Applications White Papers

Red Hat JBoss Fuse Compared with Oracle Service Bus Competitive Brief

Middleware integration solutions requirements often vary greatly and can influence the technology used for implementation. This competitive brief presents the high- level differences between Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Oracle Service Bus and also examines the significant economic difference between the two. Read this paper to learn how to start more projects, deploy technology more pervasively within the enterprise, and apply more of your budget towards innovation with Red Hat JBoss Fuse.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss BRMS Best Practices Guide

Learn the technical best practices for development with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise BRMS. Following the best practices outlined in these guides will result in systems with better design, easier test-ability and superior maintainability. Developers will also be able to validate Red Hat JBoss BRMS platform requirements more easily.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Edition

The technology foundation for both JBoss Enterprise Middleware and IBM's middleware offerings is the application platform. This competitive brief outlines the differences in the economies of the competing application platforms, the implementation of the JEE specification, open standards support and other non-JEE specifications features. Read this paper to learn more about how your organization can benefit from Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server Edition Competitive Brief

The technology foundation for both JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Oracle Fusion Middleware is the application platform. This competitive brief outlines the differences in the economies of the competing application platforms, the implementation of the JEE specification, open standards support and other non-JEE specifications features. Read this paper to learn more about how your organization can benefit from Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Sponsor: Red Hat

When Application Performance is Better, Business Works Better

Poor application performance can cost more than you think. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates reports that it can exceed $1 million per hour in large enterprises. Taking a pragmatic, phased approach to improve application performance is frequently the most successful IT strategy. Discover six steps you can take to optimize application performance and efficiency.

Sponsor: HP

Mobile Application Monitoring Breeds Business Possibilities

Mobile applications are radically altering the way businesses operate and how they interact with their employees and customers. Ensuring performance of these mobile apps is critical, yet performance is difficult to monitor. Learn the five key obstacles in monitoring mobile app performance and proven ways to overcome the challenges they present.

Sponsor: HP

Total Cost of Ownership Comparison of MongoDB & Oracle

In this white paper, we compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of MongoDB and Oracle. It can be faster and cheaper to develop and deploy applications on MongoDB than on Oracle Database, yielding both bottom-line benefits - lower developer and administrative costs - and topline advantages - it is easier and faster to evolve applications to meet changing business and market conditions.

Sponsor: 10gen

How Apollo Group Evaluated MongoDB

Apollo Group, best known as the parent company of the University of Phoenix, sought to build a cloud-based learning management platform and needed a new data store to support it. After a thorough evaluation, Apollo Group selected MongoDB for its ease of use, performance, availability, and cost effectiveness. This paper describes the process and outcomes of Apollo Group's assessment.

Sponsor: 10gen

NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions

Scale out and responsive storage capabilities are "must have" features. Silverton Consulting evaluated and benchmarked all the leading vendors. See why they were impressed with NetApp Clustered SAN with its:
- Non-disruptive upgrades and expansions while fully online
- Seamless scaling of HA-pairs to increase capacity and/or performance
- Virtual storage tiering
- Advanced compression, de - duplication, and thin provisioning

Sponsor: NetApp

Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployments

Gone are the days when flash was used only in high-performing environments where the cost could be justified. This report explains how to benefit from:
- Real-time production of hot data
- End-to-end intelligent caching for storage systems
- I/O data requests optimized for cost and performance without complex data classification
- Support for PCIe and SSDs

Sponsor: NetApp

Flash Storage for Dummies

Flash Storage For Dummies explores the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From server cache and back-end storage cache to hybrid and all flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures. It also reduces energy and real-estate costs in the data center.

Sponsor: NetApp

Getting Ready for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10: Tips for the IT Manager

BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 is a next-generation Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform for securely managing all your organization's devices: BlackBerry, iOS and Android™ smartphones and tablets, personally owned or corporate-deployed. This overview document provides 10 hands-on tips for IT administrators who want to make their organization's transition to BlackBerry 10 as simple, seamless and streamlined as possible.

Sponsor: Blackberry

Eclipse Aerospace Case Study

Building an Agile, Cost-efficient Business using a Virtualized Data Center.

Sponsor: VCE

SAP on Vblock Systems Overview

Customers who virtualize SAP benefit from improved performance, lower TCO, and improved application availability. VCE, in partnership with SAP, is leading the way with virtual SAP landscapes. Vblock Systems offer a factory-integrated, enterprise-class IT infrastructure that streamlines acquisition, deployment, and operations. Strict design control enables Vblock Systems to meet specific performance and availability levels so that IT can easily meet business requirements as environments scale. Customers who previously spent 70% or more of their IT budgets and staff time on maintaining infrastructure now can focus on more strategic efforts that add more value to the business.

Sponsor: VCE

Why IT Struggles to Innovate, and How You Can Fix It

It seems that it's virtually impossible for IT to meet all business demands with current budgets, resources, and approaches. But the business keeps changing and IT needs to respond rapidly and innovate in order to stay relevant to the organization.

Why does IT struggle to innovate?

According to Gartner and other analyst reports:
- 80%-85% of IT budgets are spent just "Keeping the Lights On" (KTLO)
- Backlogs are compounding annually at a rate of 10%-20%
- 42% of the initial cost of an application is spent annually to maintain it

In this eBook we explore the root causes of IT inefficiency and discuss methods companies have used to overcome them, turning their IT departments into innovation superstars.

Sponsor: OutSystems

CDW Partner Review: Software License Management

59% of organizations were asked by their software vendors to take part in a software audit. Are you ready? This guide examines complications of software license management brought on by user self-provisioning, virtualization and the proliferation of BYOD apps and offers guidance on choosing the right set of tools and processes to ensure compliance.

Sponsor: CDW

Software Asset Management: Ensuring Today's Assets

Today's trends like BYOD and SaaS are new and exciting in terms of how they will help make our jobs more productive but they also introduce challenges as it relates to software licensing. Find out more - it's time for your organization to look at how to better manage software assets.

Sponsor: CDW

Software Asset Management: Practices for Success

This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment.

Sponsor: CDW

Software Asset Management: Getting Started

Find out what steps to take that can lead your organization down the smooth path to SAM deployment. This SAM primer can help you and your organization mitigate software non-compliance issues and optimize software license management while containing costs.

Sponsor: CDW

BlackBerry 10 Apps: Develop, Deploy, Manage & Secure

This webcast is designed for beginner and master business app developers, whatever your level of experience developing for the BlackBerry® platform. Discover the power of BlackBerry® 10, BlackBerry® Balance™, the BlackBerry® World for Work corporate app store, and our app development toolset. And see how easy it is to deploy great apps for your users today.

Sponsor: Blackberry

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