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<title><![CDATA[Family Dollar Selects Windows Server, Saves Millions of Dollars]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171501]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2009, Family Dollar required a more robust merchandising solution to accommodate its continuing growth. In 2007, Family Dollar began the transformation of its merchandising tool set to a planned implementation of the SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning solution. Family Dollar faced a significant investment in new hardware, software, personnel, and maintenance because SAS recommended an AIX operating system; an infrastructure with which Family Dollar has limited experience. In a creative effort to reduce costs, Family Dollar partnered with SAS to explore the option of implementing a large scale solution on the Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition. This would provide substantial savings, flexibility to scale with commodity hardware, greater interoperability with other systems, and cost-effective future growth.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:55:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oracle 9i & 10gR1 on IBM AIX5L: Tips & Considerations]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021147]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The objective of this paper is to provide considerations and recommendations to practitioners involved with the installation of Oracle's RDBMS product on IBM's AIX 5L operating system. Though not intended to function as a step-by-step implementation guide, this paper, when used in conjunction with published materials from both Oracle and IBM, will be an asset to them as they plan and implement a successful Oracle RDBMS solution for their customer.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:56:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Java Tuning for Performance and IBM POWER6 Support]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021137]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper describes suggested practices for and performance results of using IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) for Java on systems powered by the new IBM POWER6 processor. It discusses memory-related performance and tuning, providing suggestions for tuning the Java heap and descriptions of various garbage collector configurations. It also describes thread-related performance tuning, touching on the AIX threading model used by Java, as well as how dynamic logical partitions are exploited. The paper also provides a description of improvements to startup times, general Java coding guidelines and exploitation of various POWER6 hardware features including simultaneous multithreading and decimal floating-point hardware.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:50:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Availability With XSM for iSCSI Integrated Server, Linux and AIX With Virtual Storage on System i]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021109]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[High Availability (HA) is a necessary component of a resilient IT infrastructure. Clients who wish to simplify their integrated server, Linux or AIX environment by hosting it with i5/OS can further leverage existing System i capabilities to automate HA management for those environments. Integrating IBM BladeCenter and System x with internet SCSI (iSCSI), Linux or AIX with i5/OS simplifies the IT environment by enabling rapid deployment of new workloads built on top of virtual storage, while using existing skills to manage physical disk and adapter hardware. By creating virtual disk in an Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (IASP), System i clients can incorporate a hosted environment into their core business HA strategy. i5/OS has the capability to automatically take action when an IASP becomes available or unavailable.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:36:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AIX Live Application Mobility FAQs: Dynamically Moving Applications Around in Your IT Environment]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021107]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The release of IBM AIX 6 introduces a powerful addition, advanced workload management, to the IBM AIX operating system, which includes the Workload Partition (WPAR) and Live Application Mobility (LAM) features. This technology provides improved administrative efficiency and flexibility, allowing them to dynamically move WPARs from one system to another. This white paper provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that surround this powerful feature.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:35:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM Government 2020 Paper]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=996911]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Read how six evolving global drivers will impact the future of state, local and federal governments, and learn how to create a plan to be better prepared to address the resulting mix of opportunities and unexpected threats. Click here for your complimentary copy of the IBM Government 2020 and the Perpetual Collaboration Mandate paper.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:41:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management on IBM Power System 570 Server, IBM System Storage DS8300, and AIX 6.1]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=992689]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[IBM and Oracle have been working together for more than a decade to optimize Oracle Database on the IBM POWER architecture running the AIX operating system. Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) 10g are well proven to take advantage of IBM's POWER6 architecture and high I/O bandwidth, Together they provide the response time needed to achieve breakthrough throughput to deliver a highly scalable Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management and IBM POWER solution on Oracle RAC architecture with the lowest total cost of ownership.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:06:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Understanding the Performance Implications of Cross-Site Mirroring With AIX's Logical Volume Manager]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=991551]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[For many years, customers have realized the benefits of IBM's PowerHA Cluster Manager (formerly High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP)) for AIX software to improve the availability of their applications. Additionally, some of those have benefitted from the Extended Distance add-on (PowerHA/XD formerly HACMP/XD) to provide Disaster Recovery to their availability solution. The problem for many is that moving from the local to geographically separated environments presents significant complexities as well as costs that sometimes make the move seemingly impossible.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:04:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deploying Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise on AIX 6 Workload Partitions]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=991513]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper discusses deploying one or more Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise installations on IBM AIX 6 Workload Partitions (WPARs). The related topics include IBM PowerVM Live Application Mobility for added Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) of such a deployment across WPARs within a single or multiple Logical PARtitions (LPARs). The objective of this paper is to provide steps and examples to those who plan to implement Oracle PeopleSoft Application Server using AIX 6 Workload Partitions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:45:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deploying Oracle RAC 10g With ASM on AIX With the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=991489]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper details the step-by-step configuration of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 (RAC) and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on the IBM AIX 5.3 operating system. The test exercise demonstrates that it is easy to configure the SVC in this environment by using the guidelines that are laid out in this paper.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:32:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mass Billing and Convergent Invoicing: Performance and Scalability of SAP's EDR Management and Convergent Invoicing Solution With IBM System P5 AIX and DB2 9]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=360945]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper describes a performance project for SAP's billing and invoicing in SAP's contracts accounts receivable and payable component. This solution is used in various Service Industries, such as Electronic Toll Collection, Communications, Media, Public Transport as well as Postal Services. This new component is an extension to SAP's contracts accounts receivable and payable component available with SAP ECC 6.0 Enhancement Package 2. This paper covers the customizing choices for the billing and invoicing functionality and describes the scenarios tested.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:59:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Yankee Group Reports on Unix / Linux Uptime and the Reliability Woes that Plague Windows]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=359076]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Use this report on the Yankee Group's Global Server Operating System Reliability Survey to make an informed choice on which servers best fit your needs. The independent, non-sponsored survey identifies the most reliable platforms. IBM AIX Unix led all server operating systems (compared with HP and Sun) with an average of just 36 minutes per server of annual downtime.


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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Whitepaper: Forrester on the benefits of IBM's PowerVM]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=359071]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Are the costs of running your IT department as low as they can be?

Learn how IBM System p can help your IT department operate effectively, powerfully and economically. This white paper will show you how virtualization technologies like POWER Hypervisor and PowerVM can help you minimize application downtime, improve service level agreements, better handle peak workloads and reduce energy and administration costs.

Read the Forrester white paper now!

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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:26:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Implementing Oracle 10g RAC With ASM on AIX]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=354711]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Prior to the release of Oracle Database Server 10g, database administrators had to choose between raw logical volumes or filesystems to house their data files. The decision to implement one or the other was always a compromise, as raw logical volumes offer the best performance, but filesystems are easier to administer. The choice of filesystems offers many features for the dba. Since the unit of storage allocation is a filesystem, and the filesystem is owned by the Oracle user, the DBA can allocate additional data files as needed. Oracle's autoextend feature can also be used to increase the space allocation for data files when necessary, and free space can be easily seen at the system level to be used with capacity planning tools.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:16:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM Solutions Technical Brief: Diagnosing Oracle Database Performance on AIX Using IBM NMON and Oracle Statspack Reports]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=354675]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[For Oracle Database environments, ongoing performance monitoring and tuning activities are essential to getting the most of your systems investment. In order to be most effective, monitoring and tuning must be performed at multiple levels of the solution stack. This includes the hardware, Operating System, Database and Application levels. This paper discusses two commonly available performance monitoring tools - Oracle Statspack and IBM NMON - and how they can be used to monitor and analyze possible performance issues for Oracle Database applications running in an AIX/System p server environment. In Oracle10g environments, Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports can be used in place of Statspack. A number of real-world examples of Statspack and NMON data are provided.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:38:20 -0700</pubDate>
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