Gadgets Manual

The base reliability of a computing system is, at its most fundamental level, dependent upon the intrinsic failure rates of the components that comprise it. Very simply, highly reliable servers are built with highly reliable components. On POWER6™ processor-based systems, this basic premise is augmented with a clear “design for reliability” architecture and methodology. The […]

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The Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) is an architecture and methodology for exposing system diagnostic instrumentation through the Common Information Model (CIM) standard interfaces. CIM is an extensible object oriented schema for system management being developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and is evolving, industry-wide, as the basis for system management architectures. IBM, Intel […]

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The ability of application servers to deliver high performance varies greatly, depending on the specifics of any given customer’s workload. IBM raises the bar for scalable, high-performance application servers with the introduction of IBM eServer X3 Architecturethe ground-breaking third-generation of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture XA-64e™ chipset. Incorporating this new chipset, the IBM eServer xSeries 366 […]

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Small and midsized companies want to focus on their business and not their IT infrastructure. The IBM i5 520 server—a new member of the IBM iSeries™ family—can deliver not only the power and capacity to run core business applications, but also the ability to add new e-business applications.

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The IBM® p5 570 midrange server implements outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features, flexible capacity upgrades and innovative virtualization technologies. Based on POWER5 processors with simultaneous multithreading and a unique scalable, building block packaging, the p5-570 is well-suited for server consolidation projects, database and application serving, e-commerce and departmental or regional server deployments. The […]

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The default installation of Cisco voice products on the IBM platform will install the Director Agent in an unsecure state, leaving the Director services vulnerable to remote administration control and/or Denial of Service attacks. The vulnerabilities can be mitigated by configuration changes and Cisco is providing a repair script that will close the vulnerable ports […]

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IBM Tivoli Directory Server version 6.0 (ITDS) is an implementation of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is compliant with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) LDAP Version 2 specifications, i.e. RFC 1777 and LDAP Version 3 specifications, i.e. RFC 2251-2256. The server is a software only product and can be installed and operated on […]

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This document presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays (formerly known as FAStT). Recently IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment hardware included a SAN […]

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ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server delivers greater application performance than any prior version of ColdFusion. This product has been designed and tuned for maximum performance and scalability by leveraging the power of the underlying J2EE server. It takes full advantage of the performance optimizations available with the IBM Java virtual machine (JVM) version […]

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Xi Graphics, Inc. (”XiG”) was approached by a US-based division of a large, well-known company active internationally as a provider of control systems that employ Wall Displays of computer generated graphics. The division uses IBM System p products, and was having some difficulties with Power5 Model 520 systems, among others, using the IBM model GXT135P […]

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