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Data Center Construction and Renovation

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Watch this webcast to learn key considerations for building a new data center. Receive strategies for each step of your infrastructure construction, from the data center design to finding the right contractor to carry out the project.

Podcast: Data Center Construction and Renovation

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Listen to this podcast to learn key considerations for building a new data center. Receive strategies for each step of your infrastructure construction, from the data center design to finding the right contractor to carry out the project.

Techfocus: Data Center Construction

APC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The chapters in this Techfocus eBook will discuss the importance of site selection and planning, data center conceptualization and cost analysis, and negotiating with contractors.

Global Trade Management Landscape of Vendors

SAP America Inc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This report takes a close look at the capabilities of the software vendors that are addressing the Global Trade Management (GTM) market and summarizes their functionality and ability to address the different kinds of risk in the global supply chain.

Deploying Oracle & reg; Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.

Sun and Pentaho: Achieving enterprise business intelligence success with integrated, open, ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions.

Redcell & trade; OpsCenter -- Find, Configure, and Monitor your entire data center. FREE TRIAL

Dorado Software — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Monitoring and configuring a variety of complex devices (network, systems, storage, security) from multiple vendors is a daily battle that challenges even the most experienced administrators. Today's virtual and physical environments can only be handled with a centralized management solution.

2009 Top 10 in Investment Management

Actuate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The investment management business in 2009 will be dominated by the ramifications of the events of 2008. In this report, TowerGroup has compiled a list of the top 10 business drivers and the resulting major strategic responses and technology initiatives.

Leaner and Greener Because of Intel & reg; Core & trade;2 Processors with vPro & trade; ...

Intel Technology Provider — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Recently, the University of Plymouth, located in the U.K., completed a refresh of their 4,800 desktop PCs, upgrading the systems to PCs with Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology in order to offer students the latest in IT services. The following paper provides an ROI analysis of this PC deployment.

Sun & trade; Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies.

Sterling Commerce: Managed Services

Sterling Commerce — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Sterling Commerce Managed Services include Business-to-Business (B2B) integration solutions, allowing trading organizations to interact with each other across a secure network. Long considered as only appropriate for large organizations, Sterling Commerce Managed Services provide organizations of all sizes with the ability to trade and collaborate.

Client Systems Management - Take Control of your Environment

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Dell simplifies systems management. Dell's approach delivers systems management solutions that integrate and interoperate to help ease deployment, speed problem resolution, and enable you to manage smarter.

Dell boosts productivity by 30% by delivering rugged hardware and rock-solid service for on ...

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Although United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) was using ruggedized laptops, the computers were not standing up to construction site conditions, and slow warranty service was hurting productivity. Dell™ Latitude™ All Terrain Grade (ATG) laptop computers with Intel® Core™2 processors prove they are up to the job...

Data Center Facilities IT Handbook, Ch 4 - Data Center Design and Build Out

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

A successful data center construction or renovation project requires managers to carefully follow each phase of the process - design, construction, review and acceptance. Read this eBook Chapter to learn more.

Process Manufacturing Companies Going Global: GTM Challenges and Solutions

SAP America Inc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper focuses on Global Trade Management (GTM) trends in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on the challenges and solutions for Global Trade Compliance (GTC).

Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun & trade; Logical Domains

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.

Blaze Advisor 6.6 Trial Download

FICO — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

FICO™ Blaze Advisor® is the world's leading business rules management system, maximizing control over high volume operational decisions.

Streamlining Storage With CommVault Deduplication in the Dell PowerVault DL2000

Dell, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The deduplication capabilities of CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software in the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault are designed to eliminate unnecessary copies of backup and archive data—providing an integrated, simplified way to streamline storage throughout the enterprise.

Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

Migrating to the New Dell Management Console

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper to learn how the Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from SymantecTM centralizes multiple aspects of systems management into a single easy-to-use tool.

Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Solaris & trade; Zone Clusters

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Solaris™ Cluster provides Solaris Zone Clusters (also called Solaris Containers Clusters), which provide virtual clusters and support the consolidation of multiple cluster applications onto a single cluster. Specifically, this article describes how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) can be deployed on a zone cluster.

Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Sun & trade; Logical ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.

Dell & trade; Reference Architecture Overview for Microsoft & reg; Exchange Server 2007 in ...

Dell, Inc. — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.

Mosaic Technology trims sales cycle by up to 50% and converts 20% of leads into sales with ...

