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nterprises have been using virtualization technology on mainframes and RISC-based systems
for years to enable better utilization of hardware resources. As x86 servers have become a mainstay
in the enterprise, more companies are exploring virtualization with these servers to enable more productive, flexible, and scalable datacenters while reducing costs and boosting data availability. Computing technologies from AMD are providing the foundation for today’s—and tomorrow’s—enterprise virtualization solutions.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
Read how IBM and NC State created a “cloud computing” model for provisioning technology that offered a quantum improvement in access, efficiency and convenience over traditional computer labs.
Communicating Virtualization to Non-IT AudiencesAkweli Parker
Virtualization brings numerous benefits including cost savings, reduced carbon footprint and potentially reduced IT workload. Implementing it successfully requires adaptation that some employees may find challenging. This paper explores those challenges and explains how to cultivate broad-based support for your virtualization project.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
Read how IBM and NC State created a “cloud computing” model for provisioning technology that offered a quantum improvement in access, efficiency and convenience over traditional computer labs.
Communicating Virtualization to Non-IT AudiencesAkweli Parker
Virtualization brings numerous benefits including cost savings, reduced carbon footprint and potentially reduced IT workload. Implementing it successfully requires adaptation that some employees may find challenging. This paper explores those challenges and explains how to cultivate broad-based support for your virtualization project.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
Faced with depressing predictions of looming budget cuts cloud computing has come to the fore of discussions to uncover relatively short-term economies in IT functions within the public sector. But how much of the cloud story is hype? How different are cloud architectures to the web-server farms that organizations have had the means to access for well over a decade? And how realistic is it that core business systems will move out of the data centre to the cloud?
Ctrls delineates how organizations are moving towards Virtualization and Cloud Computing to optimize their IT Infrastructure needs. Benefits such as cost effectiveness, scalability on demand, moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model and increased returns on investments have made virtualization a lucrative datacenter option.
IBM Systems and Technology Group Executive Brief Power Systems The Value of Virtualized Consolidation Effortlessly balance workloads, easily meet business demands with IBM POWER7 Systems More data, more applications, less utilization Table of Contents 1 More data, more applications, less utilization 1 Smarter systems to meet workload demands 2 The advantages of virtualized consolidation 4 More performance, less consumption 4 Smarter systems: delivering capacity and scalability when you need it
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
The Journey Toward the Software-Defined Data CenterCognizant
Computing's evolution toward a software-defined data center (SDDC) -- an extension of the cloud delivery model of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) -- is complex and multifaceted, involving multiple layers of virtualization: servers, storage, and networking. We provide a detailed adoption roadmap to guide your efforts.
Learn how to Build a Smarter Data Center with Juniper Networks Qfabric. This IBM Redguide publication highlights the key requirements for a smarter data center and shows how the characteristics of the data center fabric, a new switching architecture, provide the performance, scalability, flexibility, and manageability that is required. For more information on SAP HANA, visit http://ibm.co/1brCGOt.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
As a C-level executive, you are always on the lookout for ways to reduce IT costs while increasing systems capability in order to grow sales and/or improve service. Leveraging applications with automated business processes that enable user centric interconnected applications embracing interfaces that are inherently enabled for smart devices with efficient systems represents a proven way to improve the business.
Cloud computing, its types, its services, advantages and disadvantages.
Touch screen technology.
Database system, advantages and disadvantages.
Cores and their differences.
An Internship program "Experience Development" by Intellisoft for IT Candidates. Students in final semester of MCA, finished MCS, Diploma, B.E., ME or certificate course in software development.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
Faced with depressing predictions of looming budget cuts cloud computing has come to the fore of discussions to uncover relatively short-term economies in IT functions within the public sector. But how much of the cloud story is hype? How different are cloud architectures to the web-server farms that organizations have had the means to access for well over a decade? And how realistic is it that core business systems will move out of the data centre to the cloud?
Ctrls delineates how organizations are moving towards Virtualization and Cloud Computing to optimize their IT Infrastructure needs. Benefits such as cost effectiveness, scalability on demand, moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model and increased returns on investments have made virtualization a lucrative datacenter option.
