Reliability and Performance

How Do You Categorize Servers?

by R. Krause ... Messaging/e-mail, file/print serving, mid-range compute-intense tasks Functionality: Reliability and performance features become more significant/powerful. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/09/research_notes/TU_HW_RAK_09_05_00_1.asp - 31k - 2000-09-05 Summary: The term 'PC Server' encompasses a wide range of computing hardware features and functionality. So, how can the entire range be subdivided into more manageable groups? This note discusses one way of separating them, and the functional characteristics associated with each group.

eBay Looking For Sun Block?

by R. Krause ... The highly embarrassing outages at eBay provided an opportunity for anyone with a reliability and performance story to take their best shot at prying Sun loose ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_HW_RAK_05_26_00_1.asp - 9k - 2000-05-26 Summary: The now-infamous 1999 shutdowns of the eBay website has led them to consider alternatives to their current Sun infrastructure.

IBM's Four-CPU Wintel-Based Rack Servers High Performance, High ...

by R. Krause ... IBM is positioning the Netfinity 5500 M20 and 7000 M10 servers as high performance and high reliability systems, with the focus on web serving. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/1999/09/research_notes/PN_HW_RAK_9_99_2.asp - 14k - 1999-09-01 Summary: IBM's four-CPU servers, the Netfinity 5500 M20 and 7000 M10, yield top notch web-focused benchmark figures, but also very high price/performance figures for mainstream applications.

Web Testing Has Changed the Testing Landscape

by C. Lisle ... supposed to do. Now that everything is moving onto web sites, reliability and performance are becoming key issues. Load testing is ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/12/news_analysis/NA_EC_CML_12_08_00_1.asp - 12k - 2000-12-08 Summary: Software testing vendors are forming alliances and partnerships with the vendors who actually service and support the delivery of Internet content. Thus do the realities of testing Internet applications sink in. Two instances: Mercury Interactive formed a strategic alliance with Akamai Technologies, and

Reliability Driven Maintenance--Closing the CMMS 'Value Gap'? Part ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic and Olin Thompson ... analyses customers demand, and the incorporation of more KPIs and dashboards that constantly measure the effect of asset reliability on business performance. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/EAM/2005/01/research_notes/TN_EA_PJ_01_18_05_1.asp - 25k - 2005-01-18 Summary: Reliability driven maintenance (RDM) focuses on understanding the 'asset health' to determine what maintenance work should occur and when something should be done. It enables preemptive intervention before failure occurs, whereby failure would mean that equipment is not delivering required performance re

HP's Four-CPU Wintel-Based Rack Servers: Focusing on Reliability ...

by R. Krause ... In addition, HP focuses on its traditional strength of high reliability, accomplished through ... Performance: At only 19,050 tpmC, the LH4r's score is lower than ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/HardwareOS/1999/09/research_notes/PN_HW_RAK_9_99_1.asp - 15k - 1999-09-01 Summary: Hewlett-Packard's four-CPU rackmount products, the NetServer LH4r and LXr 8000, are aimed at customers who want reliable, expandable server installations.

Lean Maintenance—Does It Impact Reliability? Lessons Learned and ...

by Ricky Smith ... The required functions and associated performance standards of equipment have never been defined with the reliability approach to capacity, which is the RCM ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2005/07/research_notes/TU_CR_XRS_07_12_05_1.asp - 14k - 2005-07-12 Summary: The main cause of lean maintenance failure is that companies fail to focus on asset reliability. The reliability approach to capacity, which includes risk prioritization analyses of assets, can help a company achieve lean success.

EAI - The 'Crazy Glue' of Business Applications

by J. Dowling ... poor programming practices had become the norm and had to recode a number of message configurations to obtain desired levels of reliability and performance. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2000/09/research_notes/TU_EV_JFD_09_18_00_1.asp - 19k - 2000-09-18 Summary: When companies create or change trading relationships or when they swap out business application systems, information systems professionals are required to build application system interfaces and alter transaction processing models. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Tools have matured nicely and

Reliability Driven Maintenance--Closing the CMMS 'Value Gap'? Part ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic and Olin Thompson ... to establish this schedule, reasonable expectations of performance, limitations, and ... costs, RCM concentrates on ensuring its continued reliability by shifting ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/EAM/2005/01/research_notes/TN_EA_PJ_01_17_05_1.asp - 21k - 2005-01-17 Summary: The metric of plant maintenance should now be in the ability of the plant to meet the strategic goals of the company beyond customarily expected cost savings, such as improved plant output, performance predictability, product quality, customer service, safety, environmental control, etc.

MAPICS Moving On Pragmatically

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... ERP for iSeries and Linux for iSeries should supposedly provide improved benefits including greater stability, reliability, scalability, performance and cost ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_19_02_1.asp - 15k - 2002-11-19 Summary: While the existing loyal client base and seasoned affiliate channel remains MAPICS’ trump card in these difficult times, the recent moves of a unified product branding combined with addressing issues of its world-class aspiring manufacturing customers should be the way to more effectively sell to and b