The incredible shrinking data center
Tom Gonzales is planning to shrink his company's data center footprint from 45 feet by 15 feet to a mere 12 feet by 12 feet -- and he couldn't be happier. "We're using more space than we need," he says. "We're going to return some of that to the company."
Which UPS is Right for the Job
This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance.
Airline Achieves Ultimate Data Center Efficiency with Pillar Data Systems
Skyservice Airlines is a dynamic aviation enterprise servicing the needs of Canadian travelers. Skyservice is Canada's number one requested airlinein the charter industry, with customers including tour operators, corporations, professional sport teams, governments, relief agencies, and travel incentive companies.
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementation
"White paper exploring best practices for SOA. There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning." For more information, download it today!
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
Oracle Tuxedo is the industry’s #1 distributed transaction processing platform. It provides mainframe-class reliability, performance, and scalability, all on open, distributed systems for applications written in C, C++, and COBOL. Download this white paper to learn more.
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementation
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Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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