...develops, and sells semiconductors for telecom networking products—wanted to consolidate its physical IT infrastructure used to run mission-critical business applications and reduce operating expenses, while also supporting business growth. After creating a virtualized server environment with VMware software, the Mindspeed IT group decided to migrate applications from AMD processor-based Sun Microsystems servers to Dell servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. The move helped increase application performance, consolidate application servers, and reduce operating costs while providing the scalability for continued business growth. CHALLENGES • Support business expansion. Increase IT scalability to support the growth of the company’s solution portfolio and expansion into new geographic regions without increasing the IT infrastructure footprint. • Control costs. Reduce IT operational costs and decrease the software licensing costs for the virtualized environment. ® SOLUTION • Migrate to Dell servers with Intel® Xeon® processors. The IT group migrated from AMD processor-based Sun servers to Dell PowerEdge R610* servers equipped with the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series and Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapters. IMPACT • Robust performance. Moving to servers with Intel Xeon processors helped increase application performance while leaving headroom for high-availability capabilities. • Impressive cost savings. The dense, energy-efficient infrastructure helps to control...
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...the company about the changes that we want to undergo. With technology moving as fast as it is. It is our job to stay in front of the curve so we can run our business effectively. With that being said I would like to move our company into the virtualization era. Benefits of Virtualization Server Consolidation It is not unusual to achieve 10:1 virtual to physical machine consolidation. This means that ten server applications can be run on a single machine that had required as many physical computers to provide the unique operating system and technical specification environments in order to operate. Server utilization is optimized and legacy software can maintain old OS configurations while new applications are running in VMs with updated platforms. Although a server supporting many VMs will probably have more memory, CPUs, and other hardware it will use little or no more power and occupy the same physical space reducing utilities costs and real estate expenditures. Testing and development Use of a VM enables rapid deployment by isolating the application in a known and controlled environment. Unknown factors such as mixed libraries caused by numerous installs can be eliminated. Severe crashes that required hours of reinstallation now take moments by simply copying a virtual image. Dynamic Load Balancing and Disaster Recovery As server workloads vary, virtualization provides the ability for virtual machines that are over utilizing the resources of a server to be moved...
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...as they see fit and making copies to install in an unlimited number of machines. UNIX offers a highly stable operating system (OS) that is ideal for full multitasking capabilities while protecting memory to prevent interference with other users. The stability provides greater uptime for increased productivity and less downtime for crash recovery and troubleshooting (Montpelier Open Source, n.d.). UNIX has been the baseline for Internet services and growth where machines on network can operate as clients and servers. Linux is a variant of UNIX and has established itself in the desktop, workstation, and increasingly in the server environments. A key benefit for Linux is the scope of freedom of distributions (distros) that provide many applications, freeware, and add-ons (Stanford University, 2004). Linux is extremely portability to a wide range of new and old machines. The majority of Linux variants are available free or at an economical price compared to Microsoft Windows. Linux is a very secure operating system and although it still can be prone to attacks, it inherently is more secure than Windows. Another huge benefit is the reliability of UNIX and Linux versions that can often run for months without the need to reboot. UNIX and Linux Disadvantages The learning curve for Command Line Interface (CLI) with many new users can be a hostile environment. CLI is predominantly designed for programmers (Craig, 2012). The GUI has revolutionized the computer industry for speed, ease...
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...that is collected and stored from Internet users by a business in a web application * Distinguish among the different reasons for the attacks on web sites and determine exactly what the attackers are after when they target your WWW presence * Evaluate the current state of security on a LAMP server using Telnet, Skipfish and TCPdump to identify whether the proper tools are installed for a security evaluation of the server * Install and use Firefox Web Browser with the Live HTTP Headers plug-in Lab #1 – Compromised Business Application Impact Analysis Course Name & Number: ______________________________________________________________ Student Name: _______________________________________________________________________ Instructor Name: _____________________________________________________________________ Lab Due Date: _______________________________________________________________________ Overview The threats of the Internet go way beyond an attacker defacing your website. An attack can include the extraction of customer privacy data or confidential information. This is a major threat not only to the organization but the owner of the privacy data as well. 70% of unauthorized access and loss of data comes from Internet-based attacks on websites and applications where users are on the WWW. What does this mean for this course? Web, mobile, and social networking applications are exposed to...
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...Virtualization and Its Benefits Virtualization and Its Benefits AITP – Research and Strategy Advisory Group Christine, Leja, CCP, Chair Richard C. Barnier Charles L. Brown, CCP Paul F. Dittmann Paul Koziel Mark Welle J.T. Westermeier, JD, CCP Abstract Virtualization provides many benefits – greater efficiency in CPU utilization, greener IT with less power consumption, better management through central environment control, more availability, reduced project timelines by eliminating hardware procurement, improved disaster recovery capability, more central control of the desktop, and improved outsourcing services. With these benefits, it is no wonder that virtualization has had a meteoric rise to the 2008 Top 10 IT Projects! This white paper presents a brief look at virtualization, its benefits and weaknesses, and today’s “best practices” regarding virtualization. The Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) recommends these “best practices” to obtain the benefits that virtualization offers. Copyright 2008, Association of Information Technology Professionals. Permission to copy for personal non-commercial use granted. When the paper is referenced or quoted, direct the reader to www.aitp.org. Special thanks to the following editor: Mike Hinton, Southwestern Illinois College AITP Research and Strategy Advisory Group October 14, 2008 Page 1 of 40 Virtualization and Its Benefits Executive Summary Virtualization has quickly evolved from concept...
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...independent operating system within an existing operating system using the existing hardware resources. So if you want to learn another operating system like Linux, you can use virtualization to run Linux on top of the existing operating system. Virtualization is the abstraction of IT resources, separating their physical instance and boundaries from their function. Virtualization has brought important innovation to IT Virtualization concept was first developed by IBM in the 1960s to fully utilize mainframe hardware by logically partitioning them into virtual machines. These partitions will allow mainframe computers to perform multiple tasks and applications at the same time.. During the 1980s and 1990s, desktop computing and x86 servers become available and so the virtualization technology was discarded eventually. Client-server applications and the emergence of Windows and Linux made server computing significantly inexpensive. However, new challenges has surfaced which includes high maintenance and management cost, high infrastructure cost, and insufficient failure and disaster protection that lead to the invention of virtualization for x86 platform. VMWare invented virtualization for the x86 architecture in the 1990s to address the above mentioned problems. In 1999, VMW are introduced a virtualization solution...
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...Summary The city of Seabreeze, located in California, was once a prosperous city because of the coastline location. Due to the decline in the real estate market, the city experienced a decrease in property tax revenues. People are spending their money in other areas and less in tourism and retail activity. As a result, this generated less sales tax revenue. To offset the budget deficit, the California Legislature passed a bill requiring cities to transfer 20% of their gross property tax revenues to the state. The city is looking for ways to save money and one of those areas is technology. It is impossible to eliminate technology such as computers all together because it’s a big part of the city daily operations. One of the potential options is virtualization of city’s physical servers, storage devices, and end user computers would result in significant savings in cost to the city of Seabreeze. Benefits of Virtualization Virtualization is defined as a technology that uses software to run multiple applications and operating systems on one or more physical host servers all at the same time. Within the host server is comprised virtual computers known as VM (Virtual Machines) are running the operating systems and applications similar to a physical PC. VM are setup as virtual servers and virtual desktops. Below is an example how a virtualization server operates. Example of Virtualization Server One of the benefits of virtualization is consolidation of servers...
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...and Purchasing History, Invoicing and Shipping, Payroll, Financial Reporting, EDI, Bar Code Reading and EDSS (Executive Decision Support System). Not all locations however have all the 12 components mentioned, EDI, Bar Code Reading and EDSS is only available in the San Jose office. In addition, the three entities are not compatible with each other as each three F & A systems has purchased software from three different vendors. The following table will outline a breakdown of current systems within the three United States offices. Vendor License Current Setup Language San Jose Windows Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Yes, no source code. Michigan Third Party Vendor (no longer in business) Yes, includes source code DEC Alphas VMS OS VAX4000 stations C Georgia Third Party Vendor (different than Michigan) Yes, includes source code AS400’s UNIX OS Windows PC’s RPG400 Due to the incompatibility of the three different systems and software,...
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...To what extent can housing led regeneration schemes tackle social exclusion? Written by: Rosalie Burke – University of Westminster MA Housing Policy and Practice (April 2012) In order for housing led regeneration schemes to tackle social exclusions, the regeneration organisers and the residents of the area will have to play their parts. This paper will be looking at how regeneration schemes can tackle social exclusion by creating mixed tenures, and what roles residents can play in sustaining mix tenures in order to tackle social exclusion. This paper will also look at if social exclusion can be kept out of housing regeneration schemes in this bad economical climate which has seen many job losses and the changes in which the Localism Act has introduced. Regeneration programmes, are normally conducted in areas which are deemed to be poor and is usually based around improving the quality of housing and tackling social exclusion. Regeneration can be funded by the public sector and a mixture of private and public sources (Muir, 2008). Regeneration schemes can bring in investors to the area which in turn can create employment opportunities and from employment, this would lead to money being spent in the area, people would want to raise a family, work and continue to live for a very long time. Regenerating an area does not always mean knocking down the whole community and starting again, it can be that some of the properties are knocked down because...
