The past decade has seen major increases in the complexity of IT systems and infrastructures, spawning inefficiency, inflexibility, and mounting costs. However, all this is set to change. We are now on the threshold of a new wave of innovation that will roll across the IT industry. At the forefront is a new generation of IT designed to provide efficient, high-performance information creation and delivery that effectively supports the rapid pace of business.
IBM Whitepaper: Inform. Evaluate. Engage
Competing in today's business environment is not easy. Realising that changes occur at an unpredictable rate, IBM has developed the Business Partner Application Showcase, an online repository to help your business adapt, grow and meet marketplace demands.
What are blade servers?
It's a name that sounds like it's been conjured up by a marketing suit looking to sell shaving products, but the blade server fulfils a vital role in today's modern data centre. We take a look at its history and the most effective way of working with the technology.
What is SOA?
SOA is one of the buzzphrases that's heard regularly but it's too often used with little regard for what it means. Our guide explains some of the basic principles.
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Listen to IDC experts talk about IBM's strengths in storage and building a flexible business. Watch hree videos that support the company White Papers.
The real challenge of SOA
While the phrase SOA is a pretty neat shorthand for marketeers, it does disguise the fact that some businesses are genuinely transforming. CIO magazine looked at some of the real challenges that lie ahead.
New management products from Tivoli
IBM has announced that the IBM Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) is to ship 30 June, along with three Process Manager tools. The company's Al Zollar discusses what they mean for users.
Q&A;: IBM BladeCenter strategist Tim Dougherty
Blade servers are taking over data centres but they generate their own problems, mainly related to cooling and power draw. So we spoke to IBM's BladeCenter strategy manager Tim Dougherty about his customers' biggest issues.
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Enterprise eBusiness Enterprise eBusiness automates and streamlines key customer facing selling and ordering processes, and few IT investments have the potential to yield greater rewards. From increased customer loyalty to higher sales volumes to reduced risk and costs, enterprise eBusiness can increase revenues and profits in a number of ways.
Windows Rally The agenda for this presentation includes an introduction to the process of device evolution within windows, including new devices and a full demo. Also included is the new windows logo for network infrastructure, an overview of the Windows, and Intel Windows Rally and Intel ViiV Alignment.
Grid computing—extending the boundaries of distributed IT “The emergence of Grid computing and virtualization technologies has enabled organizations to begin
resolving the cost and complexity issues with their existing application infrastructures. Virtualization and Grid technologies can also accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA) and provide
additional cost savings.”
Yankee Group, January 2005, research note titled
“Considerable Savings Are Possible Using Grid Computing and Virtualization Technologies”
Email Content Security: Software or Appliance? Corporate email is vulnerable. Vulnerable to attack from the increasingly sophisticated and ever-growing number of viruses, spam, spyware and phishing technologies out there. And vulnerable to abuse from within, which could result in: acceptable use policies being compromised; corporate governance and regulatory compliance violations; confidential corporate data being leaked externally.
Enterprise Java and ADF For Forms Developers For many in the I.T world the opportunities opened up by the enterprise Java platform are seen as exiting, for example the SOA enablement (Service Oriented Architecture) and wireless applications. However, the platform and development experience are perceived by some to be challenging. Oracle has been meeting this challenge head-on through the construction of JDeveloper and the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). Many of the features in JDeveloper and ADF provide design-time and runtime productivity services not dissimilar to those found when developing using 4GL tools such as Oracle Forms; and as such, when it comes to building Java EE applications with JDeveloper and ADF, many of the development techniques and application requirements are met through familiar development gestures.
