Video is leaving the dedicated video conference room and becoming a standard communication tool and part of the individual's daily workflow. In turn, this trend is having a profound impact on the scalability requirements of the visual communication system. 

While there is no single method to guarantee software compliance, IBM Maximo® Asset Management can provide e-signature and e-record (audit trail) capabilities that support efforts to comply with regulations and guidelines related to e-records and e-signatures. 

Attend the Smarter Commerce Global Summit to gain insights into how to create strong customer experiences across channels. 

Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

Infinite Cache™ from EnterpriseDB revolutionizes distributed cache management on commodity blade server hardware by substantially increasing the amount of memory available to hold data including entire databases with outstanding performance. 

This issue of information security magazine provides a step-by-step guide to securing database systems, explores the important factors in selecting a SaaS provider, presents a whole new approach to security management that has nothing to do with structure-driven policy architecture, and more. 

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. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we ask IT experts to help answer the question of why so many big IT projects fail. We report from VMware's user conference in Copenhagen on the latest developments in virtualisation, and analyse the emerging threat from military-style cyber attacks on corporate IT networks. Download the new issue now. 

This paper explains how Intel and IBM have been working for years to create systems that change the economics of x86 computing. One of the results of that collaboration is a platform for clustered, distributed systems that delivers unprecedented flexibility and scalability. 

This video covers highlights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in 2009, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote address. 

Designed for organizations that run online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on distributed systems, IBM® DB2® pureScale™ offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications. 

High-volume unstructured data has its own set of characteristics that often make it too difficult for traditional standalone and relational databases to process.  As a result, a major shift in big data warehousing is taking place, and this expert e-guide will cover how to be successful in tackling the challenges of new warehousing strategies.