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- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- Automated Workload Scheduling
- IT professional are increasingly challenged by the number of jobs and workloads created by company growth and expansion. Existing workload scheduling solutions are often inadequate and there is often no way for IT departments operating a manual scheduling system to add sufficient staff and resources to handle the growth...
- Tags: Workload, Recruitment & Selection, Mainframes, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-09-18
- Novell PlateSpin Migrate really moves Solaris workloads
- Novell introduced me to the features of the newest release of PlateSpin Migrate the other day. If you'll recall, I've offered a number of posts on Novell's PlateSpin unit. The most recent of these is Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6. Novell appears to be one of the few suppliers that offer...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Workload, Data Centers, Sun Solaris, Servers, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Solving 9 Common IT Challenges Through Workload Profiling and Portability
- The ability to profile, move, copy and protect workloads is rapidly emerging as a key enabler for operational and business success. Find out how new workload profiling and portability technologies are helping organizations achieve new operational efficiencies and cost savings, and why your organization should consider adopting a unified approach...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-05-18
- TechNet Webcast: Virtualization Solutions for High Availability (Level 300)
- Before the virtualization of all these workloads, if one server failed, one only lost that workload for the time it took to recover. Now, if one server fails, potentially several critical workloads looses. How does this benefit the organization? The presenter of this webcast shows the server clustering support, configuration,...
- Tags: Webcast, Workload, High Availability, Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Storage
- Webcasts 2009-02-06
- No rest for the weary techie
- Does your workload make you want to do this?The state of the economy, and the job market that it is dragging down with it, may or may not have affected you yet. Your company may be mired in whatever language they use for layoffs, cutbacks, downsizings, rollbacks or "how about...
- Tags: Workload, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- After the layoffs: Increased workloads stress out those left behind
- Job cuts are never easy - and finding your name on the layoff list can be traumatic, especially this time of year. There's no disputing that. But what about the folks whose names are not on the list, the ones who get left behind to pick up...
- Tags: Layoff, Workload, Survey, Job Cut, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- 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
- Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming-Media Workload
- The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and audio from Internet broadcast radio, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks, are becoming commonplace. Compared with traditional Web workloads, multimedia objects can require significantly more storage and transmission...
- Tags: Workload, Analysis, Internet, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0 From Symantec - Performance and Scalability Analysis: Extended Write Workload
- This white paper focuses on the performance and scalability of Veritas Cluster File System 5.0 in two workloads - a sequential write workload and an NFS file serving workload - in a configuration running from 1 to 16 nodes. The white paper will demonstrate that Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Workload, Scalability, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-12-01
- 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
- 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 -- 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
- Load Balancing With IBM System p 570 and Citrix NetScaler With Oracle 11iE- Business Suite
- This white paper demonstrates the importance of load balancing in achieving a balanced workload among two application servers and an Oracle database server that runs on the latest and most powerful IBM System p 570 in a high-water benchmark environment. This white paper is the third in a series that...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Load Balancing, NetScaler, Workload, Citrix Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Network Technology, Databases, Enterprise Software, Networking, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-01
- 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, 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, Database, Workload, Association For Computing Machinery, NAND, FlashDB, Storage, Memory, Flash Memory, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- 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
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