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WHITE PAPER: As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this SearchSOA.com tip guide, readers will learn legacy application migration best practices and the important considerations when wrappering, migrating, or rewriting mainframe applications.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript explores key management factors you should consider as you navigate your virtualization initiative, including licensing, memory capabilities, and more. Hear about one company's virtualization roadmap and determine whether it aligns with your own virtualization plans.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

EBOOK: The SEC XBRL Mandate for Dummies is a guide to assist external reporting professionals tasked with quickly and accurately assembling, tagging and filing their companies’ external reports.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WEBCAST: This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2011

IT BRIEFING: This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

ANALYST BRIEF: This report from Ovum warns that enterprises need to recognise that they will need to move to IPv6, even if they have IPv4 addresses available. They should treat IPv6 like any other disaster recovery plan.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The O-ISM3 is The Open Group framework for managing information security and information in the Open Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) wider context. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization's business requirements.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: Requiring a high performance, scalable and reliable networking infrastructure at its new facilities, O'Keeffe & Swartz turned to HP. With support for IP telephony a requirement, an HP Converged Infrastructure was deployed, along with Mitel IP telephony and HP Networking Software.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, discover how performance metrics for P2P’s newly enhanced capabilities can evolve to formally codify the value of the function to enterprise goals such as customer satisfaction or working capital performance.

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 | Published: 27 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: What’s the latest around the PCI Express extender approach to I/O virtualization? Check out this SearchVirtualStorage.com interview as George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: When a storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance’s online application for independent insurance agents, they turned to Dell's EqualLogic PS Series storage area network. Find out all the benefits this switch gave them by reading this case study.

Posted: 02 May 2011 | Published: 02 May 2011

CASE STUDY: Read this white paper to learn how American Gateway Bank used such technologies as SANs and server virtualization from HP to reduce infrastructure spending, help IT staff focus on business-critical initiatives and harden the company’s disaster recovery preparedness plan.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many organizations are pursuing the use of cloud computing and services to reduce operational costs and increase business agility. Gain insight into key cloud issues, types of applications currently used within cloud environments, and the variety of cloud options available.

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn best practices for automating workflow and AP to increase accuracy, overall business efficiency, and decrease costs to improve your AP operations.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This Forrester Research report examines the current incarnation of SAP's midmarket software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) offering Business ByDesign, its likely future direction, and emerging use cases. Read it to find out what Forrester's recommendations are for business process pros considering a ByDesign implementation.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: How does WAN Op work to maximize bandwidth, overcome congestion, autocorrect for out-of-order packets, reduce application and protocol chattiness, and, most magical of all, mitigate the negative impact of latency caused by the sheer physics of distance?

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: In 2011 manufacturers showed renewed willingness to invest in IT due to signs of growing consumer demand.  In this e-guide, readers will hear from Forrester and editors of SearchManufacturingERP.com about the growing technology trends for the new year.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: A report by Forrester Research Inc. predicts that there are seven technologies to be on the lookout for in the next five years because they will be changing enterprise computing. This tip guide outlines the upcoming trends including mobile technology, Software as a Service (SaaS), and business process management (BPM).

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

DATA SHEET: The HP P10000 3PAR Storage System (V-Class) is the fastest SINGLE array in the world with the leading result of 450,212 SPC-1 IOPS. This white paper details the system’s capabilities and the SPC’s objective testing results, including 18% higher performance at 58% lower cost than the nearest equivalent configuration. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This Case Study assesses the deployment of Mimecast SaaS-based Unified Email Management (UEM) solution at Basic Energy Services, a renowned publicly traded oilfield services Company. IDC examines the effectiveness of the Mimecast solution and its services in meeting Basic Energy Services' needs and the reasons why the Mimecast solution was chosen.

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Explore enhanced networking tools and capabilities in vSphere 5.0 that can simplify the tasks ofnetwork admins by providing increased visibility into virtual infrastructure traffic, greater network I/O control, and end-to-end SLAs for critical applications.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at how the VMware vCenter product family, together with vSphere, represents the only complete stack for shifting the data center paradigm from component-level infrastructure management to true service-level management of dynamic IT infrastructure.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Published: 16 Jun 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to see why EATEL selected HP’s StorageWorks SAN to boost performance of such essential applications as email and other business activities, while reducing the potential for catastrophic data loss.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

EGUIDE: Seeking better supply chain management, the CIO of a manufacturing company found his answer in an unusual place - Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP). In this case study, learn how a SaaS ERP system enabled this manufacturer to save costs, share hardware and software with other customers, and satisfy security needs.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

EBOOK: Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Information Technology as a "service" has benefited from early adopters who've deployed some major solutions. "Converged Infrastructure" is how HP describes the products and processes that use this approach and this reference guide give a business and technical perspective of it.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Storage infrastructures grow as the demand for information grows, but strategic storage solutions, from tape libraries to flash and disk arrays to unified storage solutions, can simplify the essential tasks of storing and managing enterprise data.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Explore the new storage features in VMware vSphere 5.0 that can help your organization reduce complexity while achieving greater scalability. Discover how Storage DRS simplifies provisioning of VMs and monitoring of the storage environment with smart virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

EBOOK: Read this e-book to compare traditional hosted enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps to Software as a Service (SaaS). Uncover the benefits and challenges of each alternative and decide which is best for your organization

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Developing a Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) request for proposal (RFP) is different from on-premise, requiring more attention to the vendor’s financial viability. In this expert guide, readers will get advice on the right questions to ask when purchasing SaaS ERP.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012