Private Cloud ROI Case Study with Intel and Univa
[ Source: Univa UD ]
September 2009-
How can Private Cloud technology benefit you? Find out in this new case study and ROI analysis which describes the benefits Corus Automotive, a major European steelmaker, has received due to an Intel and Univa infrastructure transformation.
Corus is using Intel Nehalem processors and Univa UD software used to create a private cloud to run its technical computing applications and streamline its data management and storage processes. These applications allow an elite team of ....
Template-based Provisioning
[ Source: Liquid Computing ]
September 2009-
By applying template-based provisioning, IT infrastructure can be configured to deliver services as needed, and projects with disparate and out-of-sync computing requirements can share infrastructure. As a result, operators can improve responsiveness to business demands through rapid service deployment and, at the same time, reduce overhead associated with power, cooling, floor space, and licensing. More significantly, IT organizations can achieve up to a 10:1 time savings in administration, the largest and fastest-growing cost in the ....
LiquidIQ White Paper
[ Source: Liquid Computing ]
July 2009-
Cost containment is the most critical issue facing today’s data center managers. Increasingly, IT departments are being forced to do more with less, while at the same time being asked to support a complex set of business demands. The way to address these demands efficiently is to transform the data center into a unified set of flexible, configurable, and scalable resources that can be controlled more effectively. Through this transformation, organizations can use IT assets ....
Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
July 2009-
The lack of a true data center efficiency metric is challenging to IT and data center managers as they try to justify much needed IT investments to management. To help quantify data center efficiency, Emerson Network Power introduces in this paper CUPS, or Compute Units per Second. Similar to miles-per-gallon metric in the automobile industry, CUPS is meant to represent the “performance” of the data center.
Using the Energy Logic analysis and the CUPS-based ....
Cloud Networking Services
[ Source: Arista Networks ]
June 2009-
Cloud computing is a compelling way to deliver web-based and non-web-based applications that better utilize the physical infrastructure, while lowering costs by moving from silos of expensive customized servers to racks of cost-effective ones. Due to the elastic nature of clouds, a particular application may be delivered from one physical location at a given moment but from a different, potentially far-away location in the same cloud at a later moment. Performance and scaling of cloud ....
Architecting Low Latency Cloud Networks
[ Source: Arista Networks ]
June 2009-
As data centers transition to next generation virtualized & elastic cloud architectures, high performance and resilient cloud networking has become a requirement for delivering always-on, always-available applications.
Over the last decade response time requirements have been rigorously tightened, toward fractions of a second, and both network and compute latencies need to be reduced in parallel. An architectural approach is needed so that response times are consistently and measurably enhanced across a wide set of ....
The Cloud on Your Terms: Your Apps, Where and When You Want Them
[ Source: VMware ]
October 2008-
Get a working definition of cloud computing, get tips to choosing the right cloud computing platform for your business, and learn the advantages of the VMware vCloud solution.
Grid Computing's Role in Data Warehousing Grows
[ Source: CTS ]
October 2008-
The main characteristic of any data warehouse is its ability to hold huge volumes of data while still offering good query performance. It is designed to facilitate the analysis of the organization’s data and generate reports based on the analysis.
To provide better performance to analytical queries of business users, companies keep on adding hardware resources, thereby making the data warehouse system very expensive. Sometimes, the power of these added resources is underutilized. In ....
HPC Management Software: Reducing the Complexity of HPC Cluster and Grid Resources
[ Source: Platform Computing ]
May 2008-
This white paper primarily focuses on the expanding role of HPC management software in the HPC marketplace. The paper emphasizes its historical development and considers its business case and future prospects while dispensing with more elaborate technical analysis and product comparisons.
This white paper reviews the rise of clusters to dominate the HPC market and points out the elevating effect it has had on the role of the software in use between the operating ....
Sun Fire X4600/X4600 M2 Server Architecture
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-
The Sun Fire x64 server line delivers the highest reliability and greater than one-and-a-half times the performance of comparable Intel Xeonbased servers, while providing significant savings in power and cooling costs. These Sun servers are based on a simplified management system and fast and reliable performance, resulting in better service levels, lower operational costs, and better asset utilization. With its multiple operating system support, extensive ISV application offerings and time-saving the Sun Fire X4600 server ....