Optimized Infrastructure
Sponsored by IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping clients innovate. Drawing on a breadth of capabilities and best practices from across IBM and our extensive partner ecosystem, we offer clients within every industry, a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that can help them improve productivity, respond rapidly to the needs of their business and reduce development and operations costs.
Sponsored Content
Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure Through Virtualization
This white paper describes how virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization.
IBM Virtualization Services
Read this white paper to learn why enterprises should evaluate the impact of virtualization on the entire datacenter, as well as the end-user population, to avoid some of the potential pitfalls.
Adding Business Value with Cross-Platform Solutions
This IDC white paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis regarding the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers, including the ROI that was seen in the year following the initial deployment.
Manage Storage More Effectively with Virtualization Capabilities
This white paper explores the natural evolution from server virtualization to storage virtualization and the use of virtualization to more effectively manage storage systems.
Blogs
In Enterprise Software News, the Holiday Season Starts Early
During a slow news week for enterprise software, it’s tough to be a blogger. There’s nothing interesting to comment on. The trade press must be having the same problem because this is what I found in googling “enterprise software” filtered by “news” and “past week.” The No. 1-ranked story about...More >
New Power Management Systems at the Ready
Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technology that swept the IT industry. So when we see surveys like the recent one from Kelton Research...More >
Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 10th Anniversary by Asking for Volunteers
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) had its annual U.S. bash and celebrated its 10th birthday simultaneously the week of Nov. 2 in Oakland, Calif. ASF grew from a half-dozen programmers who got together in 1995 to provide better Web server software than the codeset originally developed as part of...More >
Articles & Interviews
Virtualization Initiatives Getting Bogged Down?
Server consolidation initiatives created a strong ROI for organizations and proved to be the impetus that server virtualization needed to gain broad market adoption. But as organizations grow their virtual environments, they inevitably run into the same set of issues that force a slowdown.... More >
Striking the Right Balance in Server Utilization
Arthur Cole spoke with Mark E. Stumm, senior vice president of product marketing, nlyte Software . Cole : Recent studies indicate that about 15 percent of the servers in a typical enterprise are drawing power but not performing any meaningful function. Is that a reasonable amount, or should... More >
The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing
Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >
Related Topics
IBM Offers Virtualization Security
IBM's new Virtual Server Security product is designed to secure each layer of the infrastructure of a virtual server, reports InformationWeek . The software is built for VMware's vSphere platform for data center virtualization. The offering secures everything from the hypervisor to the operating system to data... More >
DOD Open Sources Human Resources App
The Department of Defense has gone further than just encouraging the use of open source applications by open sourcing an enterprise human resources application that has over a million lines of code, reports Computerworld . It's likely that more open source documents will come from the DOD, as the department's top... More >
White House Web Site Switches to Open Source Drupal CMS
The Obama administration has chosen to replace its old content management system with open source Drupal , says TG Daily . The previous system was a proprietary CMS and was getting to be outdated. Also, administrators of the White House site believe that Drupal offers better security options.... More >
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