IBM Systems and Technology Group Executive Brief Power Systems The Value of Virtualized Consolidation Effortlessly balance workloads, easily meet business demands with IBM POWER7 Systems More data, more applications, less utilization Table of Contents 1 More data, more applications, less utilization 1 Smarter systems to meet workload demands 2 The advantages of virtualized consolidation 4 More performance, less consumption 4 Smarter systems: delivering capacity and scalability when you need it
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
The Journey Toward the Software-Defined Data CenterCognizant
Computing's evolution toward a software-defined data center (SDDC) -- an extension of the cloud delivery model of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) -- is complex and multifaceted, involving multiple layers of virtualization: servers, storage, and networking. We provide a detailed adoption roadmap to guide your efforts.
Learn how to Build a Smarter Data Center with Juniper Networks Qfabric. This IBM Redguide publication highlights the key requirements for a smarter data center and shows how the characteristics of the data center fabric, a new switching architecture, provide the performance, scalability, flexibility, and manageability that is required. For more information on SAP HANA, visit http://ibm.co/1brCGOt.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
As a C-level executive, you are always on the lookout for ways to reduce IT costs while increasing systems capability in order to grow sales and/or improve service. Leveraging applications with automated business processes that enable user centric interconnected applications embracing interfaces that are inherently enabled for smart devices with efficient systems represents a proven way to improve the business.
Cloud computing, its types, its services, advantages and disadvantages.
Touch screen technology.
Database system, advantages and disadvantages.
Cores and their differences.
An Internship program "Experience Development" by Intellisoft for IT Candidates. Students in final semester of MCA, finished MCS, Diploma, B.E., ME or certificate course in software development.
Martijn Steger, Vinita Bahri-Mehra and Martin G. Hu (Boss & Young) presented "Doing Business Internationally: Implications for Corporate Counsel" on February 23, 2006, for the Association of Corporate Counsel.
The presentation focused on the methods of conducting business internationally, special considerations in international agreements and recent legal developments in different global markets.
Vinita Bahri-Mehra presented a detailed look at higher education in India during a group presentation titled "Roundtable Discussions with Experts" at the NACUA Annual Conference on June 29, 2015.
She discussed issues important to colleges and universities, such as regulatory governance, strategic academic models and key legal issues to consider in global education.
"Mythbusters: Employment Law Edition" was presented by Kailee Goold on November 18, 2014 for the Women Presidents' Organization (Columbus, Ohio chapter).
Kailee discussed the two most common employment law mistakes, misclassifying employees as independent contractors and which employees are exempt from wage and hour laws. She then examined how companies can prevent or fix those common mistakes.
Kegler Brown's Workers' Compensation team presented a timely and important half-day seminar for Ohio employers on November 13, 2014.
Topics discussed included the ADA in workers' comp claims, substantial aggravation, limiting wage loss liability, slip and fall claims and a policy and legislative update.
Cloud Technology and Virtualization
"Project Deliverable 4: Cloud Technology and Virtualization"
Christopher Nevels
Dr. Darcel Ford
CIS 590
11-24-13
Cloud Technology and Virtualization
There are many reasons companies and organizations are investing in server virtualization. Some of the reasons are financially motivated, while others address technical concerns. Server virtualization conserves space through consolidation. It's common practice to dedicate each server to a single application. If several applications only use a small amount of processing power, the network administrator can consolidate several machines into one server running multiple virtual environments. For companies that have hundreds or thousands of servers, the need for physical space can decrease significantly. Server virtualization provides a way for companies to practice redundancy without purchasing additional hardware. Redundancy refers to running the same application on multiple servers. It's a safety measure -- if a server fails for any reason, another server running the same application can take its place. This minimizes any interruption in service. It wouldn't make sense to build two virtual servers performing the same application on the same physical server. If the physical server were to crash, both virtual servers would also fail. In most cases, network administrators will create redundant virtual servers on different physical machines. Virtual servers offer programmers isolated, independent systems in which they can test new applications or operating systems. Rather than buying a dedicated physical machine, the network administrator can create a virtual server on an existing machine. Because each virtual server is independent in relation to all the other servers, programmers can run software without worrying about affecting other applications (Strickland 2013).
Cloud computing is ideal for small companies, as it’s cost-effective, saves time and energy, and it allows for a high level of customization. According to Forbes, a 2009 study found that cloud computing could save up to 67% of the lifecycle cost for server deployment on a large scale. Another study found that using cloud solutions generally results in higher investment returns (when compared to an on-site system). There are further cost saving benefits, such as less need for expensive hardware and software, and no need for physical networks or IT maintenance. Also, cloud systems are usually ‘pay-as-you-go’, so you only pay for what you use. There are no upfront investments, and IT requirements can be easily budgeted for. Also, various cloud services can either be added or scaled back, depending on where your business is, and how much growth is taking place. The cloud is also highly customizable: you can select what platform you want, which payroll software to use, and what email marketing tools you require – all from different vendors, and all individually configurable (K2 SEO 2013).
The c.
IT has become increasingly complex and difficult to manage
and scale. Costs are growing at unprecedented rates, as
enterprises continue to add technologies in response to an
explosion in the quantity and new types of data. This explosion in data and the patchwork of methods used to store, retrieve
and provide usable views has resulted in inefficiencies in data center architecture, duplication of data base licenses, increased costs for data storage and management, and inefficient use of data center technicians. Database replication alone has precipitated new challenges and resulted in the lack of consolidation
of numerous software middleware licenses, further increasing costs.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
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Cloud Computing: Virtualization and Resiliency for
Data Center Computing
Valentina Salapura
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
[email protected]
Index Terms — Cloud computing, data center management,
data center optimization, virtualization, Infrastructure as a
service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), Software as a service
(SaaS), high availability, disaster recovery, virtual appliance.
INTRODUCTION
Cloud computing is being rapidly adopted across the IT
industry, driven by the need to reduce the total cost of
ownership of increasingly more demanding workloads. Within
companies, private clouds are offering a more efficient way to
manage and use private data centers. In the broader
marketplace, public clouds offer the promise of buying
computing capabilities based on a utility model. This utility
model enables IT consumers to purchase compute resources on
demand to fit current business needs and scale expenses
associated with computing resources. Thus, cloud computing
offers IT to be treated as an ongoing variable operating expense
billed by usage rather than requiring capital expenditures that
must be planned years in advance. Advantageously, operating
expenses can be charged against the revenue generated by these
expenses directly. In contrast, capital expenses incurred by the
purchase of a system need to be paid at the time of purchase,
but can only be depreciated to reduce the taxable income over
the lifetime of the system.
THE MAIN ATTRIBUTES OF CLOUD COMPUTING
The main attributes of cloud computing are scalable,
shared, on-demand computing resources delivered over the
network, and pay-per-use pricing. This offers flexibility in
using as few or as many IT resources as needed at any point in
time. Thus, users do not need to predict future resources they
might need, and to commit to capital investment in hardware.
This is especially advantageous for start-ups, and small and
medium businesses which might otherwise not be able to afford
the IT infrastructure they need to support their growing
business. At the same time, redirecting capital investment from
IT infrastructure to the core business is attractive even for large
and financially strong businesses.
From a technical perspective, cloud computing brings the
benefits of virtualization and multi-tenancy to scale-out
systems. Virtualization techniques allow multiple system
images to share the same hardware resources: CPU
virtualization techniques create multiple virtual hardware
systems, while network virtualization .
Software Defined Networking from IBM_Next Generation Network Agility_ White P...Kanishka Ramyar
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The blurring of the line between decision support systems and operational systems because of real-time warehousing, the use of Enterprise Information Integration (EII), and closed- loop business processes
TierPoint White Paper_When_Virtualization_Meets_Infrastructure_2015sllongo3
In a rapidly changing technology landscape, are your virtualized systems taking full advantage of the cloud? Read about how these solutions can be leveraged for production, development and disaster recovery.
A virtual datacenter provider’s facilities are powered by a robust cloud infrastructure. Its resources (like compute, memory, storage and
bandwidth) are customized to cater to enterprise business needs.
A virtual data center (DC) facility is typically a pool of cloud-enabled IT infrastructure wherein resources are specifically designed to cater to distinct business requirements in a safe and secured environment.
Microsoft SQL Azure - Agility in the New Economy Partner Technical DatasheetMicrosoft Private Cloud
SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database platform built on Microsoft® SQL Server® technologies. With SQL Azure, you can easily provision and deploy relational database solutions to the cloud.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
The Next Generation of Intel: The Dawn of NehalemJames Price
Intel sets a new standard for business servers, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and workstations built with the new generation of Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, offers an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically advance the efficiency of IT infrastructure and provide unmatched business capabilities.
