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This paper is for IT development executives looking to gain control of open source software as part of a multi-source development process. You can gain significant management control over open source software use in your development organization. Today, many IT executives, enterprise architects, and development managers in leading companies have gained management control over the externally-sourced software used by their application development groups. Download this free paper to discover how.

This paper is aimed at IT staff, application development managers, security architects and technical decision makers who need to learn more about identity federation and the industry standards that formalize federated environments.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however—inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization’s required agility.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that's focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB – as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners – read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.

While many enterprise architecture (EA) programs may be less than effective or threatened by extinction, the EA discipline is still an important set of skills and processes that improve IT decision-making and CIO effectiveness. Yet, after decades of architecting systems, the advent of several EA frameworks, and the many definitions available for the term EA, we still strive to understand what EA is, what it does, and what it looks like when it is successful.

The identity federation market enjoys an exceptional supply of products. With well over a dozen products available to enterprise customers, most architects have more choices than time will allow for evaluation. This abundance of products is partly the result of the inherent difficulty of developing a truly multipurpose federation server. Although federation products are similar in name, each has its own personality and idiosyncrasies that make it suitable for certain environments but insufficient in others.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

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.

Webcor's industry is highly competitive. To maintain and build on its leadership position, the company's employees must be able to clearly communicate and quickly respond to a wide range of stakeholders, including customers, architects, contractors and manufacturers. This case study details how Good™ Mobile Messaging helped Webcor employees stay on top of things.

Designed for CIOs, IT managers, data center managers and grid computing architects seeking to improve performance, SAS Grid Computing on the HP BladeSystem. C-Class helps accelerate growth and mitigate risks with a simplified, consolidated infrastructure that’s agile enough to efficiently handle change. SAS Grid Manager on HP BladeSystem can lower costs through automation, virtualization and improved IT efficiency.   Download  HP's "Quick Sizing Guide for SAS Grid running on HP BladeSystem and EVA Storage" to learn more about the equipment needs to deploy SAS Grid Manager on HP BladeSystem.

Examine how HP BladeSystem Matrix delivers shared IT infrastructure services - increasing efficiency and lowering costs while improving service reliability and speed. Discover how Matrix integrates proven technologies to provide a complete platform upon which services can be readily provisioned and adjusted to meet changing business demands.

This webcast includes interviews from leading SAN vendors including AJ Casamento, Solutioneer at Brocade, Bob Nusbaum, MDS Product Manager at Cisco and Jim Morin, Portfolio Management at Ciena.

Implementation roadblocks cause some SOA projects to fall short of delivering expected ROI. Join the Webcast and see how IBM data services, data abstraction and your own information assets can help you achieve the business benefits and ROI you expect from your SOA project.

This paper is aimed at IT architects and managers who need to understand how IBM CICS Transaction Server can be used in a modern service oriented architecture (SOA) enterprise solution.

This white paper, created for solutions architects, engineers, and project managers, contains planning information to help customers effectively plan a VMware Infrastructure running on HP ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks storage solutions, and HP ProLiant Essentials management software components.

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements into the processes, policies, and controls that will guide the evolution of your infrastructure and your enterprise. Failure to provide effective SOA governance exposes your organization to serious risks resulting from:Insufficient adoption of services,Fragmented approaches to SOA, Resources wasted on services that can't be reused, Rampant and redundant service creation across siloed SOA initiatives,Ineffective communication of priorities and best practices, Cultural resistance to change For any organization that has adopted SOA as its primary approach to enterprise architecture, governance becomes the conduit that connects and aligns corporate, IT, and business unit objectives. For these organizations, effective governance ensures that communication, collaboration, and the two-way flow of information keep SOA initiatives and investments inextricably connected to the enterprise to deliver sustainable business value.

This global services company needed to automatically record all applications, configurations, deployments, amendments, and changes – soon realized they needed a single tool that could handle enterprise-wide discovery, identify dependencies, populate their CMDB and improve change control processes. This case study highlights the complexity of the company's enterprise environment, their requirements and what they achieved.

This whitepaper describes the HP BladeSystem Matrix solution, with a focus on how the solution delivers shared IT infrastructure services-improving the speed and reliability of service delivery while increasing IT efficiency and lowering associated costs.

This white paper outlines some of the most salient challenges and demonstrates how technology managers can enable their development teams to streamline application development and troubleshooting, while keeping them current on emerging technology, new product versions, and changing market trends-allowing them to move right past the gotchas.

Most white papers and webinars available on the Internet about choosing enterprise middleware focus the selection process around criteria such as licensing costs, technical coverage of long lists of specified functionalities, and vendor viability. While these criteria may have been suitable in the past, the experience of many enterprise architects leading J2EE projects over the past few years suggest that they are not enough. What’s missing? People costs.

As a strategy for creating a flexible and agile IT, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has gained considerable momentum in recent years, largely due to the advent of standards-based Web services.

This White Paper explains how Tridion's Web Content Management solution and the technological choices made by Tridion can help organizations achieve their business goals. It is intended for Systems Architects and IT Managers who need to assess the impact of incorporating Tridion into their existing environments.

Andreas Antonopoulos, SVP & Founding Partner of Nemertes Research, discusses the challenges of securing the new virtual datacenter.