The retail giant Tesco has aggressive plans for global growth and has expanded its international presence significantly, including penetration of the huge US market. A key element in its expansion plan is its common operating model, which called for crucial mainframe applications to be modernized to run on standardized platforms worldwide. 

Solaris™ Cluster provides Solaris Zone Clusters (also called Solaris Containers Clusters), which provide virtual clusters and support the consolidation of multiple cluster applications onto a single cluster. Specifically, this article describes how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) can be deployed on a zone cluster. 

Although Microsoft will continue supporting Windows XP through 2014, enterprises should begin migrating to Windows 7 soon to avoid losing support for their environments from independent software vendors. 

With XP support sunsetting, customers are concerned about data migration, hardware limitations, compatibility and integration of existing applications and licensing issues associated with upgrading to Windows 7. 

Businesses trying to migrate from SPARC to a more reliable platform often run into a host of obstacles. This podcast discusses the pitfalls of this transition and offers effective migration strategies. 

In this paper you will learn how EnterpriseDB can offer a Migration assessment that will give you a clear picture of the effort and cost savings involved in moving your Oracle based data and application to a Postgres Plus Advanced Server platform. 

In this report, we examine the pressing need within organizations and businesses for migration to advanced platforms, as well as the businessbuilding opportunities companies can leverage from the transition. 

With Microsoft recently announcing plans to terminate support for the VB6 IDE and the VB6 runtime, many organizations are looking to migrate their VB6 application. This paper reviews the current migration and modernization solutions for converting valuable software assets from the VB6 platform, as well as 12 tips for handling the migration. 

This implementation guide to migrating to desktop Linux provides a technical planning reference for IT organizations, large or small, that are now considering a migration to Linux-based personal computers. 

This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration. 

This paper describes the key business drivers for the creation and operation of the MCC, the critical functions of the MCC, and the basic principles for establishing an effective MCC organization.