This paper discusses how to implement agile thinking in the context of both defined engineering practices and an organizations' Software Development Lifecycle. 

This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise business intelligence capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Business Objects. 

Many companies are now virtualizing their data centers. Some have virtualized between thirty and fifty percent of their systems. As this virtualization process reaches critical business applications, it’s important to pause for a moment and consider security. How will virtualization impact security? 

This document describes how you can build a strategy to unify and run your business more effectively. 

This white paper summarizes the results of a survey on remote server management in small and medium-sized business. 

Existing techniques for accessing maintenance consoles are inefficient and leave security holes in the network. Learn how, by deploying a secure console server, maintenance consoles can be secured and the availability of the network improved. 

As businesses have instituted internal, industry, and government mandated regulatory compliance, the need for audit data to prove conformity has also become a necessity. Read this white paper to learn how configuration audit and control provides a single, independent source for enforcing and reporting on a change policy across an organization. 

SOA is a business-driven IT approach that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services, but pursuing SOA on an ad-hoc scattered basis can dramatically reduce its benefits. 

This webcast looks at development and test workloads that lend themselves particularly well to leveraging the cloud, such as large scale load testing, and deployment planning and automation, and offers guidance and best practices for organizations interested in cloud-based solutions. 

This white paper addresses these challenges, and offers a set of process automation solutions. Learn how Tivoli process automation engine helps automate, integrate and enhance service delivery across the enterprise. 

The IBM ALM Everyware e-Kit contains the new Gartner MarketScope for Application Life Cycle Management that rated IBM Rational "strong, positive", the highest available vendor rating.  Get it and other materials in this kit showing how IBM ALM technology, practices and expertise can help your organization. 

IDS Scheer made the strategic decision to virtualize the server and storage infrastructure, using VMware vSphere on IBM System x3850 M2 servers, and introducing IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) to manage its IBM storage devices. The result has been a dramatic simplification of the technology infrastructure. 

Explore the study, The Enterprise Of The Future: Implications For Midsize Organizations, to learn about the core traits shared by these successful midsize organizations.