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You'll learn about the best storage configurations for Hyper-V, NetApp's virtualization "sweet spot," and Avanade's firsthand experience with two much-anticipated R2 features: Cluster Shared Volumes and Live Migration.

This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution.

This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft® SQL Server®, Exchange, and SharePoint® Server data along with your Windows® files using NetApp® storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments.

This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications.

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The City of Miami's Fire Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which was state-of-the-art when it was installed more than 20 years ago, has been strained by the demands of an increasing population and was no longer able to integrate smoothly with new systems and functionality.

As a major wholesale retailer and distributor, Elektroskandia is highly dependent on its Central Warehouse Management System. But this critical application was running on an aging mainframe and, with the discontinuation of its operating environment, the system's support and maintenance costs had grown to unacceptable levels.

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Download this free whitepaper and learn how Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 adds support to the WLS Clustering infrastructure by eliminating the need for human intervention through the use of automatic migration.

User experience is essential for effective e-commerce and applications that create the shopping experience, from interactive catalogs and shopping carts to payment systems, must always operate at peak efficiency.

In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges.

Increased operating costs, inefficient hardware utilization, and rapidly expanding datacenters have made virtualization one of the most compelling IT technology in years. While virtualization has solved a multitude of problems, some virtualization solutions are characterized by lower performance, complex configurations and tedious administration especially for complex applications made up of multiple tiers and components. This technical white paper explores in detail the technology behind a new virtualized deployment paradigm for Java EE applications, describing not only the technology behind these advances, but also the benefits and usage.

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Change is inevitable, especially when it comes to management of IT environments. The key to efficient provisioning and patch management is the creation of superior change management processes, which aims at automating all stages of the patching process.

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g provides the runtime engine for mission-critical Java EE, SOA and middleware applications. This white paper outlines some common challenges faced by IT administrators running enterprise applications deployed on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, and describes how Oracle Enterprise Manager enables customers to reduce the cost of management by providing a single management console to manage the end-to-end application environment.

Many organizations are adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve business agility and simplify the complexity of their IT environments. SOA represents a fundamental shift in the way enterprise applications are designed, developed and deployed as modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused.

Many businesses are totally dependent on critical computer-based services for their operations. Yet only 50 percent of businesses have a plan for maintaining the availability of these computing services in the face of unplanned computer downtime.

Companies have invested huge amounts in new applications to deliver better and more cost-effective services to their customers. However, studies have shown that more than 40% of software applications are released with critical defects.

Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised

Siebel provides a wide range of business-critical applications for sales, marketing, contact center, self-service and more. Ensuring Siebel application quality and performance is critical, but also challenging.

Download this whitepaper to learn the advantages of clustering. Discover why this innovative architecture returns such consistent value to the enterprises that adopt it. Understand the direct cause and effect relationship between database clustering and IT efficiencies, which can add up to big savings for your organization.

For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications. And although these approaches may be most valuable for extreme-scale applications, they can save time and money in almost any server-based application.

The newest edition of this unique report is filled with survey findings from over 4,000 individuals responsible for the resilience and protection of AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments. Discover if and how your peers are meeting recovery-time and recovery-point objectives, disaster recovery plans and more.