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  • DevOps for a New Millennium: A Lifecycle Perspective Supporting Business Growth in an Alerted Economy

    DevOps has evolved as a far more cross-functional, collaborative, and lifecycle- focused activity than traditionally understood. This report explores how companies like OpTier are helping support the new DevOps paradigm.

  • Integrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft Windows in the Datacenter

    In today’s challenging economic environment, IT planners are continuously seeking innovative ways to enhance service levels and contain costs. Forward-looking organizations are revamping IT infrastructure and deploying virtualization solutions and private cloud services to improve business agility and reduce equipment and operating expenses. Learn more.

  • Extended Validation SSL Certificates

    Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. Find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use of a green address bar in the latest high security web browsers. Learn more.

  • Securing Microsoft Exchange 2010

    There are many reasons why now is the right time to make the move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including a host of administration and security improvements. However, as with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Exchange 2010 requires SSL certificates to ensure the security of all connections to the email server. Learn more.

  • The Hidden Costs of Self-Signed SSL Certificates

    In this white paper learn why Self-Signed Certificates are much costlier and riskier than working with a trusted security vendor. Learn more, read on!

  • How Red Hat Delivers a Secure Enterprise Platform for Next-Generation Datacenters

    Security has always been an important consideration when selecting a server operating system for enabling business-critical applications and other essential workloads. This is true now more than ever, especially for enterprises looking to build next-generation datacenters. Learn more.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux - The Original Cloud Operating System

    The operating system (OS), which runs applications on top of physical infrastructure, has served as the foundation of traditional IT for decades. The OS has since emerged as the cornerstone for new technology innovation, transforming enterprise IT with robust applications that deliver a more personalized experience. Read on.

  • The Smart Approach to IT Resource Management

    Learn the smart approach to IT Resource Management. This white paper from Innotas identifies why effective resource management is crucial for any Healthcare IT department and outlines 5 best practices for IT Resource Management. Learn more.

  • Cloud Enabled Software Development and Testing: Putting the Agile into the Infrastructure

    This white paper outlines how leading companies are changing the way their IT teams equip and support software development teams by integrating fast, dynamic, flexible, and easily shareable cloud environments that are available on-demand. Learn more.

  • The Tao of IT Portfolio Management

    This brand new eBook from Innotas will help you discover the ten most important steps to strategic, competitive, and financial enlightenment across your IT project and application portfolio. Read now!

  • Five Ways to Prepare for SharePoint 2013

    In this new white paper, discover five specific steps you can take – right now – to prepare for SharePoint 2013. See how you can make your migration quick, easy and cost effective. Read this paper today.

  • Avoiding the Top Three Challenges of Custom-Coded SharePoint Applications

    SharePoint is excellent out of the box, but you’ll need customizations to get the most from your investment. Now you can learn how Dell helps you get more from your investment and still slash development costs and timelines. Read more.

  • 5 Ways to Solidify Your APM Strategy with SaaS

    SaaS-based APM solutions are dramatically simplifying the management of enterprise applications. Analytics-Driven APM solutions delivered via the cloud can pave the way for faster, smarter and more profitable application management. Learn more.

  • Discover The Easiest Way to Rapidly Restore Servers

    Cornerstone Bank cut VM replication time by nearly 70 percent—and eliminated stressful, around-the-clock restore work—thanks to vRanger. Read the case study to see how they did it

  • Alter Ego Finds a Practical Solution to Its Data Backup Dilemma

    With limited IT staff, Video production company Alter Ego needed to simplify data backup and recovery. It needed a solution that’s easy to operate yet doesn’t sacrifice functionality for simplicity. See how it achieved these goals in our case study.

  • Best Practices for SharePoint 2013 Migration

    A SharePoint migration can be a seriously risky task. Understanding the best practices for your migration will help reduce stress while ensuring a successful migration. Now you can set yourself up for success. Read on.

  • Governance for All: Empowering IT and Business Content Owners

    “Governance for all” is more than an end goal written in a plan; it’s a strategy that unites IT and business content owners. Now, learn to create a governance strategy to suit your needs. Learn more.

