White Papers

Modular Computing: The New Enterprise Computing Model. Co-sponsored by Egenera and Intel.

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Data mining, online transactions and other new computing demands require collecting and processing enormous amounts of data. Still, IT departments are expected to keep up, even with budgets flat to down. Modular Computing can slash costs in IT infrastructure by enabling IT groups to consolidate equipment and conserve expensive real estate. It offers the opportunity to migrate applications from expensive proprietary platforms to more open, powerful and manageable systems.

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Scaling Siebel CRM Solutions with Oracle 10g RAC

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Siebel partnered with SRS2 in collaboration with Oracle and several hardware vendors to test the viability of this approach in Siebel environments under real-world conditions. In benchmarks utilizing a single server, a two-node Oracle 10g RAC cluster and a four-node Oracle 10g RAC cluster, the results show that Oracle 10g RAC offers 80% scalability up to 4 nodes. A single medium-sized database node supported up to 2,500 users, a 2-node cluster supported 4,000 users, and a 4-node cluster supported 8,000 users (all servers at 75% CPU utilization), proving the viability of the scale-out approach. This paper discusses the details of this investigation carried out using Egenera BladeFrame servers and Network ApplianceTM Unified Storage.

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Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise on Egenera BladeFrame Platform

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The price/performance of the Intel/Linux platform makes a compelling argument to run mission critical applications like Database Servers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. Sybase ASE on blade servers reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and gives the best Return On Investment (ROI).

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iCCS: Egenera Data Center Virtualization provides compelling advantages for users of SAP Solutions

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This paper discusses how the Egenera BladeFrame  solution, using the Intel Architecture and its Xeon platform, enables data center virtualization, offering compelling benefits for customers with an SAP solution-based environment.

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Advantages of the Egenera Processing Area Network (PAN) Architecture

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Enterprise datacenters are filled with underutilized hardware platforms rigidly tied to specific applications-the direct result of a legacy computing architecture not designed for flexibility or responsiveness. This makes today's environment extremely complex, expensive and difficult to manage. This paper discusses the PAN architecture which abstracts server and network resources in the same way that the SAN virtualized storage resources.

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Building a Financial Model for the Application Provisioning Lifecycle

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To determine which technologies are game changers for the IT organization, financial modeling is critical. Unfortunately, first-generation Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis fails to capture the true value or costs of a technology. A more expansive and inclusive technique must be used to capture all aspects of an infrastructure decision. Egenera has developed a model called the Application Provisioning Lifecycle (APL) that looks at all infrastructure, software and operational costs incurred as an application moves from development to QA to testing to production.

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Case Study: Equity Derivatives

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This document presents a case study of how the Egenera BladeFrame has been strategically implemented to provide an essential and profitable competitive advantage on the equities derivatives trading desk of a major international investment bank while lowering the CapX and OpX to the line of business.

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Lowering Datacenter TCO through Virtualization

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To dramatically lower datacenter costs and improve competitive advantage, IT organizations should start with an examination of the cost and competitive-advantage drivers in their current infrastructure. This paper examines several Global 1000 organizations, the similarities in their cost structures, and the leading causes of poor total cost of ownership (TCO) in the datacenter.

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Managing the Virtual Datacenter

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Over the past several years, the use of virtual machine (VM) or hypervisor technology has become widespread on industry-standard servers as the means to securely consolidate numerous applications on a single box. Looking into the future, we can anticipate that those hundreds of servers will become thousands of virtual machines. While this will deliver benefits in terms of better server utilization, management of this complexity will become a critical issue. Egenera's Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture combined with best-of-breed hypervisors offers the ideal foundation for a highly available, easily managed, scalable and highly utilized datacenter environment.

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Advantages of Running Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters on the Egenera BladeFrame

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Over the past decade, the use of clustering has grown in response to the need for high performance computing, high availability and load balancing. Database applications, however, have historically been run on single servers, often requiring expensive, high-capacity SMP systems that represent a single point of failure. In response, Oracle has introduced 9i Real Application Clusters--a scalable, highly available database on SAN-connected Linux machines. This paper explores how the Egenera BladeFrame with its PAN architecture provides unique advantages for this exciting new Oracle application.

