QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand adapters deliver superior scalable performance, allowing organizations to effectively move applications to larger clusters to achieve the shortest time-to-solution. TrueScale adapters provide the highest message rate and lowest latency for multi-core nodes and large clusters. They also offer the highest overall bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1 platforms. Choosing QLogic ensures reliable interoperability, easier installation through standards compliance, and enhanced reliability as the only supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand solutions backed by a three-year warranty.
Juniper Announces Availability of Its Contrail SDN Solution; Showcases Custom...Juniper Networks
This whitepaper dives in Juniper's recent Contrail SDN announcements highlighting key elements of the technology, partnerships and impact as a disruptor in the space.
The document discusses latency benchmarks for different InfiniBand solutions for high performance computing. It finds that while QLogic and Mellanox solutions show similar latency for small 0-byte messages, QLogic solutions provide significantly lower latency (up to 70% lower) for larger message sizes and as the number of processes increases. This is due to QLogic's use of a connectionless protocol and optimized support for remote direct memory access, allowing latency to remain low even as the number of processes scales up. In contrast, Mellanox latency increases substantially with more processes. QLogic solutions thus offer more "scalable latency" well-suited for large-scale high performance computing applications.
Connectem's Virtual Core for Mobile solution uses network functions virtualization and VMware virtualization to efficiently process unpredictable surges in mobile network traffic. Recent testing showed the VCM solution running on VMware ESXi could process 10 times as many attach requests as traditional hardware-based infrastructure using just one standard server. The VCM solution provides elastic, high-performance processing of control plane traffic through hardware consolidation and dynamic resource allocation on VMware's virtualization platform.
NFV aims to reduce network operators' costs and improve service delivery speeds by using virtualization technology to consolidate network functions onto industry-standard servers and switches located in data centers. This allows functions like routing, firewalls, and load balancing to be delivered as software rather than via proprietary hardware appliances. NFV promises benefits like reduced capital and operational expenditures, increased flexibility and agility to deploy new services, and easier scaling of network functions. The ETSI NFV working group is working to define requirements and approaches for NFV implementation through industry collaboration.
The German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) provides computing resources and data management for climate research. It needed more powerful systems to handle increasing data demands. DKRZ purchased an IBM POWER6 cluster with QLogic InfiniBand switches. This exceeded performance expectations, ranking 27th on the Top500 list. The switches also simplified storage integration and management.
RackCorp is a cloud services provider that experienced rapid traffic growth of 100x over 12 months fueled by its popular CDN service CacheCentric. This highlighted the need to upgrade RackCorp's 1Gbps network to 10Gbps for greater scalability. RackCorp selected Brocade switches for their high performance, low latency, and support for RackCorp's automation strategies. The new Brocade fabric provided a scalable backbone that supported continued growth and attracted new customers.
IT Brand Pulse industry brief describing a new approach to configuring virtual networks for virtual machines...layering hypervisor-based virtual networking services on top of hardware based virtual networking services. The result is more efficient management and lower costs.
40 100 gigabit ethernet for virtualized data center and campus networksIT Tech
40/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) can help optimize performance in virtualized data centers and campus networks. It provides higher bandwidth for applications and a smooth upgrade path as it becomes more widely adopted. Implementing 40/100 GbE using switches and cabling solutions from Cisco and CommScope allows existing infrastructure investments to be preserved while migrating to higher speeds now and in the future.
Juniper Announces Availability of Its Contrail SDN Solution; Showcases Custom...Juniper Networks
This whitepaper dives in Juniper's recent Contrail SDN announcements highlighting key elements of the technology, partnerships and impact as a disruptor in the space.
The document discusses latency benchmarks for different InfiniBand solutions for high performance computing. It finds that while QLogic and Mellanox solutions show similar latency for small 0-byte messages, QLogic solutions provide significantly lower latency (up to 70% lower) for larger message sizes and as the number of processes increases. This is due to QLogic's use of a connectionless protocol and optimized support for remote direct memory access, allowing latency to remain low even as the number of processes scales up. In contrast, Mellanox latency increases substantially with more processes. QLogic solutions thus offer more "scalable latency" well-suited for large-scale high performance computing applications.
Connectem's Virtual Core for Mobile solution uses network functions virtualization and VMware virtualization to efficiently process unpredictable surges in mobile network traffic. Recent testing showed the VCM solution running on VMware ESXi could process 10 times as many attach requests as traditional hardware-based infrastructure using just one standard server. The VCM solution provides elastic, high-performance processing of control plane traffic through hardware consolidation and dynamic resource allocation on VMware's virtualization platform.
NFV aims to reduce network operators' costs and improve service delivery speeds by using virtualization technology to consolidate network functions onto industry-standard servers and switches located in data centers. This allows functions like routing, firewalls, and load balancing to be delivered as software rather than via proprietary hardware appliances. NFV promises benefits like reduced capital and operational expenditures, increased flexibility and agility to deploy new services, and easier scaling of network functions. The ETSI NFV working group is working to define requirements and approaches for NFV implementation through industry collaboration.
The German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) provides computing resources and data management for climate research. It needed more powerful systems to handle increasing data demands. DKRZ purchased an IBM POWER6 cluster with QLogic InfiniBand switches. This exceeded performance expectations, ranking 27th on the Top500 list. The switches also simplified storage integration and management.
RackCorp is a cloud services provider that experienced rapid traffic growth of 100x over 12 months fueled by its popular CDN service CacheCentric. This highlighted the need to upgrade RackCorp's 1Gbps network to 10Gbps for greater scalability. RackCorp selected Brocade switches for their high performance, low latency, and support for RackCorp's automation strategies. The new Brocade fabric provided a scalable backbone that supported continued growth and attracted new customers.
IT Brand Pulse industry brief describing a new approach to configuring virtual networks for virtual machines...layering hypervisor-based virtual networking services on top of hardware based virtual networking services. The result is more efficient management and lower costs.
