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Evaluation of an Integrated PCI Express IO Expansion and Clustering Fabric by Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
of a host adapter, an expansion switch and a cluster switch. Furthermore, the paper explains how the IO expansion capability can be provided to the host using the host adapter and expansion switch. The software infrastructure that enables legacy cluster applications to take full advantage of the underlying interconnect is also described...
An Approach to Data Management with Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost by Sybase, Inc.
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. ASE Cluster Edition employs a shared data cluster architecture designed to support up to 32 computers (or nodes), each running one or more instances...
The Total Economic Impact of Isilon's Clustered Storage System by Isilon Systems
"The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Isilon's Clustered Storage System", is a Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by Isilon which reveals that Isilon clustered storage systems deliver a risk-adjusted ROI of 125 percent and... "The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Isilon's Clustered Storage System" is a Forrester Consulting...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
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. Typically, customers have implemented storage area networks (SAN) to meet the performance and high availability requirements of their mission critical applications. Recent technology...
Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g by Oracle Corporation
This paper explains how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allows Oracle Database to run any packaged or custom application, unchanged across a set of clustered events. Read this paper to learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allows Oracle Database to run any packaged or custom application, unchanged across a set of clustered...
Grid Engine Tuning: Service Offering by Univa UD
to optimize performance. When choosing a cluster software stack, most companies undertake a detailed product evaluation phase in which they consider factors such as software license and support costs, maintenance issues, their own use cases, and their existing and planned infrastructure.