  • Social 101: Using and Managing Social in SharePoint 2013

    SharePoint 2013’s social features help accelerate SharePoint adoption, but are often misunderstood. Now you can better understand how “SharePoint social” works, the business uses and how to manage it while securing your business-critical data. Read more.

  • Best Practices for SharePoint 2013 Migration

    A SharePoint migration can be a seriously risky task. Understanding the best practices for your migration will help reduce stress while ensuring a successful migration. Now you can set yourself up for success. Read on.

  • Six Reasons to Empower Your SharePoint Citizen Developers

    SharePoint users are increasingly becoming "citizen developers." Learn why you should them make their own customizations safely, confidently in order to reduce the risk of error and free IT resources for more valuable projects. Read on.

  • Governance for All: Empowering IT and Business Content Owners

    “Governance for all” is more than an end goal written in a plan; it’s a strategy that unites IT and business content owners. Now, learn to create a governance strategy to suit your needs. Learn more.

  • Service Virtualization for Dummies eBook

    Discover service virtualization and how it fits into the big picture of software quality.  In this book, Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition written by industry analysts Marcia Kaufman and Judith Hurwitz, learn how to deliver higher quality software by increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing processes while reducing testing downtime and testing cost. Read on.

  • Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications

    Check out this white paper to find out why Innotas was ranked as Visionary in Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications and how the use of software that supports IIPA. Learn more.

  • Addressing New Business Analytics Challenges

    What is business analytics (BA), and why should you care? Well, you should care if you want to gain a competitive advantage and offer users the best possible experience. Find out more about BA in this white paper from the Clipper Group’s Navigator newsletter.

  • Cognos SPSS eBook: Business Analytics and Data Warehousing

    There is no question that all organizations — no matter what size or in what industry — are focused on generating more revenue, minimizing waste, reducing risk, and identifying new business opportunities with more confidence. Analytics has moved front and center in this effort, and is now considered a top competitive differentiator that can help drive better business performance. Read on.

  • 5 Ways to Get your Application Portfolio Under Control

    Get your application portfolio under control while, cutting costs and spending less time on maintaining outdated or redundant apps. Learn 5 strategies to manage the application portfolio. Read more!

  • Building a Highly Affordable and Scalable Private Cloud

    Thinking about implementing a private cloud in your organization? Lots of IT professionals are, and you probably should be, too. Discover more about the private cloud in this white paper.

  • IBM Problem Determination Tools for z/OS

    This IBM Redbooks® publication provides you with an introduction to the tools, guidance for program preparation to use with them, an overview of their integration, and several scenarios for their use. Read more.

  • IBM Software for System Z for Dummies

    Don’t know what System Z is or why it exists? That’s OK. This “Dummies” guide takes readers through System Z, the software available for it and what IT professionals need to do with it. Learn more.

  • Putting the Efficiency of End-to-End Automation at Work across the Enterprise

    What can automation do for you without sapping your IT budget? Actually, a lot, when it’s executed properly. Find out in this white paper how to automate your enterprise.

  • Adopting a Service-Centric Approach to Backup & Recovery

    What’s driving the need to move beyond traditional backup and recovery and adopting a services-centric view? Find out in this white paper focusing on protecting mission-critical applications and databases.

  • Security Gateway Buyer's Guide

    In this white paper independent industry security expert Gunnar Peterson provides the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice when evaluating Security Gateways. Learn more.

  • Mobile Middleware Architecture To Speed Enterprise App Dev

    This technical white paper is designed for security architects, app developers, and program managers that are chartered to rapidly repurpose and expose enterprise application services for app store and mobile consumption. Learn more.

  • Composite API Management Solution for API Dev Community Sharing, Security, Integration (Intel & MQ Leader Mashery)

    This white paper describes a composite API platform architecture whereby Intel® has packaged the market leading Mashery API sharing portal with Intel's gateway security & integration technology to deliver Intel® Expressway API Manager. Learn more.

  • API Testing: Challenges & Best Practices

    Learn about 4 unique challenges associated with API testing and 5 strategies for ensuring API reliability, security, and performance vs. the extreme conditions that API exposure brings. Read more.

