Enterprise Systems White Papers

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Business Analytics and the Path to Better Decisions
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper considers the use of of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving improved decision making across many functions in an organization.
Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

SAP America, Inc.

FDR/UPSTREAM Linux on System z
sponsored by INNOVATION Data Processing
WHITE PAPER: For more than 35 years, Innovation Data Processing has been producing high-quality Storage Management Software. During this time, its products have evolved into today’s high-speed, safe, reliable storage management solutions for z/OS and non-z/OS data. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011

INNOVATION Data Processing

Solution Brief: Five IT Projects for Business Agility
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses taking a pro-active approach to business agility. Learn how this strategy can create "operational dexterity" to deal with changing conditions and business complexity, as well as drive innovation by encouraging growth and flexibility.
Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

IBM

Upgrade Strategies and Third-Party Support: Taking Back Control of Your Enterprise Applications Road Map
sponsored by Rimini Street, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: How to use third-party support to get information on enterprise application software licensing renewels.
Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 09 Jun 2011

Rimini Street, Inc.

IBM System x and BladeCenter Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
sponsored by Red Hat & IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM System x together can dramatically transform your organization into a faster and more resilient enterprise. Learn how this platform will evolve your IT strategy and minimize your total cost of ownership (TCO).
Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 09 Jun 2011

Red Hat & IBM

How to Address the Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises. Examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.
Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Borderless Applications and the Changing Face of Application Performance Management
sponsored by Compuware Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the shift in application performance management by IT operations and it provides insight into how best to ensure applications spanning across all boundaries of enterprise and the Internet can successfully be monitored and managed to meet the needs of the business.
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 12 Apr 2011

Compuware Corporation

The State of IT Systems Management
sponsored by Kaseya International Limited
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is the culmination of results from a survey conducted - which asked IT professionals about their priorities, concerns and goals regarding the dynamic world of IT systems management - painting a complete and accurate picture of the most common IT issues affecting IT professionals and Kaseya’s solution to solving these problems.
Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

Kaseya International Limited

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center: Managing Datacenter Complexity
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: With advanced virtualization management, intelligent configuration management and more, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center helps IT managers reduce complexity, and simplify infrastructure management. 
Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2010

Oracle Corporation

Dimensional Excellence - Build it or Buy it?
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The true total cost of ownership favors the adoption of a proven, configurable, best-of-breed tool for which the costs and implementation timescales are predictable, and through which risks are minimized. Continue reading to learn more.
Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2010

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

Oracle Corporation

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy-to-manage, vertically scalable systems with all the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in. In fact, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers deliver mainframe-class system architecture at open system prices.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

Oracle Corporation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Scalability
sponsored by DLT Solutions.
WHITE PAPER: Scalability is one of the areas of focus in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The importance of scalability is driven by the convergence of several factors, which have combined to create a strong customer demand for a high performance, production ready Linux infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more about scalability and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

DLT Solutions.

Intel® Cloud Builders Guide: Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms - Cloud On-Boarding with Citrix OpenCloud*
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: For enterprise IT professionals looking to move data, applications, or integrated solutions from the data center to the cloud, it is often useful to start with the knowledge and experience gained from previous work. This paper discusses on-boarding considerations, as well as the key software tools and applications to make the effort successful.
Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

Intel

Power and Cooling- Strategies to Help Cut Data Center Costs in 2011
sponsored by AMD
WHITE PAPER: While already on the lookout for ways to reduce costs, large enterprises are under increasing pressure to use less energy. Inefficient or end-of-life servers can cost more to run than they are worth because they continue to draw power for cooling. Read this white paper to learn the solution to this problem.
Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

AMD

Choosing Linux as a Strategic Platform
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This Technology Spotlight discusses the growth of Linux as a strategic platform for enterprises as well as the evolving uses of Linux and its benefits. The paper also looks at the role of Symantec in this important market.
Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

Symantec Corporation

The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: The latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.
Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

Hitachi Vantara

Discovering Novell ZENworks 11
sponsored by Novell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Novell is taking its family of systems-management products to the next level with ZENworks 11—by integrating them all into a single policy-based platform; providing unified management for a wider range of Windows and Linux devices; and making it easy to extend automated device management across physical, virtual and cloud environ­ments.
Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

Novell, Inc.

Address System-on-Chip Development Challenges with Enterprise Verification Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the multidimensional challenges posed by verification management and offers a compelling solution known as enterprise verification management solution (EVMS) based on over a decade of development and in-house experience at IBM. 
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

IBM

A Catalyst for Mission-Critical Transformation
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: IT organizations looking to improve service levels and drive down total costs for their most demanding workloads should take a closer look at the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: 29 Oct 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

Intel

The Next Frontier for Virtualization: Over-Utilized Systems: Identifying and eliminating the most critical and costly constraints from the enterprise software development and testing lifecycle
sponsored by iTKO LISA
WHITE PAPER: This article explains the utilization patterns in enterprise IT environments, and which type of Virtualization (Hardware or Service virtualization or both) should be applied to receive the greatest value. This paper discusses how to apply the principle of under and over-utilization to apply the right type of virtualization for business needs.
Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010

iTKO LISA

Intel Cloud Builder Guide: Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise IT organizations looking to realize the revenue potential of their existing data center infrastructure and who want to offer cloud computing services to their internal customers or users can reduce the learning curve in building the first private cloud by using the information contained here. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 18 Oct 2010 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

Intel

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

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: Introducing the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy-to-manage, vertically scalable systems with all the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Apr 2010

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

HDS, clouds and the enterprise storage renaissance
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Vendors are being asked to deliver a new class of enterprise storage that will satisfy increasingly demanding requirements for not just new and improved technology, but for transformational technology that can deliver new levels of performance, efficiency and scale. Read this market insight by The451 group.
Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

Hitachi Vantara