40 100 gigabit ethernet for virtualized data center and campus networksIT Tech
40/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) can help optimize performance in virtualized data centers and campus networks. It provides higher bandwidth for applications and a smooth upgrade path as it becomes more widely adopted. Implementing 40/100 GbE using switches and cabling solutions from Cisco and CommScope allows existing infrastructure investments to be preserved while migrating to higher speeds now and in the future.
Slovakian Internet Exchange improves platform to make customer experience potent differentiator by leveraging on Cisco Cloud architecture and the Fabric Path solution
QLogic announces two new InfiniBand solutions for Dell PowerEdge blade servers: 1) The QLogic 12005-PT16 QDR Pass-Through Module, which provides a dedicated 40Gb/sec QDR IB interface for Dell blade servers while taking up only a single chassis slot, and 2) The QME7342 dual-port 40Gbps QDR IB expansion card. These solutions allow Dell customers to build higher performance IB clusters with lower power consumption and added configuration flexibility compared to Mellanox's solutions. QLogic is positioned to increase its market share with Dell customers using PowerEdge servers for HPC applications.
Mobile World Congress 2017 - Creating Agility & Efficiency at Scale: New Econ...Mehdi Sif
Dell Technologies / VMwWware Theater Presentation
Creating Agility & Efficiency at Scale
New Economics, Architectures and Advantages in Deploying NFV.
Presenters: Paul Parker-Johnson (ACG Research) , Mehdi Sif (Dell EMC), Chris Wright (Red Hat), and Mallik Tatipamula (F5 Networks) ,Srini Ramasubramanian (Big Switch) Ph.D for a wonderful panel at #MWC17 sharing the details of our recent NFV deployment using Dell EMC, Red Hat, F5 Networks, and Big Switch Networks.
Cloud Computing for National Security Applicationswhite paper
The document describes a solution called Service Oriented Architecture - Real Time (SOA-R) that integrates cloud computing, real-time services, storage, workflows, applications, infrastructure, and networking for national security applications. SOA-R provides secure, standards-based implementation of these technologies to provide domain-specific solutions to national security agencies. Key partners that contribute components to SOA-R solutions are also described.
Air Force Provides Any Service, Anytime, Anywhere, Securely. Royal Saudi Air Force consolidates IT infrastructure with new Cisco network to improve operations, reduce cost, and easily and quickly launch new services.
The document discusses how future networking is being impacted by cloud/hybrid IT, software-defined networking, and network functions virtualization. Specifically:
1) The emergence of public cloud and hybrid IT models is driving more traffic to data centers and changing expectations around network flexibility and costs.
2) Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions allow businesses more control over their networks by using overlays to connect sites over multiple networks like broadband internet and MPLS.
3) Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables network functions to be deployed as software, increasing flexibility and reducing costs compared to hardware appliances.
Global and cloud connectivity april webinarYasminAG1
OmniClouds provides global connectivity solutions through its extensive global network spanning 28 countries. It has over 28 gateways with direct connections to 1600 cloud service provider data centers and telecom operators. OmniClouds offers products like OmniBranch for SD-WAN connectivity between branches and data centers, OmniRemote for remote access, OmniConnect for optimized connectivity to private and public clouds, and OmniSec for software-defined security. OmniClouds' solutions provide simplified network management, assured application performance, and managed connectivity to the cloud.
See how the buildout of medianets—media-optimized IP networks—unleashes new capabilities and cost savings through every aspect of rich media production, contribution, distribution, and consumption, from the point of ingest all the way
to the customer screens.
IT Brand Pulse industry brief describing a new approach to configuring virtual networks for virtual machines...layering hypervisor-based virtual networking services on top of hardware based virtual networking services. The result is more efficient management and lower costs.
PLNOG 17 - Shabbir Ahmad - Dell EMC’s SDN strategy based on Open NetworkingPROIDEA
Dell EMC's open networking strategy utilizes software-defined networking and open standards to provide customers with choice and flexibility. Their strategy involves offering open network switches running open-source network operating systems along with support for third-party SDN and network virtualization controllers. This allows customers to build software-defined fabrics and leverage solutions from partners like VMware, Midokura, Big Switch, Cumulus Networks, Pluribus Networks, and IP Infusion. Dell EMC's networking portfolio and solutions like Active Fabric are designed to enable customers to build scalable software-defined data center networks.
ADVANCES IN CHANNEL-ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMINGVideoguy
This document summarizes recent advances in channel-adaptive video streaming. It reviews adaptive media playout at the client to reduce latency, rate-distortion optimized packet scheduling to determine the best packet to send, and channel-adaptive packet dependency control to improve error robustness and reduce latency. It also discusses challenges for wireless video streaming and different wireless streaming architectures.
Nevmug Green Pages Cisco Nexus January 2009csharney
GreenPages Technology Solutions is a national technology consulting and integration company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Maine. It offers services such as virtualization consulting, operational readiness assessments, and managed services. The document discusses the evolution of data center architectures from centralized to distributed to virtualized (DC 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0). It also covers 10Gb networking technologies like Data Center Ethernet and how the Cisco Nexus platform and Nexus 1000V virtual switch can provide a virtual machine-aware network for faster VM deployment, richer services, and increased efficiencies.
Transtec has over 30 years of experience in scientific computing. It originally focused on reselling computers but later began offering customized high performance computing cluster solutions using standard servers. These clusters entered the TOP 500 list of the world's fastest systems. Transtec now looks to provide turnkey HPC solutions that are easy to manage and use, hiding complexity from administrators and users. Its solutions combine components like Bright Cluster Manager, Moab, Intel technology, and Panasas storage to deliver usability, reliability and scalability.
Network service providers—those with access networks like DSL, cable, or mobile—continue
to face a dual threat: rising operating expenses associated with explosive bandwidth growth
and declining revenues driven by commoditization. A true Telco cloud, featuring automation
and dynamic scalability, becomes a comprehensive delivery platform enabling network service
providers to offer differentiated services that solve their customer’s business demands.