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...transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-7356-9697-6 Printed and bound in the United States of America. First Printing Microsoft Press books are available through booksellers and distributors worldwide. If you need support related to this book, email Microsoft Press Support at mspinput@microsoft.com. Please tell us what you think of this book at http://aka.ms/tellpress. This book is provided “as-is” and expresses the author’s views and opinions. The views, opinions and information expressed in this book, including URL and other Internet website references, may change without notice. Some examples depicted herein are provided for illustration only and are fictitious. No real association or connection is intended or should be inferred. Microsoft and the trademarks listed at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/ Trademarks/EN-US.aspx are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other marks are property of their respective owners. Acquisitions Editor: Rosemary Caperton Project Editor: Christian Holdener; S4Carlisle Publishing Services Editorial Production: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Copyeditor: Roger LeBlanc Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Chapter 1 An overview of Windows 10 1 What is Windows 10? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...several of its assets through planned expansions and acquisitions. This growth has left Riordan Manufacturing with three separate operating organizations in Georgia, Michigan and California. There is also a joint project with the People’s Republic of China managed of the Hangzhou facility with its own operational and financial concerns. Each organization operates on different finance and accounting. This is one of the challenges Riordan Manufacturing faces with the financial and accounting departments. For example, in the San Jose office the financial and accounting department has a fully integrated Windows-based software management application it uses. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application is designed to automate business processes, reduce cost and improve productivity; however the software license agreement does not include application source code. The Michigan office...
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...package content, including URLs and other Internet Web site references, is subject to change without notice. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, the content should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. Unless otherwise noted, the companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious, and no association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred. © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft | Services © 2012 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Confidential ITOE Educate Copyright and Trademarks © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual...
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...Management Quality and Competitiveness Christoph H. Loch Stephen E. Chick Arnd Huchzermeier ● Management Quality and Competitiveness Lessons from the Industrial Excellence Award Prof. Dr. Christoph H. Loch INSEAD Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau Cedex France christoph.loch@insead.edu Prof. Dr. Arnd Huchzermeier WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management Burgplatz 2 56179 Vallendar Germany ah@whu.edu Prof. Stephen E. Chick INSEAD Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau Cedex France stephen.chick@insead.edu ISBN 978-3-540-79183-6 e-ISBN 978-3-540-79184-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008925414 © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and...
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...Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Amul Brand Amul is the No. 1 dairy brand in India. Their products are sold internationally e.g. Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and China. Amul has firm commitment to corporate social responsibility. They have gained much international recognition, e.g. Case Study for Harvard Business School, for the brand’s contribution to local farmers. Such commitment guarantees high quality production of their range of products GCMMF: An Overview Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) is India's largest food products marketing organisation. It is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat which aims to provide remunerative returns to the farmers and also serve the interest of consumers by providing quality products which are good value for money. CRISIL, India's leading Ratings, Research, Risk and Policy Advisory company, has assigned its highest ratings of "AAA/Stable/P1+" to the various bank facilities of GCMMF. Members: | 13 district cooperative milk producers' Union | No. of Producer Members: | 2.79 million | No. of Village Societies: | 13,328 | Total Milk handling capacity: | 11.22 million litres per day | Milk collection (Total - 2008-09): | 3.05 billion litres | Milk collection (Daily Average 2008-09): | 8.4 million litres | Milk Drying Capacity: | 626 Mts. per day | Cattlefeed manufacturing Capacity: | 3500 Mts per day | Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been defined as the...
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...Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Ann Fulmer March 2010 Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Mortgage fraud is bank robbery without a gun. 1 It is a high-yield, 2 low risk enterprise that has been reported in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, 3 Canada, 4 New Zealand, 5 Australia, 6 and England. 7 In the United States, it is committed by organized international and domestic rings, 8 street gangs, 9 terrorists, 10 drug traffickers, 11 real estate agents, 12 closing attorneys, 13 appraisers, 14 mortgage brokers, 15 The targeted victims distinguish mortgage fraud from predatory lending. In predatory lending cases the borrower is victimized by the illegal practices of the lender or its agents with respect to fees and disclosures relating to the cost of the loan. It is unfortunate that the media, consumer activists, legislators and law enforcement personnel frequently conflate mortgage fraud with predatory lending since it adds unnecessary confusion to an already complex issue and diverts attention and badly needed resources from the fight against true mortgage fraud. 2 The average “take” on a bank robbery is approximately $3,000.00. By contrast, the average straw borrower receives a “cut” of at least $10,000 and the orchestrator’s “take” in a mortgage fraud transaction frequently exceeds $100,000. In a few cases the orchestrator’s take was in excess of $1...
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