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whitepaper Best Practices for Building in Application Performance Right from the Start2006-08-30 14:54:25 Compuware
  This Compuware white paper outlines eight quality assurance best practices that can help you identify and correct performance defects as early as possible in the application development life cycle. It explains how an application performance assurance strategy that incorporates these best practices can
help you:

  • Build applications that perform optimally right from the start
  • Increase satisfaction among your user base to drive
    business growth
  • Make more cost-efficient use of your IT staff and other resources

This paper a must-read if you're looking for a streamlined way to reduce the time and effort involved in pinpointing and fixing critical application performance problems. Download it for free today, compliments of Compuware.

  
whitepaper Reducing the Risks of Managing Web Services Environments2006-09-14 01:00:16 Compuware
  IT systems have become the lifeblood of today's businesses, and are more business critical than ever before. With EMA's latest research showing the cost of downtime approaching $1M per minute for some companies, failure isn't an option. Along with this mandate, however, comes a dilemma. On their way to becoming intrinsic to the health of the business, IT systems have also become more diverse and more complex.

Diversity and complexity lend themselves to high support costs, and it is generally accepted that the cost of IT administration--supporting and maintaining IT systems--is currently between 60 and 80% of the total IT budget. This high cost is putting many companies in a vise. With higher fixed costs, businesses are limited in their ability to introduce new IT services that make them more competitive in their marketplace. On the other hand, falling behind the competition isn't an option either. Consequently, overall spending on IT continues to rise.

There are multiple reasons why heterogeneity breeds complexity, and why complexity increases risk. One strategy for addressing these issues is to simplify, and since it's not likely that IT environments will become simpler any time soon, leading companies are increasingly looking to technology to do it for them. Next-generation technology can help absorb diversity and its accompanying risk. With built-in expert knowledge of application infrastructure, databases, and application execution, for example, products can dramatically reduce the effort required for proactive application management, root-cause analysis, and transaction optimization.

The good news is that products are starting to come to market that build expert-level technical knowledge into automation. For organizations struggling with complexity, cost and the accompanying business risks, these products can be a welcome asset. 		  
whitepaper The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications2006-11-04 01:00:15 IBM
  Imperative reading: this report from Forrester, "The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications," sponsored by IBM, discusses Forrester's ROI-based methodology for evaluating costs, benefits, and risks of deploying and maintaining ERP, SCM, and CRM applications.

It can also be used as a predictive tool. 		  
whitepaper An Introduction to GPFS2006-08-30 01:00:13 IBM
  This paper provides an overview of IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Version 3, Release 1 for AIX 5L and Linux. It includes concepts key to understanding, at a high level, available features and functionality. This paper covers core GPFS concepts including the high-performance file system, direct Storage Area Network (SAN) access, network based block I/O and new features Information Life Cycle Management (ILM), Network File System (NFS) V4 improvements and increased scalability with distributed token management. The goal of this paper is to provide an introduction to GPFS features and terminology.   
whitepaper Taneja Group Product Profile: VMware Infrastructure 3 -- The Marriage of Server Virtualization with Business Continuance2006-11-04 01:00:15 VMware
  This Taneja Group Product Profile examines the trend toward server virtualization and its ramifications for business continuance--specifically in the areas of data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability. Download the paper to find out how a virtualized infrastructure built on VMware Infrastructure 3 can support your company's business continuance objectives.   
whitepaper The Business Benefits of DB2 92006-11-04 01:00:15 IBM
  This paper, authored by analyst Philip Howard of Bloor Research, examines the major new features of DB2 9 not only in business terms but with an explanation of how the various technologies work and where they differ from those of IBM's competitors. Learn more about each of the major new features of DB2 9: XML, compression, SAP optimization, range partitioning, security, and tuning.   
whitepaper Service Management - Proactive Incident and Problem Management2006-09-11 12:36:23 BMC Software
  Transition from 'reactive' to 'proactive' and bridge the gap between IT Operations and the Service Desk so that your IT organization can identify and resolve infrastructure exceptions before they become larger issues. BMC solutions for Proactive Incident and Problem Management reduce the number, duration, and severity of business disruptions.   
whitepaper Symbol Laser Projection Display (LPD): A Miniature, High Resolution Projection Engine2006-06-01 Symbol Technologies
  The MC1000 is an easy-to-use mobile computer from Symbol Technologies providing affordable yet rugged data capture and scanning capabilities ideal for bringing the benefits of enterprise mobility to the retail operations. With its ability to scan and decode bar codes, the MC1000 eliminates the errors associated with handwritten inventory records or manual data entry. In addition, the mobile computer's lightweight, ergonomic form factor and large, high-resolution monochrome screen helps increase productivity, while its familiar graphical interface decreases training time for the back-door receiving clerks, sales associates and managers.   
whitepaper Reviewer's Guide: ProCurve 5400zl, 3500yl and 6200yl Switches2006-08-03 01:00:11 Hewlett-Packard
  This Reviewer's Guide from ProCurve Networking by HP is a valuable resource for those researching or evaluating high-performance switches. It provides detailed product specifications for ProCurve's 5400zl, 3500yl, and 6200yl series switches and describes the foundation upon which those switches are built—the ProVision ASIC architecture. Written primarily for technical evaluators and those reviewing enterprise networking solutions, this 54-page guide will tell you everything you need to know about the features and functionality that are built into ProCurve's 5400zl, 3500yl, and 6200yl series switches.