Maximizing Cloud ROI - Five Key Lessons from Early Adopters [ Source: IBM ]
June 2011-
The cloud is not just an amalgamation of technologies and services. It is an entirely new model for delivering value to the business. To optimize that value, IT decision-makers need to understand and adopt emerging best practices for leveraging the cloud.
The five key lessons presented here are drawn from the real-world experiences of successful early cloud adopters. By applying these lessons, IT decision-makers can more confidently maximize returns on their cloud investments-while ...
Choosing the Right Servers [ Source: IBM ]
June 2011- Your midsize business is ready to grow with the recovering economy, and that means it's time to act on server upgrade plans that were put on hold during the downturn. Making the right investments can reduce server sprawl, accelerate workload productivity, optimize for virtual environments, and reduce operating costs. Here's a guide on what to consider.
Design Time Automation: B2B Integration [ Source: Extol ]
March 2011-
Enterprises are re-thinking their B2B integration and realizing that their current approach is some combination of too expensive, not responsive enough or is an impediment to innovation. Many enterprises are looking for increased B2B automation because of the activities associated with onboarding customers, supporting new document types, the addition of new communications protocols and making changes to existing maps is manually intensive and expensive.
At the heart of EXTOL's Business Integration ...
Design Time Automation for B2B Integration [ Source: Extol ]
March 2011-
Enterprises are re-thinking their B2B integration and realizing that their current approach is some combination of too expensive, not responsive enough or is an impediment to innovation. Many enterprises are looking for increased B2B automation because of the activities associated with onboarding customers, supporting new document types, the addition of new communications protocols and making changes to existing maps is manually intensive and expensive.
At the heart of EXTOL's Business Integration ...
Confidently maximize virtual investments with IBM Integrated Service Management [ Source: IBM ]
March 2011- IBM IT service management solutions help control costs, enhance performance and increase security in the virtual environment, with software for IT provisioning, IT monitoring, virtual storage, IT security, usage and accounting, software license management and more.
Gain IT asset visibility, control and automation [ Source: IBM ]
March 2011- This white paper describes how IBM IT asset management solutions provide the visibility, control and automation to support asset management across the IT asset life cycle, including planning, acquisition, management and disposition of software, hardware and related licenses.
Consolidating security across platforms with IBM System z [ Source: IBM ]
March 2011- Organizations today are facing formidable IT security challenges, and the increasingly complex infrastructures and diverse platforms found in today’s computer centers aren’t making things any easier. These unprecedented security challenges stem from the need to protect critical assets in distributed, collaborative, multiplatform environments. These heterogeneous environments are the inevitable product of unbridled data and application growth—not just in the number of workloads and assets that need to be secured, but also in ...
Web User Experience: Common Indicators for Business and IT Collaboration [ Source: Dell Software ]
March 2011- In many organizations, business teams and IT have different goals and measures of success, and lack even a common vocabulary for working together. The responsibility of IT is often limited to providing highly responsive application services that are always available—with no insight into business needs. Meanwhile, business teams are tasked with understanding user behavior to determine if delivered content and services meet the needs of market demand or business goals—with little access to ...
Mastering Active Directory Migrations [ Source: Dell Software ]
March 2011-
An Active Directory migration isn't easy. It has to be budget friendly, on schedule, seamless and secure - while minimizing downtime. You'll also need to understand your source environment so you don't waste time migrating the wrong/unimportant data. It all comes down to having a solid plan and the right migration tools in place.
This Quest white paper discusses the major challenges of an Active Directory migration. Learn about specific migration scenarios ...
Stepping Up to the Application Integration Challenge [ Source: Oracle ]
January 2011- Application integration has long been seen as a stumbling block to any new software implementation. However, new tools are making the process easier – and spurring a faster return on investment. Oracle, with investments that span the company’s portfolio of applications and middleware technologies, is leading the charge to enable integration. Learn about options that can make application integration easier.
Sageza Snapshot: IBM Systems Migration Assurance [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011- In this analyst snapshot, Clay Ryder, President, The Sageza Group, discusses the factors that drive IT systems migrations, and reviews how the IBM Systems Migration Assurance package helps customers analyze how to reduce costs and build an IT infrastructure that will drive business innovation with minimal business risk. Download the paper now.
Value Proposition for IBM System Storage [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011- This white paper outlines the requirements of an effective SAP enterprise storage infrastructure in three critical areas - functional capabilities, cost-effectiveness, and integration and optimization of diverse server and storage resources - and discuss how IBM System Storage meets these requirements.
IBM Point of View: Security and Cloud Computing [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
You may be turning to cloud computing solutions to provide flexible, cost-effective and proven delivery of IT services. Cloud resources can be rapidly deployed and easily scaled and processes, applications and services can be provisioned “on demand,” regardless of user location or device. But there are challenges and a key challenge is security.
Read this paper from IBM to see how cloud computing may present an added level of risk because essential services ...
The Benefits Of Cloud Computing: A New Era Of Responsiveness, Effectiveness, and Efficiency In IT Service Delivery [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
IBM and customers both reap the benefits of cloud computing IT executives today can be forgiven if accused of having their heads in the clouds.That’s because the clouds that interest IT executives today aren’t of the meteorologicalvariety; they are computing clouds. Widespread interest and even unabashed excite-ment about cloud computing emanates from businesses, government agencies andother organizations seeking more dynamic, resilient and cost-effective IT systems thanprevious generations of technology allowed.