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Oracle: Clustered Database Performance and Scalability on the Egenera BladeFrame System

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To demonstrate the capabilities of Oracle 10g RAC and the Egenera BladeFrame System, Egenera has conducted benchmark tests using Oracle-supplied problems. The results demonstrate how the BladeFrame and Oracle 10g RAC are an unbeatable combination.

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Oracle RAC on the Egenera BladeFrame

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Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) deployed on the Egenera BladeFrame is a key component to lowering TCO for high-performance database systems. The Egenera BladeFrame and its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture provide an unbeatable platform for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. The physical features of the BladeFrame's hardware and the virtual advantages of its software provide a natural and optimized synergy with Oracle9i RAC. The resulting benefit is a significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO) while providing for unbeatable scalability, availability, performance and manageability. Any IT organization looking to lower the TCO for high-performance database systems should investigate Oracle9i RAC running on the Egenera BladeFrame.

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Silo Busting: Deploying Oracle's 10g Grid Computing on the Egenera BladeFrame

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Traditionally, when IT is tasked with providing resources to new and existing applications, an application is treated as a single silo of hardware and software. The resources are sized to handle peak demands, configured for its specific needs and deployed. Grid computing moves away from these silos to a more horizontal approach. This allows businesses to add resources on demand to handle peak loads, resulting in better utilization of resources, service levels, and cost savings.

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Simplifying Your Risk Management Infrastructure with Egenera and Algorithmics

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The competitive nature of the financial services market causes each and every company to constantly search for ways to improve competitive advantage. Algorithmics' Algo Suite deployed on the Egenera BladeFrame system can provide a competitive advantage to financial institutions through increases in performance, scalability, manageability and business agility and decreases in total cost of ownership (TCO). Benchmark tests of Algo Suite on the BladeFrame demonstrate performance increases of two to four times versus proprietary UNIX systems.

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Verifiable DR: Making Disaster Recovery Simple and Cost Effective

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Building and maintaining server infrastructure is part of any disaster recovery (or continuous availability) plan. Traditional processing systems make this very complicated and expensive — the direct result of a legacy computing architecture not designed for flexibility or responsiveness. As a result, implementing DR with legacy computing architectures can require 2x the physical and management complexity.

The Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture eliminates the cost and complexity of implementing disaster recovery by enabling any application to run on any computing resource, at any time, automatically. The PAN simplifies DR processes (automated change control), lowers management costs (maintenance, testing, DR documentation), and increases the efficient use of DR resources. Changing the underlying architecture with a PAN can lower the capital and operational cost of implementing DR by up to 80%, while ensuring recovery in as little as 15 minutes with 100% success.

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Green Data Center and Virtualization - Reducing Power by up to 50%

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Data center complexity and the large number of servers in the data center are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption for power and cooling. This white paper analyses how Egenera reduces energy costs in the data center by up to 50%.

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Egenera Solutions for Healthcare IT - Doing More with Less: 50% Cost Reduction, 80% Less Complexity

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Healthcare organizations confront enormous challenges: rising costs, insufficient staffing resources, regulatory
requirements, higher patient expectations, and more. However, all of these challenges boil down to the basic
question: how do you provide the highest-quality care while containing costs with limited resources? Download the white paper to read about the Egenera solution.

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Curtailing the Power and Cooling Epidemic

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This white paper discusses in more depth the power and cooling crisis in the data center. It then reviews the options for dealing with these problems and how the PAN architecture aligns with each of these options.

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Egenera Processing Area Network: The Ideal Platform for an Oracle® Distributed Software Environment

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The Egenera BladeFrame system provides an excellent platform to realize the potential for Oracle distributed software environments. The BladeFrame was designed to make distributed software implementations robust, high performing, and easy to manage.

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