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Considerations for Using Solid-State Storage as an Intelligent Cache to Accelerate Applications [ Source: LSI ]
May 2013- Solid-state disk (SSD) technologies are top of mind in most discussions of enterprise storage infrastructure today-but there are still IT planners who have postponed the adoption of flash memory-based storage due to questions about acquisition cost or early adoption risk. Learn the four critical questions to ask before adopting flash technology in your data center.
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Lessons Learned from a Successful, Business-Focused Data Center Strategy [ Source: Nlyte Software ]
December 2012-
A new report from Gartner Research tells the real-life story of a large enterprise that needed to improve its data center availability and continuity. It was a major undertaking, and there are lessons to be learned from all aspects of the project -- from setting the objectives, to formulating the strategy, all the way through to implementing the project.
In this report, you will learn:
• Who was responsible for data center ...
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High-Performance Grid Computing for Financial Services: Get the advantages of grid computing the easy way with Infrastructure-as-a-Service [ Source: Savvis ]
November 2012-
In the financial services industry, success often depends on timely reaction to market shifts and minimizing the time to assess current positions and make decisions. High Performance Computing (aka Grid Computing) delivers computing power and speed, helping financial institutions to accelerate innovation and improve business success by delivering fast transactions and analyses, even when those involve processing large data volumes.
This white paper discusses the benefits of leveraging a specialized Infrastructure as a ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Managing the Explosion of Medical Data [ Source: HP ]
October 2012- Healthcare providers are beginning to leverage big data as an increasingly important asset. But the explosion of data, fueled in large part by the growth of electronic medical records (EMRs), is presenting significant challenges for healthcare IT organizations, including how to manage and store all of this data and siloed storage infrastructures that make it difficult for institutions to share medical records across various departments. Fortunately, solutions are available to help healthcare organizations better manage ...
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IDC: Real-time Compression Advances Storage Optimization [ Source: IBM ]
September 2012-
It should come as no surprise that storage budgets are constantly under pressure from opposing forces: On one hand, economic forces are pushing budgets to either stay flat or, in many cases, shrink as a percentage of a company's revenue.
On the other hand, the infrastructure struggles to keep up with the pace of data growth, pressured by many variables, both social and economic. Businesses have no choice but to acclimate their storage ...
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How Blade Servers Impact Data Center Management & Agility [ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
This Technology Adoption Profile (TAP) examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, the UK, and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use.
The profile reveals that blades are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing opex in the data center.<...
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Building Virtualization-Optimized Data Center Networks [ Source: HP/Intel® ]
November 2012- Server virtualization initiatives are reshaping data center traffic flows, increasing bandwidth densities at the server edge and pushing conventional data center networks to the brink. Hierarchical data center networks designed to support traditional client-server software deployment models can't meet the performance and scalability requirements of the new virtualized data center. Enterprises must implement flatter, simpler networks to support high-volume server-to-server traffic flows, and they must adopt new management systems and security practices to administer virtual ...
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Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks [ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP's approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud.
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Leverage the Value Locked Up in "Big Data" [ Source: Savvis ]
April 2012-
Financial services firms are increasingly facing the challenge of "Big Data": unprecedented quantities of structured and unstructured data stored in a variety of systems and formats. Though "big" might mean different things to different firms, all companies report that more data is coming in all the time from disparate systems.
Several issues stand in the way of financial services firms making optimal use of the data they gather - e.g. regulatory requirements, ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Counterparty Risk: Are We Leveraging Our Tools? [ Source: Sybase ]
April 2012-
Counterparty risk has long been a source of concern for risk managers. However, the financial crisis brought new urgency to counterparty risk management for risk practitioners, regulators and financial firms alike, as exposure to collapsing giants left the industry reeling. That urgency has been punctuated by the global economy's current struggles, as firms grapple with new regulations, the European debt crisis and fears of a double-dip recession.
The failure of MF Global in ...
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IT Complexity: Measure, Model, Master [ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
IT complexity: A new metric to evaluate the impact of change
What if complexity was a discreet, measurable metric rather than a discretionary, ambiguous term? Could a complexity metric reshape the decisions and activities of a CIO?
The information technology field is filled with quotes and anecdotes about organizations trying to contain, explain and manage complexity. Often these words reflect an inclination to assume that if complexity exists, we should try ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Enterprise Technology Strategies for an Increasingly Dynamic Market Data Management Environment [ Source: Bloomberg ]
March 2011-
There is increasing demand for enterprise market data management services that integrate real-time data sets, open technology, and a robust and proven network and data delivery infrastructure. Bloomberg is committed to provide a market infrastructure that can seamlessly integrate with clients' systems. Bloomberg has created a modular set of offerings that allow clients to execute on the vision of integrated, enterprise-wide market data management architecture.
This paper explores how clients can leverage these ...
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Extreme Performance Storage for Financial Applications [ Source: Kaminario ]
January 2011- Financial institutions deploy multiple business critical applications in order to be competitive and meet the informational demands of their internal users and customer base. These applications are either online (OLTP) or batch processing for next business day. Customer relationship management (CRM), risk management, tax liability business intelligence, and data warehousing are just a few examples of applications that are storage I/O intensive. Unfortunately, today's storage technologies have not kept up with the sophistication or ...
