The downside to modern software delivery strategies such as cloud computing, mobile apps, and agile and composite development methods, is the often overlapping complexities that these innovations introduce to application lifecycles. View this webcast to learn strategies for application lifecycle management (ALM) that reconcile this new complexity. 

Existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the value of the huge volumes of data generated by today's Web-oriented, virtualized, real-time applications. Read this paper to learn how to meet increasing demands for immediate information with the modern data management products of the VMware vFabric platform. 

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. 

Modern software infrastructure must keep up with today’s changing business needs. As a business grows, its middleware must be flexible, and cost-efficient. Inside, learn about a modern middleware infrastructure foundation able to improve the agility and intelligence of business applications while maximizing IT efficiency and lowering costs. 

An IT modernization project will be unique to your business, and to successfully manage it you'll need the appropriate tools, resources, and best practices throughout the process. Read this paper to get a framework for initiating your modernization efforts. 

<p>Success in the IT world requires the ability to exceed customer expectations on a regular basis, and, oftentimes, achieving this goal means enlisting the help of a modern service assurance strategy. Read this white paper to learn about the application capabilities a service assurance system should include and how you can implement one today.</p> 

This paper examines the application grid approach to enterprise middleware, and looks at Oracle Fusion Middleware products, including Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Coherence, and their ability to drastically reduce data center sprawl and drive down operational costs by instituting an application grid methodology. 

Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs. 

As today’s threats move away from mass attacks to more targeted ones, using a complex range of techniques to penetrate through traditional security measures, organizations must take a more proactive and preventative approach. This paper explores how integrity control plays a key role in defending networks with application and change control.   

View this webcast to learn about the various types of attacks every data center should plan against, how these targeted and unknown attacks are infiltrating data center networks, and best practices for implementing data center network security against modern threats. 

In this paper, learn why centralized policy management, automated order processing and asset management, and end-user self-service are key ingredients for any organization trying to control the proliferation of wireless mobile devices and spiraling costs. 

This resource explores a secure-by-design IT strategy based on desktop virtualization to regain control over data and applications. Inside, dscover the benefits of desktop virtualization for security, and more.