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- SAP Business Transformation Study - Valero Energy
- To keep IT gridlock from impairing its growth, Valero needed a way to fit new applications into the infrastructure quickly. The only solution was a common hub for integrating them, whether they were local or global in scope and from SAP or other vendors - a hub that would support...
- Tags: SAP AG, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-08-15
- Energy Company Enhances Business Continuity With Satellite Links
- The largest refiner in North America, Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, Texas, with approximately 22,000 employees and assets valued at $33 billion. The company's challenge was to enhance the company's business continuity strategy to help ensure that refinery communications remain operational during service...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Satellite, Business Continuity, It Services
- Case studies 2006-06-01
- Valero Uses Failover Clustering to Reduce System Recovery Time From Days to Minutes
- Valero needed an IT infrastructure with the resiliency to support refinery and business operations in a disaster situation. To protect mission-critical applications and communications, Valero deployed Windows Server 2008 with failover clustering to 90 users in its IT Infrastructure team. It built a two-node failover cluster in Microsoft Exchange Server...
- Tags: Recovery, Failover, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Energy Lens (exe)
- To help businesses to save energy, Energy Lens makes it easy to analyze energy data in Excel. Businesses can save energy by using Energy Lens to identify waste and to monitor energy performance. By taking advantage of the interval energy data that's readily available to most businesses (e.g. half-hourly data,...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Performance, BizEE Software, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-25
- Enabling Intelligent Networks: Cisco + HP
- From trading that can't go down to faster time to market for stores, see why the London Stock Exchange and Valero turn to HP and Cisco for business agility.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Managing Energy Consumption Costs in Desktop PCs and LAN Switches With Proxying, Split TCP Connections, and Scaling of Link Speed
- A growing expense and impact of the Internet is its energy use. Current estimates are that 2% of electricity consumption in the USA goes to powering the Internet. In Germany it is estimated that energy consumption by IT equipment will be between 2% and 5% in 2010. The 2% estimate...
- Tags: Desktop, LAN, PC, Information Technology, TCP, Energy, Desktop Computer, Internet, Tcp/Ip, Strategy, Networking, Management
- White papers 2005-08-25
- Global Warning: Optimization Strategies to Solve the IT Energy Crisis
- As business demand for server capacity continues to grow, the reality that energy is a finite and costly resource becomes apparent. With spiraling energy costs, energy constraints have become a critical factor in IT profitability and agility. In this webinar, speakers from Forrester Research and BMC® Software explore the scope...
- Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Optimization, Information Technology, Data Centers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2007-01-11
- SAP Case Study: Suzlon Energy
- Suzlon Energy, is Asia's largest integrated wind energy company and among the world's leading players in the renewable energy industry. Suzlon Energy wanted proper control of operations and activities across locations and integrate business processes across departments. The challenge was better preparedness for future growth. The company also wanted to...
- Tags: SAP AG, Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2007-05-14
- Infrastructure Optimization Opens New IT and Business Possibilities for EDF Energy
- EDF Energy, one of the largest energy companies in the UK, employs over 13,000 people and supplies energy to approximately 5.5 million customers. After the utilities industry was deregulated and privatized in the UK four years ago, EDF Energy was formed from the acquisition of three separate companies. After these...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-07
- Stellent Case Study: Georgia System Operations Corp.
- Recently, Oglethorpe Power Corp., a $1 billion power company, faced a daunting information management challenge. To prepare for deregulation and improve operational efficiencies, the corporation split into three different companies - Oglethorpe Power Corp., Georgia Transmission Corp. and Georgia System Operations Corp. GSOC - and the GSOC IT department was...
- Tags: Stellent, Content Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies
- Home Energy Analysis System (exe)
- The Home Energy Analysis System enables you to record electricity, gas and water bills. Also enter your own meter readings to produce a detailed database. A range of graphs is produced showing cost, consumption and CO2 emissions by week, month and year. The effect of alternative energy sources can be...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Analysis, Energy, Home Energy Analysis System
- Software downloads 2007-06-11
- Images: Energy-saving sensors
- Scientists are working on sensors designed to harvest their own energy, in some cases converting mechanical into electrical energy.
- Tags: sensor, scientist
- Image galleries 2006-05-24
- Earth For Energy Review (exe)
- Earth For Energy Review is a comprehensive review for Earth For Energy with an abundance of information on how to generate your own power and wind systems, and save money on your power bill. This is also a must read for anyone thinking about getting Earth For Energy. This version...
- Tags: Earth, Crime Check Up
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- ArchiTech (EXE)
- Use this powerful but easy to use program to do an accurate energy audit of your home or business. It pinpoints many effective ways to reduce your utility bills. There are sample projects and a free 100 page book BTU Bill's Guide to Energy Conservation to help you get the...
- Tags: Program, Construction, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-12-02
- AutoPower: Toward Energy-Aware Software Systems for Distributed Mobile Robots
- Autonomous robot systems have to manage their energy wisely in order to complete their missions. Typical approaches seek to conserve energy by energy-efficient motion or sensor planning. This paper puts forth a distributed systems approach to power management. Specifically, it develops and presents AutoPower, which is a model that characterizes...
- Tags: Software, Aware, Mobile, Energy, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2006-01-25
- Energy Efficient Computing: HP - How Virtualization Helps
- In data centers around the world energy consumption is rising, & energy costs are a growing portion of IT budgets. The presenter of this webcast discusses how to use virtualization to be more efficient.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Energy Efficient Computing/HP: How Virtualization Helps
- In data centers around the world energy consumption is rising, & energy costs are a growing portion of IT budgets. The presenter of this webcast discusses how to use virtualization to be more efficient.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Photos: MIT Energy Conference talks money, coal, and 'Enertech'
- The third MIT Energy Conference attracts heavyweights in energy, while nurturing green-tech start-ups and students. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, mit energy conference
- Image galleries 2008-04-17
- JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark
- The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability, and other factors. For mobile devices, energy consumption directly affects functionality and usability. The paper proposes and motivates JouleSort, an external sort benchmark, for...
- Tags: Data Center, Association For Computing Machinery, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-06-14
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