SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discovers how organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Linux | Oracle (Product) | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This chapter from Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) contains information to guide administrators and IT managers in the selection and installation of servers, systems and subsystems.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Blade Servers | Clustering | Data Centers | Grid Computing | Scalability Testing | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This document looks at how a virtual tape library utilizing a clustered gateway and data de-duplication can assist data centers that face such challenges, and such devices provides data center managers faster backups and recoveries.
Posted: November 10, 2008 | Published: November 10, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Security | Enterprise | Server Hardware | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This white paper outlines key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy--a ‘must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme and predictable performance and scalability.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | CORBA | Hardware | Java | Linux | UNIX | Web Services

WEBCAST - This Webcast explores how scale-out clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: October 27, 2008 | Premiered: October 27, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Customer Satisfaction | Enterprise | Enterprise Systems | NAS | NAS Software | Scalability Testing | Storage Management | Storage Standards

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The storage and server cluster installed at The University of Texas at Austin is a lesson in how to do HPC. Storage requirements for HPC go beyond massive capacity, and include the use of high-performance file systems.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cluster Software | Clustering | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - In this technical white paper we show how MySQL Cluster on Multi-Core Intel Xeon based on the Intel Core2™ micro-architecture in combination with the Dolphin Express cluster.
Posted: October 22, 2008 | Published: October 22, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Databases | Hardware | MySQL | Open Source | SQL | SQL Server

CASE STUDY - With the continued growth of VoIP, 8x8 needed to upgrade the performance and capacity of their subscriber call flow in order to meet their current and future needs. This case study explains how they did it.
Posted: October 22, 2008 | Published: October 22, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Cluster Management | Clustering | Communications Networks | Databases | ERP | Telecommunications Industry | Unified Messaging | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - In this document, Univa UD outlines a service offering for custom-tuning a Grid Engine installation to optimize performance.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 18, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Configuration Management | Hardware | Operating Systems | Processor Architectures | ROI | Testing

WHITE PAPER - As per Forrester study, 49% of enterprises surveyed that are implementing or interested in x86 server virtualization indicate that improving disaster recovery/business continuity continues to be a very important motivation for adoption.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 18, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | CRM | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Hardware | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report explores how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: October 15, 2008 | Published: October 15, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Centers | Data Management | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Security

WHITE PAPER - Read how ASE Cluster Edition uses a shared-disk architecture designed to support up to 32 nodes, each running one or more ASE server instances that simultaneously access a Storage Area Network.
Posted: October 13, 2008 | Published: October 13, 2008


Topics:  Cache | Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Data Centers | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Databases

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Learn how ASE Cluster Edition employs a shared data cluster architecture designed to support up to 32 computers (or nodes), each running one or more instances of ASE's core database manager.
Posted: October 13, 2008 | Published: October 13, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | Business Continuation Services | Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Database Management | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get there.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

ANALYST REPORT - This report outlines the important findings of a survey of 627 respondents involved with virtualization, compares the results with previous EMA research, examines the trends in virtualization and forecasts the future for virtualization management.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Grid Computing | Server Virtualization | Software as a Service | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management