Most organizations strive for efficiency because it ties to cost savings and better performance, while helping to anchor competitive advantages. However, improving efficiency requires organizations to continually seek new methods of managing increasingly complex business processes. 

Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. Both would be easier and cheaper to achieve with a common infrastructure, in what we call an identity and context service. In this paper, we’ll address how such a shared service can serve these two very different IT initiatives. 

This whitepaper examines the business risks associated with the "laissez-faire" approach to data storage and the surprisingly easy and cost-effective solutions that can significantly improve your storage environment. 

This resource presents a data center infrastructure transformation and modernization solution using a patent-pending, detailed approach to help you draw up an effective plan to create a standardized, highly automated hosting environment, able to support your organization’s business goals. 

This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future. 

Want to know what's so 'smart' about Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache? This three minute video explains how Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache helps solve the random I/O bottleneck challenge and delivers extreme performance for consolidated database applications. 

This white paper helps managers to build a compelling business case for deploying online data protection services rather than continuing current methods of backup and recovery – or implementing other onsite alternatives. 

When we talk about the world becoming increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the most ubiquitous example is the smartphone. It collects and disseminates data while its users are at home and on the go, serving up just as much socially driven info as static, always-there web content. This white paper outlines smarter commerce. 

In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases. 

Find out what's fact and what's fiction about virtualizing your Exchange Server. What steps should you take, and how can you ensure success? Explore all these questions and more in this e-book. 

Many people are confused by Cisco’s NAT/PAT naming conventions, such as “inside local”, etc. so I have put together a few diagrams that might help. 

This book serves as an exhaustive guide to the SOA implementation journey, providing answers to 100 questions on topics ranging from the basics to highly specific areas like governance and information management.