The IBM System Storage® SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 fabric backbones are among the industry’s newest Fibre Channel switching infrastructure offerings. Together, they provide reliable, scalable, high performance foundations for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments. These fabric backbones have been enhanced with new enterprise connectivity options to add support for IBM FICON®
Bringing Cloud Scale Efficiency to Communication Services Providers through R...Radisys Corporation
In this webinar, experts from Radisys and Intel will present the latest developments in applying Intel® RSD to SDN and NFV applications. Webinar participants will learn how the Radisys DCEngine™ hyperscale platforms, an implementation of Intel® RSD and inspired by Open Compute Project (OCP), can deliver the open software flexibility, DevOps deployment efficiencies, with carrier scalability for robust NFV deployments in emerging communication data center applications. The Webinar will include customer deployment examples, including Radisys DCEngine for open source software architectures, Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) projects, as well as Intel® RSD initiatives in telecom networking applications.
The document describes Bridge in a Box (BiB), which allows Redacted to extend its conferencing capabilities onto customers' premises. BiB consists of a Radvis server containing a virtualized Sonus SBC. The SBC establishes a SIP connection between Redacted and the customer's on-premise UC platform, allowing Redacted services like conferencing to be utilized within the customer's private network while keeping media contained. BiB allows Redacted to integrate with various UC platforms and provide services like interoperability between platforms, security, and cost savings by bypassing toll charges.
The document compares latency benchmarks for different InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) from QLogic and Mellanox. It finds that while the HCAs show similar latency for small 0-byte messages, QLogic's HCAs provide a significant latency advantage over Mellanox's ConnectX HCA for larger message sizes such as 128 bytes and 1024 bytes. Specifically, for 128-byte messages QLogic's QLE7140 and QLE7280 HCAs have a latency 60% lower than ConnectX, and for 1024-byte messages their latency is 70% lower. Additionally, as the number of MPI processes increases in a "scalable latency" test, QLogic's HCA
The document discusses the history and future of user interfaces. It traces the evolution from command line interfaces to modern touchscreen-based natural user interfaces. The document suggests that future interfaces may move beyond touchscreens towards more natural interactions incorporating speech, gestures, and spatial recognition. It provides guidelines for designing natural user interfaces that are simple, usable, and ergonomic while respecting privacy and usability concerns. The document also profiles several emerging interface technologies.
This document discusses the importance of understanding global business management and political-legal environments for students pursuing an MBA. It notes that graduates may find themselves working in foreign countries, so global knowledge prepares them. The document then outlines the topics to be covered in a Global Business Management course, including globalization, trade, technology, economics, politics, and law. It focuses on political and legal environments, defining different political systems like democracy and totalitarianism. It also covers assessing and managing political risks internationally.
This document outlines the topics and contents of a course on global marketing management. The course covers key concepts in international marketing such as frameworks, research, decision-making, market entry, product planning, pricing strategies, distribution systems, and promoting products internationally. It also describes a student project which involves developing a comprehensive international marketing plan and strategies for exporting an Indian product to a selected foreign country.
Slovakian Internet Exchange improves platform to make customer experience potent differentiator by leveraging on Cisco Cloud architecture and the Fabric Path solution
QLogic announces two new InfiniBand solutions for Dell PowerEdge blade servers: 1) The QLogic 12005-PT16 QDR Pass-Through Module, which provides a dedicated 40Gb/sec QDR IB interface for Dell blade servers while taking up only a single chassis slot, and 2) The QME7342 dual-port 40Gbps QDR IB expansion card. These solutions allow Dell customers to build higher performance IB clusters with lower power consumption and added configuration flexibility compared to Mellanox's solutions. QLogic is positioned to increase its market share with Dell customers using PowerEdge servers for HPC applications.
Mobile World Congress 2017 - Creating Agility & Efficiency at Scale: New Econ...Mehdi Sif
Dell Technologies / VMwWware Theater Presentation
Creating Agility & Efficiency at Scale
New Economics, Architectures and Advantages in Deploying NFV.
Presenters: Paul Parker-Johnson (ACG Research) , Mehdi Sif (Dell EMC), Chris Wright (Red Hat), and Mallik Tatipamula (F5 Networks) ,Srini Ramasubramanian (Big Switch) Ph.D for a wonderful panel at #MWC17 sharing the details of our recent NFV deployment using Dell EMC, Red Hat, F5 Networks, and Big Switch Networks.
Cloud Computing for National Security Applicationswhite paper
The document describes a solution called Service Oriented Architecture - Real Time (SOA-R) that integrates cloud computing, real-time services, storage, workflows, applications, infrastructure, and networking for national security applications. SOA-R provides secure, standards-based implementation of these technologies to provide domain-specific solutions to national security agencies. Key partners that contribute components to SOA-R solutions are also described.
Air Force Provides Any Service, Anytime, Anywhere, Securely. Royal Saudi Air Force consolidates IT infrastructure with new Cisco network to improve operations, reduce cost, and easily and quickly launch new services.
The document discusses how future networking is being impacted by cloud/hybrid IT, software-defined networking, and network functions virtualization. Specifically:
1) The emergence of public cloud and hybrid IT models is driving more traffic to data centers and changing expectations around network flexibility and costs.
2) Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions allow businesses more control over their networks by using overlays to connect sites over multiple networks like broadband internet and MPLS.
3) Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables network functions to be deployed as software, increasing flexibility and reducing costs compared to hardware appliances.
Global and cloud connectivity april webinarYasminAG1
OmniClouds provides global connectivity solutions through its extensive global network spanning 28 countries. It has over 28 gateways with direct connections to 1600 cloud service provider data centers and telecom operators. OmniClouds offers products like OmniBranch for SD-WAN connectivity between branches and data centers, OmniRemote for remote access, OmniConnect for optimized connectivity to private and public clouds, and OmniSec for software-defined security. OmniClouds' solutions provide simplified network management, assured application performance, and managed connectivity to the cloud.