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Leveraging security from the cloud [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
When you think about securing your cloud environment, do questions fill your mind? What is it? Who benefits? What are the advantages? Where does it work best? Why is it needed?
Read the white paper Leveraging security from the cloud for these answers and to learn about the other critical issues you need to consider when developing your security strategy.
Managed Backup Cloud Onsite Data Protection [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
Do you want to reduce your exposure to data loss and have your data protected soon after it’s created? Do you know what your organization’s successful backup percentage rate is? Unsuccessful backups and long recovery times can expose your business to data loss and have a financial impact. Is your IT staff stretched, handling other high-priority work plus data protection? A challenging workload can decrease the focus on your business resilience program.
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The highly resilient enterprise [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
With supply chain interdependencies, increasing regulatory requirements and geographically dispersed businesses encompassing everything from traditional storefronts to online operations, organizations are facing intense pressure to improve performance, maintain continuous availability and ensure data integrity. But how do you know if your business is truly prepared for – and able to flexibly respond to – unplanned events?
This paper from IBM helps you to protect your brand and potential revenue by helping you:
• Assess your ...
Developing a business resilience transformation blueprint [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
Today’s business environment is characterized by rapid, unpredictable change and your business has to be responsive and resilient—seamlessly taking advantage of opportunities while mitigating risks.
This white paper details the IBM object-oriented business resilience frame¬work and helps you identify:
• Which risks may affect your organization
• The potential impact that these risks could have on your organization
• How the objects in your current infrastructure could respond to these ...
Business Resilience: The best defense is a good offense [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011- At a time when you need it most, a strong business resilience strategy can save you time, effort and money. This white paper will provide you with a better understanding of the value of business resilience and how your IT architecture and management teams can use a tiered resilience approach to balance and align your technology capabilities and investments with your business requirements.
Using cloud technology to manage your availability, data and overall resiliency [ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
Your business is challenged with meeting the demand for continuous availability while also effectively managing enormous amounts of information that continue to grow, much of it online, and often with no offline option for conducting business. When your systems are down, you risk more than loss of revenue and productivity: you jeopardize business-critical data as well as damage to your brand.
Read this IBM white paper to learn how to develop a cost-effective ...
How To Create Agile Business Process Management (BPM) [ Source: Fujitsu America, Inc. ]
December 2010-
Organizations today need to drive growth while optimizing costs, improving efficiency, and achieving greater business agility. Agile BPM from Fujitsu helps best-in-class organizations achieve business results by addressing requirements for continuous process optimization, collaborative process workflows to support team-based initiatives, and to extend business processes beyond the enterprise.
Continuous Process Optimization
The Fujitsu Interstage BPM provides advanced capabilities to discover and visualize existing business process workflow using unique Automated Process Discovery (APD) technology ...
How To Create Agile Business Process Management (BPM) [ Source: Fujitsu America ]
December 2010-
Organizations today need to drive growth while optimizing costs, improving efficiency, and achieving greater business agility. Agile BPM from Fujitsu helps best-in-class organizations achieve business results by addressing requirements for continuous process optimization, collaborative process workflows to support team-based initiatives, and to extend business processes beyond the enterprise.
Continuous Process Optimization
The Fujitsu Interstage BPM provides advanced capabilities to discover and visualize existing business process workflow using unique Automated Process Discovery (APD) technology ...
Enterprise Job Scheduling Evaluation Guide [ Source: Cisco ]
September 2007-
How to evaluate and choose a job scheduling solution that is right for your infrastructure
IT groups must support many applications and servers across multiple platforms that frequently operate independently of each other. Coordinating all these applications and networks to streamline job scheduling can increase productivity and reduce costs.
However, applying more staff, toolkits, and rudimentary scheduling software to cobble together automated batch processing solutions is cost-prohibitive, inefficient, and error-prone. Enterprise ...
Top 5 BI Process Management Challenges [ Source: Cisco ]
December 2010- Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and the extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes that support them are vital to equipping corporate decision makers with the information they need to maintain and improve business performance, successfully scale up as their business grows, and identify and implement new business initiatives and strategies. Key to getting current and accurate data in a timely manner is to ensure that the processes that move data from source to target systems run ...
Faster, Easier, and More Cost-Effective E-mail Migrations From Messaging Architects [ Source: Messaging Architects ]
June 2010- This technology brief highlights how implementing M+Archive as an integral part of an e-mail platform migration ensures a faster, easier, and more cost-effective solution and eliminates the need to deploy a third-party, single-use migration tool to migrate mail systems. Designed to work in multiple e-mail environments, M+Archive is an interoperable e-mail archiving and migration solution that helps organizations migrate and archive data and assists with user provisioning. M+Archive also adds value to ...
Server Consolidation for SAP ERP on IBM eX5 Enterprise Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processors: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership [ Source: Red Hat ]
November 2010- For many years computer processor performance improvements have been increasing at relatively steady rates. The recent introduction of the Intel? Xeon? 5600 Series and 7500 Series processors offers even greater performance per dollar than previous generations of server processors. With support for six and eight cores per processor, the significant jump in performance and efficiency of these latest processors is causing many IT organizations to reexamine their historic server refresh cycles and consider replacing servers sooner than ...
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Application Testing Strategies in the IBM z/OS Environment
The IBM z/OS mainframe environment has earned a reputation for superior application performance, availability and data security while managing extremely large volumes of application ......
Embedded Software Development: Implementing an Agile Methodology to Improve Time and Quality