Siemens supports solutions for service and sustainment in the aerospace and defense industries that enable companies to reduce service costs and time cycles while increasing profitability across the service life of products. 

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. 

The partnership with SAP gives VMware the opportunity to address an additional large segment of the enterprise market, and enables SAP to sell its products on the industry-leading virtualization platform. 

This e-guide features two shop-floor quality-control articles from our award-winning editorial team. Read on to learn critical advice for increasing your manufacturing without compromising compliance or quality. 

With the August 2011 PCI Standards Council update, internal tokenization has gained momentum as the lowest impact solution that large merchants can implement to achieve PCI compliance for stored cardholder data. In this session, independent expert Walter Conway discusses best practices for solution selection and implementation. 

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 expert e-guide features insight from quality assurance expert Lisa Crispin on the risks and benefits of outsourcing performance testing. Crispin also offers tips on different performance testing measures and discusses performance testing specialists within agile software development. 

DBAs are tasked with trying to supercharge the performance of their databases while minimizing extra costs. This expert e-guide from SearchOracle.com explains in-depth the required software and hardware that can eventually determine database performance. Also gain a holistic approach to infrastructure and database improvements. 

2010 marked the release of the PCI's DSS 2.0 compliance standards, and among a variety of new standards, virtualization has made an appearance. Access this presentation transcript for expert analysis of the latest challenges of PCI compliance, including a detailed overview of concerns related to virtualization. 

To protect your organization during unplanned downtime, you must have effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans in place. This expert e-guide provides best practices for creating a comprehensive DR strategy and discusses why contingent controls are a vital - yet overlooked - part of DR and BC. 

This expert e-guide will help you formulate an application performance management strategy. Read this now and learn about certain techniques that can help your agile development team prevent potential problems before deploying apps. Discover why communication is an essential component to preventing problems, as well as three testing models. 

This expert e-guide explores the existing conditions that should spur the creation of a data governance initiative as well as the teams that should be involved in building it. Read this now and also gain a clear understanding of why data retention is imperative to your business and why it deserves the utmost attention from the proper stakeholders.