Architectures White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes new collaboration and business models, and explains how a new kind of architecture strategy empowers businesses to react in real time, adapt quickly to change, and leverage digital ecosystems to create new value and growth.

Posted: 19 Jun 2017 | Published: 19 Jun 2017

WHITE PAPER: Today's cloud environment requires a resilient architecture to ensure minimal business impact in the event of outages or failure. Explore this white paper to learn how to design and build the most resilient architecture possible for your business.

Posted: 25 Nov 2015 | Published: 25 Nov 2015

WHITE PAPER: Due to recent technological advances such as cloud, virtualization, big data and converged infrastructures, the data center is evolving. Read through this informational white paper to learn how companies are focusing their resources their data center infrastructure management solutions.

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 | Published: 20 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to discover a solution architecture that allows for the efficient delivery of Windows-based applications.

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 | Published: 28 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: This document describes a reference architecture designed to help a channel reseller or customer construct a simple virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) configuration that can remove the guesswork from sizing and deploying VDI.

Posted: 27 Aug 2013 | Published: 27 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: Discover why Citrix cloud solutions are a clear choice for leading cloud providers, helping them quickly and profitably build differentiated and flexible cloud solutions that are right for their business and their customers.

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 | Published: 29 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this resource to learn a simple five-step action plan designed to enable IT execs to achieve effective SOA governance. Find out the right SOA governance plan can help you quickly and easily alleviate common SOA challenges.

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: When planning for cloud adoption, there are many factors you must consider. This white paper discusses the strategy one of your peers is utilizing for a successful cloud migration. Discover key components to consider during the move and gain insights on how to ensure a smooth transition.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 02 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: In a recent survey conducted on 2000 IT professionals, 91% of those that responded expect that the cloud will replace traditional on-premise computing within the next five years.This essential resource introduces a comprehensive portfolio of products and services for building and managing your cloud solutions.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies a shift in corporate thinking about the value of trusted information to the organization and outlines reasons why this shift is occurring. It explores common information integration challenges and outlines a list of key characteristics needed for an effective information integration solution.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics provide the higher levels of performance, utilization, availability and simplicity required to meet the business needs of data centers today and into the future.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a new, broad and all-encompassing multiplatform view of modernization in the context of applications, people and teams that will help you see where to begin, and where a comprehensive strategy might lead.

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 | Published: 10 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about a new single integrated solution that can support all desktop and application virtualization architectures in your enterprise.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Declining flexibility and increasing costs have driven many businesses to adopt cloud computing to improve efficiency with on-demand, virtual services. Access this white paper for a detailed overview of server power management, usage models purpose and pre-requisites, architectural considerations and much more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Microsoft Lync Server 2010 solution architecture manual contains possible configurations that can be used to architect your Lync 2010 infrastructure. Samples can serve as a blueprint for organizations with similar requirements. Each organization’s requirements can differ greatly and include items not accounted for in these configurations.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of common business use cases for which SharePoint is a good fit, introduces the services and functionality within SharePoint Server 2010, highlights key changes from MOSS 2007, and helps readers understand the terminology and concepts needed for planning or deploying a SharePoint 2010 farm.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses key criteria and decision points for determining what server and storage hardware are appropriate for a medium-sized SharePoint Server 2010 farm. It offers guidelines and rules of thumb for determining how much storage space should be allocated, and when separate storage volumes are desirable.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines five things you need to know before developing an email management solution. It also seeks to dispel myths about SharePoint and Exchange.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is becoming more of a hot topic as it allows organizations to control costs and use limited resources to manage their desktop infrastructures. This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, Vmware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Learn more here.

Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you'll discover what is needed for complete, open, and integrated business intelligence tools and technologies today. Explore the best-in-class capabilities for managing the development lifecycle for BI applications to meet the needs of today's insight-driven organizations.

Posted: 12 May 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Magic Quadrant compares 18 vendors and the strengths and cautions they each bring to the table with marketing resource management. This provides means each company based on constant criteria, allowing you to choose a vendor that meets your needs.

Posted: 06 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Interstage BPM's superior architecture lets business users and IT professionals collaborate on defining and refining business processes. It empowers knowledge workers to stretch processes to fit to the business needs and it provides developers with the ability to easily create and deploy high performance process-based applications.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology, which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. Sybase CEP provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and deliver more analytic modules over time.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010