The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. 

In this webinar, learn how you can use business rules to rapidly respond to discovered relationships between data and performance. You will learn why strategies need to adapt to new conditions and how business process automation can benefit from updated business rules to effect change and manage exception cases. 

Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners. 

This paper examines how the stochastic multistage, multi-inventory model supports inventory optimization. It also looks at how the SAP® Enterprise Inventory Optimization application by SmartOps uses the model to help supply planners execute more effectively in a highly collaborative enterprise environment. 

In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability. 

To improve inventory management and standardize procedures, Blue Bell turned to TAKE Supply Chain's Gemini Series™ for OPM mobile software solution. Read this case study to learn more about the benefits Blue Bell experienced from switching to TAKE Supply Chain’s Gemini Series™, and learn how your company can do the same. 

This podcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient. 

The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region. 

This executive brief reviews the benefits of integrated asset management between development and operations and provides a concrete example of the impact analysis benefits of having a unified catalog of services and assets. 

In this paper we demonstrate the concept of High Performance Computing in a cloud and show that HPC clouds can deliver the needed utilization and scalability on par with the current native HPC approach of designing dedicated systems for specific applications. 

Download a free trial version of IBM® Rational® Team Concert Standard Edition, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. 

This paper describes the hardware and software components of Sun’s new reference architecture, Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 with MySQL, studies the scalability of the architecture, and includes step-by-step directions for setup and configuration. 

Read this case study to learn how PharmaCorr turned to Esker DeliveryWare to transition to a less paper-centric process and read all the benefits PharmaCorr reaped from implementing Esker DeliveryWare, including better accessibility, visibility, lower costs and higher ROI.