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The complexity, cost and technological bloat of traditional Java EE application servers are often barriers to running a lean and efficient IT organization. Increased need for scalability and rapid application delivery are driving businesses to reconsider the platform they use for application deployment. By combining the portability and agility of the Spring framework with a lightweight application server, your organization can meet business demands while staying within budget constraints. VMware vFabric tc Server is a modern, lightweight Java application server based on Apache Tomcat. It improves developer productivity, control and manageability and is the most flexible platform for virtualizing Java applications and workloads for the cloud. View this webcast to learn about real-world examples of companies that have adopted VMware vFabric tc Server and how to plan for future cloud deployments.

Your mainframe churns out a lot of data. Why not start using it to better manage your mainframe performance? BMC Software's John Barnard and Martin Beasley discuss the next generation of mainframe analytics, which offer more proactive, predictive techniques to help identify unexpected issues.

While insurers have invested in automating high volume decisions, most are not leveraging advanced analytics and other data-driven strategies to improve pricing decisions and cross-channel opportunities. In this white paper, FICO describes how to use business rules management systems as a core technology to improve revenue while controlling costs.

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets.

The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating thousands of new jobs, as Michael Rappa projected when he created the first master's degree program in the U.S. that's devoted to data analytics.

This VMware paper takes a technical look at a variety of IT performance data (operating system metrics, quality-of-service metrics, business performance metrics, etc.) to determine how well these metrics can be modeled as "normally distributed." This concept is at the heart of VMware vCenter Operations' performance analytics capability, and provides a deeper insight into how the technology helps adapt and learn typical IT behaviors to then provide automated policies that keep alerts and outages in check.

Now is the time for deployment! Join us for a look at how to deploy virtualization using VMware vSphere, the industry's best-of-breed hypervisor. In addition, discover how solutions such as VMware Go make deploying VMware server virtualization technology a snap. This webcast will begin with a discussion of the core concepts of virtualization and then move quickly into how to get started today.

Many companies use Google Analytics to view website traffic and visitor click-through data, but that's only the beginning. These five tips will help you examine traffic, keywords, bounce rates and visitors in order to improve your website.