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.

Deploying Operating System Images on Latitude & trade; and Precision & trade; E-Series ...

Dell, Inc. — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper provides an overview of using the operating systems deployment capabilities of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007™ to deploy a customized OS image on Dell client systems in a heterogeneous environment.

Using Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL & trade; Database With Sun & trade; Storage ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.

Microsoft & reg; Hyper-V & trade; Server 2008 for Dell & trade; PowerEdge & trade; Systems

Dell and Microsoft — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

Networking Best Practices for VMware & reg; Infrastructure 3 on Dell & trade; PowerEdge & ...

Dell and VMware — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.

Change Management Best Practices for the Engineering and Construction Industry

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects.

Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives ...

IBM — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.

Winning the Performance Battle: Standardizing Best Practices with Technology

Oracle Corporation — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper highlights the important elements and key benefits of standardizing business processes and operating procedures based on uniform, organization wide technology. It also serves as a guide for engineering and construction (E&C) firms choosing the right technology to promote standardization across their organizations.

Sustainable IT virtualization helps Earth Rangers accommodate 100 percent growth while ...

Dell and VMware — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved.

Implementing Best Practices: The Dell Management Console and ITIL

Dell and Symantec — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

The Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™ provides a comprehensive management platform based on standardized IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes—facilitating the adoption of industry best practices and helping streamline and simplify IT management in enterprise data centers.

Boost ROI with Faster, Easier, VISUAL Analytics

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join us at this live webcast and learn how you can:

Use RFM analysis to quickly rank customers for high-return marketing
Use advanced visualization techniques to uncover segments and patterns in your data, and apply these insights to growth, acquisition, and retention planning
and more

Case Study: Brokerage Trades Up to Robust Server Platform

Dell India — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this paper to learn how Dell PowerEdge servers with virtualization helped reduce datacenter footprint by over 35 percent at Pune e Stock Broking.

Configuring Sun & trade; Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems for Oracle & reg; Databases

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability.

Portfolio Construction and Trading: Seven Key Factors in Evaluating Order Management ...

Advent Software, Inc — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them.

The Capital Delivery Revolution and Technology: Connecting Capital Planning, Construction, ...

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper recognizes three principal solution areas in the capital project delivery lifecycle: project design, project execution, and organizational governance. In particular, it addresses the area of project execution and the means available today to drive successful project delivery on a consistent basis.

DELL & trade; PowerEdge & trade; Half-Height M610 and Full-Height M710 Blade

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.

Integrating Virtualized Servers with VMware vStorage-Enabled Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs

Dell, Inc. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.

SUN SPARC & reg; ENTERPRISE T5440 SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Employing UltraSPARC® T2 Plus processors - an evolution of the industry's first massively threaded systems on a Chip (SoC) - the Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.

Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer & #39;s Guide to ...

SAP America Inc — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.

Bankinter turns to Intel & reg; Core & trade;2 Processor with vPro & trade; technology to ...

Intel Technology Provider — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Bankinter, a multichannel bank, chose to work together with Intel and Infogroup in order to benefit from Intel® Core™ 2 Processor with vPro™ technology which it believed could meet its desktop platform manageability challenge.

SUN SPARC & reg; ENTERPRISE T5120, T5220, T5140, AND T5240 SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors - the industry's first massively threaded Systems on a Chip (SoC) - Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.

Rise of Dark Pools and Rebirth of ECNs: Death to Exchanges?

Advent Software, Inc — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This Impact Report examines some of the key trends within the U.S. ATS market, and provides clear categorizations of some of the platforms vying for market share. This Impact Report also provides U.S. equities market share estimates and future projections.

Using Encrypting File System to Protect Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data on a V3c Client Running ...

Microsoft — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper explains how to use Encrypting File System (EFS), a feature that is provided by default in the Windows® operating system, to protect data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook Compatibility Update running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Data Center Projects: Standardized Process

APC — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.

6 Steps to Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation Success

IFS — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take to manage that complexity.

The Buyside and the Three Phase Evolution of Electronic Trading

Advent Software, Inc — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers.

FACTS Electronic Data Interchange System (FACTS EDI) & #45; Advanced Technologies for ...

Ebix Health, Inc. — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

FACTS EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is an industry compliant, electronic data interchange system that allows for the high-speed transaction processing of health information between the FACTS Systems and your trading partners.