However, they often do not pay equal attention to their...
Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments by Oracle Corporation
This white paper explains how to run sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments by creating a software-based virtualization infrastructure that offers high availability and grid readiness. Running sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments has been a challenge...
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Features in Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1 by Dell, Inc.
like Local Continuous Replication (LCR) and Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) as compared to Exchange Server 2003 which was limited to the shared storage clustering based on Microsoft Cluster Services. The new release of Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) complements Exchange Server 2007 by enhancing the operational performance of high availability...
Getting Real about Virtual Management: Managing Complex Infrastructures by CA
This white paper outlines the challenges that virtualization and clustering create for IT and provides techniques for addressing the specific requirements of these environments. The rapidly growing use of virtualization and clustering is making IT management increasingly complex. Unlike physically bounded infrastructures, the...
Clustered Storage: From SMB, to Scientific, to File Serving, to Commercial, Social Networking and Web 2.0 by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
Clustered Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular growth. Clustered Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular growth. It is a cost...
Implementing HA at the Enterprise Data Center Edge to Connect to a Large Number of Branch Offices by Juniper Networks, Inc.
how to deploy a highly available, working cluster by taking the design considerations and applying them to an actual deployment. This paper reviews the problem of creating a network where the dynamic availability of services is of critical importance. It explains how to deploy a highly available, working cluster by taking the design considerations in this...
How to Prepare for the Reality of Virtualization by CA
This whitepaper discusses the benefits of virtualization. It describes some of the technical challenges in virtualized environments and the steps you can take to avoid some of the pitfalls. How can organizations incorporate server virtualization to their benefit and avoid the pitfalls? This paper discusses the broader picture of...
Quick Migration with Hyper-V by Microsoft
Learn the basics of quick migration and the Hyper-V technology and how to apply quick migration to enhance the availability of services. In this white paper, we begin with an introduction to quick migration and the Hyper-V technology. We then describe how to apply quick migration to enhance the availability of services. We explore how you can...
Preparing for the Reality of Virtualization by CA
This paper discusses the broader picture of virtualization benefits and organizational decisions that can influence the amount of benefit achieved. How can organizations incorporate server virtualization to their benefit and avoid the pitfalls? This paper discusses the broader picture of virtualization benefits and organizational...
Voice Architectures and Deployment Models by Global Knowledge
Telephony design requires a solid understanding of the drivers for Voice over IP, corporate policies for infrastructure design, and telephone components. As companies migrate from traditional telephony to Voice over IP, there are more design decisions to make when choosing the most appropriate implementation type. The choices include...
Server Selection for Production-Level Virtualization Environments by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
In this webcast, analyst Joe Clabby covers the many server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization. Throwing virtual machines (VMs) on old commodity servers may be just fine for first forays into virtualization and virtualizing simple applications, like file servers. Server selection requires a more thoughtful approach...
Choosing Servers for Production-Level Virtualization Environments: A Q&A by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
In this podcast, analyst Joe Clabby is interviewed about server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization. In this podcast, analyst Joe Clabby is interviewed about server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization, including when, where and why to use standard rack-mount or high-density blade servers...
IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER™ Enterprise-class Data De-duplication by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway based on innovative Diligent ProtecTIER technology was designed to meet the data protection needs of midrange and enterprise-class data centers. The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway based on innovative Diligent ProtecTIER technology...
IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the...
Evaluating Enterprise-class VTLs by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
This Product Profile, details the criteria recommended for comparing and contrasting enterprise-class SCO VTL solutions from different vendors. This Product Profile, discusses the criteria recommended to be used to compare and contrast enterprise-class SCO VTL solutions from different vendors, and then evaluate how the IBM...
Capacity Analyzer Interactive Flash Demo by VKernel
VKernel´s Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance immediately builds a list of current RAM, CPU, storage and network bottlenecks in your VMware infrastructure. VKernel´s Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance immediately builds a list of current RAM, CPU, storage and network bottlenecks in your VMware...
Capacity Analyzer: Advanced Analytics for Capacity Management by VKernel
By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems. In a virtual server infrastructure where all resources are shared, optimal performance can only be...
The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
This white paper describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile. Despite the efficiency improvements virtualization brings to the data center, the proliferation of virtual machines also introduces new challenges for...
Tackling the Virtualization Chargeback Challenge by VKernel
Learn how VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance helps companies gain cost visibility and chargeback on resource utilization; recover costs of ESX Infrastructure; and measure resource consumption by applications, resource pools and clusters. The old chargeback model of users paying for physical server hardware simply no longer works. In the...
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IT automation that works by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
typically involves adding a software stack to a cluster. A problem resolution tracking solution or IT helpdesk solution is the source of this change request. If an installation script was created, the IT administrator must find it, apply it, and hope that the script does not automatically deploy an outdated configuration to a cluster... More...
A review of z/OS 1.9 features by Robert Crawford, Contributor
the previous statement of direction concerning cluster attributes IMBED, REPLICATE and KEYRANGE. IBM decided to keep KEYRANGE. REPLICATE and IMBED, however, are still on the outs, although there's no firm date. IBM does say HSM migrated datasets with IMBED and REPLICATE will have them removed if and when they're recalled.

Workload Manager (WLM)
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Managing server virtualization complexity by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
IBM, SunFire Midrange and High-end Servers, Veritas Cluster, and HP. However, as enterprises deploy more virtualization solutions that are scattered across the enterprise, managing the disparate virtualization technologies using fragmented element-specific tools becomes a challenge in itself.

New virtualization management products... More...

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Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 challenges Linux on low-end HPC by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
Microsoft has released Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003. And with it, is the company has set its sights on an emerging class of commercial high-performance computing (HPC) applications running on the x86 platform.

Once the purview of defense contractors and academia, high-performance computing has been one... More...

University of Houston selects Itanium over x86 for memory-intensive apps by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
waste affect the world's microorganisms, the University of Houston chose to use a cluster of Intel Itanium servers rather than x86 commodity hardware, largely because of memory considerations.

The university uses five Itanium-based systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to conduct its research. The hardware includes a four-way HP rx5670, a 16-way HP... More...

Sun has deepened PostgreSQL/Solaris integration, says university by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
The school began using Solaris version 2 on Sun workstations and now has a cluster of 10 Sparc servers and eight AMD Opteron-based x86 machines.

"We actually are running a lot of the same code today," McLeod said.

The university is a big PostgreSQL shop, something that McLeod said was "sort of a legacy thing" that it inherited from another project. At the... More...