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Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers
sponsored by Continental Resources
WHITE PAPER: Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.
Posted: 02 Apr 2010 | Published: 02 Apr 2010

Continental Resources

50,000-Seat VMware View Deployment
sponsored by VMware and NetApp
WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is becoming more of a hot topic as it allows organizations to control costs and use limited resources to manage their desktop infrastructures. This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, Vmware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Learn more here.
Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

VMware and NetApp

What Is an Ethernet Fabric?
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics provide the higher levels of performance, utilization, availability and simplicity required to meet the business needs of data centers today and into the future.
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Aug 2011

Brocade

SUN SYSTEMS FOR ORACLE COHERENCE: An optimal in-memory data grid architecture
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Business-Model-Driven Data Warehousing: Keeping Data Warehouses Connected to Your Business
sponsored by Kalido
WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the issues of conventional data warehouse design process and explains how this practice can be improved using a business-model-driven process in support of effective Business Intelligence.
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

Kalido

Building Success in the Cloud
sponsored by Citrix Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Discover why Citrix cloud solutions are a clear choice for leading cloud providers, helping them quickly and profitably build differentiated and flexible cloud solutions that are right for their business and their customers.
Posted: 29 Aug 2012 | Published: 29 Aug 2012

Citrix Systems, Inc.

HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: IT organizations worldwide are leveraging the benefits of virtualization to create flexible IT environments that reduce costs and improve business agility. These are among the many benefits of shifting to solutions from HP, Intel and VMware. Learn how your organization can benefit from complete virtualization solutions from HP, Intel and VMware.
Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2008

VMware, Inc.

Getting Cloud Computing Right
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In a recent survey conducted on 2000 IT professionals, 91% of those that responded expect that the cloud will replace traditional on-premise computing within the next five years.This essential resource introduces a comprehensive portfolio of products and services for building and managing your cloud solutions.
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

IBM

Interstage Business Process Manager v11 Architecture Whitepaper
sponsored by Fujitsu America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Interstage BPM's superior architecture lets business users and IT professionals collaborate on defining and refining business processes. It empowers knowledge workers to stretch processes to fit to the business needs and it provides developers with the ability to easily create and deploy high performance process-based applications.
Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

Fujitsu America, Inc.

An Introduction to Sharepoint 2010
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of common business use cases for which SharePoint is a good fit, introduces the services and functionality within SharePoint Server 2010, highlights key changes from MOSS 2007, and helps readers understand the terminology and concepts needed for planning or deploying a SharePoint 2010 farm.
Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

DellEMC and Intel®