As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling
capacity, efficiency has become the focus of extending the life
of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these
efforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that
deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently. The Intel®
Xeon® processor 5500Δ series provides a foundation for IT management
to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve
greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically
reducing operating costs.
Alternative Architecture Overview 44956 AJames Price
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his white paper focuses on four of the prevalent alternative architectures: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Terminal Services, operating system (OS) streaming, and Blade Personal Computers (PCs). This white paper presents a technical overview and potential use cases for each of these architectures, and explores AMD as the platform of choice for each by demonstrating both technical (performance) and non-technical (cost) advantages.
This whitepaper discusses the existing software-based paging
virtualization solutions and their associated performance overheads. It
then introduces AMD-V™ Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology –
referred to as nested paging within this publication - highlights its
advantages and demonstrates the performance uplift that may be seen
with nested paging.
IDC Tech Spotlight: From Silicon To CloudJames Price
The topic of cloud computing has received a tremendous amount of attention in the last year. This whitepaper discusses some of the aspects of the delivery of IT Infrastructure as a service.
Virtualizing the Next Generation of Server Workloads with AMD™James Price
In this white paper, we discuss the potential bottlenecks that organizations typically encounter: high memory
utilization, high processor utilization, and high I/O traffic. We look at the performance characteristics of server
workloads that can be successfully virtualized, and we discuss how an awareness of the performance
characteristics of a particular workload can help inform an intelligent virtualization strategy. We also examine the
improvements in virtualization hardware that are making it possible to virtualize an increasingly wide range of
workloads.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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1. AMD WHITe PAPeR
Putting Server Virtualization to Work
enterprises have been using virtualization technology on mainframes and RISC-based systems
for years to enable better utilization of hardware resources. As x86 servers have become a mainstay
in the enterprise, more companies are exploring virtualization with these servers to enable more
productive, flexible, and scalable datacenters while reducing costs and boosting data availability.
Computing technologies from AMD are providing the foundation for today’s — and tomorrow’s —
enterprise virtualization solutions.
In the 21st century, the promise of the Information enter virtualization–a technology that enables
Age is being fulfilled. Bits and bytes of data, corporations to make more effective use of the
information and knowledge rocket around the globe computing resources within the datacenter
in milliseconds. Product cycles have been and move legacy software and data to newer,
condensed from years into weeks, and supply more efficient hardware platforms.
chains are interwoven into a complex fabric. Paper is
giving way to pixels and e-business is rapidly Virtualization partitions a server into several “virtual
evolving from an elusive dream into reality. machines,” each able to run its own separate
operating system and application environment. This
In this post-industrial environment, an enterprise that moves businesses away from a “one server, one
has a well-defined data management strategy is application” model in which computing resource use
at a tremendous advantage. Such an organization can average less than 25 percent, and toward an
can harness the power of information technology infrastructure that lets a business manage its
to achieve remarkable results. Conversely, servers across a heterogeneous environment far
companies lacking the right server and data more effectively. The ability to run different operating
management strategy risk missing out on the systems and applications on the same physical
promise and opportunities of the digital age. server lets organizations consolidate the workload
placed on servers. If one virtual system fails, another
Achieving success is no simple task. As can take over instantly and perform the same tasks.
organizations have adopted a mélange of hardware
and software systems — with servers scattered Virtualization isn’t a new idea. It is a time-tested
across an enterprise — the solution has often concept that IT professionals have used for years to
created a new problem. Today’s complex data-server manage mainframes and UNIX computing
environments have grown exponentially, leaving environments. Advances in x86 technologies such
companies with larger and more rigid datacenters. as AMD64 technology with Direct Connect
Not only does it become cost-prohibitive to Architecture have made virtualization ideally suited
administer these datacenters, it is difficult to achieve for today’s conventional PC and server-centric
optimal value and return on investment (ROI) as well environments. With computing demands increasing
as return on assets (ROA). Hard-to-find data, old and every year, and as much as 80 cents of every
inaccurate data, aging hardware and software, and IT dollar spent on software and operations
sluggish performance can all conspire to drag down maintenance, the need to streamline has
service levels and profits. In the end, an organization become paramount.
can find its customers, business partners and
employees dissatisfied.