See how the buildout of medianets—media-optimized IP networks—unleashes new capabilities and cost savings through every aspect of rich media production, contribution, distribution, and consumption, from the point of ingest all the way
to the customer screens.
IT Brand Pulse industry brief describing a new approach to configuring virtual networks for virtual machines...layering hypervisor-based virtual networking services on top of hardware based virtual networking services. The result is more efficient management and lower costs.
PLNOG 17 - Shabbir Ahmad - Dell EMC’s SDN strategy based on Open NetworkingPROIDEA
Dell EMC's open networking strategy utilizes software-defined networking and open standards to provide customers with choice and flexibility. Their strategy involves offering open network switches running open-source network operating systems along with support for third-party SDN and network virtualization controllers. This allows customers to build software-defined fabrics and leverage solutions from partners like VMware, Midokura, Big Switch, Cumulus Networks, Pluribus Networks, and IP Infusion. Dell EMC's networking portfolio and solutions like Active Fabric are designed to enable customers to build scalable software-defined data center networks.
ADVANCES IN CHANNEL-ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMINGVideoguy
This document summarizes recent advances in channel-adaptive video streaming. It reviews adaptive media playout at the client to reduce latency, rate-distortion optimized packet scheduling to determine the best packet to send, and channel-adaptive packet dependency control to improve error robustness and reduce latency. It also discusses challenges for wireless video streaming and different wireless streaming architectures.
Nevmug Green Pages Cisco Nexus January 2009csharney
GreenPages Technology Solutions is a national technology consulting and integration company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Maine. It offers services such as virtualization consulting, operational readiness assessments, and managed services. The document discusses the evolution of data center architectures from centralized to distributed to virtualized (DC 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0). It also covers 10Gb networking technologies like Data Center Ethernet and how the Cisco Nexus platform and Nexus 1000V virtual switch can provide a virtual machine-aware network for faster VM deployment, richer services, and increased efficiencies.
Transtec has over 30 years of experience in scientific computing. It originally focused on reselling computers but later began offering customized high performance computing cluster solutions using standard servers. These clusters entered the TOP 500 list of the world's fastest systems. Transtec now looks to provide turnkey HPC solutions that are easy to manage and use, hiding complexity from administrators and users. Its solutions combine components like Bright Cluster Manager, Moab, Intel technology, and Panasas storage to deliver usability, reliability and scalability.
Network service providers—those with access networks like DSL, cable, or mobile—continue
to face a dual threat: rising operating expenses associated with explosive bandwidth growth
and declining revenues driven by commoditization. A true Telco cloud, featuring automation
and dynamic scalability, becomes a comprehensive delivery platform enabling network service
providers to offer differentiated services that solve their customer’s business demands.
The IBM System Storage® SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 fabric backbones are among the industry’s newest Fibre Channel switching infrastructure offerings. Together, they provide reliable, scalable, high performance foundations for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments. These fabric backbones have been enhanced with new enterprise connectivity options to add support for IBM FICON®
Bringing Cloud Scale Efficiency to Communication Services Providers through R...Radisys Corporation
In this webinar, experts from Radisys and Intel will present the latest developments in applying Intel® RSD to SDN and NFV applications. Webinar participants will learn how the Radisys DCEngine™ hyperscale platforms, an implementation of Intel® RSD and inspired by Open Compute Project (OCP), can deliver the open software flexibility, DevOps deployment efficiencies, with carrier scalability for robust NFV deployments in emerging communication data center applications. The Webinar will include customer deployment examples, including Radisys DCEngine for open source software architectures, Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) projects, as well as Intel® RSD initiatives in telecom networking applications.
The document describes Bridge in a Box (BiB), which allows Redacted to extend its conferencing capabilities onto customers' premises. BiB consists of a Radvis server containing a virtualized Sonus SBC. The SBC establishes a SIP connection between Redacted and the customer's on-premise UC platform, allowing Redacted services like conferencing to be utilized within the customer's private network while keeping media contained. BiB allows Redacted to integrate with various UC platforms and provide services like interoperability between platforms, security, and cost savings by bypassing toll charges.
The document compares latency benchmarks for different InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) from QLogic and Mellanox. It finds that while the HCAs show similar latency for small 0-byte messages, QLogic's HCAs provide a significant latency advantage over Mellanox's ConnectX HCA for larger message sizes such as 128 bytes and 1024 bytes. Specifically, for 128-byte messages QLogic's QLE7140 and QLE7280 HCAs have a latency 60% lower than ConnectX, and for 1024-byte messages their latency is 70% lower. Additionally, as the number of MPI processes increases in a "scalable latency" test, QLogic's HCA
The document discusses the history and future of user interfaces. It traces the evolution from command line interfaces to modern touchscreen-based natural user interfaces. The document suggests that future interfaces may move beyond touchscreens towards more natural interactions incorporating speech, gestures, and spatial recognition. It provides guidelines for designing natural user interfaces that are simple, usable, and ergonomic while respecting privacy and usability concerns. The document also profiles several emerging interface technologies.
This document discusses the importance of understanding global business management and political-legal environments for students pursuing an MBA. It notes that graduates may find themselves working in foreign countries, so global knowledge prepares them. The document then outlines the topics to be covered in a Global Business Management course, including globalization, trade, technology, economics, politics, and law. It focuses on political and legal environments, defining different political systems like democracy and totalitarianism. It also covers assessing and managing political risks internationally.
This document outlines the topics and contents of a course on global marketing management. The course covers key concepts in international marketing such as frameworks, research, decision-making, market entry, product planning, pricing strategies, distribution systems, and promoting products internationally. It also describes a student project which involves developing a comprehensive international marketing plan and strategies for exporting an Indian product to a selected foreign country.
