More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

This  guide from the Open Group, offers advice on assessing how cloud fits into your IT organisation 

There are several factors to consider when selecting the right label printing solution to meet your company's specific needs. Read on for a brief overview of laser, inkjet and thermal technologies as they relate to label printing. 

Barcoding, also known as Automatic Identification (Auto ID), is a method of encoding information into a machine-readable pattern of predefined bar and space patterns that can be quickly and accurately read by a scanner and a computer. Read this white paper to learn how to incorporate barcoding into your everyday. 

Now that smart phones are being used by professionals in fields ranging from field service to customer care, evaluating and selecting the optimal device has become more challenging. Read this white paper for an in-depth look at which smart phone features make work easier and why ruggedness is a requirement. 

Although it is not new technology, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) continue to be loved, for their modern and agile approach to development, and loathed for their extended deployment times and often high costs. Read this white paper to learn the secret behind being able to benefit from SOAs instead of getting caught up in high costs and risk. 

<p>Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have a lot to offer organizations in terms of efficiency, cost, and agility. But many companies still face SOA-related challenges. Read this paper to uncover the most common challenges faced by companies seeking to embrace SOA and learn about a metadata-driven, model-based approach to overcoming them.</p> 

Distributed core architectures can provide greater scalability, higher bandwidth, and higher resiliency for your network foundation for data centers to handle the amount of “big data” that is coming through networks today. 

Read this brief yet insightful paper now to learn about the basic components of information architecture, including master data management and data quality, and learn how Sybase can enable your company to integrate all of these aspects into a complete and holistic information architecture. 

Dell Storage and the Fluid Data architecture keep your data as dynamic as the organization it supports by putting the right data in the right place at the right time–for the right cost. Customers can cut cost, time and risk as they focus on moving their organizations forward. Read this brief white paper to learn more. 

To help simplify enterprise desktop management, Dell and VMware have created a flexible, highly scalable desktop virtualization reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, and powerful new VMware View 4 technology. 

This paper looks at some of the advantages of implementing SOA with a suite strategy, and specifically focuses on the Oracle SOA Suite of products. Then by briefly highlighting the experiences of a major SOA installation, shows how the suite strategy paid off for one global customer.