Refined Petroleum Industry

WHITE PAPER: By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: HP has long been a trailblazer in using technology to reduce total cost of ownership and improve energy efficiency for data center IT systems. Check out this resource and learn the details.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Smart information technology (IT) practices reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents 13 somewhat common infrastructure decisions that can result in poor IT security. It is possible that your organization can improve its security in one or more of these areas. Take the time to assess your current security policy in each of these areas to see if there is room for refinement or improvement.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This Strategic Outline Business Case sets out the opportunity to reduce costs and enhance flexibility of centralised ICT services, covering both information services delivered to citizens and staff, and the underpinning technical and physical Data Centre infrastructure.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn why enterprise resouce planning (ERP) systems are emerging as an alternative to project-based solutions (PBSs).

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how with a community-driven development approach, enhancements are driven by a community of users, which means the system constantly improves in the exact way a user requires. Continue reading to learn the power of community-driven product enhancement.

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 | Published: 07 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: PCI DSS is mandatory for any business that handles confidential cardholder data. Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager and Stingray Application Firewall Module help with many parts of the PCI DSS specification, notably the web application firewall (WAF) requirements of section 6.6.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: Access this case study to learn how the IT team at Ross Medical Center has virtualized 90% of their x86 servers and replaced more than half of their aging desktop PCs with low-cost thin clients, achieving dramatic cost savings while improving the productivity of clinicians and IT administrators alike.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: By serving patients with an HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio, the University of Colorado Hospital was able to successfully consolidate various electronic medical records (EMRs) into an integrated system which was supported by heightened levels of computing performance and availability; the end result - improved patient care.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this whitepaper to learn more about enterprise mobility: the changes, effects, and adoption.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: Petrobras needed to accelerate data replication from offshore drilling platforms back to the corporate headquarters. Download the case study to learn how Riverbed deployed Steelhead® appliances to reduce Petrobras’ backup window from 34 hours to four hours, improve application performance for remote workers to LAN-like speeds, and more.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the economic benefits of plans to release more government data for wider re-use by software developers. We announce the winners of our Social Media Awards, and hear what the IT industry thinks of the new UK cyber security strategy. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

IT BRIEFING: European consumers' growing use digital channels as part of their shopping experience is driving retailers’ focus on delivering efficient online, cross-border operations in Europe, this research report from Accenture reveals.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler-distributors.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: It was the company that came from nowhere to revolutionise an entire industry. Dell, originally a provider of desktop PCs, was instrumental in changing the way that the IT business worked.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This is an informative preview of the book, the first ever on data virtualization, that fills this information void with 10 in-depth case studies from data virtualization adopters across a range of industries.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this BeyeNETWORK transcript of a webcast, industry expert and author Cindi Howson details the current state of business intelligence (BI) adoption, the business impact and offers BI best practices from both organizational and technical perspectives.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper details how organizations are affected by government and industry regulations and explains how to simplify compliance management through well-controlled policy, thoughtful planning and flexible email security solutions.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing has made a name for itself in the enterprise computing industry today and it is likely to gain traction in the future. This does not mean the end for IT departments but their roles and responsibilities will certainly be changing. Check out this white paper to learn more about what to expect from IT in the post-cloud era.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: There is very little data that exists on the maturity of testing practices throughout the software quality life cycle in the Industry and lots of people refer to the maturity with a level of certainty not backed up by any real data. In 2009 Experimentus established a survey for this very purpose.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Disaster recovery is essential for mitigating the various threats to the data center, and nowhere is this more true than the healthcare sector. Access this resource for a full analysis of the disaster recovery landscape in the healthcare industry and to learn how disaster recovery goes hand-in-hand with exceptional patient care.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Published: 17 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study will shed important light on how service management software, in particular, is helping to improve productivity and provide real-time visibility into critical financial data.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: The G-Cloud, Government Applications Store and Data Centre Consolidation Phase 2 programme started on 5 October 2009 and will run till 12 February 2010. The programme comprises seven workstrands and a Programme Office function.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011