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White Papers
Driving Toward Compliance
If the sheer act of complying with new government regulations and corporate accountability legislation is your main IT objective, you are missing the big picture. Significant opportunity to maximize your technology investment dollars is waiting for you. Now you can increase the ROI of your compliance initiatives and turn compliance into a competitive advantage that can help you build your revenue pipeline.
Microsoft Business Internet Analytics on the ES7000
This paper shows how Business Internet Analytics (BIA) is used to strengthen e-customer relationships and increase business opportunities by analyzing customer e-commerce activity using Microsoft technologies running on a Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000.
OLAP Distinct Counts and Performance Analysis
This paper introduces the Distinct Counts problem in OLAP. It then focuses on the performance study of OLAP cubes involving Distinct Counts. This performance study used a 16-processor partition on a 32-processor Unisys ES7000 server to show the scalability of Analysis Services. Included in this paper are optimization techniques for getting the best performance when working with Distinct Count OLAP cubes.
Mainframe Scalability in a Windows Environment
By Michael Salsburg, Lauren Cotugno, Steve Barrish, Chuck Leuthen, Rick Freeman
The growing shift in the IT world to open systems today means the deployment of Microsoft Windows and Linux based systems. In the not too distant past, when mainframes were considered dinosaurs, the shift to open systems meant moving away from proprietary systems towards UNIX systems, which have since become proprietary themselves. This paper focuses on Windows-based technologies, specifically as they
apply to scale-up systems for data centers. When a system is scaled up, a number of performance issues arise. These include application, hardware, systems management and availability. These issues are explored in the context of the large, scale-up, 32-processor Unisys ES7000 “Windows mainframe.”
Microsoft Application Consolidation
Consolidation of the Microsoft .NET back-end servers is not only possible, it is a very practical solution.
The Emergence of a Windows Mainframe
By Dr. Michael Salsburg
Technology that was once considered the embodiment of the personal computer has emerged as a powerful, scalable, highperformance force in the mainframe market—one that offers levels of familiarity and
standardization that are both compelling and cost effective. This paper tracks the effects of CPU commoditization on the evolution of mainframes since their early proprietary days to their current standardization on Microsoft Windows, and presents a hardware and software solution for providing traditional mainframe characteristics that is packaged in a surprisingly non-traditional manner.
Unisys Proof Point
This paper examines the benefits of consolidating distributed instances of a database, in this case Microsoft SQL Server, onto a single SMP system. Unisys sought to replicate a typical consolidation scenario whereby a three-year old, 2-way, Xeon system was targeted for consolidation onto a newer, more powerful scale-up, Itanium 2 system.
Linux File Systems Comparative Performance
This white paper explores comparative Linux file system performance for enterprise Linux deployments. Tailored for technical professionals,it provides information for understanding the most popular Linux file systems currently available. PDF (314 KB)
Open Software in the Enterprise
For more than a decade the enterprise market has been dominated by proprietary UNIX and RISC based platforms. In 2000, Unisys created large, enterprise-class Intel and Windows based SMP systems with both 32-bit and 64-bit processors—the Unisys ES7000 Family of Servers. Unisys is now bringing true enterprise-class platform support and the unique advantages of ES7000 servers to Linux operating environments based on the Linux v2.6 kernel.
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