Microsoft patterns and practices provides .NET developers with guidance, tools, libraries, and frameworks to help them build better applications.  Development teams adopting patterns and practices achieved greater developer productivity and improved ongoing application management and application performance. 

This unique cloud framework is designed to help organisations assess the financial risks of moving to the cloud. 

Read this white paper for a discussion of the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy. 

Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks. 

With a strong background of being an extremely secure platform for virtualized environments and workloads, mainframes can be a viable alternative to the massively scaled-out environments often deployed in the cloud. In this paper, explore a mainframe cloud approach that delivers a solid, secure foundation on which to build a cloud environment. 

This expert E-Guide reveals 6 checklists to help you improve and identify deficiencies in your disaster recovery plan to give you the best fighting chance in the event of a disaster. Read now to learn more. 

Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1. 

CA Technologies is one of the world’s largest independent software companies with revenues of $4.4bn (£2.7bn). The IT infrastructure supplier specialises in software products that help users manage their mainframes and distributed computing environments. 

Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management. 

In this resource, uncover a security management framework, offering 4 steps to help you move your security management from a tactical stance to a more strategic and proactive, business-oriented approach. View now to explore how to master each step in business governance, security risk management, operations management and incident management. 

The more you know about built-in functionality in the .NET framework and ASP.NET, the less code you have to write, which ultimately makes your applications more maintainable. This white paper outlines several different tips to enhance developer productivity and reduce the amount of code that needs to be written in many cases. 

In this white paper, learn how Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology can help you improve the performance of network switches. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care.