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Azul Systems: Zing high-performance runtime for Java

October 14th, 2016 |
Azul Systems: Zing high-performance runtime for Java

Today Java is ubiquitous across the enterprise. Flexible and powerful, Java is the ideal choice for development teams worldwide. Zing builds upon Java’s advantages by delivering a robust, highly scalable Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to match the needs of today’s [See the full post…]

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Azul Systems: Zulu Embedded – Customizable, open source Java Virtual Machines for IoT and embedded solutions

October 13th, 2016 |
Azul Systems: Zulu Embedded – Customizable, open source Java Virtual Machines for IoT and embedded solutions

Zulu Embedded is a fully certified, completely customizable and 100% open source Java Virtual Machine for embedded devices. Zulu Embedded binaries are based on source code from the OpenJDK project (openjdk.java.net) and are designed to allow companies to leverage the [See the full post…]

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SGI: UV 300RL Enabling Oracle Database 12c In-Memory for Large and Growing Enterprises

October 12th, 2016 |
SGI: UV 300RL Enabling Oracle Database 12c In-Memory for Large and Growing Enterprises

This datasheet outlines the features, benefits and system configuration(s) for the SGI UV 300RL, enabling Oracle Database In-Memory. See more posts from SGI and other vendors from Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco.

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Client Device Fleet Management: Refresh Cycle Is Still Relevant

October 12th, 2016 |
Client Device Fleet Management: Refresh Cycle Is Still Relevant

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, the variety of client devices in use at Intel has grown significantly. While we still find that a 2- to 4-year refresh cycle offers the best total cost of ownership, some of [See the full post…]

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Azul Systems: Zing unleashes the power of Cassandra

October 11th, 2016 |
Azul Systems: Zing unleashes the power of Cassandra

The best Java runtime for business-critical applications. Zing is ideal for systems that require predictable performance and pauseless operation. See more posts from Azul Systems and other vendors from Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco.

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SGI: UV 300 System Reliability, Availability and Serviceability

October 10th, 2016 |
SGI: UV 300 System Reliability, Availability and Serviceability

SGI UV 300 was designed to address the computational and data access challenges facing large business and technical computing environments by overcoming the limitations associated with traditional High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters. A growing number of enterprise and technical computing [See the full post…]

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Red Hat: Enterprise Linux Atomic Host A Platform Optimized For Linux Containers

Red Hat: Enterprise Linux Atomic Host A Platform Optimized For Linux Containers

Linux containers provide fundamental isolation capabilities and allow an application to be packaged along with its dependencies. By coupling Linux containers with image-based container technology, such as the docker format, and orchestration technology, like Kubernetes, IT organizations can quickly realize [See the full post…]

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Dell: DevOps Comes to Database Developers and DBAs – It’s About Time

Dell: DevOps Comes to Database Developers and DBAs – It’s About Time

Application teams have tools for managing their development lifecycle — from source code control and automated testing to continuous integration and automated deployment. But as a database developer or DBA, you’ve lacked the proper tooling to help you keep pace [See the full post…]

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Dell: It’s Time to Get Agile: The Complete Story Behind Accelerating Database DevOps

Dell:  It’s Time to Get Agile: The Complete Story Behind Accelerating Database DevOps

Shorter time to value, lower risk and greater flexibility? With benefits like these, it’s definitely time to get agile. The agile methodology is an alternative to traditional project management, like waterfall. It helps development teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, [See the full post…]

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MongoDB: TCO Comparison: MongoDB & Oracle

MongoDB: TCO Comparison: MongoDB & Oracle

Organizations are saving 70%+ by switching from Oracle to MongoDB. When evaluating databases, it is helpful to consider the relative costs of each solution — not just the cost of the software, but also the hardware, development and deployment costs. [See the full post…]

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Enabling a Seamless User Workspace across Devices and Platforms

September 30th, 2016 |
Enabling a Seamless User Workspace across Devices and Platforms

IT Best Practices: In order to increase user productivity and reduce IT costs, Intel IT plans to make getting a new laptop or switching from one device to another as easy as getting a new smartphone. Historically, our users spend, [See the full post…]

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Baker Tilly: Modern HR – Embracing Talent Analytics

September 26th, 2016 |
Baker Tilly: Modern HR – Embracing Talent Analytics

Constraints on talent undoubtedly hurt enterprise growth and profitability. If organizations can’t hire the right people, they can’t move the business forward. More than ever before, HR must be closely aligned with the goals of the business and attract, develop, [See the full post…]

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Red Hat: Using Containers With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

