Application Infrastructure

ANALYST REPORT: The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the financial impact of Progress Actional on its organizations. Forrester Research, Inc.'s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better communicate a business case for investing in Progress Actional.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

EGUIDE: This comprehensive, 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. This guide covers the fundamentals of how applications work, how applications flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

PODCAST: This podcast explains how Pivotal 6 increases user adoption and productivity by mirroring the familiar Microsoft interface and embedding Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint within the CRM system.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 18 Nov 2009

PODCAST: Can't decide whether to build or buy a CRM system? This podcast presents a third solution that is an application development platform that provides the building blocks for faster, cost-effective application development that achieves a better fit for your business’ processes.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Composed of Sun hardware systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit your data requirements and budget -- and ease deployment.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read the second chapter of the Cloud Computing E-Book and learn what developers should consider before moving applications to the cloud and to what extent they will have to re-think familiar go-to languages to make apps work in the cloud.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

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: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

PODCAST: According to recent research conducted by IBM® ISS X-Force®, more than half of all disclosed vulnerabilities in 2008 were Web application flaws. Learn how IBM Web application security solutions can help you reduce costs, manage risk and improve service. Listen to the podcast.

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 21 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

PODCAST: Regulatory requirements can be challenging and expensive to manage for any organization. This podcast will address some of the most common challenges and how software and applications can ease this process.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 14 Sep 2009

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: What Application Performance Management tactics and best practices can you apply to ensure a good end-user experience? What process and strategy can you institute to enable your IT organization to align with the business? What can you do to prepare for the additional complexities that virtualization, cloud and SOA can bring to your environment?

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 14 Sep 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Learn how agile development can lead to improved team efficiency, shorter development cycles, and higher quality software that is better suited to the customer's needs.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: This webinar will discuss the benefits of virtualizing Citrix XenServer as well as show how fortifying XenApp and XenServer with Marathon Technologies' everRun software will give you the confidence to increase your SLAs for your most critical XenApp deployments and protect your Citrix License Server and Data Store from downtime.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Server sprawl creates a serious financial and efficiency leak at many organizations. Consolidation can help ease management requirements and reduce costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how to take control of server sprawl with a server consolidation solution.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: A business manager identifies an urgent need for a software application and requests a server to run the new application. Then the server provisioning process kicks off. Read this short whitepaper to learn about new techniques and technologies that can enable your business to cut through so much of the red tape involved in adding new applications.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

CASE STUDY: Read these case studies to learn how Progress Software made it not only possible but also made it easy to improve operational responsiveness for several leading companies that operate in many varying industries. Learn the benefits these organizations accrued from Progress Software and learn what benefits your company can experience.

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 | Published: 24 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat ProxyClient extends Blue Coat's visionary application delivery infrastructure to include all of these use cases - from any network, any device, and to any application - keeping users productive wherever the business takes them.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009