Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a perspective of software architecture that defines the use of loosely coupled software services to support the requirements of the business processes and software users. In an SOA environment, resources on a network are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation.
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Software-as-a-Service: An Ideal E-mail Archive Solution for Medium-Size Businesses
published by Mimecast on Feb 05, 2010
Businesses over the past ten years have used email archiving solutions in order to meet record retention compliance, facilitate electronic discovery, and control message-related storage costs. Despite these benefits, many organizations still have not adopted an archiving solution and still simply enforce mailbox quotas or message deletion policies as the best way to manage messaging environments.
Master Data Management Projects in Practice - An Information Difference Research Study
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Master Data Management (MDM) has received growing attention recently as an essential component of information management alongside data governance and data quality. More and more, organizations are turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of business intelligence with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. Increasing regulatory requirements and the recent financial crisis have ensured that Master Data Management is increasingly finding its way onto the business agenda. Information Difference conducted a survey of both end-user organizations and systems integrators aimed at gaining deeper insight into MDM implementations and their success factors. This report summarizes and analyzes the results of that survey, and presents practical recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM. It also contains some enlightening findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects.
Dynamic Power Variations in Data Centers and Network Rooms
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
The power requirement required by data centers and network rooms varies on a minute by minute basis depending on the computational load. This magnitude of this variation has grown and continues to grow dramatically with the deployment of power management technologies in servers and communication equipment.
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect a company's cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill. Unfortunately, the people who specify systems often fail to recognize these factors, which leads to increased costs to the owner because operational efficiencies are not correctly considered.
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Dec 17, 2009
Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits - from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery - is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it.
The Changing Role of Communications in IT Architecture:Implications for CIOs, Architects, Developers
published by NEC on Oct 14, 2009
Written by: IDC Abner Germanow, Jonathan Edwards, Lee Doyle IDC believes the convergence of communications and mainstream IT architectures will drive significant innovation in business processes over the next decade.
Enterprise Communications and Collaboration in a Fast Changing World
published by NEC on Sep 14, 2009
This white paper is a business briefing for C-Level Executives on how integrating a range of technologies - including unified communications, service oriented architecture, virtualization and cloud computing - can transform the productivity and profitability of large enterprises.
Case Study "Curve"
published by NEC on Aug 26, 2009
This is a case study which shows how Leicester Theatre Trust (LTT) implemented a revolutionary communications solution based around a service-orientated Unified Communications architecture from NEC.
Case Study "Voorhees College"
published by NEC on Aug 25, 2009
This is a case study which shows how Voorhees College implemented a revolutionary communications solution based around a service-orientated Unified Communications architecture from NEC to provide students, faculty and staff in five locations with software-based voice and desktop communications tools to achieve a 40 percent savings over its previous traditional telephony solution.
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
published by APC by Schneider Electric on Aug 21, 2009
The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures. Learn more today!
Application Automation in Enterprise Workload Automation
published by UC4 Software on Jul 22, 2009
Most applications, databases, and tools still rely heavily on background (batch) processing to support their intended outcomes or maintenance. Over 50% of all application processing still occurs in IT operations using background processing. Application automation provides your organization standardized, stable, and repeatable integrations to any new application, database, or tool that is introduced. Learn more today!
The Time Is Now for Considering Workload Automation
published by UC4 Software on Jul 22, 2009
This paper examines the evolution of IT organizations as they move from static batch processing to dynamic workload automation capabilities that integrate with and understand business processes and trigger revenue-generating actions based on real-time requests. The paper also looks at the role of vendor UC4 in this strategically important market. Learn more today!
WebSphere Application Server Express - complimentary trial
published by IBM on Jun 15, 2009
Enjoy this complimentary trial version of WebSphere Application Server Express V7. You'll see how it can provide single-step installation and configuration, wizards and default configurations, and easy to navigate documentation that includes extensive use of sample code to ensure fast and smooth start-up.
12 Criteria for Selecting the Best ERP System Replacement
published by Epicor PCWorld on Feb 22, 2010
This white paper explains the 12 criteria that allow you to identify and select the solution that will meet these expectations.
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise: Leveraging Social Computing Technologies for ERP Applications
published by Epicor PCWorld on Feb 22, 2010
This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency, productivity, and collaboration.
Key Strategies for IT success in today's distribution environment
published by Epicor PCWorld on Feb 22, 2010
Download this white paper now and learn high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability.
ASG: Distinctively Positioned to Optimize Web Application Performance
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Application management requires visibility from multiple vantage points within the IT enterprise, combined with a centralized information store that pulls the technology pieces of the application puzzle into a coherent whole.
Integrating Content Across the Enterprise: An Introduction to ASG-Total Content Integrator (ASG-TCI)
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 19, 2010
Enterprise content is growing at an average rate of 200% per year-and the risks of noncompliance are growing even faster. This paper examines the business and technical difficulties of managing content from disparate systems and presents the most viable alternatives for addressing these challenges.
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: ITIL v3: Making Business Services Serve the Business
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 19, 2010
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides guidance for the management of IT, and has quickly become the worldwide standard for IT Service Management (ITSM).
Managing Business Service Performance in Complex Distributed Environments
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 19, 2010
In order to provide high quality, cost effective business services in complex, distributed environments, improved IT management strategies are required. Business Service Management (BSM) is a strategic approach to managing IT services in support of improved business performance.
The Future of IT in a Flat World: CMDBs, Automation, and the IT Value Chain
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 19, 2010
Limited visibility has tethered CIOs' success in both IT and business. However, using federated CMDB technology, CIOs can view the complete IT infrastructure and the entire lifecycle of a business service.
The State of Resilience on IBM Power Systems- Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX Us
published by Vision Solutions ITWP on Feb 09, 2010
This report includes the input of over 4,000 companies during 2009 that run AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments, focusing on data protection and recovery technologies/strategies. Learn how your peers are striking the balance between the often conflicting priorities of IT availability, system performance, service level agreements, IT staffing and budgets.
Making the Business Case for Data Centre Consolidation
published by Oracle Corp. on Jan 11, 2010
Virtualization has brought undoubted benefits to organizations forced with consolidating data centers. However, despite its triumphs in large-scale organizations, virtualization can fall short in safeguarding against unplanned downtime or consolidating beyond servers in areas of storage, data, and applications. According to this IDG white paper, next-generation grid-based solutions and strategies are now addressing the same issues that virtualization can tackle, but without compromising uptime and service delivery. Read ahead to see how grid computing is delivering above and beyond the promises of virtualization.
Guide to Cost-Effectively Refreshing Aging Servers
published by Sun Microsystems on Jan 11, 2010
This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding: geometrically growing power and cooling costs; the spiraling cost of management; and the sheer number of server footprints.
Managing Web Infrastructure Storage Cost, Complexity, and Performance
published by Sun Microsystems on Jan 11, 2010
Storage costs are exploding. The culprits, according to this white paper: new Web-based applications that demand more I/O throughput and higher performance than ever. So how can you handle this onslaught while keeping your cost per GB (and cost per user) reasonable?
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