  • Service Virtualization: The Next Frontier for Testing

    Test environment access constraints have become one of the greatest barriers to delivering quality software efficiently. Service virtualization removes these constraints, enabling teams to test more efficiently & effectively. Learn more.

  • A Mobile Application Development Primer

    As enterprises realize the need for mobile versions of their business applications, there is a need for an enterprise class approach to mobile app development. This white paper discusses best practices for collaborative software lifecycle management for mobile business applications development. Read on.

  • Ten Steps to Better Requirements Management

    Requirements definition and management is recognized as a necessary step for the successful delivery of systems and software projects; the discipline is also required by standards, regulations and quality improvement initiatives like Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). Read on.

  • Gartner Report Gartner Market Profile: Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) Tools, 2012

    Software development teams have long sought the grand unification of the differing development disciplines. Application life cycle management (ALM) tools deliver software development life cycle (SDLC) discipline integration in combination with workflow, tracing and reporting functionality. This market profile examines ALM tool offerings and identifies the trends shaping the emerging marketplace. Learn more.

  • Agile for Dummies Book

    The study cautions against "Agile religion" and emphasizes using a pragmatic approach to adapt Agile techniques to fit the company's unique environment. "Smart people are committed, but too many are Agile purists," says Dave Prior. Experts suggest that the focus should be on applying Agile processes where it makes sense. Read the paper to find out more.

  • What Your Enterprise Can’t Do Without a Proven Information Governance and Optimization Solution

    If you haven’t heard of information governance, now is the time not only to get familiar with it but to implement it. Learn more in this series of technical white papers from noted consultants and experts.

  • The Role of Collaboration Tools for SharePoint

    Read this white paper to learn some of the critical elements and benefits of instituting effective SharePoint collaboration within your organization. Read on

  • Active Administrator Trial Download

    More managment. More efficiency. Less complications. Less problems.Discover the power of absolute Active Directory management with Active Administrator. See for yourself – download a free trial today

  • Data Protection Solutions Get a Data Management and Recovery Solution to Support Them

    This DCIG analyst report explores how you can overcome new data management and recovery challenges stemming from varying data backup solutions, different backup policies and lack of consistent means to perform recovery. Learn more.

  • Analyst Report: Breaking The Backup Single Pane of Glass

    Data protection must evolve from backing up data and recovering it to meeting service level agreements (SLAs) that minimize risk. Learn more in this report from analyst firm, Storage Switzerland. Read on.

  • Mastering the Art of Version Control and Migration Management with Stat Cover

    Effective change management is required to make processes efficient, consistent and repeatable. Stat® is an advanced change management solution that solves these challenges.

  • Fail-Safe Application Deployment

    In this white paper paper learn what makes application deployments so problematic and share best practices and techniques to implement fail-safe software deployments in your production environments. Read on.

  • IBM Operational Decision Management

    In the age of automation, there are still some tasks that need the human touch, right? Such as making operational business decisions? Actually, that can be automated…and very effectively. Find out more in this white paper from Lustratus Research.

  • Who Moved My Oracle? Learnings From IBM DB2 Implementations In SAP Environments

    In this white paper read through eight in-depth customer interviews in which Springboard Research examines DB2 SAP implementations across the Asia Pacific region. Learn more.

  • Five Things Every Software Executive Should Know About Scrum

    This white paper explores five important things software executives should understand when their organization is considering adopting the approach. It includes information about what Scrum can and cannot provide, and advice for how executives can support the adoption of Scrum. Learn more.

  • Blueworks Live: The Roadmap to Tackle Process Improvement

    This technical whitepaper on Blueworks Live discusses how to revolutionize how you discover, document and collaborate processes and decisions. Read on.

  • Cost Benefits of Complete Change Lifecycle Management for the Oracle E-Business Suite

    This white paper addresses the importance of managing the change process around your Oracle E-Business Suite environment. You’ll learn how to reduce costs and maximize staff productivity while managing the change process, and how to realize the value of leveraging an integrated change solution rather than using disparate management tools to achieve these goals. Learn more.