IT Infrastructure White Papers

WHITE PAPER: A company-wide journey to the cloud can be very complex and is accomplished in multiple stages, with many intermediate goals to meet. This white paper discusses how one provider offers the right hardware, software and services to smooth your transition and ensure an optimal cloud experience.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: The true promise of cloud isn’t just about advancing IT; it’s about reinventing business. Leading companies are unlocking the deeper potential of cloud as a way to manage not just their IT but also their businesses. They’re discovering that cloud can help them create new marketplaces, smarter business services and profitable new revenue streams.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Considering implementing cloud?  See how other companies have approached cloud with the results of this IBM Academy of Technology survey. 

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Given all the things to consider when leveraging a cloud model, implementing one may seem daunting—but it doesn’t have to be. IBM Rational® solutions can help.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource discusses an advanced policy power management reference architecture that can significantly improve power efficiency in your data center, helping you to achieve real-time server power monitoring, power optimized workloads and much more.

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 | Published: 08 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of how IT organizations can optimize across the entire life cycle of their datacenters and build a strong foundation for future IT operations. Opportunities for optimization remain strong, including increasing efficiency.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to learn about an innovative solution that can optimize your server virtualization and offer your business enhanced performance, improved availability, personalized support and much more.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Building your own cloud environment can be complex because it requires extensive customization and integration with your traditional IT infrastructure. This white paper offers a detailed guide of a private cloud set up using platforms that can significantly jump-start cloud computing operations in your enterprise.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: As companies strive to improve performance, they typically encounter several challenges along the way. This white paper describes a few of these obstacles and explains why a service-oriented, lifecycle-based approach to management is essential.

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 | Published: 19 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses these challenges, and offers a set of process automation solutions. Learn how Tivoli process automation engine helps automate, integrate and enhance service delivery across the enterprise.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper details how IBM IT Delivery organization streamlines IT management efforts to reduce costs, minimize service disruptions and lower energy costs with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: To extend virtualization to the business-critical and performance-critical applications that are under the ownership of dedicated application support teams, the IT Operations group who owns the virtual environment must provide accurate and credible performance assurances for the virtual infrastructure that will be supporting these applications.

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper, an overview of the findings of the IBM Global CIO Study, can help you get a clearer view of the challenges IT is facing and how some of the most successful CIOs and IT organizations are meeting those challenges.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Finding a log management solution that can manage risk, simplify regulatory compliance and provide security for you network can be very difficult. There are many systems that contain some of these tools but now there is a system that can do all of this.

Posted: 11 May 2011 | Published: 11 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The drive to build a company from the ground up and offer a competitive product or service that fulfills a need is a powerful pull. Owners of IT service provider businesses are no different. Check out this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 12 Apr 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: This reference architecture explains a secure cloud infrastructure deployment and operation. It describes a cloud built with VMware, vSphere*, Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series-based server platforms, and a HyTrust Appliance* designed to enforce cloud security policies, including those based on platform trust attestation provided by Intel® TXT.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Applying the ideas and principles of cloud computing to IT operations can offer organizations agility and cost savings. For workloads which need to be highly elastic, like those of software developers, using an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) approach is often the best choice.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision is that cloud computing is federated, automated, and client-aware. Moving the industry toward that promise will require a focus on three industry-wide pillars of cloud computing - efficiency, simplification, and security - and on solutions that are open, multi-vendor and interoperable.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intel has developed new technologies to help improve cloud security, and has been collaborating with leading hardware and software solution providers to enable more comprehensive and integrated solutions that can make it easier for businesses to adopt cloud computing. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsize businesses that are using software as a service (SaaS) to automate their IT help desk(s) and IT infrastructure are reporting significant savings. Check out this white paper to learn more about the benefits of SaaS.

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Published: 05 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines areas of potential optimization, shows how day-to-day IT management processes can contribute to – rather than detracts from – that optimization, and provides an ROI analysis with an example scenario based on actual deployments.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an essential overview of the leading tools to maximize application performance and improve your business.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: CIOs are looking for ways to achieve greater IT efficiencies and agility to meet their requirements for an improved user experience and lower costs. Cloud computing represents a new way of meeting these goals by delivering services on a dynamic and shared IT infrastructure.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011