Software Architectures

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the different needs of SaaS infrastructure throughout the deployment process. Gain insights to help guide you when expanding your SaaS environment, including advice on test/dev vs. production, colocation and international growth.

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 | Published: 28 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: Like most new technology, cloud computing does not come without a certain level of complexity. This white paper evaluates the key drivers for cloud computing and explains how certain software appliances can simplify cloud implementation and accelerate your initiative.

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Despite several limitations, the SaaS delivery model has garnered a lot of attention over the last few years. This white paper points out the difficulties of using this multi-tenant architecture and provides best practices for building virtual appliances using SUSE Linux.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Recent news from the Bank of England now places a swift economic recovery in real doubt. The UK economy actually slipped into negative growth in the final quarter of 2010, and even the most optimistic forecasts predict economic recovery over the coming years to be sluggish at best.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 05 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that many organizations want to take advantage of the speed, security, reliability, and flexibility of Windows 7, and how it is possible to minimize interface shock for users by leveraging Group Policy to make Windows 7 look more like Windows XP.

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 | Published: 20 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Companies must adapt their management practices to provide proper control over resources in the cloud. This white paper showcases a management tool designed with these types of environments in mind and discusses its key features and benefits.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about the developments of IBM i on Power Systems. Discover how to achieve valuable benefits like reliability, simplified installation and administration, continuing hardware innovations and much more.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to learn more about the workshops that Fuse Source offers when taking on Fuse integration.

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the delivery methods and strategies for achieving versatile, agile and powerful IT capabilities. Inside, learn about the need for service and application orchestration, as well as cutting edge strategies for meeting a new generation of business needs.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intel® SOA Expressway (SOAE) provides superior performance for service mediation and governance use cases outpacing IBM® DataPower in a direct "apples-to-apples" comparison by 1.5X to 8X at half the cost. This paper presents benchmark test scenarios, cost analysis, and SOAE's multi-core optimized software architectural elements.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the use of the fault tree analysis (FTA) approach to safety analysis and the use of the UML® profiling mechanism to create a safety analysis profile, including the definition of its normative metamodel.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this technical brief to learn more about the Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition architecture in detail.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The content in the planning and architecture guides IT Pros in the development of conceptual, logical, and physical designs for configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, servers, and topologies.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 offers all of the enterprise search features and functionality that are in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and provides many new enterprise search capabilities. This article summarizes the new enterprise search features and functionality in SharePoint Server 2010.

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Libraries play an important role in threading software to run faster on Intel multi-core platforms. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 22 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: Information technology is undergoing constant innovation. To keep pace, software development organizations need to release business-critical software in less time, but this increases risk and often results in compromised quality. So the question becomes: How can you save time and reduce costs without sacrificing quality? Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper considers the changing focus of the requirements space and how requirements definition differs from requirements management. A business analyst's struggles with defining requirements using common office software and tools are related. Finally, a requirements definition solution is introduced and discussed.

Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing is transforming the way IT departments build and deploy custom applications during lean times and changing the economics of information technology. Here are the 5 reasons why thousands of companies are betting that cloud computing is the right technology strategy for 2009 and beyond.

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE.

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 | Published: 27 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly...

Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the problems associated with current fault-tolerant approaches to enterprise messaging solutions and introduces strategies to improve operational availability.

Posted: 02 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Apr 2004

WHITE PAPER: This document examines the connection between the product evaluation guidelines employed by network managers and the decisions OEMs face in building a family of switches for the Enterprise market.

Posted: 27 Oct 2002 | Published: 01 Dec 2003