The document discusses various methods for sales forecasting. It describes qualitative methods like jury of expert opinion and Delphi method which rely on expert judgments. Quantitative methods like naive method, moving averages, and exponential smoothing use past sales data to project future trends. Customer-based methods involve market testing of new products and surveying potential buyers to directly assess future demand. The goal of sales forecasting is to estimate future revenues in order to optimize supply chain management, production planning, and profitability.
This document discusses motivating salespeople and sales forces. It covers:
1. What motivates salespeople, including intrinsic factors like enjoying their job and extrinsic factors like pay and benefits.
2. Theories of motivation, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Hertzberg's two-factor theory, and Adam's equity theory.
3. Ways to motivate salespeople, such as financial rewards, recognition, training opportunities, and balancing work and personal life.
This document discusses 8 reasons to choose QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand adapters over competitors. QLogic adapters deliver superior scalable performance through the highest message rates for multi-core nodes and large clusters. They also have the lowest latency when scaled and the highest bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1 platforms. Additionally, QLogic ensures guaranteed interoperability through compliance with industry standards and support for OpenFabrics, as well as enhanced reliability as the only supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand networking products.
This document discusses the framework of global marketing management. It begins by explaining how international marketing has become important for business schools to develop global strategies. It then outlines the aims and importance of the course on global marketing management. The document provides details on key topics that will be covered in the course, including frameworks for global marketing, research, decision making, market entry strategies, and more. It emphasizes that global marketing management provides skills for operating in today's expanded and competitive global business environment.
This document discusses a course on international trade logistics taught at IILM Graduate School of Management. It provides an overview of topics that will be covered in the course, including logistics frameworks, supply chain management, transportation, warehousing, and global logistics outsourcing. Specifically, it outlines the benefits of logistics outsourcing for companies, the evolution of third-party and fourth-party logistics providers, and factors to consider when selecting a logistics service provider.
The document discusses sales forecasting techniques. It covers estimating market demand, company demand, and developing a sales forecast in three stages. Several qualitative and quantitative forecasting methods are described, including judgment-based techniques like the jury of expert opinion method and Delphi method, as well as quantitative sales extrapolation and customer-based methods. The purpose, process, and key considerations in sales forecasting are also outlined.
The document describes the key stages in the selling process: prospecting, pre-approach, approach, need identification, sales presentation, handling objections, closing the sale, and follow-up. It provides details on each stage, including various prospecting methods and techniques for need identification, presentation, and handling objections. The overall purpose is to outline the steps involved in successfully completing a sale.
This document discusses logistical packaging. It begins by distinguishing between consumer packaging, which is designed for marketing objectives, and logistical packaging, which is designed for distribution objectives to prevent damage during transportation and handling of bulk quantities. Common methods of unitizing packaging include containers, pallets, and slip sheets. Common packaging materials used for logistics include corrugated fiberboard, steel, plastics, and wood. The document concludes with a case study of Trans India Freight Services and their innovative "trans-rak" logistical packaging solution for the automotive industry.
Ssm lecture-22 & 23 (direct selling and marketing system-old)Revisiting Strategy
This document discusses direct selling and provides definitions and perspectives on it. It defines direct selling as the distribution of consumer goods and services through personal contact away from fixed business locations. It discusses direct selling from operational, tactical, and strategic perspectives. It also provides examples of products commonly sold through direct selling and characteristics of direct sellers.
This document discusses global distribution systems and international logistics for global marketing management. It defines international logistics as the conceptualization, design, and implementation of systems for direct flow of goods and services across national borders. The document outlines various international distribution channels, including direct channels like manufacturer agents and indirect channels like importers' buying agents. It also discusses factors that influence channel width and managing international logistics and ocean transportation. The overall purpose is to provide an overview of global distribution systems as part of a course on global marketing management.
Ssm lecture-08 & 09 (sales force recruitment & selection)Revisiting Strategy
The document discusses the process of recruitment and selection of salespeople. It describes finding internal and external applicants, the selection process which includes application forms, testing, interviews, background checks and exams. The goals are to understand the skills needed for sales roles, recruit the best candidates, and prepare them for the job through socialization. Selection aims to improve hiring quality while analyzing applicant qualifications in an objective manner.
The document discusses managing direct marketing campaigns. It begins by explaining what direct marketing is and discussing database marketing. It then explores setting objectives for campaigns, including financial, communication, and marketing objectives. Key aspects of managing campaigns that are covered include identifying target audiences, making creative decisions, choosing appropriate media, executing the campaign, and evaluating its performance. Metrics for evaluating campaign success such as response rates, new customers acquired, and customer lifetime value are also examined.
This document discusses direct marketing and database marketing. It begins by defining direct marketing and explaining the growth of direct marketing due to factors like market fragmentation, advances in computer technology, and the increased availability of customer data. It then discusses how direct marketing has transformed some markets by allowing companies like Dell, First Direct bank, and Direct Line insurance to eliminate intermediaries. The document also explains what database marketing is and how companies can use customer databases to target specific segments, strengthen customer relationships, and tailor their marketing efforts.
Data Driven Design (in practice) at Finnair - slides from #opmuotoilu Day, 9t...Mikko Kiviniemi
This document discusses data-driven design and how data can inform the design process. It makes three key points:
1. Fragmented data across systems challenges companies to deliver personalized content automatically. Data and analytics can facilitate insight development and decision-making.
2. Inclusive, co-creative methods using relevant stakeholders and lean approaches that validate ideas fast and often can help design with high velocity. Multivariate testing allows utilizing all eligible solutions.
3. A dynamic, personalized service can be achieved by segmenting and tagging content for different user groups based on data like customer level, history, and preferences. This provides a tailored experience drawing from universal and personal information.
Marvell QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 FC HBAs Double Performance and FlexibilityMarvell
Accelerate Virtualization and Cloud Deployments While Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks
KEY FINDINGS
Support for increased workloads, acceleration of application performance, and meeting the growing demands placed on the enterprise data center is key in the selection and deployment of a 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter with the right architecture to scale
and support robust databases, mail servers, and secondary storage.
• Performance: QLogic® adapters from Cavium™ deliver double the performance of previous-generation adapters with up to 1.2 million IOPS and 3200 MBps bidirectional throughput.
• Superior Virtual Scalability and Lower Costs: Greater performance, VM density, and cost savings compared to Emulex adapters in VMware® vSphere® 5 and Microsoft® Hyper-V®environments.
• Unparalleled Flexibility: QLogic I/OFlex™ technology—any I/O, any network.
• Integrated Brocade Fabric Features: QLogic adapters deliver improved availability, streamlined deployment, and increased network performance.
To know more visit @ https://www.marvell.com/fibre-channel-adapters-and-controllers/
NEC's HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) provides a complete virtualization solution in a single appliance that is designed for ease-of-use, high availability, and scalability. The HCI solution is powered by Scale Computing's HC3 software and resides on NEC's Express5800/D120h modular server. It continuously monitors virtual machines and infrastructure components to automatically respond to events and maintain application availability while simplifying management. The HCI solution offers a flexible "datacenter in a box" that operates as an elastic private cloud and helps optimize resources and business performance.
The evolution of data center network fabricsCisco Canada
This document discusses Cisco's hybrid cloud solutions and the challenges of adopting a hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides an overview of Cisco's portfolio including the Nexus 9500/9300 series which provides increased scalability, performance and automation capabilities. Cisco solutions help modernize infrastructure through consolidation, simplification, automation and making the datacenter cloud-ready to improve cost, performance and security across private and public clouds.
Netronome invented the flexible network flow processor and hardware-accelerated server-based networking. Learn more from Netronome's Corporate Brochure.
Belden Total Enterprise Network White Paperadventive1
The document discusses the future of converged networks in enterprises, where different building systems like networking, AV, security, and building management will transmit signals over a common IP infrastructure. It outlines the key drivers for convergence like increased data and bandwidth demands, mobility needs, safety/security concerns, environmental initiatives, and reducing costs. Enterprises face challenges in deploying converged networks as they start down this path over the next decade. The networks of the future will require performance across various cabling systems and seamless integration of different building operating systems.
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TrueScale™ InfiniBand™ Adapters
TrueScale Architecture Enables Reliable End-to-End Support for OpenFabrics
Software Distribution
Superior Scalable Performance
Executive Summary Key Findings
Choosing QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand provides superior return
QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand (IB) Host Channel adapters (HCas)
On Investment (rOI) due to:
deliver industry-leading scalable performance, allowing
organizations to effectively move their applications onto larger Superior Performance of High Performance Computing (HPC)
clusters to achieve the shortest time-to-solution and to maximize Applications
their return On Investment (rOI). 1. TrueScale adapters deliver the highest message rate for multi-
core compute nodes and large node count clusters
QLogic’s TrueScale adapters demonstrate ultra-low latency, the
2. TrueScale architecture delivers the lowest scalable latency
highest message rate, and a high effective bandwidth compared
to any competitive offering in the market today. additionally, 3. Highest overall bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1 platforms
these superior performance attributes are maintained as the core
4. Superior power efficiency
and node counts are scaled. as a result, organizations relying on
Guaranteed Interoperability
clustered systems for critical computing tasks will experience a
significant increase in productivity as they expand their compute 5. Easiest installation due to compliance to industry standards.
Customers can leverage QLogic’s NETtrack™ program, which
clusters.
insures that QLogic adapters are certified across all major IB
applications.
QLogic, as a world-class supplier of Enterprise connectivity
solutions in Fibre Channel and Ethernet technologies, is now • PCI-SIG and InfiniBand Trade association (IBTa)
offering their InfiniBand customers differentiated benefits, such compliance
as lower cost of ownership, industry leading adapter warranty, 6. Support for OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) with
reliability, and 24×7 customer support. optional enhancements to improve MPI applications, SrP, and
VNIC performance
This paper provides an overview of the advantages of QLogic
Enhanced Reliability
TrueScale adapters, with a focus on factors that matter to CIOs,
end users, and systems administrators: scalable performance, 7. Only supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand networking products
reliability, low power, superior application performance, and
8. Highest product reliability, backed by a 3-year warranty
ROI.
• Stateless design is inherently more resilient to fabric
failures
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When messaging requirements dominate in an application, QLogic’s
Introduction
advantage over alternative interconnect solutions is significant at
Interconnect performance has become a key factor in overall
small scales and dramatic at large scale. The fundamental reason is
application and clustered system performance. This will continue
that QLogic’s architecture and interfaces are optimized to spend the
to be the case as applications become more complex, more
least amount of time on parallel communications, so that applications
sophisticated, and are scaled onto increasingly larger clusters to
can make better use of their computation resources and generate
accelerate the time-to-solution for critical business and scientific
answers quicker.
problems.
QLogic’s IB adapters deliver superior rOI by lowering both capital
and operating expense. QLogic adapter’s superior ability to scale
Superior Performance
real-world applications means that organizations can achieve
Reason #1: Highest Message Rate Performance better utilization of their clustered computing assets, and therefore
Designed to leverage the capabilities of multi-core servers, the maximize their rOI. In addition, QLogic’s solutions allow bridging
TrueScale architecture can handle the increase in communication to both Ethernet and FC data center fabrics, giving customers the
requirements in a multi-core environment. With the prevalence flexibility to implement a converged fabric for their data center needs
of multi-core compute nodes in today’s HPC clusters, the while leveraging investments in their existing infrastructure.
communications burden per adapter is far greater than when single
and dual-core servers were the norm. Reason #3: Highest Overall Bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1
Platforms
To maintain a balanced system and make effective use of the QLogic is the only supplier of PCI Express Gen1 x16 IB adapters on the
available cores, the interconnect must be able to efficiently process market. For customers deploying PCI Express Gen1 platforms, only
a large number of messages at varied patterns. Unmatched in QLogic TrueScale adapters can take full advantage of the bandwidth
message rate performance, the TrueScale architecture is the ideal capability of the Double Date rate (DDr) InfiniBand aSIC and achieve
choice for multi-core compute nodes. true DDr performance.
