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SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology

whitepaper In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web services have fuelled an escalating demand for mission-critical IT resources, with increasing numbers of collaborative business initiatives focused on information sharing and continuous data...

Tags: server consolidation, resource, demands, continue

[16 May 2008]

Advanced Backup Reporting for Business-Level Trending and Analysis

whitepaper Veritas Backup Reporter provides advanced backup reporting to help IT staff enhance the efficiencies of their backup and recovery operations, help verify backup service-level compliance and bring costs associated with backup and recovery in line...

Tags: back-up

[16 May 2008]

Building SOA Composite Business Services, Part 3: Build Consumable Web Services Using the REST Architectural Style in WebSphere

whitepaper This paper is the third in a series about developing composite applications to enable business services. The paper focuses on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. By using a facade component as a REST-style interface...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

WAN optimization for mobile users is critical to your business success

whitepaper Room for the introduction of new business applications Get the FREE Forrester report on its study, "Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World," to learn how deploying a WAN optimization solution can give you:

Tags: lan - wan standards

[16 May 2008]

Scalable NAS for Oracle With HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array File Services

whitepaper Oracle Database and the Oracle E-Business Suite are at the heart of most commercial data centers. These databases and applications have been compartmentalized, creating islands of servers and storage that drive up operational costs and lower server...

Tags: nas

[16 May 2008]

The Entry-Level HP Workstations: Market Segments and Application Areas

whitepaper Although ordinary business PCs can sometimes fulfill these users' needs, the demands these applications make on a desktop system often make a workstation a required solution. Increasingly sophisticated applications require more computing...

Tags: workstations

[16 May 2008]

Beyond the Obvious Web Services

whitepaper Component Object Model (COM) came into existence to enable developers to write applications which are formed from pre-built parts, or components. Basically they are the physical binary implementations of the business object.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Installing and Operating HP PolyServe for Microsoft SQL Server for SAP Databases

whitepaper Introducing HP PolyServe's approach to virtualization for mission-critical applications like SAP extend the benefits of consolidation to this critical business application. HP PolyServe software consolidates servers and storage into manageable...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 1: Everything You Need to Know About Requirements Modeling

whitepaper Often the operation of existing applications has taken over the business process requirements to become the equivalent of design or implementation changes. For example, the request "One need to add a column to table XYZ to store the customer code...

Tags: programming languages

[16 May 2008]

IT-Hosting Services Company Enhances Offerings by Using New Operating System

whitepaper The Garant Park Internet Company (Parking.ru) offers a variety of IT services to business customers in Russia. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Parking.ru has particular expertise in using Microsoft software to develop and host Web applications...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Early Linux Adopter Turns to Windows for New Business Needs

whitepaper Upon its inception, Overstock.com made the decision to build its Web-based business on open source software - mainly SUSE Linux, now distributed by Novell. However, the company soon found that the Windows platform offered significant benefits over...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Financial Institution Chooses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Improve Business Continuity

whitepaper Challenged by recent expansion, the Bank's IT department wanted to reduce costs and better support the business with responsive, reliable IT services. Many RBA servers hosted single applications that could not be deployed in a clustered environment.

Tags: infrastructure management, virtualization, automated, host

[16 May 2008]

Advantages of a Personal Workstation in Financial Services IT Environments

whitepaper IT managers are sometimes tempted to use low-cost PCs as a hardware platform for various financial applications, such as those found on the trading floor or in front office venues. While these platforms certainly have their place, financial...

Tags: workstations

[16 May 2008]

A Guided Tour of WebSphere Integration Developer - Part 1: Get a Driver's View of the WebSphere Integration Developer Landscape

whitepaper To build applications on these standards one uses a set of visual construction tools and higher level concepts, which lets one focus on the business problem, and not have to write masses of J2EE code or be a WSDL rocket scientist.

Tags: software engineering

[16 May 2008]

SAP Transaction Banking: Measurements of IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS

whitepaper Not only is it crucial to the bank's business, but it generally has the highest processing volumes and resource requirements and has extremely high availability requirements. According to some sources, core banking today is mainly done on...

Tags: mainframes

[16 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 1: Understand TOGAF and IT Architecture in Today's World - Connecting Business Needs With the Technology Infrastructure

whitepaper In the case of enterprise applications, however, a lot of thought has to go into just that topic - what one needs to do and how one needs to do it - before one can even start coding the first line. This person is responsible for translating...

Tags: application development

[16 May 2008]

Mobile Solutions Provide "Anywhere, Anytime" Access to World Financial Markets

whitepaper Global financial service providers Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners are migrating to Windows Mobile and away from BlackBerry for new mobile applications because Windows Mobile enables them to build more powerful mobile solutions, deliver those...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[16 May 2008]

3Com Solutions: Strategies for Successful IP Telephony Implementations

whitepaper The table in this paper indicates strategic alternatives and associated risks, applications impact, and cost. It is the author's hope that this presentation of strategic options clearly demonstrates the broad array of opportunities for enhancing...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[16 May 2008]

Embracing SOA for the Legacy World: Architectural Strategies to Give Your Mainframes and Legacy Applications a New Lease on Life

whitepaper Explore ways to stretch the return on IT investment of legacy platforms, such as mainframes, by using SOA-based technologies to expose critical business functions as business services. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely accepted...

Tags: mainframes

[16 May 2008]

Open source: UK dragging its heels

News He put the blame not on any religious conviction but on poor business decisions, which had led to vendor lock-in, particularly among public bodies. This is because they have committed to applications which are not supported on other operating...

Tags: europe, uk, open source

[15 May 2008]

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