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- New Hardware Environment Ensures German Credit Company Cuts IT Costs by 30 Percent
- PLUS Finanzservice is a subsidiary of the Swedish furniture company IKEA and the Scandinavian finance group IKANO. PLUS Finanzservice wanted to build on the scalability of its existing environment for credit card management and reduce IT operating costs. PLUS Finanzservice took Dell's advice and created a test environment for the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Hardware Environment, Sales Channel, Databases, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Servers, Open Source, Sales, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Setting Up and Using Bluetooth Hardware With Development Tools
- The purpose of this paper is to describe how to set up the Bluetooth testing environment for the C++ emulators of Software Development Kits SDK, such as the Series 60 SDK 2.1 and the Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0 SDK. Software and hardware requirements are included, as well as a...
- Tags: Development Tool, Nokia Corp., Environment, Tool, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2004-10-08
- Driver Architecture in a Linux World
- Vendors of modern networking hardware realize that the devices they provide require a great deal of software in order to function effectively. As a result, many hardware vendors provide large amounts of software for use with their devices. This paper begins by discussing strategies for making use of such drivers...
- Tags: Environment, Hardware, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- White papers
- Designing Embedded Hardware: Building Hardware
- Building a computer that doesn't work is really easy. One may have a perfect design and flawless code, but ignore the physical environment in which the machine will exist, and one will have built one's self a very intricate paperweight. This paper shows how to lay out a circuit board...
- Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Hardware, Computer, Productivity
- Book chapters 2005-05-11
- Virtual Server 2005 - Setting Up a Virtual Test and Development Environment - Level 200
- Do you want to deploy and test distributed server applications but don't have the hardware resources or time to configure the systems in a lab environment to simulate the desired scenario? Virtual Server is a potent solution that minimizes hardware and time requirements. Now individual developers can easily simulate, deploy...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Environment, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Development Environment, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Advanced Tech Series - Cost-Effective Highly Available Systems
- This is an architecturally-oriented presentation for implementers familiar with VMware server software. The webcast will provide examples and discuss best practices for: leveraging redundant hardware modules across all applications in the virtual infrastructure, performing "zero downtime" hardware maintenance, using state of the art clustering and backup software in your virtual...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Hardware
- Webcasts
- Performance and Environment Monitoring for Whole-System Characterization and Optimization
- This paper presents a Continuous Program Optimization CPO architecture to allow automatic tuning of application performance in today's complex hardware and software environment. The focus of this paper is on the Performance and Environment Monitoring PEM aspect of CPO that vertically integrates and analyzes performance events from the various layers...
- Tags: Performance, Optimization, Environment, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers
- MSDN Webcast: High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability With BizTalk Server 2006 (Level 200)
- The mechanics of the core messaging engine in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 afford the benefits of a cluster without the constraint of hardware affinity, eliminating the need to use identical hardware for every server of your BizTalk farm. In this webcast, you will see a live demonstration of a BizTalk...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Fault-tolerance, Webcast, Microsoft BizTalk Server, High Availability, Scalability, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Disk Fragmentation in a VMware Environment
- The purpose of a virtual machine is to allow the user to allocate physical systems resources to multiple tasks. In many computer operations, the CPU and memory resources are underutilized. Virtual machines allow an organization to get better resource utilization without the added expense of new hardware. They also provide...
- Tags: Disk, Environment, VMware Inc., Raxco Software, Virtual Machine
- White papers 2008-02-15
- When life imitates blogs
- increases in enterprise services and applications versus hardwareHow will the increaing implementation of quad-core desktops (and laptops?) apply to the increases in enterprise software? I have been fortunate to be at the forefront of the decision-making process when it comes to the considerations or our corporate roadmap in the way...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, blog, Alfred Lopez, environment, quad-core, hardware
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- Hawaii Bank Saves Money and Time by Consolidating Server Environment
- American Savings Bank is the third-largest financial institution in Hawaii based on 2007 year-end assets. As its server network grew, American Savings Bank faced increased costs for technology hardware, software licensing, power consumption, and server management. Using Hyper-V virtualization technology in the Windows Server 2008 operating system, the bank is...
