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Stretching the Dollar

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February 2008 | by Ken Milberg

Web Exclusive | Thanks to the New Enterprise Data Center model, the data center is becoming much more streamlined and cost effective, allowing IT departments to spend their money on more than just maintenance and energy costs.

June 2008

IBM PowerVM Lx86 The Basics

Administrator | IBM PowerVM Lx86 allows you to run x86 Linux applications that haven’t been compiled natively on the Power Architecture.

June 2008

Real-Life Project Management

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Explore the ins and outs of project management with a specific example of a server consolidation project.

April 2008

Managing Your Server Consolidation Project

e-Newsletter Exclusive | While preparing your project schedule, it’s imperative to think about any constraints, as well as any necessary training, vacation schedules and slack time that you might add to the deliverables. It’s equally important to be cognizant of your critical path so as not to delay the end date of the overall project, which can have considerable financial implications to the project.

March 2008

Server Consolidation Project Management

e-Newsletter Exclusive | As a project manager for a server consolidation project, what can you do to make sure that your project stays on schedule? How do you deal with AIX gurus who act like divas? How does project management methodology work in the context of server consolidation?

February 2008

Optimizing Partition Performance

Administrator | The key to harnessing your environment’s power is being aware of how the underlying hardware can affect partition performance. A few configuration settings can go a long way toward making sure you’re getting the full potential out of your system resources.

February 2008

Optimizing Partition Performance

e-Newsletter Exclusive | The way shared resources in partitions are configured can affect the performance of each partition and the system as a whole. The three top configuration settings for maximizing your partitions’ performance are: using dedicated-processor partitions, allocating shared-processor partitions using whole processors and minimizing the number of virtual processors configured.

January 2008

Analyzing Live Partition Mobility

e-Newsletter Exclusive | While I was in Austin, one of the things that IBM demonstrated was how you can move workloads from one machine to another. IBM calls this Live Partition Mobility. I saw it in action and I went from skeptic a believer in a matter of minutes.

November 2007

Plan for Growth

Administrator | PM for System p does more than just help you size your future needs. It can help manage the day-to-day complexities of your business processes, seasonal peaks, user demands, new application requirements and transaction growth.

November 2007

More WAS Internals

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Understand the basic functions of your system’s applications to better exploit the AIX and POWER combination.

October 2007

Benefit from WAS Internals

e-Newsletter Exclusive | The main benefits of the WebSphere Application Server are greatly improved startup time of each JVM using the shared cache and a decrease in overall memory resource requirements.

September 2007

Improving System p Server Utilization

Administrator | Improvements in server utilization and the retirement of older servers can result in reduced demands for floor space, power and cooling as well as reduction in hardware maintenance and administration expenses.

August 2007

AIX Enhancements -- Workload Partitioning

The most exciting POWER6 enhancement, live partition mobility, allows one to migrate a running LPAR to another physical box and is designed to move running partitions from one POWER6 processor-based server to another without any application downtime whatsoever.

July 2007