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<title><![CDATA[Bank of Montreal Enables Rapid Recovery With High Availability Technology From IBM]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1197253]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[One of the five largest banks in Canada, Bank of Montreal (BMO) serves the U.S. market through Chicago-based Harris N.A.. Critical to the success of the new data center was the ability to synchronize transactions between the Bank's primary and backup servers. The primary challenge of the BMO implementation was the increased distance between the two sites to 100 km. BMO turned to IBM for a solution that could support this distance. To meet this challenge, BMO became an early adopter of a newly developed IBM timing technology known as Server Time Protocol (STP). The IBM solution included IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS), peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC), etc. BMO was the first IBM customer to implement GDPS/PPRC via STP at 100 km.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:24:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prosegur Brasil Standardizes Operating Processes With Parent Company and Increases Transparency]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171225]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Prosegur Brasil is one of the world's largest private global security solutions companies and the leader in the domestic valuables transportation and private security markets. It was founded in 1976 in Madrid, where its headquarters are located, and it has operated in Brazil since 1981. The challenge was to increase financial transparency across the company, which is publicly held and traded on the Madrid Stock Exchange. Prosegur worked with Oracle Partner Bertini to install a parallel environment in Brazil, and, with the support of key users, to implemented Oracle E-Business Suite within the established six-month deadline.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Get more from BI by understanding your analysis needs]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1168739]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Across your organization, different types of users - casual users, power users and executives - access data in order to answer different types of questions and then need to see the information differently.
Only when you deliver on the breadth of analysis needs in your user communities can you truly unleash the power of business intelligence to drive better decisions and results.
Read "Get More from BI by Understanding Your Analysis Needs" and you'll have a better idea of how to match the right tools with the right users.  This paper clearly discusses:


Why analysis is so central to your efforts to make BI pervasive
Several different types of analysis, who uses them, and why
How IBM Cognos analysis solutions map to the breadth of analysis needs in your organization
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:28:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beyond Survival: Thriving Through the Turbulence: BI in the Retail Industry]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1163349]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, and efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:51:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Manycore Shift: Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative Ushers Computing Into the Next Era]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152807]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[When major qualitative shifts such as the emergence of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), the Internet, mobile devices, and software services transformed the computing industry, Microsoft has successfully adapted the company, products, and business models to enable the next generation of computing experiences. Each previous shift has made computing more personal, social, and mobile. The recent advances in microelectronic technology and the advent of multi-core and manycore processors are a signal that another large industry change is on the horizon. This paper describes how Microsoft and industry partners are working together to enable businesses, software and hardware vendors, and individuals to take advantage of the "Manycore Shift".]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:38:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Responding to Today's Demands with a Dynamic Infrastructure]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1141157]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[As the world becomes more instrumented, intelligent, and interconnected, the demands on your infrastructure continue to grow. IBM continues to chart a strategy to help you deliver a new kind of infrastructure. One that helps you reduce costs, manage risks and improve service. A dynamic infrastructure — designed for a smarter planet.

In this special 45-minute Webcast, you'll hear from IBM Executives and clients about a host of new offerings that deliver and support a dynamic infrastructure:

Systems for a smarter planet. A workload-optimized approach to system design, management and delivery.
Service Management. Faster time-to-market of services through enhanced visibility, control and automation.
Information Infrastructure. New solutions that achieve significant cost reduction and information-led transformation.

Featured speakers will include:
 
Rich Esposito - Vice President, ITS&A Services, Middleware Services, IBM Global Technology Services
 
Al Zollar - General Manager, IBM Tivoli Software
 
Rod Adkins - Senior Vice President, Development & Manufacturing, IBM Systems & Technology Group
 
Curtis Tearte - General Manager, Storage Systems IBM Systems & Technology Group
 
Upon completion of the Webcast you can receive a complimentary Dynamic Infrastructure Assessment Pack of Web-based self-assessment tools.
 
Register today and receive a complimentary e-kit of insightful white papers, analyst reports, and videos about the benefits of a dynamic infrastructure. 
 
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:45:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[HP Neoview Skew Buster Technology: HP Advances the State of the Art for Massively Parallel Processing Platforms]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1127237]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The Neoview parallel query optimizer is evolving more rapidly than competitive optimizers, owing to its unique use of the most advanced query optimizer framework, known as "Cascades II." The Neoview optimizer implementation of the Cascades II framework enables the rapid development of new query operators, optimization rules, and query cost information. The Neoview optimizer also takes advantage of advanced capabilities of the Cascades II framework that enables it to rapidly determine all possible alternative query plans for complex queries and then eliminate a huge amount of optimization effort and time by intelligently pruning the great majority of possible alternatives. HP Neoview systems are currently in production, solving some of the industry's most complex data warehousing problems and, moving forward, will continue to break new ground.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:16:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crash Simulation of Large-Number-of-Elements Car Model by LS-DYNA on Highly Parallel Computers]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1127129]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The analysis of car crashes by computer simulation has become an indispensible tool for shortening automobile development time and lowering costs. To shorten development time even further, researchers have endeavored to shorten the time needed for creating analysis models, and it is now becoming possible to create analysis models in a short time without manual work. However, to obtain a practical level of accuracy in analysis when creating an analysis model automatically, one needs a level of detail more than ten times hat of analysis models currently being used by automobile companies, but the time taken to perform such an analysis is impractical.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:20:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avaya IQ - Building Upon the Strengths of CMS: Avaya IQ Delivers New Reporting and Analytics Capabilities to Give You Intelligence Into Your Contact Center Operations]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1115753]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Companies who use Avaya contact centers have long depended upon Call Management System (CMS) as an essential tool in managing their centers. This paper describes how a new offering, Avaya IQ, builds upon CMS to deliver exciting new capabilities. Full-time tracing and "Agent Behavior" analysis in Avaya IQ deliver an unparalleled picture of agent activity, giving managers the tools to improve the customer experience and maximize agent productivity Reporting now easily spans contact center locations, functions, and organizations with user-defined groups, to help learn more about customers and their calling experiences.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:27:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Developing and Managing Software Applications: In a World of SOA and Web Innovation]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1115633]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[CA provides the tools to help organizations adapt to a World of Services and Web Innovation. By providing a mechanism for capturing and prioritizing business demands, CA solutions deliver critical insight and control of the assets, processes, people and projects supporting those services. By automating manual activities and integrating processes, CA helps organizations increase service levels, modernize legacy applications, enable IT governance and enforce quality standards and application development best practices such as ITIL and CMMi. Together with Wily Technologies, CA offers customers unparalleled end-to-end visibility into their IT environments from applications to infrastructures to better manage critical technologies and boost overall business performance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:31:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Innovate More, Iterate Faster: Siemens PLM Software, HP, and Intel Deliver Technologies to Revolutionize Your Business]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1109383]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Siemens PLM Software, HP, and Intel deliver technologies to revolutionize business, enabling to work differently and move from serial to simultaneous workflows. Intel, HP, and Siemens PLM Software have a long history of creating innovative, highperforming, and cost-effective solutions for the manufacturing market. In this study, HP and Intel investigated parallelized manufacturing workflows for users of NX software from Siemens PLM Software. Multi-core processors were tested to determine how they can help fundamentally change the way engineers work.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:12:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows: Dynamic Multi-Pathing Option Competitive Comparisons]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1109175]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows Dynamic Multi-pathing Option is the industry's leading SAN storage multipathing solution for mission critical Windows servers. Veritas Dynamic Multi-pathing is fully compliant with the Microsoft Windows MPIO Framework and is in its third generation of MPIO integration. Veritas Dynamic Multi-pathing offers MPIO Device Specific Module (DSM) support for most leading array families from EMC, HP, HDS, IBM and Network Appliance as well as a feature rich solution unparalleled in the industry. Whether one is looking for an array independent multipathing solution for Windows 'SAN Builds' or a feature-rich solution to improve SAN storage performance or management, Veritas Dynamic Multi-pathing is the ideal choice for Windows servers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:33:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell Automated Deployment]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1036505]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Dell Automated Deployment makes the PC deployment process far easier and more cost-effective than previously possible.


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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:34:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1016865]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a
minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops that can deploy new applications quickly and scale existing workloads to handle
unpredictable demand spikes? And, just as importantly, which shops can do all of the above while controlling personnel and facilities costs and not spending the overall organization into oblivion?
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:11:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1016863]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but fundamentally it is achieved by inserting a layer between the server hardware and software components, to provide either the necessary interfaces, or a simulation of one component to the other
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:09:41 -0700</pubDate>
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