In today’s IP networks, complexity translates quickly into direct cost as well as operational risk. HP has introduced their Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) as an answer to the need to reduce complexity and cost. 

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

This paper from the Open Group reveals how banks can benefit from combining complementary industry frameworks on enterprise architecture. 

This guide from Sybase is full of examples of mCommerce at work. The benefits range from speeding up economies to life-changing improvements. For merchants, operators and banks, the new channel offers another way to grow business and revenues while meeting the financial needs of customers. 

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. 

Read this white paper to learn about Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP applications, scalable solutions offered on a three-month to multi-year contract on a pay-per-month, per-user, or per-instance pricing. Discover the many benefits these flexible services can offer your organisation.  

Although pay levels are unlikely ever again torise as fast as they did at the end of the 1990s when fears about the “millennium bug” stoked thefires of an already over-heated job market – or to fall as fast as they did when the bug failed to bite– employers are acutely aware of the need to keep a close eye on short- and long-term pay trends. 

This paper discusses Microstrategy's cloud BI offering and best practices for ensuring security in the cloud. 

Read this paper to learn how SuccessFactors capitalized on the economic downturn of 2008 by investing in its customers. Find out how the company selected its investment portfolio, why these companies outperformed in the market, and what financial returns SuccessFactors has experienced. 

This white paper examines the benefits they have noticed so far and the tradeoffs that they hadn't anticipated. Discover the top challenges these organizations face and the technologies they are considering to address them. 

This essential resource breaks down must-have cloud capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework for choosing an enterprise cloud provider to meet your organization’s IT and business needs. 

Read this paper to learn how to enable a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed foundation for data management that runs dynamically across the many-machine, many-core, memory-based computing topologies that today's organizations are assembling from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds. 

Server virtualization has become a strategic initiative in many organizations.  However, virtual server data protection and management has emerged as a key barrier to success in many data centers and CIOs are starting to pay attention.  This whitepaper covers what every CIO should be asking about virtual server data protection.