An April 2008 Forrester report predicts that the Enterprise Web 2.0 and social computing market will grow from $455M in 2007 to $4.6B in 2013. This paper summarizes: 1) Why Companies Are Pursuing Social Computing 2) What Enterprise Social Computing Really Is 3) How To Implement Social Computing Successfully 

Blackboard needs a highly available, very scalable platform for its mission-critical learning management system offered through managed hosting from six global data centers. Ease of set-up and monitoring are of paramount importance. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers and Intel processors make it happen. 

To fully exploit the opportunities offered by the multi-polar world, multinationals and public sector organizations must successfully create a global delivery strategy, and tap into specialized industry. 

A business manager identifies an urgent need for a software application and requests a server to run the new application. Then the server provisioning process kicks off. Read this short whitepaper to learn about new techniques and technologies that can enable your business to cut through so much of the red tape involved in adding new applications. 

This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs. 

ERP implementations don't have to take months or years. This white paper discusses how Colfax Corp. implemented IFS Applications in as little as nine weeks. It presents a case study of Colfax's complex but rapid rollout, and offers fast tracking tips from Colfax Business Analyst Jay Michael. 

ROI is a top consideration for IT executives, especially those with tight budgets considering product purchases in this recessionary economy. There is ROI to be had. Read this Research Summary to find out about the perceptions and realities surrounding this mythical metric, whether or not it can be measured and what products deliver on ROI. 

In order to monitor and manage a workforce of independent drivers, the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution was matched with Air-Trak, a solution that allows companies to track deliveries and receive almost instant updates on driver locations. Read on to discover how this improved operations for a mid-size courier company. 

Many organizations lack visibility into the physical and virtual infrastructure in their data center, preventing them from achieving effective infrastructure management. This webcast explores how dependency mapping addresses this issue by enabling you to track and control configurations, model and test proposed changes and execute failure analysis. 

The SANS/CWE list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is already becoming the "standard" for developing secure applications in many large enterprises. In this webcast, review the prevalence of attacks that use vulnerabilities listed in the Top 25 and learn how to safeguard your code to avoid the most dangerous programming errors. 

This paper presents the building blocks for private cloud, which include virtualization, automation and cloud service management. Read on to learn more about each building block and how they can be used to create a successful private cloud. 

In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors.