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. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

This white paper explores the capabilities and benefits that the next phase of application lifecycle management (ALM) must deliver in order to overcome the challenges of application delivery. 

This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits. 

Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. 

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

Deploying cloud computing across your infrastructure has never been easier. This video shows you how. 

Read this expert e-book by BI visionary Wayne Eckerson and gain insight into the growing adoption rates of big data technology and learn why companies are finally recognizing its many benefits. Eckerson offers a comparison of open-source options and analytical platforms, and also dives into an analysis on the varying types of processing systems. 

Automating software testing may seem ideal but like everything there are benefits and drawbacks. This expert resource features advice from software expert Peter Walen on the pros and cons of automation. 

View this webcast to discover how to combine the portability and agility of the Spring framework for Java EE with a lightweight application server that gives you the flexibility to virtualize Java applications and workloads for the cloud while improving developer productivity, control and manageability and staying within budget constraints. 

<p>This report examines the business benefits Unified Communications (UC) can bring to your business and how your extended internal stakeholders – and your budget – can benefit from a broader UC strategy.</p>