Building Return On Investment From Cloud Computing
[ Source: Open Group ]
April 2010-
With so much discussion about cloud computing today, many questions arise. This white paper from Open Group introduces the main factors affecting ROI from cloud computing, and compares the business development of cloud computing with that of other innovative technologies; describes the main approaches to building ROI by taking advantage of the benefits that cloud computing provides; and describes approaches to measuring this ROI, absolutely and in comparison with traditional approaches to IT, by giving ...
How to Boost Web App Performance Up To 10x
[ Source: CD Networks ]
April 2010-
Delivering web applications over the Internet and ensuring reasonable response times for users around the globe is a significant challenge. Application Acceleration solutions reduce the effects of the inherent performance limitations of the Internet, helping enterprises increase the speed and performance of web-based applications by as much as 10X, which can lead to increased productivity, lower operating costs, and a far superior end-user experience.
Why Adopt Nearshore Agile Development?
[ Source: Ciklum ]
April 2010-
Ciklum, the European leader in IT nearshoring for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), presents nearshore Agile development as a relatively new, yet effective Outsourcing 2.0 trend, able to better meet with the challenging requirements of today's high-tech environment, compared with traditional offshore waterfall development.
Cloud Computing for National Security Applications
[ Source: Dataline LLC ]
June 2008-
Through collaboration with leading industry partners, Dataline is integrating an end-to-end solution for secure cloud computing. Called Service Oriented Architecture – Real Time (SOA-R), this solution integrates:
• Real-time services oriented architecture;
• Multi-tiered, high-performance storage;
• Event driven automated workflows;
• Mission specific applications and web services;
• Highly reliable, virtualized, hardware infrastructure;
• Efficient wide area networking with accelerate geosynchronous satellite IP throughput;
• Information access through secure Mobile Adhoc Networking.
SOA-R ...
2010 State Of Global People Management: HR’s Guide To Economic Recovery
[ Source: Softscape ]
December 2009-
The year 2009 was extremely challenging and exhausting for many human resources (HR) leaders and practitioners due to the worst recession the world has experienced in many decades. Yet, as economies across the globe continue to transition from recession to recovery, there is a unique opportunity for HR leaders to take a more active and strategic role in facilitating this transition for their organizations.
The power of analytics for public sector
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2011-
Complex societal, economic, political and environmental pressures are placing intense demands on public sector organizations to make smarter decisions, deliver results and demonstrate accountability.<br><br>
An unprecedented "information explosion" both facilitates and complicates the ability of governments to achieve desirable outcomes. A tremendous opportunity exists to use the growing mountain of data to make better, fact-based decisions. Yet, the volume of data and its increasingly diverse nature can ...
Harvard Research Group Assessment: Linux Migration
[ Source: Red Hat ]
August 2010-
Cloud technologies and services hold the promise of shorter time-to-market, cost-sharing with other users, and instant availability of resources. Harvard Research Group (HRG) believes that cloud computing enables organizations of all sizes and levels of maturity to simplify, consolidate, virtualize, and re-architect their computing infrastructure for the future. Linux, with hypervisor technologies such as Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM), and in conjunction with chip-based technologies, is certain to broaden the use of virtualization and the adoption ...
Navy Marine Corps Intranet Case Study
[ Source: VMware ]
March 2011-
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) network is not just massive, its mission is vital: more than 700,000 military and civilian employees of the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps receive IT services via the intranet.
Its integrated operation enables secure off-site storage and rapid service and data restoration, even in the event of a disaster.
Read this case study to learn how EDS is deploying VMware technology to run more ...
Next Generation Ethernet: Challenges And Opportunities Deploying 10G Ethernet
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
As data centers and enterprise networks continue to deploy advanced applications such as virtualization, cloud computing, and SAN/LAN convergence, it becomes necessary to look at upgrading the existing infrastructure to 10G Ethernet. This panel of industry experts will present an overview of the technologies available and the deployment challenges in rolling out 10G Ethernet networks. Gain the latest information about these technologies and decision criteria to guide deployments. Topics include: virtualization, cloud networking, protocols (...
Cloud Connect: Charting the course of on-demand computing
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
November 2009-
Cloud Computing represents the biggest shift in computing of the last decade. It's as fundamental as the move from client-server computing to web-centric computing, and in many ways more disruptive. For cloud computing is a change in business models-the ability to efficiently allocate computing power on demand, in a true utility model. It changes what companies can do with IT resources.