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- Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings
- IDC believes that the rise of Cloud computing has the potential to be among the most transformative developments in the world of information technology in the last 20 years. To date, Cloud computing is already having a significant impact on the way technology vendors are service-enabling and delivering applications, how...
- White papers 2009-09-01
- IDG on thin crowds: OpenSource World is invitation only
- Open Source continues...to be its own worst enemy.RE: IDG on thin crowds: OpenSource World is invitation onlySounds like IDG is trying to cover their own butt for such a low attendance. If its true that they picked the attendees then they didn't send out very many invitations. I...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- IDG on thin crowds: OpenSource World is invitation only
- Earlier today, I posted an entry from the kick-off keynote at OpenSource World and noted that the crowds were pretty light. From my viewpoint, there were probably all of about 250 or so people in that room. Having attended LinuxWorld last year, I couldn't help but wonder what caused such...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Building Scale for the Utility Company's Future
- Utilities are entering a new era. Concerns about the aging delivery infrastructure, climate change, and energy security are driving investments in new and cleaner sources of energy - renewables, nuclear, demand response, and energy efficiency. With new investments in the intelligent grid come the promise and the challenge of the...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Lean IT: The Time for Transformation Is Now
- In today's economic environment, reducing costs and increasing efficiency should be priority one for financial institutions. To assist in this process, many institutions are investigating opportunities to create more value for customers by eliminating or reducing non-value-adding activities. Lean processing, long a staple in manufacturing, provides this opportunity for increasing...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Oracle Database Security: Cost-Effective Data Leak Prevention Starts at the Source
- Data, data everywhere. Organizations are awash in information. Data has been growing at an incredible rate. The growth in storage capability is a bellwether for the growth in information. Over the past few years the annual capacity growth rate for data in traditional enterprises increased at about 45%. The information...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Insider Risk Management: A Framework Approach to Internal Security
- Internal security risks are a complex challenge facing organizations of all industries and in all regions. Unfortunately, no single technology will solve the wide range of risks posed by "insiders." Insiders are authorized users with legitimate access to corporate networks, applications, and data. They include, but are not limited to,...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Using Clustered File System Software for Superior Application Availability
- Managers across organizations of all types and sizes would prefer not to experience downtime, but that might not be realistic expectation. Organizations for which downtime - say, even 20 minutes - is a costly proposition have the option of using a clustered file system to deliver faster failover and less...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- The Economic Impact of Microsoft's Windows 7, Worldwide
- This profile quantifies the forecasted economic impact that Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system will have worldwide from launch in October 2009 to the end of 2010. The impact is seen in IT employment, revenues to firms in the Microsoft ecosystem, and investment in products and services working with or supporting...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- The Business Value of Software Deployment Services
- This white paper describes the challenges enterprises can encounter when deploying software packages into their IT environment. It also highlights what enterprises should consider when evaluating software deployment services and how specific deployment services can accelerate software adoption and solution payback. The paper examines a software deployment offering from CA...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- The Market for Software Appliances: An Opportunity Poised for Growth
- In the midst of an uncertain economy, end users are increasingly looking for simplicity in their IT solutions. The goal of streamlining operations will lead customers to more cost-effective solutions that can be readily "Plugged into" their existing environments. Software as a Service SaaS and cloud computing streamline operations yet...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid
- This white paper focuses on the benefits of deploying business analytics solutions on grid computing platforms. The paper discusses these technologies, the reasons for selecting business analytics software on grid computing platforms, and the benefits achieved from them by three organizations. The examples show that these technologies can enable competitive...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- IT Economics: CA Infrastructure Management Reduces Operational Costs and Increases IT Efficiency
- CA customers have provided a number of proof points that illustrate how automated, integrated infrastructure and performance management can significantly lower the cost and improve the productivity of IT infrastructure management teams. As IT organizations lay out plans for new investments in virtualization, unified communications, SOA, and cloud computing, they...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Containing Vendor Sprawl: Improve Security, Reduce Risk, and Lower Cost
- This white paper analyzes the benefits of reducing vendor sprawl associated with security, storage, and system management solutions. Corporate IT systems have grown extremely complex as point products are frequently integrated to address an acute security, system, or storage issue. The short-term integration strategies that tie each product into the...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads
- This white paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today Linux has become a key server for supporting commercial workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Beyond Power Consumption: What It Really Means to Go Green
- "Going Green" has become one of the most pervasive slogans in today's commercial marketplace. Growing awareness among policymakers, who are introducing more stringent environmental regulation and guidelines, and consumers, who are adapting buying habits and lifestyles toward more sustainable choices, is prompting businesses across the globe to enhance product sets...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- IT Economics: Streamlining Application Performance Management With Extended Visibility and Visualization
- This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with todays economic and operational IT challenges. The paper identifies the types of application performance management capabilities IT teams need to maintain efficient operations and explains how several recently announced CA Wily Application Performance Management solution enhancements...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Realizing TCO Savings With HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology
- HP Virtual Connect technology is an interconnect option for HP BladeSystem designed to simplify the connection of blade servers to datacenter networks. Virtual Connect creates pools of LAN and SAN addresses that can be assigned dynamically to server bays. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 builds on the core HP Virtual Connect...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Virtualisation and Business Continuity
- The benefits of server virtualisation are transforming the way IT departments provision IT to their customers. If the first wave of x86 virtualisation was mostly focused on improvements in utilisation, then IDC believes that the second major wave will focus on the enhancement of business continuity and DR capability. Virtualisation...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- The Silver Lining: To Build an Effective Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Start With the Right Core Technology
- Over the last few years, cloud computing - the delivery of data, applications, and services via the Internet - has evolved from a promising technology into a powerful tool for boosting the efficiency of business and IT functions. A technology with roots in mainframe computing and fueled by the growth...
- White papers 2009-04-10
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