In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved. 

Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues. 

In these tough economic times, how do you address the challenge of reducing costs without diminishing your service quality? Companies can lower costs significantly and meet the growing demand for services by taking a more holistic approach. This paper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management and... 

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost. 

Read this paper, which is a transcription of a presentation where speakers Stuart McClure, VP of Operations & Strategy, Risk & Compliance Business Unit, at McAfee Incorporated and Evelyn de Souza, Senior Manager, Risk & Compliance, at McAfee discuss application whitelisting and its benefits. 

In this podcast learn ways to combat the malicious code of malware and trojans from McAfee's Stuart McClure. Gain insight into how application whitelisting, a means of providing security with less overhead without negative performance impact, can aid your compliance initiatives while not raising operational costs. 

This whitepaper discusses the dramatic cost savings that companies can realize by adopting a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model for email security versus an on-premises approach. 

Read this paper to learn how Bloor Research determined that Sybase 15 will provide substantially better performance at lower cost than traditional approaches for analytics, reporting, and data warehousing environments. 

This podcast provides a complete overview of application lifecycle management (ALM) and discusses how SAP's integrated and open approach to ALM can accelerate innovation, ensure business continuity, reduce risk and lower TCO. 

This white paper addresses the concerns of chief information officers and network architects worried about how to best utilize new data transport infrastructures from an economic, operational, and security perspective. The purpose of this paper is to assist decision makers selecting new data transport methods and infrastructures. 

This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck. 

This research brief provides an overview of the current LTE market and addresses the technical and business challenges that operators will face as they migrate to all-IP networks. It provides insight into operators' common questions and helps address planning and implementation concerns including migrating away from existing legacy systems.