Wells' Dairy needed to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs. 

Jump start your next development project with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. This IT download allows you to support for the latest platforms, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements. Download it now! 

Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This presentation transcript explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back. 

Apache Solr is the definitive application development implementation for Lucene, and it is the leading open source search platform. This white paper describes the new features and improvements in the latest version, Apache Solr 1.4. 

An intriguing triple-play is emerging - the combination of video communications, managed services and unified communications - to create a new approach to inter- and intra-company collaboration and operational excellence. 

Scope creep kills innovation. Over $1 trillion is spent each year on R&D, and 60% of the projects fail due to requirements issues. By using requirements management best practices you can achieve 2x higher profits and 6x faster development cycles. 

An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts. 

Check out these three ROI calculators for estimates on your return on investment using one or more IBM solutions. 

This E-Guide provides an expert overview of software requirements management and examines issues with requirements-based testing, software requirements documentation, requirements creep, and requirements use cases. 

In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared. 

This white paper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget. 

Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking. 

Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems.