In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

Industry wide SOA rollouts have seen enterprises deploy critical supporting infrastructure around Web services security and Web services management. Forum Systems and Oracle Corporation "Secure SOA Infrastructure" is a market-leading solution that integrates software and hardware for mission critical SOA deployments. Find out more. 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

In just a half hour, we can show you how the web-based QuickBase from Intuit offers a refreshingly powerful, flexible and affordable solution for busy teams to better manage projects, information and processes. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

This paper examines the various benefits of using document sets. Document setsare an excellent solution that enables teams of users to handle multiple related documents as a group. All-in-all, document sets are designed to make your life easier from the perspective of maintaining and finding similar content. 

<p>This report draws on American Shipper's benchmarking series and highlights actionable best practices for professionals involved in global supply chain management. This includes suggestions for improving processes, addressing technology, and ultimately delivering better results. </p> 

This expert e-guide features insight from quality assurance expert Lisa Crispin on the risks and benefits of outsourcing performance testing. Crispin also offers tips on different performance testing measures and discusses performance testing specialists within agile software development. 

<p>Access this resource to find survey results of polled software developers, testers, and performance test engineers about their access to test environments. Learn how you can increase your test environment access to ensure higher quality test processes and significantly increase your project success rate.</p> 

This case study demonstrates how, with Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager supporting its new virtual environment, one company is now well on its way to meeting its goal of 99.9 percent uptime. 

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.  

This third part of a four-part series on hybrid clouds features insight from leading companies on how to rapidly incorporate private and public cloud applications into legacy application portfolios. This particular webcast focuses on mobile applications and security.