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Perspectives on Grid: Virtualization as a Foundation for SOA Environments - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper As services take hold in enterprises, and their size and scale grows, it will become increasingly necessary to implement infrastructure virtualization techniques to support them. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Streamlining Operations: How a Financial Services Leader Consolidated Accounting Systems for Over 150 Affiliate Firms With Hosted Lawson Software

whitepaper To achieve true economies of scale, National Financial Partners needed to standardize and consolidate their accounting processes across all affiliates while meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[16 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Operating Systems With Configuration Manager 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)

whitepaper Then, using the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerators, the presenter plans and executes a large-scale deployment and also shows how to track the deployment, using the reporting capabilities in Configuration Manager 2007.

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

Extreme Business Warehousing: 60 Terabytes and Beyond

whitepaper It shows the how the application, infrastructure and middleware can scale-out to meet the most extreme business requirements, therefore the name "Extreme Business Warehousing". This paper covers the design criteria and implementation of an SAP...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[16 May 2008]

Compliance: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

whitepaper With identity theft, "phishing," "pharming," and other highly publicized examples of large scale financial information theft and abuse receiving attention, companies of all sizes are under increasing scrutiny regarding their compliance with GLBA.

Tags: electronic data interchange

[16 May 2008]

Drive Enterprise Innovation with IT Simplication

whitepaper The solution is to develop a strategy to scale and streamline IT systems, to support business growth while reining in costs. Today's globally competitive business climate demands that organisations reduce complexity to ensure the reliable delivery...

Tags: infrastructure management, streamline, complexity, demands

[16 May 2008]

Top 10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a File Transfer Solution

whitepaper Responding to these demands, IT departments are looking for secure file transfer solutions that are easy to use for end users, fit into their current IT infrastructure, and can scale to support a growing user population.

Tags: tcp - ip

[16 May 2008]

An Enterprise Process Framework Defined and Delivered With IBM Rational Method Composer

whitepaper When applied on an enterprise scale, RMC enables the realization of an IT Enterprise Process Framework (IT-EPF). Today's IT enterprise environment is characterized by high degrees of intricacy, increasing demands from its customer base, and an ever...

Tags: groupware - workflow

[16 May 2008]

SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

whitepaper By learning from the experiences of those organizations that have been through the process and looking at the standard best practices of large-scale technology implementations, success can come earlier and more dramatically.

Tags: infrastructure management

[16 May 2008]

Datacenter-on-Chip Architectures: Tera-Scale Opportunities and Challenges

whitepaper Tera-scale CMP architectures, consisting of several tens of physical cores and hundreds of hardware threads, are highly suitable for throughput computing especially in the server market place. This paper starts by highlighting tera-scale potential...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center

whitepaper The process of IT transformation built on a new generation of hardware and software products will result in both scale-up and scale-out server deployments. Workloads such as business intelligence, database, decision support, and ERP applications...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Training Center Performs Skills Assessment, Saves Healthcare Provider U.S.$75,000

whitepaper In preparation for a large-scale desktop migration to the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, a large healthcare provider wanted to ensure that its help-desk personnel had the knowledge necessary to resolve potential user questions...

Tags: career development, skills, healthcare, provider

[15 May 2008]

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Getting Started With Design Patterns

whitepaper Patterns cover many complex areas, from large-scale structure of the application architecture to specific design problem solutions. Identifying, applying, and documenting patterns are ubiquitous activities for application architects.

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Beijing MTR Enhances Budget Control, Streamlines Accounting Processes

whitepaper The scale of the project and number of parties involved required Beijing MTR to maintain tight control over costs. In February 2005, three private sector entities entered into a public-private partnership with the Beijing Municipal Government to...

Tags: asset management

[15 May 2008]

Operational Best Practices for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series

whitepaper With the wide-scale deployment of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series in networks worldwide, Cisco Systems has been able to better understand the demands placed on the switching infrastructure. Companies today place high demands on network infrastructure.

Tags: switching

[15 May 2008]

HiTech Telecom Streamlines Workflows, Ensures Future Growth With Scalable Billing Application

whitepaper As its business grew, HiTech Telecom found that its billing applications continually failed to scale to meet its requirements and also imposed unwelcome complexity. HiTech Telecom is a privately held Australian organization that offers a wide range...

Tags: accounting applications, telecom, carriers, streamline

[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]

IT Services Supplier Boosts Service to GPs With Streamlined Operations Management

whitepaper It needed a management solution that: better monitored service performance, lowered the total cost of ownership, helped INPS scale services easily to accommodate 6,000 new GPs and aligned INPS better with NHS Connecting for Health strategy to...

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter

whitepaper SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale with customer needs. SGI offers customers a new choice for maximizing Return On Investment (ROI) with a highly scalable platform based on...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

SAP With Veritas Storage Foundation HA on IBM System x and IBM Bladecenter

whitepaper As Windows server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large scale and high-end mission-critical parts of organizations, meeting stringent requirements regarding data and application availability, disaster tolerance and business...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

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