This White Paper presents the initial conclusions from The Open Group on how to build and measure Return on Investment (ROI) from Cloud Computing. It was produced by the Cloud Business Artifacts (CBA) project of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group. 

Discover how a Network Control System can help you gain full visibility into your network, manage branch networks, and successfully integrate mobile devices into your computing environment. 

Today’s organizations have managed to improve their IT performance at dramatic cost savings. Learn how this open source technology can give your business the freedom to cost-effectively and efficiently respond to today’s increasing business demands while avoiding vendor-lock in. 

Management of Cloud APIs presents a challenge and tremendous business opportunity. In this session, Forrester Research will decompose the API's role in cloud application control & security and show it opens new doors to connect smart-phone applications, browsers, middleware, legacy apps and just about anything that can talk HTTP. 

CPG companies are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity. Companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with retail customers and distributors trying to manage the flow of product. Learn how CPG companies deliver BI to business managers to better manage fluctuating product demand. 

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free! 

This paper discusses how you can leverage existing Abend-AID capabilities to simplify problem resolution even in these increasingly complex systems. Read this paper to learn more about diagnosing DB2 and WebSphere MQ problems with Compuware Abend-AID. 

This paper shows the industry-wide acceptance of SIP and the recent advances of the open source software projects related to Voice over IP (VoIP). Read why the author firmly believes that the VoIP open source is still in its infancy, but its acceptance and product maturity will grow rapidly over the next few years. 

Explore 3 approaches to building a cloud in this white paper. Discover why building an open cloud is the best strategy to unlock the full efficiency, agility, and cost benefits of cloud computing, and learn what the essential requirements of building an open cloud are. 

This webcast focuses on the high availability concerns with Apache ActiveMQ open source messaging and Integration Patterns server, provides recommendations for broker/slave vs. network of brokers infrastructure, and walks through some code samples to show how Active MQ approaches high availability concerns. 

This short video gives an overview of Alfresco and its place in the ECM industry. 

Oracle's Unified Storage Simulator makes it possible to install and manage a virtual storage system on any laptop or desktop and experience the power of Open Storage. 

The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility.