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WHITE PAPER: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a standards-based UNIX®-like operating system that provides a development environment similar to SunTM SolarisTM. This paper looks to highlight some of the major differences between Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help application developers port their code.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in IT. This white paper provides an introduction to virtualization and explores the relationship between virtualization and open source and its effect on user control and efficiency.

Posted: 18 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

WHITE PAPER: In this report from Forrester Research, Inc., explore the various challenges that modern application developers face and learn why savvy dev teams are considering open source BPM as an alternative to hand-coding and as a viable way to overcome these issues.

Posted: 12 May 2014 | Published: 31 Mar 2014

WHITE PAPER: The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this informative resource for key deployment criteria of open source software and learn how you can leverage open source software for a variety of integration projects, including data center integration, SOA initiatives, and middleware strategies.

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this resource to get an in-depth look at open source integration, explore deployment criteria for integration software, and discover specific tools that can help you with your open source integration strategy.

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks, to help you determine whether your company should turn to an open source solution, a commercial application, or a combination of both.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is quickly becoming an attractive option for companies looking to streamline application development and deployment. Automated, standardized workflows can make deployment much faster than ever before.In this resource, explore the features and benefits of an open-source PaaS for developers, operations, and CIOs.

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief provides results of a poll showing the growing number of enterprise interested in OpenStack. Read on to learn more about the benefits of moving to OpenStack cloud technology.

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 | Published: 24 Jun 2014

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the results of an IDG Quick Poll of CIOs regarding their stance on OpenStack deployment, highlighting the ways in which these companies plan to use this technology and the top barriers to OpenStack deployment.

Posted: 20 May 2014 | Published: 20 May 2014

WHITE PAPER: Businesses are increasingly turning to IaaS to expand cloud services offerings without increasing overhead or infrastructure costs. Discover how Dell's OpenStack Powered Cloud Solutions help organizations quickly deliver high-performance, cost-efficent clouds.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 19 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: One way IT organizations are handling the growing need to achieve IT efficiency is by implementing systems management functions in their business environments. As the business value of Linux based deployment increases, so does the need for Linux systems management. This IDC white paper will examine the key benefits of system management software.

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for tips on selecting the best support approach for your IT shop's Linux platform. You'll learn about various options and the essential components of a successful support system.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This guide outlines the common steps that people go through when they are interested in evaluating an open source database (e.g. one or both of the Postgres Plus products). This guide will also provide links to other documents/collateral that will help you accomplish each step. Read on to learn about these common steps in evaluation in more detail.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Check out this informative paper to learn how to prepare for IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) with the right storage architecture. Discover some of the must-have storage attributes of a private cloud infrastructure and the emerging role of open standards. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released in early 2007. Learn about its enhanced level of capabilities and new levels of performance, scalability and security.

Posted: 18 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: How does Red Hat Enterprise Linux stack up to the competition? This white paper offers an overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as compared to Microsoft Window Server 2008 in terms of scalability, operational costs, and more.

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 | Published: 30 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will review some key features and benefits of both Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We will also explain why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises that are facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future, whether you are considering launching a new IT production environment or migrating a legacy environment...

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Explore the full capabilities and features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), a complete, open-source virtualization management solution for server and desktop virtualization in this resource. Discover how RHEV builds on the powerful Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and the oVirt open virtualization management platform.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Organizations stand to gain cost-savings of 40-75% from server consolidation and reduced data center space and power needs. Discover how a Red Hat and IBM partnership can help deliver enterprise-ready virtualization solutions that offer increased performance, scalability, security and manageability.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Compare the performance of real enterprise workloads and applications such as SAP, Oracle database and IBM DB2 on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) in this brief summary. Discover how you can leverage an open source virtualization platform to gain 96 percent or more bare metal performance.

Posted: 21 May 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Performing comparisons between leading BPM systems could take ages to perform on your own -- fortunately, this competitive brief does some of the work for you. Take a look at how Red Hat JBoss BPM suite compares to Pegasystems, Inc.'s Pega 7 BPM in terms of the five essential criteria for choosing a BPM system

Posted: 15 May 2014 | Published: 30 Apr 2014

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat can alleviate common infrastructure problems by moving organizations toward service-oriented architectures (SOA). High-quality, low-cost, SOA-enabled solutions from Red Hat and JBoss let customers focus their resources on the applications and business processes that differentiate their business and give them a competitive advantage.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 16 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this resource today for a cloud system software overview, understand the two classes this trend is diverging into and discover  a commercially supported and tested version of OpenStack now on the market that will target customers that want an enterprise-ready distribution of OpenStack.

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011