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2. AMD White Paper: Putting Server Virtualization to Work
Streamlining teSting and For years, enterprises have used virtualization However, virtualization can tip the balance back in
deVelopment enVironmentS technology on mainframes and RISC systems to favor of the enterprise. In some cases, a 5 to 15
with Virtualization enable better utilization of hardware resources. As percent drop in basic IT operating expenses may
For many enterprises, development x86 servers have become a mainstay in the be achieved. A well-planned virtualization strategy
and test environments — while a necessary enterprise, increasing numbers of companies are can also reduce the time it takes for IT staff to
part of doing business — also present exploring server virtualization to build more manage devices. Some companies report gains of
challenges when it comes to cost of productive, flexible, and scalable datacenters while 50 to 70 percent or more. This leaves hardware
operation and time to market: reducing costs and boosting data availability. And specialists, programmers, and other professional
n Capital and space requirements computing technologies from AMD that enable 64- staff free to handle more strategic work.
for multiple physical systems, and 32-bit software to run side by side are providing
particularly servers, may be the foundation for today’s — and tomorrow’s — n A more flexible and scalable environment. Many
prohibitively high, in today’s budget- enterprise virtualization solutions. organizations find themselves awash in data —
conscious environments. flowing from multiple databases, data marts and
With the right software and systems in place, a data warehouses, and in addition to the vast array
n Length of required setup cycles and
lack of sufficient hardware reduces company can manage and automate an array of of unstructured data that floods the typical
workflow efficiencies. complex processes. It can create a “utility” computing enterprise today. The number of documents in
environment that serves up data on demand. Armed various formats, e-mail messages, photographs,
n Actual test and deployment cycles with greater flexibility in its server and storage and video files is growing at a rapid clip. The fast
may be longer than necessary due to
frequent system reconfigurations.
infrastructure, an enterprise can attain the flexibility it pace of business demands a computing
requires to compete in today’s global economy. environment that allows fast and easy access to
As any bottom-line-minded business this growing mountain of data. Any lag in
knows, all of these challenges end up BuSineSS in a Virtual world performance can slam the brakes on a company’s
costing money in one way or another.
overall performance and light up its bottom line in
With virtualization, corporations can Virtualization can provide well-documented benefits
overcome these hurdles. red ink. As the organization’s data environment
to organizations of all sizes and across a wide continues to grow, so does the need to ensure that
The combination of AMD’s Direct Connect spectrum of industries. When an enterprise has the its applications continue to operate at their
Architecture and the ability to run 32- and right virtualization solutions in place, it can achieve maximum potential. Virtualization enables legacy
64-bit applications underlie many of the efficient utilization of server resources to more
real-world benefits. As a result, successful
applications and data to be run on modern
effectively test and deploy new application hardware platforms, providing more security and
companies are integrating AMD Opteron™ environments. A well-tuned computing engine can
processors into their operations. performance benefits.
supply an enterprise with the power it needs to
ratchet up business goals as well as customer and n Reduced financial risk. Loss of data can prove fatal
management expectations. for an organization. Ironically, the greatest losses
often aren’t the result of the immediate disaster, but
Ultimately, an organization can more effectively utilize of ongoing lapses during the recovery phase.
all of its assets across the entire enterprise. Several Organizations first lose critical files or information,
key business drivers are spurring the adoption of and loyal customers follow. even brief disruptions
virtualization. Among them are: could result in lost opportunities. But with
virtualization, companies that previously weren’t
n The need to simplify management of complex
able to justify the expense of a disaster-recovery
hardware devices. Today, multiple hardware
solution (for small applications or smaller IT
platforms, operating systems, and programming
environments) may now do so. When implemented
environments lead to a jumble of systems and
within the context of virtualization, the ROI for a
resources. The proliferation of single application
disaster-recovery solution is high.
servers — and resulting data silos —can wreak
havoc on data accessibility and network n Governance and regulatory concerns. Sarbanes-
performance. It is not unusual for an organization Oxley, Basel II, and the Health Insurance Portability
to overuse some equipment while other devices and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have all created
remain vastly underutilized. The resulting imbalance an environment that forces organizations to
and cascading inefficiencies typically lead to take regulatory issues seriously. Strict reporting
higher costs, reduced response time, and more rules and tight internal controls translate into
complex provisioning. a need for better data management. Security
and privacy issues have also emerged at the
n A reduction in costs associated with reduced
forefront of business. Centralized administration
server management and administration. At many
and tighter control of resources made possible
organizations, network administration is an
by virtualization can help an organization avoid
expensive and unwieldy task. As the number of
problems sometimes associated with highly
servers grows, IT staffing and tasks spike as well.
