Cloud Computing

Cloud computing doesn't just change where applications are run. It changes the processes used to build, deploy and ultimately manage them. Hear industry experts describe how cloud computing can modernize app development and testing to make your business more dynamic!

Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud services/offerings, implement operations and approach customer engagement.

This whitepaper features valuable insights pertaining to cloud usage and implementation scenarios for test cloud environments. Includes helpful guidance and scenarios for IT Managers and CIOs alike regarding public, private and hybrid testing clouds.

IT Managers: Help your development team shorten project deadlines and test provisioning cycles, all while reducing capital and licensing expenses, as well operating costs. Don't get left behind. Get serious for cloud for business.

IT Managers: Reduce costs with enterprise ready environments. Take advantage of easy and flexible onboarding for business-ready virtual servers. Rapidly improve project set up and shorten development times. Find out how.

Comprehensive product capability discussed throughout this 15-page technical paper, including 11 Best Practices for the IBM Cloud. Written for IT Managers, IT Architects, and developers, learn how you can better manage SaaS cloud applications and bring new applications on line in the future.

If you're leading or working on a SaaS or PaaS project, interoperability and performance challenges through application migration processes are givens. Avoid common frantic missteps that will add time to your production cycles. This technical note offers specific proactive steps you can take to ensure to the successful migration of your enterprise apps.

Get under the hood: This technical note describes how to transform XML response into a JavaT-usable response by creating Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and calling JAXB's unmarshal method. Simplify how to send requests to create new instances based on images that request parameters from Java classes.

Distributed workers - just like their on-site counterparts - need to collaborate with coworkers, partners and customers to stay productive. But in today's global business climate, frequent travel is no longer a viable option. This new SandHill Group white paper explores recent study findings to better understand the powerful advantages of SaaS technologies in addressing the challenges of a global market, virtual teams and an ever-changing business climate.

This EMA White Paper examines in more detail the building blocks for private cloud computing - automation, virtualization, and cloud service management - and provides EMA's recommendations for a phased approach to cloud computing, based on EMA's maturity model, research data, and enterprise activities, with prescriptive approach and some sample use cases to help get started.

Read this white paper to learn how IT organizations can implement an effective Service Catalog that will enable them to reap the full benefits of self-service in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

This demo shows how IBM can help you implement a private test cloud environment and how this Smart Business Test Cloud can help you drive down cost and provide more flexibility.

The demonstrations included in this menu interface show how IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager solutions can help you manage the complete life cycle of your data center and distributed resources from initial provisioning to patching and configuration maintenance to resource re-purposing or end of life.

Social and technological changes are transforming the nature of network traffic, raising network costs and performance issues. Learn how to proactively manage the WAN as new Web protocols, consumer and corporate video and cloud-delivered applications become mainstream.

IBM CloudBurst is a family of built-for-purpose, workload-specific cloud computing packages that provide IT executives with the capabilities required for a Dynamic Infrastructure. View this complimentary demonstration video to learn more.

Take a look at this white paper in order to gain real-world advice on cloud computing based on the experiences of companies like yours.

Evaluating new accounting systems can be a complex and challenging project. Ensure you make the right decision for your company by getting expert advice from one of CPA Technology Advisor's Top 25 Thought Leaders in Public Accounting, Geni Whitehouse, as she outlines the eight rules for investing in a new accounting system.

An Outlook Report from Storage Strategies NOW. This study is a comprehensive report on the state of the cloud storage market and of the storage services that are layered atop of it.

In this IBM white paper, the term cloud computing is defined, along with the distinguishing advantages and disadvantages of different types of cloud deployments.

This Cisco white paper addresses the power of the cloud, Cisco's vision for the cloud and provides valuable customer use cases.

This white paper from Microsoft discusses the underlying economics driving the transition from mainframe to client/servers. The economics of the cloud, by using in-depth modeling, is also reviewed to better understand the long-term IT landscape.

View this webcast to learn about the business use cases, return on investment (ROI) and other key considerations for moving your business to the cloud with NetSuite and Google Apps.

Join Intel IT leaders and participating companies HP, Lenovo, Absolute Software, Citrix, and Symantec for a morning packed with the latest technology, expert advice and demos.

View this webcast to hear Conrad Cross, CIO, discuss his decision to move to Google Apps and learn why governments coast-to-coast are going Google.

This report is a detailed examination of how backup and recovery practices vary by the size of the enterprise.