As data center infrastructures become increasingly complex, so do the IT processes--such as incident management and server provisioning--that keep infrastructure up and running. 

This brief provides insights through real life customer examples on how to optimize your business processes and decisions to transform your business; leverage rapid integration for an interconnected world; deliver applications that maximize investments; accelerate agility with an intelligent and flexible application infrastructure. 

This white paper seeks to quantify the impact that private cloud technologies have on various aspects of IT labor. Inside, see the metrics and methods used, as well as the overall study results. 

Attend the Desktop Transformation Perspectives Webinar Series. Starts January 26th, register today. 

This e-book provides details about IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 product features and enhancements required for individuals and organizations to make informed application and design decisions prior to implementing a WebSphere MQ infrastructure or begin development of a WebSphere MQ application. 

While the explosion of cloud computing and virtualization has added numerous benefits they also introduce a new set of challenges for network management. This e-guide looks at troubleshooting cloud application performance and how SOA-based management can help. And learn how you can identify and battle virtual machine sprawl. 

This report will identify nine telltale signs you should consider replacing your warehouse management system (WMS). As a result, you will be better able to analyze the operational factors influenced by your own WMS and gauge how an inflexible or legacy system could be constraining your company’s growth and global reach. 

This white paper explains how the concept of IT-as-a-Service emerged over time and offers exclusive advice to help organizations embrace it. Find out how the cloud fits into the service landscape and discover the essential building blocks required to enable this new IT model. 

Download the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM). 

New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. 

Data is more complex and larger in scale than ever before. Companies are facing data integration challenges and the need to make faster business decisions based off of this data. Read this white paper to discover data integration techniques and tools that will simplify your data management and lower costs. 

This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing. 

This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics.