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- IT Consulting Firm Upgrades Enterprise System and Reduces Costs by 60 Percent
- Convergent Computing (CCO), a consulting company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, uses its 21 years of experience with industry-standard best-practice guidelines to help its clients maximize their computing systems' efficiency. In early 2007, a CCO client wanted to expand its enterprise-wide computing system by adding hardware server computers and IT...
- Tags: Information Technology, Computing System, System Performance, Client, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers
- Case studies 2007-12-01
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- Grid Computing at Texas Tech University Using SAS
- Grid computing creates a distributed computing environment that leverages unused computing resources to obtain information that would otherwise take weeks or months to process. The promise of extraordinary increases in computing ability for minimal additional investment in IT has made grid computing a hot topic in business, academic, and research...
- Tags: Texas Tech University, SAS Institute, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2005-05-05
- Perspectives on Grid: Grid Computing - Next-Generation Distributed Computing
- Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept of grid computing in the last few years. A lean economy has forced those with a limited IT budget to more fully utilize their existing computing assets and to become more flexible to respond to rapidly evolving markets by...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Economy, Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Corba, Networking, It service Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-01-27
- Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization
- On-demand computing is the name given to technology which enables an infrastructure where computing cycles are treated as a commodity, and where such a commodity can be accessed upon request. In this way the goals of on-demand computing overlap with and are similar to those of Grid computing: both enable...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, On-demand, Grid Computing, Cluster Computing, On-demand Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Virtualization, It service Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-23
- Grid Computing: The Current State and Future Trends
- The term 'Grid Computing' is relatively new and means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It has been used as a buzzword for any new technology to do with computing, especially computer networking, and therefore it has been over-hyped as the solution to just about...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-01-01
- An Internet Accessible Grid computing system: Grid-ELIMINO
- The Grid-ELIMINO system employs and interacts with multiple slave ELIMINOs to achieve a distributed/parallel computing environment, using an IAMC approach. ELIMINO is a research system developed to support Wu's method for computing characteristic sets of polynomials and for other related operations. Grid-ELIMINO combines grid computing and the IAMC framework to...
- Tags: Tsinghua University, Grid-ELIMINO, Grid-ELIMINO System, ELIMINO, Internet, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers
- Cluster Computing
- Parallel computing has seen many changes since the days of the highly expensive and proprietary super computers. Changes and improvements in performance have also been seen in the area of mainframe computing for many environments. This paper provides a review of cluster computing, the various types of clusters and their...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Computing, Cluster Computing, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-18
- Getting Down to Business With Enterprise Grid Computing
- Grid computing brings order to this chaos in the middle tier. Originally used for large-scale scientific and research computing, the grid computing model increases reliability, scalability, and manageability in the middle tier, all while reducing costs. A grid computing infrastructure turns information technology (IT) resources-computers, storage, and applications-into a single...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers
- On-demand computing was hype: Grid computing delivers
- Grid Computing?I have tried to keep up with IT trends but I am not so clear on this concept.Is there a flow-chart or a more in-depth explanation of what "Grid Computing" is?I apologize for my ignorance, but it is a correctable condition.Thanks
- Tags: AndeAnderson, computing, grid, grid computing, it management, on demand, on-demand, on-demand computing
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
- Developing Grid Computing Applications, Part 1: Introduction of a Grid Architecture and Toolkit for Building Grid Solutions
- Grid computing provides a framework and deployment platform that enables resource sharing, accessing, aggregation, and management in a distributed computing environment based on system performance, users' quality of services (QoS), as well as emerging open standards, such as Web services. This is the era of Service Computing. This paper introduces...
- Tags: Web Service, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2002-11-20
- Fundamentals of Grid Computing
- The purpose of this paper is to provide discussion material about grid computing, concepts, use, and architecture. Grid computing represents unlimited opportunities in terms of business and technical aspects. Grid computing, most simply stated, is distributed computing taken to the next evolutionary level. The goal is to create the illusion...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Goal, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2002-11-11
- Thin Client Technology: Increase Control and Reduce Costs with Thin Clients and Microsoft Windows Terminal Service
- Thin Client computing is now an accepted strategy for business computing. Thin Client computing is the next generation and the most technologically advanced computing created to solve the problems experienced with the computing desktops of the corporate environment. The Thin Client concept has brought about a higher level of centralized...
- Tags: Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Technical Resource Group, Thin Client Concept, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Hardware
- White papers 2002-08-25
- Base One Grid Computing - Executive Overview
- This paper describes grid computing solutions for business and scientific applications using Base One's technology and its unique "shrink wrap" products. Besides "grid computing", this technology is also known by a variety of terms such as "cluster computing", "distributed computing", "distributed processing", "distributed storage", "parallel processing", etc. This paper summarizes...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-09-24
- Grid Computing and SAS
- Organizations today are under pressure to find ways to make the most of the IT resources they already have. In many industries significant improvements to the bottom line have been realized through grid computing. Grid computing allows you to link together the processors, storage and/or memory of distributed computers to...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Thin Client Strategies: Reducing Risk Through Centralized Computing
- The purpose of this presentation is to consider the value of centralized thin client computing in organizations and evaluate how this model can help to better secure the networks. But regardless of whether thin client technologies are right for a particular organization, one needs to re-evaluate the current philosophy of...
- Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Grid Computing: Making Inroads Into Financial Services
- Grid computing often combines powerful paradigms such as distributed computing, high-performance computing and disposable computing depending on the application of the technology and the scale of operations. Grids can effectively create a virtual supercomputer out of existing servers, workstations and even PCs to deliver processing power not only to a...
- Tags: Financial Service, Processing Power, Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, It service Management
- White papers
- The Impact of SOA Policy-Based Computing on C2 Interoperation and Computing
- This paper presents issues related to policy-based computing in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for network-centric warfare. Service-oriented computing and its associated architecture represent a new paradigm of computing and numerous issues need to be addressed. One of important issues is distributed policy computing. Issues such as policy specification, analysis, enforcement,...
- Tags: SOA, Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-03-15
- Configurable Virtualized System Environments for High Performance Computing
- Existing challenges for current terascale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are increasingly hampering the development and deployment efforts of system software and scientific applications for next-generation petascale systems. The expected rapid system upgrade interval toward petascale scientific computing demands an incremental strategy for the development and deployment of legacy and...
- Tags: Environment, High-performance Computing, High-performance, System Software, University Of Reading
- White papers 2007-04-27
- Cluster Computing With Single Thread Space
- To achieve Single System Image (SSI) for cluster computing is a challenging task since SSI is a form of complete transparency that requires the integration and unification of all types of resources in a cluster. This paper proposes a new Java computing platform with the concept of Single Thread Space,...
- Tags: Java, Cluster Computing
- White papers
- Cell Computing - Using Grid Computing in Business
- NTT DATA is a leading system integrator in Japan. The company provides various services to many government offices and private industries, mainly focusing on system constructions and data communication services for such offices and financial institutions. While Internet and mobile phone use grew explosively in Japan, NTT DATA began to...
- Tags: NTT Corp., Grid Computing, Computing, Cell, IBM Corp., NTT DATA, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
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