: Dynamic Self-Tuning Database for NAND Flash
- FlashDB is a self-tuning database optimized for sensor networks using NAND flash storage. In practical systems flash is used in different packages such as on-board flash chips, compact flash cards, secure digital cards and related formats. The experiments reveal non-trivial differences in their access costs. Furthermore, databases may be subject...
- Tags: NAND Flash, Workload, Association For Computing Machinery, NAND, FlashDB, Storage, Memory, Databases, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-27
- Server Virtualization in Autonomic Management of Heterogeneous Workloads
- Server virtualization opens up a range of new possibilities for autonomic datacenter management, through the availability of new automation mechanisms that can be exploited to control and monitor tasks running within virtual machines. This offers not only new and more flexible control to the operator using a management console, but...
- Tags: Workload, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-23
- Linux on System z, an End-to-End View: From Sizing to Performance Analysis to Capacity Planning
- Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers on IBM System z and zSeries servers. Sizing the server to support those critical workloads is especially important. Equally important is the on-going capacity planning of z/VM and the Linux workloads. The purpose of this paper is to provide...
- Tags: Performance, Workload, IBM Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- White papers 2006-11-10
- Server Consolidation Using Quad-Core Processors
- Intel IT used the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series to consolidate test workloads from eight physical machines into Virtual Machines VMs running on a single server. The dual-socket server completed the workloads 66 percent faster than the original eight servers based on the Intel Pentium III processor, using 86...
- Tags: Server Consolidation, Workload, Quad-core, Server, Quad-core Processor, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-11-01
- VMmark: A Scalable Benchmark for Virtualized Systems
- The increasing speed of computing resources coupled with the rise of robust and flexible virtual machine technology creates opportunities for consolidating multiple, variably loaded systems onto a single physical server. Traditional server benchmarks, which focus on a single workload, do not capture the system behavior induced by multiple virtual machines....
- Tags: Workload, Virtual Machine
- White papers 2006-09-25
- Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center
- Workloads such as business intelligence, database, decision support, and ERP applications - which are already available for Windows operating environments - are expanding to reach more users and to process more corporate data in many organizations. These workloads can sometimes outgrow smaller servers, prompting a search for scalable servers that...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Workload, International Data Group, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Impact of Interference on Multi-Hop Wireless Network Performance
- This paper addresses the following question: given a specific placement of wireless nodes in physical space and a specific traffic workload, what is the maximum throughput that can be supported by the resulting network? Unlike previous work that has focused on computing asymptotic performance bounds under assumptions of homogeneity or...
- Tags: Network, Workload, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2005-12-04
- Configuring Business Critical Workloads
- Revenue, cash flow, and long-term survival of a company depend on its business critical workloads. These workloads keep the company in business. Consequently, considerations relating to quality of service; throughput, scalability, availability, and business continuity drive decisions concerning allocation of IT resources. Success of IT operations is primarily judged by...
- Tags: QoS, Workload
- White papers 2005-09-19
- Database Change Notifications: Primitives for Efficient Database Query Result Caching
- Many database applications implement caching of data from a back-end database server to avoid repeated round trips to the back-end and to improve response times for end-user requests. The content of dynamic web pages is usually assembled from data stored in the underlying database system and subject to modification whenever...
- Tags: Workload, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-07-19
- An SLA-Oriented Capacity Planning Tool for Streaming Media Services
- This paper addresses the problem of mapping the requirements of a known media service workload into the corresponding system resource requirements and accurately sizing a media server cluster to handle the workload. This paper proposes a new capacity planning framework for evaluating the resources needed for processing a given streaming...
- Tags: SLA, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workload, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2004-05-10
- WLAN Workload Characterization
- This paper addresses the problem of workload characterization in a Wireless LAN WLAN. Workload is generated by applications/users trying to carry out some of their functions. The attempt is to capture such application/user level characteristics from the information gathered at the MAC level. Developing an understandable description of the workload...
- Tags: University Of Maryland, Workload, WLAN, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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