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Text Terminals, Thin Clients or PCs? Six Arguments in Favor of Choosing Text Terminals When Adding or Replacing Desktops [ Source: Boundless Technologies ]
August 2010- The text terminal is alive and well in thriving organizations –- from giant banks to local credit unions. As these businesses grow and expand, they frequently need to add desktops to support more users. IT managers may be asked to justify their decision to stay with text terminals rather than “upgrading” to thin clients or personal computers with terminal emulation. This justification is simple when one looks at the significant advantages that text terminals offer: ...
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Winning the Future: The Business Case for Rapid Transformation [ Source: Progress Software ]
June 2010-
This e-book includes interviews with Susan McNeice, Global Program Manager, OSS/BSS Competitive Strategies, Stratecast, and John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software. The e-book also explores:
• The business case for why data transformation is critical for competing in the applications business, and how data modeling is critical to enabling the integration needed to make transformation happen.
• What NGOSS is and where the TM Forum is trying to take their standards ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Trading Ecosystems: Meeting the Challenges of Today's Fragmented Liquidity Markets [ Source: Savvis ]
May 2010- Trading “ecosystems” offer an attractive solution to the challenges raised by liquidity fragmentation, regulatory change and technology innovation. Such ecosystems bring together liquidity points, content, services, and IT infrastructure to enable successful execution of the entire trading lifecycle. They allow trading firms to shift the burden of technology acquisition, maintenance, and management over to specialists, while supporting critical pre-trade, trade execution, and post-trade activities so they can focus on their core businesses, improve operational efficiencies ...
[WHITE PAPER]
TDWI Checklist Report: Mainframe Modernization [ Source: Progress Software ]
March 2010- Mainframe modernization takes many forms. For many organizations, it’s about providing a more streamlined method for using mainframe information on other platforms. For others, it’s about extending the mainframe to the Web. Some forward-looking organizations are making the mainframe an active participant in service-based composite applications, utilizing Web services standards to support a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Organizations seeking the greatest value from the mainframe must consider all of these factors. This Checklist Report ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Ten Questions to Ask Your Traffic Capture Vendor [ Source: VSS Monitoring ]
January 2010- VSS Monitoring presents a 10 question check list for administrators and C-level executives implementing a network monitoring system. The key to achieving end-to-end network visibility is knowing the details of how the traffic gets to network monitoring tools. A few of the many subjects covered are: system connectivity, traffic grooming, latencies, packet optimization technologies, maintaining session-awareness from point of capture to the monitoring tools, and "gotchas" to watch out for. The white paper covers the questions ...
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The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009 [ Source: Progress Software ]
September 2009-
Forrester Research, Inc. has named the Progress? Apama? complex event processing (CEP) platform as a standout leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009"(August 2009) Report. In this detailed review of products, the Apama platform received the top score in current offering and market presence.
According to the report: "Progress Apama earned high marks for its event processing features, its development tools, and its business end-user tools, propelling it into its ...
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Assure continuity of mission-critical services [ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
June 2009- In few industries will you find the link between IT availability and business continuity stronger than it is in retail financial services. As the largest community credit union in Connecticut, American Eagle Federal Credit Union provides everyday financial services to nearly 100,000 members. Its central data center houses more than 50 servers that perform continuous IT functions. Until the spring of 2008, the servers had been protected by a single Liebert Series 300 UPS installed in 1990, whose reliability was ...
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Market Conditions Drive Innovation: Continuous Intelligence and the Grid [ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2009- In this paper we will discuss how Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 plus Continuous Intelligence™ powered by Coral8 Engine™ addresses the question when is just the right time all that compute power is needed and exactly how much power to engage. The combination allows Financial Services Firms to swiftly maneuver through the twists and turns of today’s market with agility and grace. Fast Volatile Markets produce data in increasing volume. How to realize position, risk, ...
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Virtual & Dynamic Infrastructure Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
The more tightly bound an application is to its underlying platform, the less capital efficiencies are realized. The IT waste associated with under utilized hardware resources has been clearly demonstrated, which in turn has spawned the creation of datacenter consolidation programs that devise ways to more tightly compress the application infrastructure footprint onto existing hardware resources.
Breaking the bonds that tie an application to an instance of an operating system and tie an ...
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DR Capacity Harvesting Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Every day IT is being challenged to do more with less. IT needs to eliminate waste wherever it is identified so precious resources can be invested into developing revenue streams and not merely supporting standard operations. To accomplish this, every ounce of compute power needs to be wrung from existing infrastructure.
The largest area of untapped potential remains off limits for exploitation; the resources set aside for Disaster Recover (DR). Entire datacenters filled ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Next Generation Datacenter Transformation Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Today’s IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on" while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time the very business model of IT is changing —how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered.
These demands and changes must account for the fact that external facing customer experience and corporate branding, as well as internal operational systems, depends heavily on ...
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Automating the Virtual IT Lifecycle: Delivering Compliance, Command and Control with Process Automation [ Source: Enigmatec ]
September 2008- There is a shift occurring in the way many organizations view their IT operations. The new focus is on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business, whether the customer is a development team, internal business unit, or external customer or partner. This shift is significant for IT organizations, as it forces them to think of themselves more as service providers than support teams. This discipline is termed IT Service Management (ITSM), and it's ...
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Multi-Core Processors - Making the Move to Quad Core and Beyond [ Source: Intel ]
September 2006- This paper explains the advantages and challenges of multi-core processing, plus provides a glimpse into the upcoming Intel quad-core processors and the direction in which Intel is taking multi-core processors to the future. We discuss many of the benefits you will see as we continue to increase processor performance, energy efficiency, and capabilities.
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