Forrester Research conducted briefings and demonstration reviews with five commercial and four open source enterprise service bus (ESB) product vendors and evaluated their capabilities in each of the five following functional categories: architecture, connection, mediation, orchestration, and change and control. 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

Wondering whether a move to the private cloud might benefit your organization? Access this videocast for a demonstration of how a Microsoft private cloud solution can help deploy a new finance tracker application in weeks, rather than months. 

There’s no one size fits all solution when it comes to deploying virtualization. This brief video introduces an integrated virtual system that is optimized for multiple workloads, extensible to the cloud and offers a best in class architecture. 

Put your PC in your pocket with Pocket ACE. Watch this informative session to learn how you can deploy your PC to a variety of devices like USB memory sticks, laptops or even iPods. 

As your data center becomes more complex, it also becomes increasingly difficult to manage. This video provides an informative demonstration of an infrastructure management tool and highlights its key use cases. 

This brief webcast gives a thorough demonstration of the Compellent Storage Center Integration for VMWare VSphere. 

Watch this webcast to learn more about virtual monitoring and why end-to-end visibility is so important when dealing with virtual technologies. 

Explore cloud-based Recovery as a Service (RaaS) in this webcast. Discover how Acacia Federal Savings Bank leveraged SunGard’s Recover2Cloud service to gain enhanced data protection, increased savings and lower risk. Watch this webcast for a walk-through of the full range of capabilities offered by SunGard’s Recover2Cloud service. 

This paper explores the tools Cisco provides to simplify mass deployments of the VPN Client. The two methods are discussed: the creation of an installation CD-ROM and network-based installations. I will explain how to reduce calls to the Help Desk by locking users out of advanced configuration functions in the user interface. 

In this podcast, introduced by independent enterprise storage expert Stephen Foskett and Oracle’s Group Manager for NAS Storage Product Management Alex North, talk about the current state of NAS storage, and point out specific technologies that Oracle is leveraging in its new ZFS NAS platform. Listen now to learn more. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

This IDC Event Flash presents the highlights of the Oracle OpenWorld event held in Beijing on December 13-15, 2010. It explores the comparison to Apple that Oracle's integrated software/hardware, performance focus and higher price point are eliciting. The paper also discusses Oracle's role in the current and future market.