This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

<p>There is always room for data centre improvement, but determining what steps you need to take to realise tangible business benefits can be a challenging task. This white paper outlines a data centre improvement strategy and reveals key points to keep in mind as you put it into place.</p> 

<p>Mitigating the risk and damage of incidents – both malicious and accidental – require organizations to maintain a continuous state of security and compliance, automating actions for quicker response times and remediation. View this paper to explore how IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager and its key capabilities can help you meet these needs.</p> 

How much do senior executives value data protection? This study examines key perceptions on what executives believe is the most important factors and activities justifiable for a data protection program. View now to gain a better understanding of their views to help you make the business case for data protection for your organization. 

<p>In this 2-minute video, learn how a variety of businesses and organizations have utilized IBM solutions to ensure security success.</p> 

<p>This 3-minute video explains the benefits of a network intrusion prevention system (IPS) and how one can help you reduce your exposure of risk while simultaneously cutting down your liability. View now to learn more.</p> 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

Read this paper featuring Forrester research now and learn about the total economic impact and potential ROI that enterprises are realizing by deploying IBM Netezza DW appliance with data analytics. By taking some time to digest this resource, you will know whether a similar installation within your company will have a similar financial effect. 

Storage performance and capacity demands are increasing rapidly, creating storage input/output challenges for many enterprises running applications that need fast response times. This Webcast will address those challenges and explore a proven solution: Oracle's Sun Flash storage portfolio. 

<p>Access this podcast to learn about cutting edge technology and techniques that can not only confidently enable a BYOD strategy, but also help you find productivity and competitive advantages previously unavailable, even in highly regulated and secure industries.</p> 

<p>This book, “Network Intrusion Prevention Design Guide: Using IBM Security Network IPS,” contains information pertaining to enterprise integration for network intrusion prevention, complete information about architecture and component, deployment scenarios with hands-on details, and much more.</p> 

This expert e-guide outlines the evolution of application lifecycle management (ALM) and explains the limitless possibilities of this growing process. Read this now and discover advice for successful ALM implementations, including what it can and can't do for your business, as well as common pitfalls to avoid and how to overcome them. 

This quick reference guide to NetApp's FAS2000 unified storage systems is your key to understanding the unique features and differences among this emerging family of products. Learn the key specs of each platform, what software is included vs. what's optional, and discover the type of environment each of these products will best perform in.