Applications Management White Papers

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

WHITE PAPER: Read on to learn how effective software asset management can support both cost effectiveness and cost efficiency through automation and by matching inventory with actual deployments, thereby helping to reduce over- and under-licensing.

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses challenges with trusted data in enterprises and recommends solutions through a data warehousing implementation scenario. The paper also discusses the capabilities of InfoSphere Foundation Tools and provides proof points through customer scenarios on the productivity, acceleration and risk reduction benefits.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: At its heart, cloud computing is a new operational and business model for IT application hosting, rather than a new technology. It promises to deliver highly reliable, highly elastic services that respond quickly and smoothly to changing user demand.

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 | Published: 23 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks, to help you determine whether your company should turn to an open source solution, a commercial application, or a combination of both.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This high level overview of the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance discusses current issues being faced in the information technology industry and how WebSphere CloudBurst addresses many of them.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

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

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP’s viability, regardless of which vendor’s IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper will examine the differences between Agent and Agentless monitoring, so you can make the right decision based on your company’s needs.

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The VMware SMB Survey is designed to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) understand the benefits their peers are achieving with virtualization. It is also intended to provide SMBs with benchmarks on how their peers are getting the most from their investments in IT infrastructure. Continue reading to find out the results.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn why Intel is migrating from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7, and how the new system is expected to boost long-term performance, security, manageability, and productivity needs.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 10 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this article to get an introduction to WebSphere CloudBurst and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition and discover how these new offerings bring the significant advantages of private cloud computing to WebSphere enterprise environments.

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how the SAP® Safeguarding for Operations portfolio of services offers the expertise and tools needed to stabilize, optimize, and efficiently maintain today’s complex landscapes, while simultaneously reducing operational costs.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This eight-page whitepaper is a guideline for improving the rendering and efficiency of the complete SAP production reporting system. It discusses how to leverage the value of existing systems reports, and how to deliver timely, properly formatted reports and business documents.

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 | Published: 10 Sep 2010

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

WHITE PAPER: In this Quest Software white paper by the Enterprise Strategy Group, learn more about the benefits of moving to a virtual desktop environment – and how choosing the right tool for the job makes it easy. Find out about a solution that not only makes implementing virtualization easy, but keeps cost low and uptime and efficiency high while doing so.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

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

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes benefits of integrating industry data, how partner and supplier integration through industry connectivity can help maximize the value and effectiveness of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or business process management (BPM) initiative, and the IBM® WebSphere® portfolio of products available to achieve such integration.

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the disruptions to SAP’s roadmap after the acquisition of BOBJ, and discusses various scenarios in which customers might decide to stay with SAP BOBJ for its BI strategy, and also when it might be best to use a third-party BI platform to leverage their SAP investments. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses usage and configuration of F5 Network's BIG-IP© Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) in combination with VMware's View 3.0 solution on Dell servers and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009