Itanium: Slip/Sliding Away [ Source: IBM ]
November 2011- Oracle has followed the trend of other major ISVs and terminated further software development for the Itanium platform. Looking at the decline in revenue of HP's Itanium-based servers, combined with loss of support by Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware and Fujitsu (in addition to Oracle), it's clear that the Itanium ecosystem is collapsing quickly.

Due to HP Itanium's decline to date, Microsoft and Oracle have already pulled out to avoid investing any more to ...

Utilizing the cloud to transform software delivery [ Source: IBM ]
March 2011- You’ve already decided to invest in cloud in order to reduce portions of your capital expenditure budget. What if you could manage and maintain your software development infrastructure within the cloud to save time and effort and reduce capital expense?

CSC's Java-based POINT IN J - End-to-End Policy Administration [ Source: CSC ]
October 2008- Long thought of as the 800 lb. gorilla in property and casualty insurance systems, CSC has demonstrated that it is a fast moving and agile 800 lb. gorilla. POINT IN J, introduced during Connect 2008, is CSC's Java-based end-to-end policy administration system that runs on Sun Microsystem’s Solaris operating system and Sun hardware. POINT IN J takes advantage of technologies not typically seen in the insurance industry and will appeal to both legacy insurers and new entrants ...

Virtualization: Cost Reduction Tips Revealed [ Source: IBM ]
July 2010- While the value of virtualization for large businesses has been well documented, this whitepaper from IBM explains how mid-sized business can benefit from virtualization with some new technologies and improved affordability. The paper explains virtualization in the context of mid-sized businesses and shows how they can reduce costs, improve services and simplify management. With specific examples of IBM solutions – and the cost savings you can expect – along with detailed explanations of the benefits of a ...

Business Rules Deliver Agility [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010- Applications constructed with a Business Rules Management System can deliver flexibility to business systems and agility to the organization by enhancing the ability to automate decisions with a high degree of precision and personalization.

Taming Software License Compliance through Automation: 10 Best Practices [ Source: Dell KACE™ ]
November 2012- Turn one of your biggest headaches - asset management - into a cost and time saving initiative. Learn about the 10 best practices to tame software license compliance. Read the white paper today.

Bronto Software Buys Splunk versus Extending their Hadoop Deployment [ Source: Splunk ]
December 2012- Like most companies, Bronto Software manages a growing and complex IT environment. Open source software is foundational at Bronto and has become the company standard within its IT environment. When seeking to augment existing open source technologies, Bronto was faced with an immature market that often failed to provide the analytic capabilities needed to respond to critical processes and services.

Bronto needed a solution that would allow engineers to deep dive into system ...

Simplify planning for a Windows 7 migration [ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
August 2012- To capitalize on the benefits of Windows 7, you must make sure your computing environment is ready for the upgrade. The Dell Windows 7 Readiness Assessment is designed to identify application compatibility, hardware compatibility and migration readiness, and to provide the recommendations needed to help make your transition to Windows 7 as smooth as possible.

Read the Dell Windows 7 Readiness Assessment for a detailed analysis of your organization’s preparedness to upgrade and includes a comprehensive ...

IDC Business Resiliency Report IBM Power Systems and Their Support for Business Resiliency in Challenging IT Environments [ Source: IBM ]
July 2012- IBM Power Systems provide a comprehensive approach designed to protect the continuity and availability of business-critical applications and services. Deploying integrated disaster recovery allows companies to deliver new services faster, with higher quality, and with superior economics.

Downtime can be highly disruptive and expensive to an organization, with cost drivers including lost revenue, reduced employee productivity, reputational damage, and the cost of resources required to address and avoid outages. Most organizations in IDC ...

RHEV Sets Stage for VMWare Challenge [ Source: Red Hat ]
June 2012- In a February 2012 review, well-known enterprise technology information publication eWEEK wrote that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is set to challenge VMware at its own game and discusses why Red Hat is now being considered an enterprise virtualization market contender.

Built from the long-standing stability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is a strategic alternative virtualization solution and is the first enterprise-ready, fully open source virtualization platform. Designed for ...