The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure [ Source: VMware ]
October 2008- Use this interactive tool to learn how you can best implement and maximize the benefits of VMware Infrastructure.

Distributed Clustering in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks: A Hybrid, Energy-Efficient Approach [ Source: Purdue University ]
January 2008- This paper presents an energy-efficient distributed clustering approach for ad-hoc sensor networks. The approach is hybrid: cluster heads are randomly selected based on their residual energy, and nodes join clusters such that communication cost is minimized. Based on this approach, the paper introduces the HEED protocol, which terminates in a constant number of iterations, independent of the network diameter. HEED operates in quasi-stationary networks where nodes are location-unaware and have equal significance.

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 ....

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 ....

The Art of Effortless Administration: Oracle Database 10g Management Best Practices [ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008- DBAs (Database Administrators) today are charged with writing homegrown applications, administering large server farms, and managing projects of increasing complexity. Applications in these environments are distributed across multiple tiers, are complex and require a lot of specialized knowledge to administer. Oracle Database10g automates many of the database administration tasks and supports new automated tuning techniques, fueled by demand for accurate and timely diagnosis. This paper outlines a series of best practices that allows DBAs to ....

The Application Grid Approach to a Modern Data Center [ Source: Oracle ]
November 2009- View this on-demand webcast to see how Oracle Fusion Middleware products can modernize your middleware foundation software so your data center can respond instantly to changing business needs as well as reduce IT costs.

You will also learn how application grid computing offers agility and performance through data center optimization, and see the new Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings that significantly automate the process of adding, reducing or modifying existing IT deployments in ....

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 ....

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 ....