Workload Automation White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This informative guide explores the pros and cons of a "bare metal cloud" – a cloud service that is not virtualized.

Posted: 08 Jul 2015 | Published: 17 Jan 2014

WHITE PAPER: Cloud adoption is an evolutionary process that has been leading to hybrid clouds—specifically, open hybrid clouds that provide for portability of applications and data. This new model means avoiding new points of proprietary lock-in and new silos, and breaking from proprietary software and hardware.

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 | Published: 20 May 2014

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses this new model in detail and how Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure makes a smooth transition to newer, cloud-style workloads possible.

Posted: 20 May 2014 | Published: 20 May 2014

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores and effective server load balancing (SLB) solution and how it can increase application performance with the help of ADCs.

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 | Published: 08 Apr 2014

WHITE PAPER: This brief resource introduces the PowerEdge C8000 4U shared infrastructure chassis that can easily handle multiple workloads to help reduce response times while easing serviceability. Read on to learn more today.

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 | Published: 23 Jan 2014

WHITE PAPER: This expert e-guide features an interview with a top data center automation architect about the future of workload management and how it will help you move to the cloud.

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 | Published: 05 Nov 2013

WHITE PAPER: Nowadays, applications and workloads can span cloud-based, virtual and physical environments. Therefore, job scheduling has become more dynamic with multiple moving pieces. This independent whitepaper looks at how workload automation software can help manage jobs across physical and distributed environments.

Posted: 16 Oct 2013 | Published: 01 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will help you learn how you can create a solid foundation for a purpose-built database deployment that can allow you greater query deployment at lower costs. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 | Published: 23 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: Discover how you can streamline the management of virtualized environments and build a strong foundation for the cloud with optimized infrastructure and management systems.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover how proactive and automated workload management can help you maximize virtualization ROI and deliver truly optimized workload performance. Read on to discover what most virtual management tools are lacking and how you can gain the analytical abilities you need.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

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

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

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

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

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