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Featured Whitepapers
Massive But Agile: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse
Data warehousing professionals are pushing the scalability and performance of enterprise data warehouses without sacrificing the agility to optimize as warehouses expand to support petabytes of data, trillions of records, and thousands of concurrent users and queries.
Aligning BPM, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results
This whitepaper details how Business Process Management (BPM) powered by a Smart SOA(tm) approach combined with Lean Six Sigma can accelerate improvements and lead to superior business results.
Leverage Operational Responsiveness to Increase Customer Satisfaction
Operational responsiveness is the ability of business processes and systems to respond to changing conditions and client interactions as they occur. Download this whitepaper to incorporate operational responsiveness into business technology and to increase satisfaction through better responsiveness across your business.
Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow's Challenges
IT leaders discuss how educating and training IT professionals for leadership leads to high-performance, business-savvy tech teams.
Dedupe-Centric Storage for General Applications
This paper demonstrates how storage systems can be built with a deduplication engine powerful enough to become a platform that general applications can leverage.
Cost Optimization (not cost cutting): Smart Decisions for Surviving the Downturn
Companies must resist the temptation to cut cost indiscriminately during a downturn. Instead, IT needs to accelerate its annual efficiency through cost optimization - the idea of orienting IT spend to deliver maximum value to the business. Begin your cost optimization journey today.
Featured Analytics
Tame The Requirements Beast: Aligning Application Development Business Goals
Application development is an inherently complex, and expensive, process that demands strong collaboration. Align business and technical stakeholders in your application development process. Obtain a disciplined approach and the requirements process in this NEW InformationWeek Analytics report.
Enforcing IT Change Management Policy
IT changes can affect every business process, so it's critical to know how to manage change. This whitepaper looks at how high-performing companies implement processes that deter unauthorized change, reduce service outages, and enable IT to spend less time putting out fires.
Featured Reports
Gartner Research: Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing
Find out why enterprises should develop their web conferencing strategy as a component of their overall collaboration strategy.
Overhauling Microsoft
To maintain its developer ecosystem and protect its apps business, Microsoft has to loosen its grip on the Windows source code and drive down costs--effectively making its operating system open source. But that's only the beginning: The company should restructure itself, pay more attention to cloud computing, and get out of search. Here's why.
Featured Study
The Innovation Quotient
Providing data, voice, and network services can drive innovation. And yet in today's economy, it might seem daunting to ask for funding for such projects. Learn more about a recent study conducted for Qwest by Fortune Custom Publishing and IDG Research Services that explains companies who are still investigating and seeing enabled convergence, increased scalability, and expansion of application and information access while doing away with the unnecessary costs of legacy environments.
Featured Guide
Software Security Assurance Governance
Software Security Assurance (SSA) is becoming the preferred way to reach secure software development. To achieve a mature level of SSA, a set of practices need to be mastered. These include comprehensive identification and removal of software vulnerabilities and enhancing existing development practices.
Featured Tools
Distributed Asset Management
You Can't Do It Alone! Save time and money using Distributed Asset Management to manage assets ranging from desktops and laptops to servers, networked attached storage, networked printers, and more - including helping to patch, upgrade and track the software applications that run on these increasingly mobile devices.
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool
Balance your organization's needs for capacity and performance with the need to keep costs under control.
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Featured PodCasts
Managing Mobility an IDC video podcast
Chances are that while the number of mobile devices you must manage is increasing, your staff size is not! In this video podcast, IDC's Chief Research Officer, John Gantz, discusses the pain points and opportunities for managing your mobile workers.
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Featured WebCasts
6 Habits of Highly Successful Data Centers
Get more from your data center while slashing costs. Learn how grid computing helps improve efficiency and agility. Watch the on-demand WebCast.
Optimize Business Performance by Building a Smarter Enterprise
Join us on Sept 16th and together James and Jon will help you discover how to optimize your own business performance and why IBM is uniquely qualified to help its customers work smarter. And following the webcast, IBM will host a global Smart Work JAM to engage business leaders, technologists and visionaries in a dialogue on how work is evolving in support of a smarter planet. We hope you will join the discussion.
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