Converged systems and converged application middleware are coming together to optimize modern datacenter management. Read this IDC white paper to learn how these two elements are being combined to deliver the simplified, highly available IT services that tomorrow's mobile, cloud and social workloads will require. 

Keeping pace with the demand for ne IT functionality can be next to impossible for many of today's IT organizations that lack the necessary time, budget, and skilled resources. Both IBM and Cisco offer integrated systems designed to alleviate these challenges, but the two products differ in important ways. Read this white paper to uncover them. 

This white paper looks at cloud-computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies and what you need to know about these emerging trends. 

IBM offers the first integrated software platform dedicated to the delivery of smarter products, with our portfolio of software, hardware and services, IBM can help companies create and manage smarter products for a smarter planet. Read on to learn more. 

BlackBerry® is working hard to make your development process easier. This comprehensive presentation from the 2013 BlackBerry Experience Forum shares all the samples and demos you can find implement now. Watch and learn more about where to find valuable open source coding and resources, the BlackBerry ecosystem, Invocation Framework, and more. 

Learn how to make your presentation stand out from the crowd and make 'death by slide presentation' a thing of the past with this book extract especially written for IT professionals. 

In late 2008, Forrester Research commenced work on a research project commissioned by Dell, Inc., that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting Dell's server virtualization solutions in conjunction with VMware's ESX server and virtualization platform. Read this study to discover key findings. 

This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying the Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack across the enterprise of a sample organization. The study examines the estimated ROI for the sample organization and presents aggregate findings derived from the interview and analysis process and Forrester's independent research. 

Enterprises rely on timely, accurate information to manage business operations, identify risk, improve productivity, and increase profitability. 

This paper proposes several sample virtualisation architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture. 

This is a developerWorks article. This article summarizes the new pureXML capabilities, explains how they can be used, and discusses sample application scenarios. 

This article describes how to develop flexible WS Management-based solutions for Intel® Active Management Technology using the .NET development environment. The basic ingredients and building blocks of a WSMan-based solution will be presented. We've included some coding samples (written using Windows 2008) to help illustrate this information.