This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies. 

This technical white paper discusses a drop-in implementation of Coherence running on Oracle's Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, most prominently WebLogic Suite. 

New application technologies, such as composite application architectures, cloud computing, and mobile platforms, and new software development methodologies, such as agile, make functional testing more challenging for the quality assurance (QA) organization. Read this paper to learn how to address the challenges of these new IT initiatives. 

Traditional or manual testing methods are expensive, complicated, hard to repeat, and inadequate for the types of loads today's complex system architectures create. Read this paper to learn how an application performance testing solution that leverages virtual users and automation can provide you with robust, efficient performance validation. 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps. 

Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual data center deployments because they help simplify storage management and help overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures. 

The CMO Council and KnowledgeStorm have partnered to explore the relationship between online technology researchers and IT vendors. Join KnowledgeStorm in this Webcast replay to learn what over 1,400 survey respondents said about online technology content usage and its influence on IT buying. 

As As companies implement SOA and extend their mainframes applications as web services, it is important that all applications be maintained and enhanced appropriately. 

This white paper specifically focuses on storage and the impact of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) on the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN, and serves as a reference architecture to implement VDI with the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN. 

Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

<p>This test report evaluates two leading servers and their ability to support increasing communications requirements. Find out how each of these platforms performed under a variety of conditions and explore the advantages of consolidation.</p>