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Master Bond's paper offers a guide to evaluating and selecting adhesive products exposed to harsh chemical environments. This article examines the importance of exposure variables, chemical interactions, testing and includes practical suggestions of procedures on how to avoid generalities in the selection process. Additionally, Master Bond supplies data results from its own unique ten year database of chemical immersion. The information contained in this white paper will give you a head start in choosing the right adhesive for these most critical applications. The rapid rollout of smart meters as part of the Smart Grid adoption by utilities companies has been nothing short of impressive. However, as the meters are turned on, utilities are often ill-prepared to manage the deluge of data flowing at unprecedented levels. Strategies should be put in place today to manage performance, control costs and meet regulatory requirements. Please join speakers from IDC Energy Insights and IBM for this live webcast to hear:
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT power densities and the ability to install more IT equipment in a given installation. This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring. Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption. Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying software management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine which physical infrastructure management tools they need - and don't need - to operate their data centers. This paper examines the technology drivers leading to the need for electromagnetic integrity and explains the methods and techniques used in solving electromagnetic fields, paying particular attention to how they can be accelerated and scaled to meet the increasing demands. Smarter products. You hear them mentioned in trade journals, in boardrooms and in the press releases of your competitors. What are smarter products? How do you make them? And how do you make them better and faster than your competition? The purpose of this paper is to explore smarter products and discover some best practices that businesses can employ to build smarter products and drive innovative technologies. Delivering complex systems requires that you develop optimal designs on time, within budget and with the right level of quality. But even the best detailed design cannot compensate for poor system architecture. Systems engineering isn't just a technical activity in the product lifecycle—it determines the commercial viability of the entire project. It's also a demanding activity that takes place when there are many degrees of freedom. How do you ensure that you have assessed all the options—and picked the best? This white paper looks at a number of key techniques to optimize the systems engineering process and help ensure project success. It examines the business benefits the techniques can provide and looks at IBM Rational® solutions that are available to support the techniques. To stay competitive in today's financial services industry, companies must quickly and effectively deliver quality products and services in response to consumer demand and preserve current investments in IBM System z®assets. However, companies are dealing with challenges that are raising the cost, lengthening the delivery time and increasing the project risk associated with new product development. IBM Rational® Solutions can help governments and social service agencies transform their business models, technology and workforce to better adapt to the way people interact with government, cost-effectively provide information across multiple channels and capitalize on new technology to deliver better services to citizens. With the IBM Smarter Planet initiative, IBM is tackling the exciting possibilities and addressing the needs of this space.This white paper will help you better understand the opportunities and challenges related to large-scale systems of systems by examining the evolution of systems and emerging issues related to creating smarter systems. It also outlines key considerations for participating in the development of systems of systems moving forward. Software development techniques have evolved over the past 40 years from machine code to high-level languages and tools for system modeling and configuration. New technologies and platforms such as Java™, .Net, CORBA® and XML have helped practices such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), software reuse and Component-Based Development (CBD) become commonly accepted and practiced in the software development industry. This paper describes four best practices examples where organizations have created and successfully deployed to handle this scale and complexity challenge. With the recent widespread adoption of the Object Management Group (OMG) Systems Modeling Language (SysML) by the systems engineering community to properly capture system requirements, functional and architectural design, and detailed interfaces and design characteristics, it is a natural next step to apply SysML with proven trade study techniques to leverage a robust approach through which to explore the design space and ensure coverage of nonfunctional and performance requirements. This paper not only shows this robust technique with modeling and SysML, but it also provides a methodology that enables users to properly explore the design space with execution analysis—all from within the design model, something that was often missing from previous techniques around trade study analysis. Having access to the proposed design solutions and being able to perform trade-off analysis from within an engineering model has numerous benefits, which this paper discusses Read this summary of the benchmark testing results and see how IBM and AMT-SYBEX demonstrate the capability of the IBM® Informix® TimeSeries software to enable the Affinity Meterflow™ application to offer linear scalability up to 100 million meters to load and process meter data at 30-minute intervals in less than 8 hours. The time required for 10 million meters took less than 36 minutes. |
