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Red Hat: Scaling Oracle 10g in a Red Hat enterprise virtualisation environment
Server virtualisation offers tremendous benefits for enterprise IT organizations - server consolidation, hardware abstraction, and internal clouds deliver a high degree of operational efficiency. However, today, server virtualisation is not used pervasively in the production enterprise data center. Some of the barriers preventing wide-spread adoption of existing proprietary virtualisation solutions are performance, scalability, security, cost, and ecosystem challenges.
Red Hat: Scaling Microsoft Exchange in a Red Hat enterprise virtualisation environment
This Red Hat white paper describes the performance and scaling of an industry-standard Exchange application, Microsoft Load Generator (LoadGen), running in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 guests under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, using the KVM hypervisor. The host system was deployed on a Dell PowerEdge R71 0 G6 server equipped with 72 GB of RAM and comprising dual sockets each with a 2.53GHz Intel Xeon E5540 (Nehalem) processor with support for hyper-threading technology, totaling eight cores and 16 threads.
Red Hat: Linux versus Solaris
There are a number of Linux and Unix operating system platform choices available today for enterprise workloads, an advantage which gives IT executives flexibility and reduces vendor risk. However, this choice also requires careful examination to select the best option among the wide range of proprietary Unix and open source Linux offerings. One of the most contentious today is choosing between Linux and Sun Microsystems' Solaris.
Red Hat: Enterprise Linux - a higher value and lower cost alternative to Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Comparisons of systems performing real-life business services show that Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers lower costs than Microsoft Windows Server 2008, improving as you scale up your deployment. Using realistic lifecycles for licensing and support exposes the genuine operational and contractual benefits you gain when choosing Red Hat over Microsoft.
Citrix: Make your SharePoint deployment run five times better
Microsoft SharePoint's promise of providing an efficient and user-friendly way for individuals, teams and departments to easily share information and content is extremely attractive. Adoption of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 is exploding. IT organisations are scrambling to deliver SharePoint services to their users.
