With Enhanced POWER7 Systems, IBM Raises the Ceiling, Again Clipper Navigator white paper [ Source: IBM ]
November 2011- As vendors abandon the UNIX market, IBM continues its commitment to AIX and POWER7 components on Power Systems. And with its recent architectural upgrades, it's even redefining performance. Read the Clipper Group white paper and see how POWER7's faster processors accelerate the delivery of applications and services, and improve the utilization of resources.

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Clabby Analytics report: The Mainframe Virtualization Advantage: How to Save Over [ Source: IBM ]
October 2011- Large-scale mainframe architecture provides the most cost effective solutions for running heavy input/output workloads. Read the Clabby Analytics research report to see how consolidating Linux servers on an IBM Systems z mainframe is more cost effective than deploying Linux on x86 servers. It could save you over a million dollars!

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Breaking Through The Storage I/O Barrier For Cloud Computing [ Source: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. ]
September 2011- It's no secret that public and private cloud computing is experiencing exponential growth. IDC projects that by 2014, server sales will grow to $718M for public clouds and $11.8 billion for private clouds. IDC also projects public cloud services will grow at 30% per year, five times that of global IT spending in 2011. One of the biggest challenges in cloud computing is the storage I/O bottlenecks that come with large-scale virtual ...

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Seven Best Practices for Increasing Efficiency, Availability and Capacity: The Enterprise Data Center Design Guide [ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
September 2011- This paper builds upon several of the steps in Energy Logic to define seven best practices that serve as the foundation for data center design. These best practices provide planners and operators with a roadmap for optimizing the efficiency, availability and capacity of new and existing facilities.

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Tips to Improve Network I/O Performance on Virtualized Servers [ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011- Traditionally, virtualized servers have relied on the hypervisor to fully manage data flow, providing powerful services and management capabilities, but also introducing overheads that dramatically impact network I/O performance. The new PCI standard, single-root I/O virtualization, or SR-IOV, has emerged to address these performance issues. This solution brief explains how to cost-effectively improve network I/O performance on virtualized servers and comply with the new standard.

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Server Virtualization: Achieve Higher I/O Performance and Maintain Hypervisor-based Services [ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011- Citrix partnered with Solarflare to develop a unique unified approach to SR-IOV that delivers unprecedented cut through I/O performance while maintaining full hypervisor-based management. As a result, virtualized servers can now benefit from accelerated network performance as well as hypervisor-based services and management capabilities. Learn how to achieve higher I/O performance, scale to consolidate more workloads, and maintain efficient hypervisor-based services ...

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Social Networking Site Accelerates Network Performance [ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011- myYearbook, an innovative and rapidly growing social media site, must manage the extraordinary demands caused by the explosive growth in traffic. To do so, its engineers need to stay ahead of the curve on the deployment of leading edge technologies which both meet its current performance demands, but also provide headroom for growth. Learn how myYearbook upgraded its infrastructure to improve network performance.

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How to: Accelerate Web 2.0 Application Performance [ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011- Memcached is a widely deployed distributed database caching technology implemented by tens of thousands of Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Salesforce.com, Wikipedia, and Craigslist. Memcached accelerates dynamic web applications, and is an important part of many social networking and big data infrastructures. Discover how Solarflare's 10GbE technology accelerates user access to Web 2.0 and learn how to improve the efficiency of the infrastructure to provide a better ...

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops Solutions Guide [ Source: Red Hat ]
May 2011- The advent of virtualization technology on x86 platforms has allowed a radically new, cost-effective model of desktop delivery. It allows IT to centrally manage, maintain, and enforce policies on desktops in a much more effective and holistic manner than traditional desktops (individual PCs running an operating system and applications) and legacy SBC/terminal services solutions (shared OS and applications). This enables better compliance and leads to a significant reduction ...

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers: Competitive Features [ Source: Red Hat ]
May 2011- Server virtualization offers tremendous benefits for enterprise IT organizations?server consolidation, hardware abstraction, and internal clouds deliver a high degree of operational efficiency. However, today, server virtualization is not used pervasively in the production enterprise datacenter. Some of the barriers preventing widespread adoption of existing proprietary virtualization solutions are performance, scalability, security, cost, and ecosystem challenges. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio is an end-to-end virtualization solution with use ...

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