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fragmented and distributed data and computing disruption to users. Consequently, customers, top 5 BuSineSS BenefitS
resources. Virtualization efforts may also contribute employees, and supply chain partners can work of Virtualization
to a more secure and controlled datacenter, since in a familiar way. 1. Increase server utilization
the IT organization will typically manage fewer
servers within this type of environment. In addition, by separating hardware and software 2. Improve service levels
management issues, an enterprise can often manage 3. Streamline manageability and security
taking Virtualization to a and maintain discreet systems far more effectively.
4. Decrease hardware costs
higher leVel
A virtual environment also excels at managing 5. Reduce facility costs
Virtualization is increasingly attractive to workstations, departmental servers, datacenter
organizations looking to maximize the potential of servers and other devices. Virtualization’s ability to
server-based applications and computing resources. separate hardware and software management
Among their other benefits, virtual servers can help issues and manage discreet virtual systems can
reduce dependency on old, out-of-warranty servers escalate network performance to a higher level.
that require more power and cooling than today’s In fact, by allocating and reallocating resources on
more energy efficient models. In many cases, these the fly, an organization can often gain a level of
aging machines, which rely on legacy hardware flexibility unimaginable only a few short years ago.
and operating systems, require a disproportionate
amount of attention and support. In contrast, laying the foundation with amd
virtualization lets IT managers clear away the
‘deadwood’ by consolidating servers running line-of- Along with the many benefits it provides,
business applications and help enable an optimized virtualization technology is a memory intensive
infrastructure, higher server utilization, and reduced application that places a heavy demand on servers.
management. This, in addition to the improved Virtualization software must manage multiple virtual
energy efficiency of the newer systems, contributes environments while still delivering application and
to lower power, cooling, and datacenter space data services to users in a timely fashion. That’s why
usage costs. top server performance within this type of
environment is crucial — and it’s being delivered
Virtualization also helps organizations extend the life today by the AMD64 computing platform, namely
of their own custom-written applications. In the past, AMD Opteron™ processors.
companies that had to keep these applications in
service faced skyrocketing support and AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect
maintenance costs for the accompanying legacy Architecture provide a solid foundation for the
hardware and operating systems. But with evolution to x86-based virtualization. The AMD64
virtualization, there’s no need to rewrite existing computing platform offers companies the ability to
custom applications to run on the latest hardware run both 32- and 64-bit virtual machines on the
and OSes. Now, companies may simply create a same physical server, without rewriting code,
dedicated virtual machine for their legacy enabling them to maximize their IT investments.
application, and run it alongside other virtual Direct Connect Architecture also directly connects
machines running newer applications — all on the the CPU to the memory, I/O, and other processors.
latest power-efficient, multi-core, server hardware. The integrated memory controller provides high-
With virtualization, software investments can be speed, low-latency access to memory, and can help
protected while taking advantage of newer, cost- host and guest operating systems function more
efficient hardware. efficiently. HyperTransport™ technology provides a
scalable interconnect between processors, I/O, and
Another advantage of virtualization is its ability to other chipsets. This can help support more guest OS
streamline and accelerate deployment of software sessions and more user access applications.
and systems. An enterprise can deploy a new
version of the operating system and continue to run Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors,
a legacy application in a virtual machine. Using released by AMD in 2006, further advanced
virtual machines to test migration plans, including virtualization, by improving system performance and
debugging systems and analyzing performance, security of virtual environments to help boost the
makes it easier to isolate and solve problems before return on investment. AMD Virtualization™ technology
migrating to new environments. It reduces the cost (AMD-V™), consisting of hardware extensions to the
and risk of rewriting, porting or integrating existing x86 system architecture, is designed to help
applications with new systems and lets an virtualization software more efficiently run
organization deploy new systems with minimal applications in separate, isolated environments and
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