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Security Gateway Buyer's Guide
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: If you’re currently evaluating Security Gateways, this guide will provide the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice. The following sections of the guide contain tools you can use to identify the right fit for your security architecture based on business requirements, cost, and complexity.
Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

Intel

CIO Challenges: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how CIOs are building a foundation for a much more agile business that holds the potential for working in a more flexible way and enabling faster innovation by actively evaluating and experimenting with newer technologies.
Posted: 22 Jan 2011 | Published: 22 Jan 2011

Oracle Corporation

Building Solutions For Smarter Governments: Six Ways to Increase Responsiveness, Service Quality, Accountability and Taxpayer Value
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how smarter government means making operations and services truly citizen-centric, integrating their service delivery, coordinating programs and allowing a choice of access channels, as well as placing the most needed transactions on the Web.
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

IBM

IBM Perspective on Cloud Computing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing has created a lot of buzz in the marketplace, as well as confusion about its benefits. This free white paper is geared for both IT and business leaders. Read an overview of what cloud computing is, the types of "clouds" and examples of how clients are using cloud computing to reduce costs and increase efficiencies
Posted: 17 Jan 2011 | Published: 17 Jan 2011

IBM

IBM Point of View: Security and Cloud Computing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing is easy to deploy, flexible and cost-effective.  As federal agencies continue to outsource data management and operations to third-party cloud providers, their ability to ensure data integrity and privacy is becoming a potential security risk. Read this white paper to learn how you can manage Cloud Computing safely and efficiently.
Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

IBM

Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager - Creating AGILE BPM
sponsored by Fujitsu America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager (Interstage BPM) is a leading solution for Agile BPM - the next generation of BPM. Agile BPM is designed to flexibly address the requirements of all types of processes used to conduct a business: structured, unstructured, and hybrid process types, giving support to all forms of work.
Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

Fujitsu America, Inc.

Interstage Business Process Manager v11 Architecture Whitepaper
sponsored by Fujitsu America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Interstage BPM's superior architecture lets business users and IT professionals collaborate on defining and refining business processes. It empowers knowledge workers to stretch processes to fit to the business needs and it provides developers with the ability to easily create and deploy high performance process-based applications.
Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

Fujitsu America, Inc.

JBoss Enterprise Middleware: Making Software from the Open Source Community Ready for the Enterprise
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the differences between JBoss Community projects and JBoss Enterprise Middleware products. It explains how JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the benefits of open source software, combined with the additional testing, certification, and maintenance releases necessary for reliable long-term enterprise production use.
Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

Red Hat

Effective Enterprise Java Virtualization with Oracle WebLogic Suite
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper explores in detail the technology behind a new virtualized deployment paradigm for Java EE applications, describing not only the technology behind these advances, but also the benefits and usage.
Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 protects your business from all common causes of unplanned downtime and planned downtime, including human error.
Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2009

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.
Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

Making the Case for BPM: A Benefits Checklist
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: BPM is the best investment a company can make in establishing a platform for continuous improvement. The challenge for many companies is justifying the BPM investment instead of traditional paths for solving process problems – like buying an application or building a custom application. This paper provides a virtual checklist for the benefits.
Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

IBM

11 Habits for Highly Successful BPM Programs: Proven Steps for Getting Started with Process Improvement
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for an outline of the steps an organization needs to take to achieve enterprise-wide business process management success.
Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

IBM

Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware (Spanish version)
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Download this free white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud computing.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

Oracle Corporation

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

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

The Business Case for Information Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.
Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

Oracle Corporation

SAP Safeguarding for Operations: Keep your Business Running Smoothly Now and in the Future
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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

SAP America, Inc.

Achieving Business Agility with BPM and SOA Together: Smart Work in the Smart Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from a business perspective. The primary audiences are leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA as a key differentiator for successful enterprises in their drive toward business agility.
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

IBM

BPM and SOA Require Robust and Scalable Information Systems
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a discussion of the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from an information system perspective. The primary audiences are IT leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA in support of business integrity and operational excellence.
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

IBM

Vendor Middleware-Based Application Integration Solutions Beat Custom Links -  Provides SOA Messaging Backbone
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a discussion of server and storage infrastructure, application integration demand growth, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise application portfolios.
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2008

IBM

Dynamic Business Process Management (BPM) from IBM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to accelerate process change and lower IT costs and to learn how IBM can work with you in a Business Value Assessment (BVA) to quantify the benefits for your projects.
Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 11 Aug 2009

IBM

Accelerate ROI for Business Process Management with IBM Solutions Designed for Rapid Deployment
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With IBM products, services and programs, businesses can develop business process management solutions to support their business priorities and objectives, both now and in the years ahead. Read this paper to learn how.
Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

IBM

Benefits and methods of implementing BPM on System z
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended to inform the reader of what business process management (BPM) is about, the benefits that can be obtained from its implementation, how to place BPM into operation and why IBM WebSphere® Process Server should be deployed on the IBM System z™ mainframe.
Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

IBM