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Best Practices in Big Data Storage - Sponsored by Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas
Source: Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas
Release Date:May 10, 2013
From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.(Download This White Paper)
Big Data, Big Brains – Sponsored By NetApp
Source: NetApp
Release Date:April 22, 2013
Big data has proven to be one of the most promising yet challenging technologies for both government and industry. But, before IT leaders can harness the full potential of big data, there are key issues to address surrounding infrastructure, storage, personnel, and training.
MeriTalk surveyed 17 visionary big data leaders to find out what they see as the big data challenges and opportunities as well as how government can best leverage big data. Download the “Big Data, Big Brains Report”.(Download This White Paper)
Affordable Big Data Computing - Sponsored by Numascale
Source: Numascale
Release Date:May 6, 2013
The mainstreaming of Big Data is an important transformational moment in computing. Traditional clusters based on distributed memory cannot adequately handle the growing crush of data. Shared memory approaches are required. Learn how Numascale has developed a technology, NumaConnect, which turns a collection of standard servers with separate memories and IO into a unified system that delivers the functionality of high-end enterprise servers and mainframes at a fraction of the cost.(Download This White Paper)
Big Data Implementation: Hadoop and Beyond
Source: IBM, Omnibond, Xyratex
Release Date:April 9, 2013
In today's era of data-intensive computing, the big data phenomenon has grown far beyond a trend, it's become a critical top-line business issue that organizations must tackle in order to remain competitive. With the emergence of the next generation of tools for managing, storing, and analyzing data flooding the IT marketplace, deciding on the best data management solution to drive your business' requirements can be overwhelming.(Download This White Paper)
Big Data and Big Analytics for Product and Process Quality
Source: SAS
Release Date:March 20, 2013
This white paper examines how an enterprise-wide quality platform can turn existing data into substantial and sustainable revenue growth and cost savings for global manufacturers. The paper is based on the findings of the IW/SAS Enterprise Quality Survey completed by more than 400 manufacturing executives. The objectives of the survey were to determine concerns about quality among manufacturers; investigate the tools used to measure quality; and examine how using enterprise-wide analysis on quality data improves performance.(Download This White Paper)
Get Your Free Copy of NAS Optimization for Dummies sponsored by Avere Systems
Source: Avere Systems
Release Date:February 11, 2013
Today, more and more organizations need to deal with massive quantities of data. Accessing that data without frustrating and costly delays—latency—becomes harder as the amount of data stored grows larger. This book explores what you can do to eliminate latency and maintain high-speed operation, even as the amount of data you store multiplies.
Learn to:
- Scale NAS Performance separate from storage capacity
- Eliminate the three major sources of storage latency
- Gain the advantages of storage in the clou
SFA12K High Performance Solutions for Big Data: Setting the Bar in Both Bandwidth & lOPS
Source: DataDirect Networks
Release Date:December 10, 2012
Fusing unprecedented IOPS and bandwidth performance with highly efficient capacity management, the SFA12K is a high-performance storage platform for parallel file serving and deep data archival for data-intensive HPC applications.(Download This White Paper)
Solving Sparse Convex Quadratic Programming Problems with IMSL
Source: Rogue Wave Software
Release Date:November 26, 2012
Quadratic programming has a variety of applications, such as resource planning, portfolio optimization, and structural analysis. Download this technical whitepaper on the sparse convex quadratic programming solver in the IMSL C Numerical Library.(Download This White Paper)
High Performance and High Throughput, Scalable Cluster Solutions for Next Generation Sequencing
Source: RAID
Release Date:November 12, 2012
High-throughput genome sequencing, or next-generation genome sequencing (NGS), is being driven by the high demand for low-cost sequencing. NGS parallelizes the sequencing process, producing thousands or millions of sequences at once.(Download This White Paper)
High Performance Scalable, Unified Storage
Source: RAID
Release Date:November 5, 2012
This paper presents Raid Inc,’s unified, scalable structured storage solution. It incorporates and illustrates features of the unified storage model, including replication for disaster recovery, high availability and failover. In addition to delivering sustained performance and scalability, the solution provides the building blocks for the HPC industry’s lowest price-to-performance offerings.(Download This White Paper)
