Deploying a private cloud requires careful planning. Discover the primary drivers for this new IT model as well as key questions to ask to help you get started with your initiative. 

Inside, discover how you can adopt a well conceived reference design to improve any data center project, as well as data center operations. Learn how to simplify and shorten the planning and implementation process and reduce downtime risks once up and running. Explore reference designs and their benefits. 

IT pros have a general understanding of virtual desktop infrastructures. But when it comes to designing a system, many are not prepared for the decision making that is involved with the process. This webcast highlights industry expert Gabe Knuth as he takes a look at the challenges of designing VDI and more. 

The most helpful information and best content will have little impact without simple protocols that make your Web site easier to use and more visually appealling. This paper focuses on 10 tips you can employ to ensure your web site is effective from the day it goes live. 

<p>This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.</p> <p> </p> 

This presentation will examine BlackBerry® Bridge and explain how BlackBerry® Balance allows the best of both worlds – personal data access and secure enterprise data. 

The data center is one of the most critical operations in any business. Unfortunately, data center complexity has increased in recent years, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance. Learn how to overcome data center challenges with 7 best practices for improving performance. 

Read this white paper to learn how moving to modular data center design can deliver significant benefits that can help organizations adapt to change, and provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and to do so in a cost-effective manner. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

Legacy networks aren’t fulfilling the needs of modern organizations. Discover how software-defined networking (SDN) powered by the OpenFlow protocol can be a game changer for you by helping you achieve a next-generation network that satisfies all of today’s needs. 

General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). This white paper explains how your business can get TCO as low as possible. 

Web applications are extremely flexible and valuable assets to any organization. But they’re also vulnerable to threats like hijacking, splitting, forging and injection. Read this white paper to find out how IBM Rational® AppScan® solutions can help your agency overcome virtual threats to achieve mission objectives.