Economics of Scale-Out Storage
[ Source: Red Hat, Inc. ]
April 2012-
Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. As this shift occurs, an increasing number of enterprises are seeking to understand the advantages of the newer technology when it comes to the storage of exploding amounts of unstructured data. <br><br>
While many sources have investigated the advantages of scale-out storage from a technology perspective, few ...
IBM Watson To Fight Cancer
[ Source: TechWeb ]
March 2012-
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon the Watson natural language processing computer system to provide improved cancer diagnostics.
Open Source as a Catalyst for Innovation and Cultural Change featuring Yahoo
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
March 2012-
Fact: Open source is a fundamental part of many of the world's leading development organizations, and is often credited with enabling and enhancing innovation. But how do open source and the community model of development impact organizational structure and culture? <br><br>
Join us on this webinar to hear a senior executive from Yahoo! Share his experience and perspective on leveraging the positive business and network effects of open source while ...
Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in K-12 Education
[ Source: HP/Intel ]
March 2012-
The pressure to achive in K-12 education has never been greater. Students are expected to learn more, teachers and administrators are expected to do more, and all of this has to be measured more, even while budgets are cut. This strategy guide explains how you can upgrade technology, standardize equipment and improve IT practices in your schol district.<br><br>
This whitepaper is a rich media document, and includes IDC Analyst ...
Optimize your infrastructure with IBM Virtualization Solutions
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2011-
Today, success demands agility. If your IT staff spends all of their time worrying about security, uptime and capacity problems, they won't be working with you to drive innovation. This paper describes IBM Server Optimization and Integration services - Vmware server virtualization, a consulting-based solution that can help you determine the optimal placement of workloads within a VMware vSphere infrastructure deployment.
The 7 Myths of IP Risk: The Real Exposure Issues with Open Source Software
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011-
Open Source Software (OSS) is widely recognised as providing significant technology, innovation and business benefits to software development organisations, but it is not without associated challenges and risks. <br><br>
In this complimentary whitepaper, we address the intellectual property (IP) risks that developers, development managers and c-level managers must take into account when developing and distributing software created with OSS. We also discuss a number of common myths surrounding OSS that ...
Governance Fast Start: 5 Keys to Effective Open Source Governance
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011-
Gartner predicts that through 2014, no more than 50% of open-source investments by mainstream IT organizations will yield consistent long term TCO advantages over alternatives. The reasons include the lack of a governance program to filter, audit, track and manage open source assets in the enterprise. In the same study they recommend -leveraging third-party commercial service and support to establish service-level agreements (SLAs) for OSS. <br><br>
The credativ Group and Black Duck ...
Open Source at AOL: Driving Innovation and Corporate Success
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011-
Open source has taken its place alongside many critical closed source technologies as a core piece of the global IT ecosystem. In addition to the traditional advantages of utilizing open source technologies, companies are gaining significant organizational benefits through its collaborative and transparent nature. Open source today is not just used as a way of "doing technology", but of developing core products and energizing customer, partner and employee relationships. <br><...
ITG Report: Cost/Benefit Case for IBM XIV Systems: Comparing Cost Structures for IBM XIV and EMC VMAX Systems
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2011-
New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. These comparisons included financial services, government, health care, life sciences, manufacturing and telecommunications organizations with initial installed capacities of between 44 and 522 TB. Calculations allow for three-year capacity growth. Download now to read the detailed comparisons.
Collaborative software delivery: improving software quality with better lifecycle management
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2011-
Nearly everyone - developers to senior management - requires greater visibility into the development process. Read how how an IBM Rational solution can help your company build better software faster, using an integrated application lifecycle management solution designed to support collaboration across distributed agile development teams.