White Papers

  • FEATURED WHITE PAPER

    Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility

    Topic:
    Business, Internet

    Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations - which of itself is not a new idea - however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy.

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  • Digital Transformation: Creating New Business Models Where Digital Meets Physical

    Topic:
    Mobile & Wireless, Networking

    Individuals and businesses alike are embracing the digital revolution. Social networks and digital devices are being used to engage government, businesses and civil society, as well as friends and family.

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  • IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative

    Topic:
    Business, Internet

    On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce", a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for Commerce 2.0 solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies.

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  • An Interactive eGuide: Big Data

    Topic:
    Business Intelligence, Data Center/Servers

    Experts predict in the next five years the amount of data that exists will grow by tenfold. This data explosion is in large part thanks to 'big data'-weblogs, equipment logs, social media, email, sensors, photographs, video footage, etc.-that is typically unstructured and voluminous. New networked devices and applications are collecting more data than ever, and more organizations are holding on to it

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  • Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Case Study - Oracle

    Topic:
    IT Management/Strategy, Virtualization

    In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle databases on the VMware vSphere platform. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware vSphere on their organizations.

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  • The Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications

    Topic:
    Business Intelligence, Virtualization

    This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.

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  • Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications

    Topic:
    IT Management/Strategy, Virtualization

    Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confi dence without sacrifi cingavailability or service quality-and at lower costs.

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  • Enterprise Java Applications on VMware: Unix to Linux Migration Guide

    Topic:
    Business Intelligence, IT Management/Strategy

    This guide focuses on key considerations for IT Architects who are in the process of migrating Java applications from UNIX to Linux as part of their VMware server consolidation project.

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  • Indiana University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases

    Topic:
    IT Management/Strategy, Virtualization

    The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University deployed VMware Infrastructure which decreases costs, streamlines server deployment, and reduces energy consumption.

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  • VMware vSphere 4: The Most Efficient SQL Server Consolidation Platform

    Topic:
    Data Center/Servers, IT Management/Strategy

    Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

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