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VMware ESX Server: Scale Up or Scale Out?
White Papers The scale-up implementation applies to architecture based on one or few large x86 server systems and involves adding components and resources to the system to achieve scalability. The scale-out implementation is based on many smaller x86 server...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
Scale-Up Versus Scale-Out Using Oracle 10g With HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays White Paper
White Papers The Oracle 10g scale-up versus scale-out paper compares two potential environments to support a large-scale Oracle 10g configuration, one using a single HP Integrity Superdome server and the other using HP server blades, both with HP StorageWorks...
[November 30, 2005, 0:00]
Intel White Paper: Scale Up Server Bandwidth With Multi-port Gigabit Adapters
White Papers Simple, small-office LANs as well as multi-tiered datacenters can maximize network availability, reliability and performance by using Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapters. This paper provides an overview of how Intel® PRO Server Adapters address the...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
Linux Sockets Acceleration: Maximizing Efficiency and Performance in the Data Center
White Papers The datacenter is undergoing a major paradigm shift driven by a need to scale up performance efficiently. Raw scale-out architectures are giving way to new scale-up architectures driven by blade servers, and multi-core host processors.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Mary Kay InTouch Community Scales Out and Up With Windows 2000 to Accommodate 1800 Percent Increase in Online Orders Over Two-Year Period
White Papers Using the scale-out and scale-up capabilities of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family, Mary Kay Inc.has been able to easily grow its online ordering solution to accommodate this phenomenal growth.
[August 10, 2007, 11:09]
IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment: Providing Enhanced Infrastructure Capabilities for SOA Environments
White Papers For most organizations, a mixture of both scale-up and scale-out computing resources is the preferred architectural approach and is often dictated by the types of workloads that need to be supported. IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment is an...
[March 2, 2007, 13:18]
Wireless deployment at enterprise level
News This feature will look at how wireless can scale up to the enterprise level, to serve hundreds or even thousands of users and to accommodate high bandwidth applications such as VoIP and video communications.
[September 14, 2006, 15:40]
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application. Coda@2Go offers a full-scale accounting software...
[May 6, 2008, 17:25]
EMC's V-Max builds up to petabytes of virtual storage
News This flexible architecture can scale up to large capacities that EMC plans to offer its largest corporate customers, the company said. By opening up the scope of virtualisation, "the scale [of a system] is no longer defined by the physical...
[April 14, 2009, 14:26]
Top 10 storage pain points
News Some are clearly over-provisioned, making them inefficient and difficult to scale, thereby driving up costs. Usually the infrastructure is complex and interoperability issues make storage networks difficult to scale to meet the increased demand.
[January 20, 2005, 17:20]
Cisco's product strategy: A view from the top
News After four years of development and a $500m investment, Cisco finally revealed the new IP core router, which it asserts can scale a capacity of up to 90 terabits per second. It's hard to imagine when service providers will need to scale to 90...
[June 9, 2004, 15:20]
Mobile tech gets cautious praise from aid groups
News I need to know how the costs and benefits scale up to the world. We need to take what the researchers have done and scale them up," Quah added. The survey, Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs, is made up of...
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
EMC claims double boost for Clariion
News The CX3-80 can support 2Gbps and 4Gbps FC disk drives in the same system and scale up to 239TB. It can scale to 59TB, with an entry-level system offering 365GB of storage for £14,650 ($27,000). It scales up to 119TB.
[May 8, 2006, 17:15]
Analysts: Hurd unlikely to split HP
News Hurd "has to scale up whatever he knows from NCR to a much bigger playing field," said Roger Kay, an analyst at IDC. But note that there is no consumer stuff and note that the scale is completely different.
[March 30, 2005, 13:30]
Sun, HP take on Squadron
News The philosophy advocating large central systems is called, in industry lingo, "scale up," compared with the "scale out" approach involving smaller systems. Scale out is all very well and good, but customers keep buying big iron, and vendors keep...
[May 16, 2003, 12:16]
Clusters won't replace high-end servers, say experts
News There are some areas where the "scale out" approach -- with numerous small systems -- beats the "scale up" approach hands-down, for tasks such as sending out streams of videos and hosting online games, for example, Bretzmann said.
[May 27, 2004, 9:45]
Apple carves out a new case for manuacturing
Blog Such a design and production system will scale up and down pretty much at will: even if you want to make something very much larger than the plant can make directly, it can print out components that efficiently clip together.
[October 5, 2008, 13:54]
Dell vetoes eight-processor server
News Scale 'em up, scale 'em out Although the scale-out approach has major support from companies such as Oracle, it's still a young technology, and there's still a lively market for multiprocessor servers.
[July 21, 2003, 13:02]
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment Utility computing wants to take over server capacity for private services and applications, using virtualisation to seamlessly scale up and scale down those services so an organisation only has to pay for the bandwidth and server capacity it uses.
[July 3, 2009, 12:01]
New kernel set to speed Linux adoption
News When version 2.6 of the Linux kernel arrives, said Jollans, it will allow the operating system to scale up much better. Hudson said he expects the 2.6 kernel to solve this issue and enable the company's database and other server products -- all of...
[October 10, 2003, 12:30]
