Wales & West Utilities uses Winshuttle to streamline SAP data loading and extraction in multiple business areas, from finance to asset management. 

The upsurge in cloud computing presents development teams with challenges that may require them to rethink  established ways of building applications. Read this e-book, which discusses languages for cloud computing, distributed caching, scaling horizontally, and changing data architectures midcloud, for further discussion of these issues. 

This white paper describes that data warehousing should not necessarily be the basis upon which companies retain and query historic data for prolonged periods. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, Oxfam's CIO talks about how IT supports a global aid operation; we ask if £530m government funding will be enough to roll-out superfast broadband; we examine the security issues around moving to IPv6; plus our analysis of the week’s biggest news stories in IT. Download the latest issue now. 

This IDC white paper considers the concept of desktop virtualization, specifically as made available by VMware's VDI and ACE. The document also considers the benefits and limitations of these technologies as well as the best use cases for each... 

KPN was looking to add features such as database support, automated scripting, and applications to their shared hosting environment. Learn how KPN came to select Parallels Automation to provide distributed architecture 

Objectivity/DB uses a powerful, distributed processing architecture to manage localized, centralized or distributed object databases. This white paper describes a benchmark that compares the performance of Objectivity/DB running against a local file system versus using files stored on a Panasas PAS 8 configuration. Read this white paper for more. 

Check out this short case study to see how this environmental engineering firm was able to design a centralized backup architecture - improving their data recovery success rate from 60% to 100% - with help from Dell and Symantec. 

Distributing company, IRL, was looking to implement a full Warehouse Management System (WMS) that would not only fully track all warehouse materials, but provide the technology needed to increase efficiency by 10 percent. Read this case study to learn about the WMS technologies helped them increase productivity and cut training time. 

This whitepaper provides a snapshot of the evolving DDoS threat, provides guidance on what to look for in a managed DDoS solution and presents a financial cash-flow analysis scenario of an investment in a managed DDoS protection service. 

IBM InfoSphere Data Architect is a collaborative data design solution to help you discover, model, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data assets. It supports dimensional modeling. This page contains more information about the product and access to a 30-day trial.