Reason #2: Lowest Scalable Latency The following table lists the message rate, scalable latency, and
HPC application codes have become more parallelized to take peak bandwidth performance of the two TrueScale DDr adapters,
advantage of advances in cluster computing. as a result, these which offers the fastest time to solution and the highest rOI for HPC
codes are being deployed on larger systems now that they can take applications.
advantage of the additional compute resources available. Due to
the connectionless design and light-weight memory footprint per
process, only the TrueScale adapter was designed from the ground
up to scale efficiently with the size of the fabric.
TrueScale adapter OSU Message rate @ 8 ppn HPCC random ring Latency @ Throughput Performance
128 Cores
QLogic QLE7240 PCIe Gen1 x8 19 Million messages/sec 1.3 µs 1500 MBps
QLogic QLE7280 PCIe Gen1 x16 26 Million messages/sec 1.1 µs 1950 MBps
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The QLE7200 series adapter’s low latency and high message rates QLogic InfiniBand Watts
result in superior real-world application scalability across nearly all HCa (maximum)
modeling and simulation applications. Well known applications that
QLE7140 2
have demonstrated superior scaling and outstanding performance
QLE7240 5.5
when running on clusters with the TrueScale interconnect include:
NaMD, amber8, STar-CD®, Fluent®, NWChem, DL_POLY, LS-DYNa®, QLE7280 6.5
aBaQUS®, PowerFlow, OpenFOaM, Eclipse™, WrF, POP, MM5,
LaMMPS, GaMMES, CPMD, aM2, CHarMM, GrOMaCS, and many
Typical wattage requirements could be considerably less depending
others.
on the communications activity at the time of measurement, but no
other IB vendor can provide maximum performance within these
power envelopes.
Guaranteed Interoperability
Enterprises deploying clustered computing infrastructures based on
IB require maximum levels of flexibility when it comes to selecting
and deploying network interconnect technology. Besides providing
the best performing IB adapters on the market, QLogic also delivers
unprecedented levels of flexibility when it comes to choices of
available software, hardware, interoperability, and interfaces to other
data center network fabrics.
Reason #5: Easiest Installation Due to Compliance to Industry
Beyond Hero Numbers White Paper Standards
an active board member of the OpenFabrics alliance, QLogic is fully
committed to industry standard form factors and IBTa specification
compliance. The only vendor to offer PCI Express x8 and x16 form
factor adapters that satisfy the IBTa 1.2 specification, QLogic plays
a leading role in fostering the adoption of InfiniBand technology as
an open standard and the continued development of the IB eco-
system.
DDr IB HCas QLogic Mellanox®
TrueScale ConnectX™
IBTa 1.2 compliance 4 No
QLogic’s TrueScale IB adapters provide:
Real Application Performance White Paper
• Support for popular file systems including GPFS, Lustre™, and
Please refer to the following UrL for White Papers on performance in
NFS®
real-world applications:
• Support for block storage devices including both direct-attached
http://www.qlogic.com/Educationandresources/
IB storage and gateway-attached Fibre Channel storage
WhitePapersresourcelibraryHpc.aspx
• Support for 10Gb Ethernet gateway for Ethernet network
connectivity
Reason #4: Superior Power Efficiency
QLogic’s TrueScale HCas are designed to provide outstanding • Support for the OpenFabrics alliance OFED release as well as all
performance with very low power requirements compared to standard OFED transport protocols
competitive offerings. The following chart depicts the maximum
• Support for the most common MPI implementations including
wattage draw for QLogic InfiniBand adapters.
Platform (Scali), HP, Intel®, QLogic, OpenMPI, MVaPICH, and
MPICH2
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• QLogic enhanced versions of the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP)
• Interoperability with all fabric switches including QLogic, Voltaire®,
and VNIC are also available, along with a variety of host-based
Cisco®, Mellanox, and Flextronics
utilities.
• Interoperability with fabric subnet managers from OFED, QLogic,
and all proprietary switch vendors all of these stacks can be used with the QLogic TrueScale adapter
to address requirements for high performance MPI applications in
• Interoperability with a wide variety of IB passive copper, active
addition to sockets and storage networking.
copper, and optical fiber cabling solutions
Cluster administrators can enjoy peace of mind when deploying The following graphic depicts the various components of the
QLogic TrueScale adapters, knowing that the adapters will work software stack provided by QLogic. The items in red are sourced
with their existing infrastructure as well as with any IBTa compliant from the OFED release. The optional value-added components from
equipment that will be added in the future. QLogic are in aqua. The community and third-party components are
in blue.
QLogic’s NETtrack Partner Program ensures that QLogic adapters
are certified with the most extensive list of IB application vendors in
the marketplace.
Options QLogic Mellanox
Certificate http://www.qlogic.com/ No
Partner Program interoperability/NETtrack.aspx
Orderable No
Hard Copy
Certification
Enhanced reliability
Guides
Reason #7: QLogic is the Only One-Stop Shop for End-to-End IB
Networking Products
HPC Interoperability Guide
QLogic is an end-to-end supplier of IB infrastructure products, from
host adapters and OpenFabrics-based software stacks to a wide
Reason #6: QLogic Provides Enhancements to Key Features in
variety of Edge and Director Class switch products that enable
OpenFabrics Software
the right-sizing of the cluster. QLogic also provides multi-protocol
QLogic offers a single Linux® driver that works with all QLogic
gateway products to extend into Ethernet LaN and Fibre Channel
adapters based on the TrueScale architecture. In addition, QLogic’s
SaN environments, a variety of active and passive cabling options,
driver is distributed as part of OFED and is included in the Linux
and a comprehensive portfolio of cluster management tools to tie it
distributions via kernel.org. OFED is an open source community stack
all together.
that includes protocols for sockets and storage communications;
and delivers industry standard IPoIB, SDP, SrP, and other upper level
QLogic’s complete IB solution includes:
protocols to applications.
• adapters
In addition to OFED, QLogic products provide the following additional
• Host software
optional capabilities:
• Switching fabric
• QLogic accelerated MPI stack: QLogic developed, this stack
• Ethernet and FC gateways
provides high performance MPI support for QLogic MPI, Open
MPI, HP-MPI, Scali MPI, MVaPICH, and MPICH2. (Check with your • Fabric management
QLogic sales representative for the latest list of supported MPI
• Copper and optical cabling solutions
libraries.)
QLogic is a proven supplier of Enterprise Class connectivity solutions
• Support for QLogic’s InfiniBand Fabric Suite (IFS): This set
and brings the benefits of an experienced, reliable partner to
of tools, which includes FastFabric™, QLogic’s Subnet Manager,
customers deploying IB networking technology. Working with a
and Fabric Viewer, simplifies installation and provides extensive
single vendor for all cluster and storage networking infrastructure
troubleshooting capabilities from a centralized location. IFS is
needs results in solution reliability and customer satisfaction.
available for purchase separately.
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Reason #8: Highest Product Reliability Backed by 3-Year Summary and Conclusion
Warranty
Choosing the right InfiniBand adapter is critical for deploying clusters
Mellanox offers only 1 year of warranty on their IB adapters, with an
that require the highest possible performance at the lowest operating
extension to 3 years at a significant cost increase. Due to a highly
costs.
integrated aSIC, QLogic TrueScale IB adapters have a simplified
design requiring less on-board components. The combination of an
QLogic TrueScale IB adapters provide superior scalable performance
integrated aSIC and a firmware-less architecture provides minimum
capabilities, allowing customers to scale their applications onto
hardware related failures and a highly reliable adapter. QLogic backs
larger clusters with “fatter” nodes and achieve the shortest time-to-
its reliability claims with an unprecedented 3-year standard warranty
solution possible for a variety of applications. reducing the time-to-
at no extra charge. In addition, the higher reliability of TrueScale
solution by increasing the efficiency and utilization of their compute
adapters will translate directly into lower operating expenses over
environment allows customers to maximize their rOI.
the lifetime of the product.
as a world-class supplier of Enterprise connectivity solutions, QLogic
offers substantial advantages as a partner, allowing customers to
enjoy many benefits, including a lower total cost of ownership and
increased support and reliability.
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appendix: Quick reference Sheet
QLogic TrueScale adapters: 8 reasons to Choose QLogic IB adapters
Category reason Benefit
Performance #1: Highest Message rate • Superior communication capabilities per adapter are well suited for
multi-core environments. High message rate per adapter can handle
Performance
communication requirements of additional cores.
#2: Lowest Scalable Latency • Superior application scaling driven by highest real messaging rate, lowest
real communications latency, and highest effective bandwidth over a
variety of message patterns. Superior communications/computation
overlap.
• Connectionless design and resulting light-weight memory footprint per
process enables better scaling.
#3: Highest Overall Bandwidth • Mellanox offers only Gen1 x8 and Gen2 x8 adapters. For customers with
Gen1 platforms, the only way to achieve full DDr performance is to use a
on PCI Express Gen1 Platforms
Gen1 x16 adapter, of which QLogic is the only supplier.
#4: Superior Power Efficiency QLogic InfiniBand Watts
HCa (maximum)
QLE7140 2
QLE7240 5.5
QLE7280 6.5
• Competitor quotes “typical” wattage rather than “maximum.” Typical
wattage requirements for QLogic could be considerably less depending
on the communications activity at the time of measurement, but no
other IB vendor can provide maximum performance within these power
envelopes.
Guaranteed #5: Easiest Installation Due • Founding member of the OpenFabrics alliance
Interoperability to Compliance to Industry • IBTa 1.2 compliance
Standards • Support for GPFS, Lustre, and NFS
• Support for block storage: IB and Fibre Channel
• Support for 10Gb Ethernet gateway
• Support for OFED release as well as all standard OFED transport
protocols
• Support for the most common MPI implementations: Platform (Scali), HP,
Intel, QLogic, OpenMPI, MVaPICH, and MPICH2
• all fabric switches including QLogic, Voltaire, Cisco, Mellanox, and
Flextronics
• Subnet Managers (SMs) from OFED, QLogic, and all proprietary switch
vendors
• all IB active and passive copper cabling as well as optical cabling
#6: QLogic Provides • In addition to OFED, QLogic provides the following additional optional
capabilities: QLogic accelerated MPI stack for QLogic MPI, Open MPI, HP-
Enhancements to Key Features
MPI, and Scali MPI; support for IFS; enhanced versions of SrP and VNIC
in OpenFabrics Software
host based utilities
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QLogic TrueScale adapters: 8 reasons to Choose QLogic IB adapters
Category reason Benefit
Enhanced Reliability #7: QLogic is the Only One- • adapters
Stop Shop for End-to-End IB • Host software
Networking Products • Switching fabric
• Ethernet and FC gateways
• Fabric management
• Copper and optical cabling solutions
• Single vendor for increased levels of customer satisfaction and solution
reliability
• Highest reliability of supply chain solutions
#8: Highest Product reliability • Mellanox offers only 1 year of warranty.
Backed by 3-Year Warranty • TrueScale IB adapters have a simplified design requiring less on-board
components.
• The combination of an integrated aSIC and a firmware-less architecture
provides minimum hardware related failures.
• Higher reliability translates into lower operating expenses over the life of
the product.
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