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Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 1: Build an Enterprise Architecture - Creating Your Organization's IT Blueprint

whitepaper Organizations rely on Enterprise Architecture (EA) to fulfill their business requirements with IT tools and services. The purpose of any organization is to efficiently run its business and provide services or products to its customers and clients.

Tags: enterprise architecture

[16 May 2008]

Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 3: Gathering Requirements for Ongoing SOA Services Usage

whitepaper When the enterprise has a collection of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services, the requirements-gathering process can be challenging. The first paper in this series discusses the technical requirements for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA...

Tags: web services

[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 One's architecture might be straightforward, even simple. 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...

Tags: application development

[16 May 2008]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center

whitepaper The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Design and Implement a Composite Workflow Solution Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Using Business Process Management and a Services-Based Approach to Create a Highly Responsive IT Architecture

whitepaper The approach to designing IT architecture and implementation is changing from a technology-centered paradigm to a solution that is based on business process orchestration. When IT solutions are centered around business processes, an enterprise can...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Bobby Woolf: A Quick Intro to WebSphere Business Process Management

whitepaper Service-oriented architecture is an enterprise-scale IT architectural style that develops IT resources as business-aligned services to fulfill business needs. IBM WebSphere Business Process Management is a solution for modeling, assembling...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 1: Exploring the Development, Interfaces, and Operation Semantics of Services

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between different systems within an enterprise. Well-designed service interfaces can accelerate project schedules and make the SOA solution more responsive to business needs.

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center: Version 2.1

whitepaper The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to...

Tags: network design

[11 Apr 2008]

Securing SOA and Traditional Infrastructure

whitepaper To implement this new architecture type, you first have to ascertain the needs of the different processes. The development of an SOA consists first of all in organizing the information system according to the enterprise business processes.

Tags: security management, business processes, domain, domains

[10 Apr 2008]

HP StorageWorks Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server Always on Technologies White Paper

whitepaper Complete redundancy throughout the architecture provides no single-point-of-failure, and non-disruptive online upgrades ensure that data is always available. In a world where every business decision triggers an IT event, HP solutions enable an...

Tags: database management, storageworks, arrays, art

[10 Apr 2008]

Streaming Video for High-Impact Business Communications: A Process-Centric Overview

whitepaper It describes the processes that Cisco has in place to effectively use its internal Cisco Media Network architecture to create live and on-demand video content, publish and manage media assets, and globally deliver video-based content for multiple...

Tags: streaming media, media, video, cisco

[10 Apr 2008]

Architecture in Practice, Part 6: Why Business Process Management (BPM) Is Important to an Enterprise

whitepaper However, the traditional notion of maintaining a steady state set of an enterprise's core business processes is no longer enough to keep pace with the ever-changing demands and dynamics of the marketplace.

Tags: business management

[09 Apr 2008]

Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 1: Enterprise Architecture Viewpoints - What's Best for Your Organization?

whitepaper Every organization has unique business needs, so a variety of factors are important when planning an enterprise architecture approach for the company. In this paper, examine elements one should take into consideration when planning a new or revised...

Tags: business management

[09 Apr 2008]

Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 2: Using Services to Report Errors to Service Consumer Applications

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between different systems within an enterprise. Find out how well-designed service interfaces help accelerate project schedules and make one's SOA solution more responsive to business...

Tags: web services

[09 Apr 2008]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center Version 2.0

whitepaper The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Network Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile IT support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to provide the power...

Tags: infrastructure management

[03 Apr 2008]

Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Suite: Best of Breed SOA Tools and Middleware

whitepaper In response to these challenges, leading companies are adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a means of delivering on these requirements by overcoming the complexity of their application and IT environments.

Tags: infrastructure management

[28 Mar 2008]

Ensuring Service Enablement From SOA

whitepaper Now, the concept of business services is being embraced by enterprise IT organizations through the adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. SOA is IT's response to the demands from the business that IT be more in tune with the...

Tags: infrastructure management

[24 Feb 2008]

Sma Supermercati Gains Enterprise-Wide Visibility With Highly Available, Web-Based System Architecture

whitepaper The company selected Oracle infrastructure software as the foundation for a new Web-based IT architecture designed to increase flexibility and scalability and help Sma Supermercati meet emerging business requirements.

Tags: high availability

[08 Feb 2008]

Momentum Webcast: Technology Expertise to Help Enable a People-Ready Business With Microsoft Services (Level 100)

whitepaper Microsoft Services offers assistance in architecture, planning, technology consulting, and enterprise support to help to plan and implement new solutions. Whether planning on deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, implementing Microsoft Office...

Tags: business management

[14 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Erlanger Health System

whitepaper The network architecture team at Erlanger recognized the need to implement a policy-based system for managing network Quality of Service (QoS) and access security. Enterprise Policy Manager is used to create, deploy, and maintain policies...

Tags: ethernet

[10 Jan 2008]

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