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DEFINITION: The kernel is the essential center of a computer operating system, the core that provides basic services for all other parts of the operating system. A synonym is nucleus. A kernel can be contrasted with a shell, the outermost part of an operating system that interacts  … 
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how desktop virtualization will provide IT administrators with improved ability and availability, allowing for efficient and effective IT management.
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Overcoming Mobile Fragmentation: Building Applications for Multiple Operating Systems
sponsored by Recursion Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: It's a growing nightmare to build applications that run on different operating systems and maintain some degree of compatibility and interoperability. This paper discusses some challenges and trade-offs developers make and highlights one solution.
Posted: 03 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Storage and Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document is based on a Dell/TechTarget webcast entitled "Storage and Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments."
Posted: 03 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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IDC White Paper - Talend Uses Open Source to Deliver Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Enterprise Data Integration
sponsored by Talend
WHITE PAPER: This white paper expalins data integration market, examines the approach taken by Talend, and shows how the combination of Talend's technical approach and its Open Source licensing overcomes key barriers to adoption of data integration.
Posted: 30 Sep 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Sybase IQ Technology Overview
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications. In this whitepaper learn how Sybase IQ can offer significant performance and total cost of ownership advantages.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Managing Mobility in the Enterprise
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Mobile empowerment enables employees to take back office systems to the point of interaction with the customer anywhere. This paper highlights some of the areas mobility will expand and address how companies should advantageously manage such mobility.
Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Office of the Insurance CFO: Driving Business Decision-Making
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: CFOs are moving move beyond administrative and transactional tasks, becoming catalysts to improve business performance. This whitepaper discusses important questions that need to be answered to provide the decision support that finance needs.
Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Uncovering Hidden Value in a Midsize Manufacturing Company
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn the four steps to uncovering hidden value in a midsize manufacturing company. This simple but disciplined sequence of priorities starts with protecting your existing business.
Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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MD3000 and MD3000i: Array Tuning Best Practices
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overall approach to tuning I/O performance and also provides specific guidelines for using the storage array tuning controls.
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008
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NetApp and Citrix XenServer 4.1 - Building a Virtual Infrastructure from Server to Storage
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This technical report discusses how integrating NetApp® solutions for virtual infrastructures can solve the unique challenges inherent with the server virtualization solutions from Citrix®.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008
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Bringing Automation to the Data Center
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: A number of factors have emerged that clearly demonstrate the requirement for a more holistic approach to data center management.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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Leveraging Real-Time Web Collaboration to Improve Your Sales Process
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Top sales organizations have embraced real-time Web collaboration solutions and use them every day to improve their interactions with customers, partners, and within their internal sales teams. Learn how it can improve performance in your organization.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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Desktop Management: Getting It Right
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The task of desktop management has become too large and too important to be handled on an ad-hoc basis with limited tools. Read this whitepaper to learn what kind of desktop management is right for you.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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eGuide: The Business Benefits of Unified Communications
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This expert E-Guide details how to implement a successful Unified Communication approach within your company. It outlines best practices for ensuring reliability and consistent delivery so that your business can receive the maximum benefits.
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 | Published: 28 Aug 2008
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Transform Your Desktop with Virtualization: VDI Solutions from AMD, HP, and VMware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper by VMware explains the evolution of VDI, the VDI solution deployment, and the VDI use cases. It also discusses how disaster recovery solutions are also being implemented using VDI.
Posted: 22 Aug 2008 | Published: 20 Aug 2008
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Capacity Management in Virtual Infrastructures
sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a detailed look at the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures. It also offers a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges and setting the stage for successful VMware deployments.
Posted: 19 Aug 2008 | Published: 19 Aug 2008
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Trade Your Manual Server Farm Headaches for Automated Management Proficiency
sponsored by visionapp
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the creation of identifying various building blocks for servers, allowing flexibility in configuration deployment, as well as centralized management by one or multiple administrators.
Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Published: 18 Aug 2008
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Best Practices for Audit and Compliance Reporting for the IBM System i (AS/400)
sponsored by PowerTech Group
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the key items that need to be reviewed on AS/400 for both configuration data and transactional log information from the audit journal, it also explains various challenges of auditing and reporting on the System i platform.
Posted: 01 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures
sponsored by Burton Group
WHITE PAPER: Before you can deploy server virtualization in the data center, you need a broad vision of how the process will work. Read this white paper for a step-by-step guide for virtualization planning, implementation, and management. Topics covered include...
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 14 May 2007
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Enterprise Data Management: 7 Principles for Oracle E-Business Suite Archiving
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines seven basic principles for successfully managing your Business-critical ERP applications and application data.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Enable a Flexible, Efficient IT Infrastructure: Virtualization with Logical Domains and Sun Coolthreads™ Servers
sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
WHITE PAPER: By taking advantage of Sun virtualization technologies, organizations can architect, implement, and manage a consolidated datacenter that strikes the proper balance between absolute isolation and soft, flexible separation of applications.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Patch Migration & Testing for Oracle E-Business Suite: Automate and Control
sponsored by Newmerix
WHITE PAPER: Learn recommendations for managing Oracle application patches and how you can meet your aggressive timelines for deploying Oracle Application upgrades and helps you cut operational inefficiencies from your maintenance activities.
Posted: 05 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is not a new concept. Today it appears that virtualization is everywhere, which because of its ambiguity can be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. This whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 28 Apr 2008
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Identifying the Right Media Format for Broadband Video Initatives
sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a strategic roadmap for choosing the optimal media format to improve the likelihood of broadband video success.
Posted: 07 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Best Practices for Producing On Demand Video for the Web
sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This paper will help you understand and select from the most popular video formats, it provides an overview of video processing and encoding practices that can help you create the best-looking Web video for your Web site.
Posted: 07 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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KERNELS DEFINITION (continued): …  with user commands. Kernel and shell are terms used more frequently in Unix operating systems than in IBM mainframe or Microsoft Windows systems.

Typically, a kernel (or any comparable center of an operating system) includes an interrupt handler that handles all requests or completed I/O operations that compete for the kernel's services, a scheduler that determines which programs share the kernel's processing time in what order, and a supervisor that actually gives … 
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