Application Infrastructure White Papers

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Red Hat Cloud Foundations, Edition One: Implementation Cookbook
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of a reference architecture prepared by Red Hat that fully documents how to build your own private cloud.
Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

Red Hat and JBoss

Overcoming Applications Barriers to Windows 7 Migration
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the applications barrier to Windows 7 migration, explores alternative ways to resolve it, presents Altiris Deployment Solution, and illustrates its compelling advantages for your Windows 7 migration and beyond.
Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

Symantec Corporation

Conquer App Management Challenges: On-Demand Application Delivery with XenApp
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: There are many challenges associated with traditional application management. This whitepaper reviews the benefits of on-demand application delivery and how on-demand app delivery by Citrix XenApp solves those challenges.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

Citrix

ILOG Solutions for E-Government
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This solution brief explains how IBM ILOG solutions help government agencies accelerate policy implementation, automate key processes, extend legacy systems and reduce development time and risk.
Posted: 12 Dec 2010 | Published: 12 Dec 2010

IBM

Forrester Study: Total Economic Impact of WebSphere Application Server
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This commissioned study conducted by Forrester on behalf of IBM describes how one company was able to realize a 42% 3-year return on investment by migrating from an open source application server to WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
Posted: 12 Dec 2010 | Published: 12 Dec 2010

IBM

Analytic Applications With PHP and a Columnar Database
sponsored by Infobright, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: No matter where you look these days, PHP continues to gain strong use both inside and outside of the enterprise. Although developers have many choices when it comes to building applications, PHP is so ubiquitous that it is difficult not to consider it for your analytic application. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

Infobright, Inc.

Effectively virtualize mission-critical applications by building the right infrastructure
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: As the gold standard in data center virtualization technologies, VMware® provides a broad portfolio of capabilities that organizations can leverage to maximize the value, efficiency, and effectiveness of their virtualization initiatives. This white paper discusses the best way to virtualize mission-critical applications with VMware technology.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2010

VMware, Inc.

Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing - with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 - allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.
Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2009

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure through Virtualization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: For many organizations, up to seventy percent of the overall IT budget is dedicated merely to maintaining the operational status quo—leaving only thirty reserved for development. Read this paper to find out more.
Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

IBM

Extending Virtualization in the Data Center with Application Infrastructure Virtualization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper also describes IBM WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise, a product designed to virtualize enterprise applications and services across the IT infrastructure.
Posted: 13 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Apr 2008

IBM

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale and WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how elastic caching solutions in your distributed environment can empower the application performance you need to obtain business agility and thrive against the competition while managing costs.
Posted: 12 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

IBM

Application Visibility and Monitoring: An integrated approach to application delivery
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how to deliver superior application performance by using application-level insight to manage bandwidth demand, protect against malware and so much more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

BlueCoat

Deploying and Protecting Microsoft Applications with Dell Equallogic and Vmware vSphere 4.0 Integrated, Scalable and Cost: Effective Cloud-Like IT Environments for Your Mission Critical Applications
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.
Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

Consolidating Applications with Oracle Solaris Containers
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to provide information about consolidating applications onto a single server using Oracle Solaris Containers to isolate applications and efficiently manage system resources between them.
Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Alloy Software by IBM and SAP
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Alloy software by IBM and SAP is a solution that presents information and data from SAP applications in the context of what millions of business users are familiar with–the IBM Lotus Notes collaboration software user interface. Access this white paper to learn about how it works, deployment options, customization options and much more.
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

IBM

Performance in the Cloud
sponsored by Compuware Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Companies are eager to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing but are often weary of the potential business risks that the technology exposes. This paper provides an innovative approach to the application performance and availability challenges inherent in cloud computing. Continue reading to learn more about performance in the cloud.
Posted: 06 Aug 2010 | Published: 06 Aug 2010

Compuware Corporation

Shedding Light on Cloud Computing
sponsored by CA Technologies
WHITE PAPER: Read this primer as Gregor Petri, Advisor Lean IT of TheCloudAcademy.com covers the various definitions of cloud computing, risks of cloud computing, the various types of cloud computing, cloud computing in an infrastructure context and more!
Posted: 28 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

CA Technologies

Steps to Discovery and Protection of Sensitive Data: Find IT. Search IT. Mask IT.
sponsored by dataguise, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Protecting sensitive data in the enterprise has never been more important, or more challenging. An effective data protection strategy must start with finding all of the data repositories on the network and identifying all of the sensitive data contained in those repositories. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

dataguise, Inc.

Oracle's Accelerate Initiative: An Assessment of Oracle's Applications for Midsize Organizations
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Does Oracle Accelerate have what it takes to deliver genuine value to midsize organizations? This white paper answers with an emphatic 'yes.' Read on for all the details.
Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Oct 2007

Oracle Corporation

To Block or Not. Is that the Question?
sponsored by Palo Alto Networks
WHITE PAPER: This White Paper is a practical guide to how to properly deal with Enterprise 2.0 applications (and what they are to begin with), from getting visibility to how to create and enforce policies that allow for safe enablement.
Posted: 05 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

Palo Alto Networks

HP Data Protector 6.1 Software: VMware Integration Installation Best Practice
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

BPM and SOA: Better Together
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

IBM

Virtualization for a Dynamic Infrastructure
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

IBM

Deploying and Protecting Microsoft Applications with Dell Equallogic and Vmware vSphere 4.0 Integrated, Scalable and Cost: Effective Cloud-Like IT Environments for Your Mission Critical Applications
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

Choosing the Best Servers for Virtualization
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper will give an overview of the best servers for virtualization.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

Intel Corporation