September 23rd, 2016 |
Red Hat: Using Containers With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Traditional application deployment models move applications from development through testing and into production. Along the way, the application and the runtime environment must be kept in alignment to ensure that testing and certi cation done in the prior step remains [See the full post…]

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Azul Systems: Zulu Enterprise – Certified, Fully-Supported builds of OpenJDK for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

September 22nd, 2016 |
Azul Systems: Zulu Enterprise – Certified, Fully-Supported builds of OpenJDK for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

INTRODUCING ZULU ENTERPRISE Azul Systems, the leader in Java runtime solutions, presents Zulu Enterprise, a certifed, fully supported version of OpenJDK and compliant implementation of the Java Standard Edition (SE) speci cation for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and the [See the full post…]

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Dell: How Are DBAs Really Managing Their Data?

September 20th, 2016 |
Dell: How Are DBAs Really Managing Their Data?

There’s a lot of hype around unstructured data. However, a recent survey of 300 database administrators (DBAs) suggests that most organizations will continue to focus on managing structured data. Learn more about what’s hype and what’s common practice when it [See the full post…]

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SGI: UV 300RL for Oracle Database In-Memory

September 19th, 2016 |
SGI: UV 300RL for Oracle Database In-Memory

SGI UV 300RL is an advanced, in-memory computing system for large or growing Oracle Database In-Memory environments. This paper describes the future-ready, modular architecture of SGI UV 300RL that enables enterprises to accelerate analytics and achieve real-time business at near [See the full post…]

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Azul Systems: Consistent Cassandra Performance with Zing

September 16th, 2016 |
Azul Systems: Consistent Cassandra Performance with Zing

Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL distributed database written in Java and designed for reliability and high scalability. Data nodes are spread across lots of commodity servers and even between datacenters. Information is kept in-memory for fast read and write response [See the full post…]

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Baker Tilly: Talent management: Strategies for a new era

September 14th, 2016 |
Baker Tilly: Talent management: Strategies for a new era

We interviewed a number of HR executives to understand the state of talent acquisition and talent management today. These discussions led to striking observations: Businesses are facing substantial challenges in their ability to attract and retain any talent, let alone [See the full post…]

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MongoDB: RDBMS to MongoDB Migration Guide

September 12th, 2016 |
MongoDB: RDBMS to MongoDB Migration Guide

The relational database has been the foundation of enterprise data management for over thirty years. But the way we build and run applications today, coupled with growth in data sources and user loads, are pushing relational databases beyond their limits. [See the full post…]

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Utilizing PaaS for Business Agility and IT Efficiency

Utilizing PaaS for Business Agility and IT Efficiency

IT Best Practices: As part of our effort to strategically transform data centers and accelerate application delivery, Intel IT used design best practices to create a cloud application platform. This platform—more specifically, platform as a service (PaaS)—makes it easy to [See the full post…]

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Boosting Efficiency with a Single Data Center Management Solution

Boosting Efficiency with a Single Data Center Management Solution

IT Best Practices: Energy costs are the fastest-rising expense for today’s data centers. Naturally, power consumption is a top concern for managers of data center, enterprise, and cloud environments. Moreover, there are multiple proprietary power measurement and control protocols supported [See the full post…]

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Enterprise Ultrabook Devices Move Into the Mainstream at Intel

Enterprise Ultrabook Devices Move Into the Mainstream at Intel

IT Best Practices: Intel employees have come to expect a certain level of convenience from their devices, and Intel IT must meet this expectation without compromising security and manageability. After evaluating a variety of mobile computing devices, Intel IT began [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Simplifying Private Cloud Capacity Management

IT Best Practices: Simplifying Private Cloud Capacity Management

IT Best Practices: To drive down cost and increase host utilization in Intel’s Office and Enterprise private cloud, Intel IT has simplified private cloud capacity management by transitioning from allocation-based capacity management to performance-based capacity management. Focusing on host and [See the full post…]

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Big Data: Securing Intel IT’s Apache Hadoop Platform

Big Data: Securing Intel IT’s Apache Hadoop Platform

IT Best Practices: Intel IT values open-source-based, big data processing using Apache Hadoop software. Last year we migrated from the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software to the Cloudier Enterprise software. Based on our original experience with Apache Hadoop software, [See the full post…]

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IoT Data Standards Provide the Foundation for Smart Buildings

IoT Data Standards Provide the Foundation for Smart Buildings

IT Best Practices: Intel’s smart factories use highly specialized Internet of Things (IoT) data specifications that make it possible to bring new factories online quickly and reliably by replicating identical processes from one facility to another. Imagine being able to [See the full post…]

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