Departmental Private Cloud Reference Architecture [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

November 2012- With the addition of systems management such as Microsoft System Center, customers can move beyond virtualization and begin to implement private clouds. A private cloud extends virtualization features designed into Windows Server, enabling standardized design, simple back-up, and self-service deployment of IT services. By removing the need to customize each and every IT service and by enabling line of business or application owners to control when they deploy services, IT organizations can further reduce operational ...

Sybase PowerBuilder IS .Net...and so much MORE! [ Source: SAP ]

October 2012- Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 is the second full-fledged .NET release of the market's favorite application development tool, bringing true power and ease of use to .NET. In the box, you'll find two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that give you options.

You can build and deploy applications in a traditional Client/Server architecture, deploy to WebForms, WindowForms, or Smart Client applications. Or, you can leverage the power of the new IDE, built on top of Visual ...

Moving your PowerBuilder Application to the Web [ Source: SAP ]

October 2012- Today's Internet-connected world virtually requires that all companies leverage the power of the Internet. There is a wide and sometimes bewildering array of techniques available to PowerBuilder programmers to move all or part of their PowerBuilder logic to the Internet. A process-based approach to examining which aspects of the application should be moved to the Internet, combined with an intelligent refactoring of the application and an understanding of your company's technology stack will maximize your ...

DVS Enterprise: Citrix XenDesktop Reference Architecture [ Source: Dell ]

September 2012- Discover how Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions Enterprise architecture leverages hardware, software and services to provide scalability, enhanced security, improved end-user flexibility and ease of maintenance of virtual desktop computing.

Microsoft® Windows® MultiPoint Server 2011 Reference Architecture [ Source: Dell ]

September 2012- Become familiar with key considerations and reference architectures for Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. Review configurations targeted to classrooms and training facilities and learn relevant hardware requirements and best practices.

Integrating the resiliency needs of business and IT functions White Paper [ Source: IBM ]

November 2011- Migrating from a traditional processing capability with a static design to more fluid, cloud-based computing increases the level of resiliency needed to sustain business operations. Read this white paper to learn important considerations for effective resiliency program management within a cloud design.

Understanding Actionable Business Architecture [ Source: IBM ]

October 2010- As business and technology become more entwined, developing and deploying IT systems that address evolving business needs is vital for any organization. Read this paper for new perspectives and strategies on business architecture to help your organization potentially gain a competitive edge.

Cloud-based business continuity and resiliency services from IBM [ Source: IBM ]

May 2009- Cloud technology has enormous potential to enable highly efficient and dynamic IT infrastructures that are more elastic and responsive to potential disruptions and data loss. Virtualization technologies combined with new cloud management techniques enable IBM to provide a simplified “anywhere, anytime” self-service approach for the delivery and consumption of IT services. Read this paper to see how using a cloud-based approach for your IT can free you to reap immediate benefits of a specific technology ...

Best Practices for Peer Code Review [ Source: SmartBear ]

July 2010- It's common sense that peer code review—in which software developers review each other's code before releasing software to QA—identifies bugs, encourages collaboration, and keeps code more maintainable.

But it's also clear that some code review techniques are inefficient and ineffective. The meetings often mandated by the review process take time and kill excitement. Strict process can stifle productivity, but lax process means no one knows whether reviews are effective or even ...

Introductory Tutorial to OpenCL [ Source: AMD ]

August 2009- OpenCL is a young technology, and, while a specification has been published, there are currently few documents that provide a basic introduction with examples, according to AMD. This article helps make OpenCL easier to understand and implement.

System Models And Simulation [ Source: Excel Software ]

January 2009- We live in a world of systems driven by cause and effect. Thrse systems include financial, production, inventory, biological, chemical, thermodynamic, and workflow. Systems can be modeled as nodes representing system variables and connecting lines representing causal effects. The changing value of one variable can cause another to increase or decrease as described by equations. Understanding how a system really works is the first step towards using, improving, automating, or explaining it to others. This ...

UML For Objective-C [ Source: Excel Software ]

January 2009- Objective-C is a popular programming language for Mac OS X computers. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the industry standard notation for modeling object-oriented software. This paper shows how to model Objective-C software using UML.

Software Design For PHP [ Source: Excel Software ]

January 2009- PHP is a server-side, open-source, HTML-embedded scripting language used to drive many of the world’s most popular Web sites. All major Web servers support PHP, enabling normal HMTL pages to embed code fragments that get interpreted before being served up to requesting users. PHP is often used with MySQL, a popular open source database engine.