This paper addresses the benefits and challenges driving increased adoption of testing automation along with coordination of requirements and security. It also analyzes the adoption of complex sourcing approaches to development and the need for effective quality management in that context. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity. 

If users are the lynchpin of Identity Management, then groups are the catalyst to security and productivity. Your organization wants to provision users into Active Directory and keep that data accurate. When an organization provisions a user, they want them to be automatically added to the correct security groups and distribution lists. 

This paper focuses on the creation of an information "exchange" between applications or services in the context of the business process ticketing systems in an enterprise eBonding example. In this paper you will learn about application integration using the SID; Read on to learn a practical approach for project scoping and design in five steps. 

SEPATON is among the growing list of vendors to join the VMware Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. SEPATON has its sights set on solving the backup challenges of virtual server implementations - in particular, VMware environments - with VTL. 

Virtualization provides powerful, tangible ways to streamline many traditionally time-consuming processes and minimize the resources needed to deploy and manage IT resources. This white paper examines how Microsoft® customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure, IT processes, and save money. 

AVG Internet Security Business Edition is faster, smarter security that won’t slow businesses down. AVG Internet Security merges ground-breaking online threat prevention techniques with enhanced anti-virus and firewall technologies to deliver proactive protection that’s second to none. Download a trial version and use it free for the next 30 days. 

This white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems. 

This paper looks at end-user and server-based licensing fees for BI solutions and argues that server-based fees makes much more sense. 

Employing UltraSPARC® T2 Plus processors - an evolution of the industry's first massively threaded systems on a Chip (SoC) - the Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges. 

In this month's issue, find out which aspects of licensing need special attention in the virtual world. Also in this issue, make maintenance easier with a little bit of planning, and learn what to do when virtualization fails.