As threats to Web applications continue to grow, IBM offers Web application security for a smarter planet—integrated, end-to-end security to build secure Web applications, run secure Web applications and protect SOA environments. 

This chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, summarizes the defining features of Windows Server 2008. 

While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking. 

In this chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, learn how your existing environment and upgrade/migration plans impact your installation decisions and read about requirements for this new operating system. 

Discover how you can develop a roadmap for successful cloud migration to ensure that your organization reaps the maximum cloud benefits. This essential resource breaks down a roadmap to cloud in 5 steps, along with strategies for how you can build scalable, open infrastructure for virtualization and cloud-optimized networks. 

Read this white paper to learn how to integrate your operations into a new structure acquired through mergers and acquisitions; align your IT operations into a single platform; enhance customer service; increase the productivity of your global workforce; and bolster supply chain efficiency. 

The private cloud is a shared multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, and virtualized infrastructure. This paper takes a look at an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud - designed by Intel - to increase agility and IT efficiency. 

In order to create a roadmap for increased agility and flexibility, you must start with application transformation. This resource provides key insights into which business issues applications affect, how application transformation is defined,how to get started and much more. 

<p>Get key tips and hints for dealing with the rapidly growing population of wireless devices connecting to your network and learn how an end-to-end fabric architecture can help you truly embrace the consumerization of IT (CoIT) and bring your own device (BYOD) trend.</p> 

<p>This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, the services it offers.</p> 

Read this white paper to discover how your organization can use the Cloud Discovery Workshop to create and articulate a cloud roadmap. 

Nucleus Research assesses Microsoft’s plans to extend  and develop the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. 

<p>Many companies view cloud computing as a replacement for their traditional IT systems, but this new technology can actually supplement existing infrastructures. This white paper explores the relationship between virtualization and cloud computing and reveals the essential characteristics that define each of these IT models.</p>