This paper highlights companies’ confidence level in deploying custom Java applications in the cloud. Learn how to accelerate application deployment and transition to cloud computing by virtualizing applications and implementing a lightweight development framework for quickly building and deploying applications for a virtual environment.  

View this webcast to discover how to combine the portability and agility of the Spring framework for Java EE with a lightweight application server that gives you the flexibility to virtualize Java applications and workloads for the cloud while improving developer productivity, control and manageability and staying within budget constraints. 

Since power and cooling is needed to run the data center, it is essential that data center managers find ways to lower costs. This expert e-guide explores how you can implement the right power and cooling strategies for your environment to reduce overall energy costs. 

Read this white paper to learn about one company offering early implementation for Java EE 6. Discover how this server meets the high-performance specifications that your organization needs while remaining easy to use, configure, and administrate. 

This case study details how HP's Finance & Administration (F&A) services helped AOL Inc. succeed. Read on to learn more about HP's F&A services. 

In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of its overall data center strategy. Read this white paper to learn more about how Intel's virtualization strategy has helped lower costs, increase agility, and reduce energy consumption. 

IT organizations that find server deployment complex and inefficient are looking at new options, such as HP's BladeSystem Matrix. Using this converged infrastructure approach, organizations can reduce acquisition costs for servers, storage and network infrastructure, while reducing total cost of ownership. 

<p>In this videocast, learn about an application performance management (APM) cloud platform that provides all of the benefits of a full-featured system while also ensuring a quick start up time and low cost.</p> 

<p>Exercising Java code is a painstaking yet critical process for developers. This white paper explains how you can free up time by implementing a testing tool designed to detect coding errors as you write Java classes, and even after they have been reviewed.</p> 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions. 

This first issue of Cloud Development Digest, geared for Java developers, features the following three articles: "Java Platform as a Service Providers Vie for Developers’ Affection," "Cloud Architecture Key to Leveraging Cloud-Based Services," and "IaaS Management Tools and Test Cycles in the Cloud."