In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.  

Read this white paper to weigh the pros and cons of using Git to develop open source software. Learn how its ability to provide local repositories with repository replications makes it architecturally more scalable than many software change and configuration management (SCCM) systems if you use it within an enterprise-ready SCCM context. 

<p>Read this white paper to fully understand the need for data services in today’s organizations. Then, learn why the best approach to fulfilling your data services needs might come in form of open source SOA – a cost-effective strategy for seamlessly integrating data services into your business.</p> 

This brief white paper outlines the different capabilities and properties of MySQL and Oracle GoldenGate, including real-time data warehousing, real-time reporting, OLTP query offloading and more. 

This white paper addresses how data virtualization can allow better data access and improve business performance. 

Read this white paper to learn how, as a result of successfully applying multiple code development and testing techniques, your code will be more constrained, more maintainable, and better tested. 

In this white paper, we examine how to use Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source network analyzer, to troubleshoot some of the top causes of poor network performance, including high latency, packet loss, inefficient window sizes, intercepting devices, and application dependencies. 

<p>Most companies do not have time to thoroughly investigate all of the potential attack targets inside an application. This white paper explains how the use of software security analysis (SSA) and path methodologies can help you identify vulnerable code and improve application security.</p> 

Read this white paper to discover why JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS), with the inclusion of complex event processing (CEP), might be the best BRMS option for you. Learn how it can improve business agility, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction in a wide range of enterprise and government settings. 

Read this white paper to learn how an open source application lifecycle management (ALM) platform can give you collaborative capability and transparency to overcome the challenges of distributed development teams by coupling global access to a common project environment and an individualized, role-based context in which team members can work. 

This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization.