Performance Testing Research
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Reduce Costs & Increase Microsoft SQL Server OLTP Workload Service Levels: PowerEdge 2850 Consolidation to PowerEdge 11th Generation
Sponsored by: Dell and Microsoft SQLRead this white paper for an exploration of how organizations can gain significant performance and cost benefits by upgrading legacy 2-socket servers to new Dell PowerEdge 11th generation 4/2-socket servers.
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The Top 5 Reasons for 64-bit Business Intelligence
Sponsored by: MicroStrategyThis research paper, based on independent third-party research and MicroStrategy surveys of customers using business intelligence (BI) in 64-bit environments, explores adoption trends leading to a 64-bit era in business intelligence. Read on to find out so much more.
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Budgeting with Tagetik 3.0 Enabled by Microsoft SharePoint
Sponsored by: Tagetik SoftwareListen to this webcast to learn about a complete software solution that can support Performance Management, extended Business Intelligence, Collaboration and Communication while maximizing all of Microsoft and Tagetik technology frameworks.
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Customer Satisfaction with Application Delivery Controller Vendors
Sponsored by: CitrixEnterprise Management Associates Report: "Customer Satisfaction with Application Delivery Controller Vendors" - shows how Citrix NetScaler beats F5 and Cisco in customer satisfaction. Discover why Citrix is superior in 16 out of 21 categories and tops the competition in Presales, Tech Support, Product, Technology, and Overall Business Value.
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Steps to Discovery and Protection of Sensitive Data: Find IT. Search IT. Mask IT.
Sponsored by: dataguise, Inc.Protecting sensitive data in the enterprise has never been more important, or more challenging. An effective data protection strategy must start with finding all of the data repositories on the network and identifying all of the sensitive data contained in those repositories. Read this paper to learn more.
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Neusoft Telecom BSS Virtualized Application Performance on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series using VMware vSphere 4
Sponsored by: IntelThis paper discusses how Intel and Neusoft took advantage of the performance and scalability of Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers to address some of the critical challenges in the telecom industry.
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Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards®
Sponsored by: Advent Software, IncWhether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid.
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IBM Service Management: Visibility. Control. Automation
Sponsored by: IBMThis brochure shows how IBM Service Management combines industry-leading software, hardware and services to deliver solutions that help today's organizations transform assets and infrastructure into smarter services and products that deliver greater business value.
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eBook: The New Era of Network Performance Management
Sponsored by: TechTarget NetworkingToday's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments that demand comprehensive performance management. Fortunately, technological advancement is simplifying management and addressing new challenges. This eBook explains why management is more important now than ever and how it can help deliver business-critical applications better and faster.
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Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationRapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.
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Presentation Transcript - Best Practices: Protect Your Online Revenue Through Web Performance Testing
Sponsored by: GomezThis transcript will discuss optimizing application performance and quality, and various strategies that IDC sees in its research to help you improve your decision making about how you approach quality, management and performance optimization. Read on to learn more about how to protect your online revenue through web performance testing.
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Initial Investment Payback Analysis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. Dell PowerEdge 2850 solution
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®In this report, we estimate both the number of older solutions each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace and the payback period for replacing those older solutions. One key finding discovered is that each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX can replace seven Dell PowerEdge 2850 solutions, and could yield a payback in under 18 months.
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Initial Investment Payback Analysis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®In this report, we estimate both the number of older solutions each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace and the payback period for replacing those older solutions. One key finding discovered is that each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace up to nine HP ProLiant DL385 solutions, and could yield a payback in under 9 months.
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OLTP and Exhange Server performance summary of Intel Xeon Processor E5506, E5520, E5540, and X5550 on the Dell PowerEdge R710 Server
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®One key finding discovered from this test is that the Intel Xeon Processor E5520 2.26GHz-based Dell PowerEdge 710 server achieved 75.9% higher SQL Server 2008 performance than did the Intel Xeon Processor E5506 2.13GH-based Dell PowerEdge 710 server. Read this test report summary to learn more key findings.
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Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors: Top-line performance that’s bottom-line efficient
Sponsored by: HP, Vmware and AMDUnlike competitive products focused on raw performance, AMD technology-based servers deliver one platform to support the top-line demands of your business with a total cost advantage you can take right to the bottom-line.
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Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationTo regularly monitor and measure performance, senior managers require a link between their company’s strategic and operational plans. Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard can help you define a methodology-neutral strategy and measure performance against goals, monitor progress on a regular basis, and communicate across your entire enterprise.
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A Library Based Approach to Threading for Performance
Sponsored by: Intel Software NetworkLibraries play an important role in threading software to run faster on Intel multi-core platforms. Read this white paper to learn more.
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Gaining the Performance Edge Using a Column-Oriented Database Management System
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyThis paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach.
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Orion Network Performance Monitor
Sponsored by: SolarWinds, Inc.Traditional framework solutions are expensive and tough to implement; are difficult to use, maintain and customize; and often impractical for network engineers in mid- to large-sized organizations. Network engineers need affordable, scalable network management solutions that provide immediate visibility into performance of the entire network.
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Enterprise Performance Management: Joining Planning and Reporting for Superior Results
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationRead this paper on enterprise performance to learn about financial and reporting requirements, when to adopt integrated enterprise performance management processes and system software, and hear about customer examples.
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Optimizing PC Performance with Simple Benchmarking Processes
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationCheck out this paper to learn how to enhance PC performance and overall IT efficiency by utilizing Intel's unique new platform performance benchmarking process.
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Aligning Business and IT through Connected Requirements: Unifying the Development Process
Sponsored by: IBMCheck out this white paper to learn how the connected-requirements approach serves as the framework for the use of products and technologies that are designed to allow you to optimize team performance, align the development process with your organization's business goals and meet auditing and regulatory compliance requirements.
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Download the Trial: IBM Rational Performance Tester
Sponsored by: IBMDownload a free trial of IBM Rational Performance Tester, a performance testing tool, which identifies the presence and cause of system performance bottlenecks.
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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
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TCP/IP Sleuthing--Troubleshooting TCP/IP Using Your Toolbox
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeTroubleshooting is a necessary part of supporting any network installation. This paper will explain how to consider troubleshooting different problems that could exist in network.