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ALSO CALLED: Platforms and Servers, Application Platforms, Host Operating Systems, Software Platforms, Internetwork Operating Systems, OS, Operating Environments, Executives (Software), Server Platforms, and Platforms
DEFINITION: What is an operating system? An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as "OS") is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a computer. The other programs are called applications or application programs. The application programs make use of the operating system by making requests for services through a defined application  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Operating Systems
Five Things About Windows Server 2008 You Might Not Know
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know?
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
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SAP on Linux: Basics, Migration Tips and How to Get Started
sponsored by Red Hat
PODCAST: This Expert Podcast explores the pros and cons of running SAP on Linux, and explains how to create a migration plan from other operating systems.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 29 Jun 2009
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Gaining Business Value and ROI with HP Insight Control
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
ANALYST BRIEF: HP Insight Control, based on HP Systems Insight Manager, provides tools that support core management functions including server deployment, monitoring, optimization, and integration for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers. This IDC study looks at how businesses can gain business value and increase ROI using HP Insight Control.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
ANALYST BRIEF: This IDC white paper will look at how the IT industry is changing from static x86 server configurations to a more integrated approach. The introduction of modern solutions, such as blade architectures, allows systems to accommodate both physical and virtual migration which promotes uptime and efficient resource usage.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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The Business Case for Migrating from SPARC to HP: Infrastructure silos, such as SPARC, are an unnecessary IT burden
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This brief examines the operational costs and risks of SPARC environments, and shows that business assets currently hosted on SPARC can be migrated easily into the data center mainstream.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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Get More Virtual with Dell and VMware vSphere
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Learn how Dell has designed and integrated the Dell EqualLogic Virtual SAN with VMware® vSphere 4.0 with to help you save money and get more virtual.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Enhancing Virtualization Performance with VMware VStorage
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: VMware® vSphere™ is the industry's first private cloud operating system that provides a comprehensive framework from which Dell can help deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities to clients.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009
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Podcast: The Mainframe - Best Practices 2009
sponsored by CA
PODCAST: In this videocast on 2009 best practices learn about consolidation, the evolution of hub and moderization of legacy mainframe applications.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2009
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Choosing an Enterprise-Class Wireless Operating System: A Comparison of Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: Security considerations remain the single biggest limitation to more aggressive expansion of wireless device usage in many enterprises. This paper will explore some of the key criteria necessary in a mobile OS so that enterprise use of the device will not compromise the integrity of the company's security.
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009
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Best Practices for Mainframe 2009
sponsored by CA
VIDEO: In this videocast watch expert Wayne Kernochan talk about consolidation of more than 20 applications onto the mainframe, global demand of business transactions in IT leading to long term cost structures and rapid changes in the environment.
Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 11 Jun 2009
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MKS X/Server v 8.5 - High-performance, transparent PC X server
sponsored by MKS, Inc. - Interoperability Division
TRIAL SOFTWARE: This world of PC/UNIX system integration demands a product available for the newest PC architectures and is easy to use and easy to manage. Applications normally available on expensive UNIX workstations can be readily accessed from enterprise desktops.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers v9.2p2 - Porting UNIX applications to Windows
sponsored by MKS, Inc. - Interoperability Division
TRIAL SOFTWARE: MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers is the ultimate in UNIX to Windows migration. Maintain a single course base across UNIX and Windows saving time and money for years to come, while cutting development time - 70%, 80%, even 90%.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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MKS Toolkit for Developers v9.2p2
sponsored by MKS, Inc. - Interoperability Division
TRIAL SOFTWARE: MKS Toolkit for Developers speeds the software development and administration process and reduces errors by eliminating the time spent on tedious manual tasks. MKS Toolkit dramatically improves the compatibility between Windows and UNIX environments.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun: For medium data warehouses
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DATA SHEET: The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun combines products from two industry leaders to provide a pre-configured, pre-installed, calibrated, and validated solution that includes the Oracle database, Sun™ servers, storage, and the Solaris™ Operating System (OS) for a fast, reliable, and scalable data warehouse.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
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INCREASE APPLICATION SCALABILITY AND IMPROVE SYSTEM UTILIZATION WITH SUN™ LOGICAL DOMAINS
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE! M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 SERVER ARCHITECTURE: Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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SUN REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ORACLE 11g GRID
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document is intended for executives evaluating the use of a horizontally scalable grid for database application deployment, as well as project managers, system engineers, integration specialists, and other technical staff looking to design, implement, and tune database applications in a grid computing environment.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
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Key Benefits of Virtualization
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: Discover benefits of virtualization like improving utilization, simplifying operations, and rapidly provisioning new servers. Learn more about the benefits of virtualization by viewing these brief flash overviews.
Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 01 May 2009
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Troubleshooting Made Easy In Linux
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Troubleshooting is a necessary evil. Where does one start when the operating system does not start, the application does not load or run correctly, the network hangs or a network service does not listen or perform? Linux is noted for being rock solid, stable, and easy to manage but not as user friendly.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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Windows 7 Review Guide
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Join Glenn Weadock, Global Knowledge Instructor, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, A+, for this Windows 7 Review Guide. This white paper introduces the key areas in which Windows 7 differs from Vista - areas you'll need to focus on if you're thinking of moving to Windows 7, either from Vista or from XP.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009
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More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with netBoot/i™
sponsored by Double-Take Software
WHITE PAPER: Download this free whitepaper to learn about netBoot/i - a cost-effective and flexible solution that will allow you to better manage desktops or servers by booting them from images stored on any iSCSI storage area network.
Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 29 Nov 2008
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Sun Systems for MySQL x86 Performance: Speed, savings and simplicity on Sun Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper outlines some of the key benefits if using the Sun x86 servers that come with the Intel Xeon 5500 series. The x86 servers allow the flexibility of running Linux, Windows, or the Solaris OS, with greater performance.
Posted: 30 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009
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Operations Energy Management: From the Data Center Through Facilities
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Energy costs are causing facility and IT managers to pay close attention to their energy uses. Opportunities exist for innovative technology such as pervasive monitoring and wide-area controls integration to bring a new level of insight and control to operations energy management. This paper explores a new approach to energy management.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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Bringing New Generations into the Mainframe Environment
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Even with solid reliability and scalable processing power, mainframes require skilled staff for application development and system support. So as baby-boomer mainframers move into later career stages, employers may legitimately worry about their availability, motivation, and health. This paper explores four long-term organizational strategies.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 28 Apr 2009
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The Importance of “User Workspace Virtualization” in Desktop Virtualization
sponsored by RES Software
WHITE PAPER: Everyone wants to reduce the costs associated with supporting desktop users, and one of the most promising ways to do that is with desktop virtualization. In this paper, independent industry expert Brian Madden will look at the user workspace challenges faced when virtualizing desktops.
Posted: 28 Apr 2009 | Published: 28 Apr 2009
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The Solaris Operating System - Optimized For The Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This document is intended as a quick reference guide for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris OS on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Published: 24 Apr 2009
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OPERATING SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued): …  program interface (API). In addition, users can interact directly with the operating system through a user interface such as a command language or a graphical user interface (GUI).An operating system performs these services for applications:In a multitasking operating system where multiple programs can be running at the same time, the operating system determines which applications should run in what order and how much time should be allowed for each application before giving another application a turn.It manages the sharing of internal memory among multiple applications.It handles input and output … 
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