Distributed Computing Research
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The Benefits of Cloud Networking
Sponsored by: Aerohive NetworksThe next wave of cloud is here: Cloud networking. This resource details the current state of cloud networking and the many benefits it offers, including reduced expenditures, boosted productivity, increased scalability, and more.
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Implementing a 10Gb Network Using a Virtual Distributed Switch
Sponsored by: VMware and IntelThis webcast introduces strategies for implementing a 10Gb network using a virtual distributed switch, featuring an in-depth discussion of how existing IT professionals are addressing network challenges in virtual environments.
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Demystifying the scale up vs. scale out debate for data warehousing
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.In this expert guide, IT analyst Tony Iams, SVP, Ideas International, delves deeper into the scale up vs. scale out debate. Learn about the growing popularity of scaling out options, such as massively parallel processing (MPP) and distributed computing approaches.
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Hardest Problems in Data Management
Sponsored by: VMware, Inc.Read this paper to learn how to enable a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed foundation for data management that runs dynamically across the many-machine, many-core, memory-based computing topologies that today's organizations are assembling from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds.
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MicroScope - January 2012: A special issue examining the opportunities that virtualisation offers the channel
Sponsored by: MicroScopeVirtualisation has been one of those technologies that the channel has been encouraged to get to grips with for the past few years. Starting with the server the technology has expanded to the desktop and an entire vendor community has grown providing management tools.
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Top 5 Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise
Sponsored by: Platform Computing CorporationThis white paper describes challenges organizations face when using MapReduce, and the means by which Platform MapReduce can address them.
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Back to the Future: The New IT Infrastructure Opportunity
Sponsored by: AvocentAccess this exclusive resources to discover new technology and solutions to address security and operating expense (OPEX) issues related to distributed computing such as thin client, fast client, diskless workstations, SaaS, and VDI.
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Be as Agile as you can be
Sponsored by: IBMJoin Elizabeth Woodward, IBM Agile Practice Expert, as she discusses how software development leaders and agile teams can identify the impact of choices in organizing their team structure to optimize a distributed Agile methodology.
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Chasing the Mobile Desktop: How to Tame your Distributed Desktop Environment
Sponsored by: Wanova, Inc.This white paper surveys existing and emerging approaches to desktop management in the enterprise, covering both traditional systems management methods, as well as newer desktop virtualization technologies. We will discuss their advantages and shortcomings of each approach.
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Accelerate Your Data Processing in the Cloud with Amazon Web Services and RightScale
Sponsored by: RightScaleIn this Webinar, we show you how to improve your processing of real time financial analytics with RightScale and AWS. We show a live demonstration of how a hedge fund would run a scalable grid application environment that is automated, resilient to errors, and auditable.
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Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures
Sponsored by: VM6 SoftwareThis whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.
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Server Monitoring: Centralize and Win
Sponsored by: TNT Software, Inc.One of the main limitations of native tools in a Windows OS is that it stores all of the event & performance logs information locally in each individual system. For an environment with multiple systems, this makes problem analysis much more challenging. This paper will discuss the importance of effective, centralized management solutions.
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Open Source in the Next Computing Wave
Sponsored by: Red Hat and JBossThe current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role.
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Governing a Distributed SOA
Sponsored by: IONA TechnologiesThis white paper highlights a registry/repository which allows organizations to create a dynamic environment that actively monitors, governs, and enforces SOA governance across all distributed endpoints.
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Load Balancing Basics
Sponsored by: CitrixRead this white paper to discover a powerful and comprehensive load balancing solution.
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The SOA Competitive Landscape Redefined: A Manager's Guide to SOA Platforms
Sponsored by: Fiorano Software, Inc.This white paper describes an approach to evaluating an SOA platform, that is aimed at creating a system based upon a service-oriented application composition and a peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure architecture.
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Scaling Enterprise SOA Deployments: Benefits of a Service-Grid Architecture Powering Next-Generation SOA Deployments
Sponsored by: Fiorano Software, Inc.This white paper reviews modern enterprise service grids and how their brokered peer-to-peer architecture offer ease of use for a wide array of distributed computing projects including the SOA market.
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Streamline and Speed the Delivery of High-quality Software Applications
Sponsored by: IBM Software GroupThis white paper details the importance of collaborative management of software development and testing processes in order to achieve an integrated view of distributed development while meeting internal and external compliance requirements.
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Logitech Implements Akamai EdgeComputingSM for Java to Extend Marketing-Driven, Promotional Contest
Sponsored by: Akamai TechnologiesEdgeComputing for Java is a new deployment model for enterprise Java Web applications in which the customer selects components of the applications to run on the Akamai network, taking advantage of the global reach.
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Making a Business Case for Tape
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationThis paper will review tape technology from the standpoint of this business value model.
