In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

<p>Uncover the benefits of an MPLS-based private IP network and learn how it can not only help you simplify network management and reduce costs, but also prioritize application, create and improve disaster recovery, and much more!</p> 

Supported by results from specific case studies, this whitepaper shows how you can finally meet your recovery objectives, provide seamless failover between multiple sites, improve remote application performance, and lower your ongoing bandwidth costs. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

The Simple Network Management Protocol can help you get a clear view into your network. Network visibility is one of the most important ways you can quickly find and eliminate issues and ensure that your network is doing everything it’s supposed to. 

Discover the importance of centralization in log management, and learn the best practices for security and compliance. 

As an IT manager you’ve always known the web is a dangerous place. But with infections growing and the demands on your time and budget rising, it’s time to revisit your strategy. This whitepaper discusses the major web threats and provides four rules to help you stay protected. When you follow them, these rules will also save you time and money. 

This white paper explores service-oriented architecture's (SOA’s) relationship with and relevance to IT and business. Recent survey-based research and IDC’s top-line forecast for SOA are presented in this paper and help communicate the value, opportunities and challenges associated with SOA. 

View this whitepaper and learn how Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 adds support to the WLS Clustering infrastructure by eliminating the need for human intervention through the use of automatic migration.  

In August 2011, Forrester Consulting surveyed over 200 leading IT firms in North America and Europe to answer the question, “What are the implications of expanding testing in development, and what does it mean to development quality?”. Read this report to see the results. 

Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual datacenter deployments because they help simplify storage management and overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures. 

Download this whitepaper to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.