While environmental concerns and energy prices continue to rise, forward-thinking utilities organizations are looking to technology to help them address these pressures while saving costs and driving business growth. Smart metering technologies have emerged as the cornerstone of solutions that pave the way for real-time availability of energy consumption data, yet organizations face the daunting task of how to manage the vast amounts of data generated. Attend this webcast and hear industry experts discuss:
Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. This paper demonstrates, through a series of examples, how data center infrastructure management software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery. Security incidents are rising at an alarming rate every year. As the complexity of the threats increases, so do the security measures required to protect networks. Data center operators, network administrators, and other data center professionals need to comprehend the basics of security in order to safely deploy and manage networks today. This paper covers the fundamentals of secure networking systems, including firewalls, network topology and secure protocols. Best practices are also given that introduce the reader to some of the more critical aspects of securing a network. Data center carbon emissions are a growing global concern. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cites data centers as a major source of energy consumption in the United States. The EPA has set an efficiency target for government data centers: a 20% reduction in carbon footprint by 2011. European Union (EU) members have agreed to cut their combined emissions of greenhouse gases to 8% below the 1990 level by 2012. Data center owners will be increasingly challenged to report their carbon emissions. This paper introduces a simple approach, supported by free web-based tools, for estimating the carbon footprint of a data center anywhere in the world. An integrated requirements, quality, and test management strategy can help you achieve demonstrable improvement in the strategic value of your investment in software. This integrated strategy can help you deliver your software applications faster to the marketplace with reduced business risk and cost. An integrated requirements, quality, and test management approach can also help you discover defects earlier in the application lifecycle, when they are less costly to fix. In addition, an integrated solution can help you enhance the quality of your software applications throughout the requirements, design, build, and test phases of the application life cycle. The quest for business transformation through innovation, and increasing reliance on software to deliver that innovation,while at the same time reducing risk and cost, mandates a more rigorous approach to managing software quality. Complexity is now a given in software and with many applications, products and systems getting smarter—meaning they can do more for us—the traditional approach to managing software quality can no longer deliver. Quality Management (QM) automation is one method teams can use to help improve product and software quality, reduce costs and accelerate delivery. QM automation can be divided into two categories: individual task automation and team automation. Whether you are considering ways to improve your requirements management, quality management or software testing capabilities or you are defining the next steps for integrating your lifecycle processes and tooling, the resources in this e-Kit can provide you with useful guidance. The IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management can help your organization integrate, collaborate and innovate. It was developed to meet the five imperatives that Rational professionals, by means of their work with hundreds of customers on thousands of projects, have determined to be key to consistently delivering high quality applications on-time :real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, in-context collaboration, development intelligence and continuous improvement.The foundation of the solution is IBM's open, standards-based platform called Jazz. This white paper talks about how IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ software can help unite your teams and simplify, automate and govern the delivery process. Based on IBM Jazz™ technology, Rational Team Concert software provides all the essentials of a lean collaborative life cycle management solution with integrated planning, work-item tracking, version control, build management and reporting. Rational Team Concert software is designed to increase individual and team productivity for those teams following agile, traditional or hybrid development processes. This paper discusses the recent genesis of collaborative change management. This new approach to systems and software development transforms the way organizations manage change across the life cycle to make it more transparent, flexible and efficient. It explores how the adoption of an open, uniform approach to commercial systems and software development, as well as the dynamic integration of project management capabilities with change management, can dramatically raise the bar on collaboration and productivity. IBM Rational Team Concert provides the essentials of a lean collaborative lifecycle management solution with integrated planning,work-item tracking, version control, build management and reporting.The Rational Team Concert application is designed to increase individual and team productivity for teams that follow agile or traditional development processes. Watch the video and see how IBM Informix TimeSeries database software can help your IT infrastructure process smart meter data 25-70 times faster than a traditional database. Plus you'll be able to reduce server sprawl, as well as maintenance and other operational costs. This free download is a practical guide to high-performance computing with COMSOL and Microsoft HPC Server. This technology now enables you to configure very small experimental clusters ad hoc and excel at much grander scales, reaching previously unseen performance levels. Read the brochure and see how IBM Informix TimeSeries database software can help you realize smarter meter benefits like reducing load times, decreasing storage capacity needs and improving performance. Learn more about this efficient, effective, scalable solution. |
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