- Tags: Hawaii Bank, American Savings Bank, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage Management, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- TechNet Webcast: Moving to the Managed Desktop Environment (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)
- This webcast focuses on a scenario in which multiple hardware configurations exist. These heterogeneous systems are having an adverse effect on costs, productivity, and security at the fictional company, Contoso. To address these issues, the company's IT group has defined standard desktop images with standard applications for deployment to all...
- Tags: Webcast, Hardware Configuration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Desktops, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-01-08
- A Clear Key/Secure Key Primer
- IBM cryptographic hardware can either be clear key or secure key. Understanding the difference between the two will help in designing the right crypto solutions and in determining the hardware requirements for an application or environment. This paper describes the basic differences between clear key and secure key, and is...
- Tags: Clear, Hardware, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2007-07-19
- Management of Hardware Resources in the Datacenter Using Embedded Web Services
- This paper discusses emerging trends in system hardware architectures and the challenges in managing the hardware resources. The strategy of using web services protocol for managing heterogeneous environment is analyzed in the context of hardware management. The adoption of the WS-Management protocol by the hardware vendors is a critical element...
- Tags: Web, Data Center, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-17
- Canadian Customs Brokerage Migrates Its Award-Winning Virtualized Linux Server Environment From Red Hat to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Reduces Administrative Burden and Cost
- GHY International is a leading international trade and customs brokerage firm, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. GHY began using Linux several years ago to reduce operating expenses. The company found it easy to run on Intel hardware and Linux offered a cost-effective development environment. However, the company had developed a large...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux Server, Red Hat Inc., Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Customs Brokerage, GHY International, Linux, Open Source, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- How do you document your network environment?
- How do you document your network environment?Many small/mid size companies are dependent on their IT managers/consultants, if they leave there's often no knowledge transfer or documentation on the environment.How do you document your network environment (desktops, laptops, servers, server functions [email, fileserver, db server], locations, system info [software, hardware, patches]...
- Tags: Nbr, network, network environment, networking, server, techrepublic@...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-19
- Using VMware With Documentum Enterprise Content Management
- VMware's virtual infrastructure architecture enables multiple applications, including Documentum, to run on a single hardware server in a virtualized environment. Your benefits: Lower Total Cost of Ownership and increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In this webcast, you will find out how EMC uses VMware, and how Documentum could be deployed...
- Tags: VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Content Management, Documentum, Enterprise Content Management, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Selecting System z Operating Environments: Linux or z/OS?
- This paper provides an introduction to the multi-OS mainframe environment and helps one select whether to deploy workloads to z/OS or Linux on System z. Using customer scenarios based on various goals, the paper shows how to select the strongest operating environment to meet those goals. System z is architecturally...
- Tags: Environment, IBM z/OS, Linux, Mainframes, Operating Systems, Utility Computing, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-06-18
- TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 04 of 10): Moving to the Managed Desktop Environment (Level 200)
- Having solved several identity and access issues earlier in the series, this webcast focuses on a scenario in which multiple hardware configurations exist. These heterogeneous systems are having an adverse effect on costs, productivity, and security at the fictional company, Contoso. To address these issues, the company's IT group has...
- Tags: Webcast, Hardware Configuration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Desktops, Hardware
- Webcasts 2006-09-27
- Incrementally Scalable Nearline Solution
- An incrementally scalable nearline storage solution should offer an environment where Service Level Agreements can be satisfied simply by adding hardware to support higher throughput or larger data volumes. This paper describes a solution based on SAND/DNA Access and a specific hardware architecture that enables just this kind of scalability.
- Tags: Solution, SAND Technology, Service Level Management, Storage, It Operations, It service Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-16
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