Workload Automation Reports

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the costs and compression, automation, workload management, and optimization capabilities of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) versus Oracle Database 11g. It also emphasizes the importance of performance management tooling as a means of lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper examines why making the right server choices can help solve many challenges. It contrasts x86 multi-cores with Power Systems and mainframes. Read on to learn how making the right server choices can help an enterprise realize greater ROI while also helping extracting greater business value from the servers that it buys.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Running your Linux workloads on inefficient x86-based server farms is complex and costly. But switching to a consolidated server solution can be difficult. Read the white paper to learn the best practices for migrating to Power System servers. You’ll also see how simple it is to leverage IBM’s offerings to maximize performance and cost savings.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid provides a multi-functional and multi-platform Java Batch solution that improves operational efficiency of business transaction processing. With support for batch jobs alongside online transactions, WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid delivers a near real-time user experience while optimizing costs.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Automation is the key to industrializing IT operations to improve productivity, reduce costs and human error, and add value to the core business. Discover how to achieve effective IT automation in today’s complex infrastructures in this presentation transcript.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

PRODUCT DEMO: The demonstrations included in this menu interface show how IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager solutions can help you manage the complete life cycle of your data center and distributed resources from initial provisioning to patching and configuration maintenance to resource re-purposing or end of life.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Premiered: 15 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: A job scheduler is responsible for routinely managing thousands—and in many cases, tens of thousands—of individual mission-critical business processes every day. This evaluation guide provides an in-depth overview of job scheduling capabilities that companies rely on to operate their businesses successfully.

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Accounts payable (AP) automation has undeniable benefits but can be difficult in complex ERP environments. Read this white paper to explore the advantages of an automation approach that runs AP workflow outside ERP systems.

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This article is the first in a series and provides an in-depth view of performance and workload management.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how organizations primarily adopt workload management software to increase value from their data centers and ease the pain of managing a million jobs simultaneously.

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 | Published: 13 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Successful business leaders know when to increase investment and when to hold cash- when to pursue new markets and when to focus on maintaining their current market position. What is true of investment strategy is also true of the data center: there is a time to scale back or hold steady and there is a time to scale out for future growth.

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: Enterprises depend on SAP applications to support their mission-critical business processes today more than ever before. Read this solution brief to discover how your organization can take advantage of the speed, agility and unsurpassed automation of cloud-based services.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: IBM conducted a survey in June and July of 2009 of 1,090 IT and line-of-business decision makers around the world. The purpose of this white paper is to share the survey findings, and to provide the IBM point of view regarding key steps and considerations for cloud adoption.

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The migration from proprietary UNIX and legacy hardware and software-based environments to Linux on x86 Intel architecture (IA) is an effective way to take cost and complexity out of IT.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Workload automation is necessary to effectively manage widely distributed IT environments with multiple platforms, technologies and applications so that you can optimize business performance. Find out how workload automation can deliver reliable IT services in today’s volatile marketplace.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses why virtualization and cloud initiatives are putting so much pressure on workload management and security requirements and describes how emerging intelligent workload management approaches can potentially streamline operations.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Read this report to learn how application modernization can help customize server technology to meet varying workload needs, to learn the best approaches to data center modernization, and to find how IBM System zEnterprise can simplify the server selection process.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

CASE STUDY: In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation details of a Private Multi-Cloud (PMC), a prototype built jointly by Intel and Univa UD to demonstrate an internal cloud environment consisting of multiple Virtual Data Centers (VDCs). Read this paper for an illustration of the PMC cloud functionality with several real-world use cases.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines in detail the relevant issues and benefits of Accounts Payable (AP) transformation as well as recent industry-wide research and best practices around such initiatives.

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Most enterprises are now evaluating external clouds to offloadtheir dynamic IT workloads, including application development,testing, training, IT prototyping and ERP migration environments.This white paper explores the top ten requirements buyersmust evaluate to select the right cloud provider.

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 | Published: 07 Sep 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Charles King at Pund-IT defines the phrase “workload-optimized systems” citing IBM Smart Analytics System as a true example. Oracle’s misleading Exadata TPC-C benchmark claims against old DB2 results are cited by Charles as an example of confusion elsewhere in the market today. Read this report to learn more.

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 | Published: 15 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many data centers are using the cloud to host applications and data storage but typically aren’t using the cloud to process effective batch computing workloads. Enterprise workload automation tools can give businesses a chance to take a much greater advantage of cloud computing. Read this whitepaper to learn how.

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn how batch tuning can enable your organization to reduce required computing resources and save valuable run-time, ultimately saving money for the enterprise. Gain insight into common problems data center pros run into when implementing batch tuning, and explore tools to overcome these challenges.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 18 Feb 2010