Learn more about Watson (as seen on Jeopardy!), the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This paper explains Watson's workload optimized system design and why this represents a new computing paradigm.

Why the Cloud Is Advantageous for Agile, and for Accelerating its Enterprise-wide Adoption

How leading firms are winning with strategies for efficient application development, without relying on co-location.

In this ever-changing world of software development, it's critical to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. Discover five tested and proven software development practices your team should be utilizing to accelerate software delivery.

Join Michael Scarpelli, Technical Support Manager for La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, as he shares how his team streamlines and automates computer setup and maintenance for a rapidly growing network of more than 500 machines.

This white paper provides specific recommendations on how organizations can implement a simple, effective code review process that takes advantage of the latest tools and technologies.

This technical white paper looks at the issues of developing for multicore and multiprocessor environments in detail, explains how static analysis can be used to address them, and walks through two examples of these issues in prominent open source projects.

This white paper examines how the next generation of source code analysis tools are moving high-quality source code analysis to the developer's desktop and performing it at the earliest point in the development cycle - before code check-in. Learn why the developer must be an integral part of the process of identifying, fixing and preventing bugs from reaching the code stream.

This white paper from Bluewolf looks at the Operational and cost benefits of implementing a remote DBA system.

You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Gain insights into the benefits of running your help desk in the cloud.

BMC software and salesforce.com have joined forces to deliver BMC ServiceDesk on Remedy Force, an ITIL help desk, self service, and inventory management solution on the Force platform. This paper explains the patented technology that makes the Force.com platform fast, scalable, and secure.

Small and midsize companies shouldn't have to use less efficient, limited-functionality service desk solutions. Today's cloud-based help desks pack the same punch as on-premise enterprise solutions, without a large up-front investment or long installation time. Read more to find out how to get started with a cloud-based help desk today.

All SaaS help-desks are not created equally. From basic ticket logging to full-featured, enterprise-grade service management solutions, there truly is something for everyone. Learn more about the key factors in deciding between a comprehensive or a slimmer selection for your organization.

Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service.

In economic times like these, leading companies are looking to cloud-computing applications and IT Help Desk is increasingly in demand. Subscribing to help desk software has many benefits over in-house installation, but cloud-computing requires an increase in responsibility to ensure outstanding service delivery. This paper outlines best practices for selecting cloud-computing solutions.

This white paper explores the various methods of data integration that can help an organization find a solution that fits its specific business needs.

This whitepaper: Describes a 4-stage virtualization maturity lifecycle experienced by many organizations and discusses in detail (using sample project plans) the tasks and capabilities required to succeed at each stage of the maturity lifecycle.

Strong Version Control as a Foundation to System Management

Read this white paper to learn how rPath's approach to automation relieves IT from the classic tradeoff between speed and control. It enables IT organizations to deliver applications much faster-in minutes-while maintaining control.

In this report, Forrester Research interviews IT executives to examine the future of banking: the key business drivers, problems, and technology solutions are explained.

This report is the result of the largest public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity, originally initiated between Coverity and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The results from the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report detail the findings of analyzing more than 61 million lines of open source code from 291 popular and widely-used open source projects such as Android, Linux, Apache, Samba and PHP, among others.

voke Names Coverity as a Transformational Company in the Testing Market Coverity has been rated as a Transformational company in the voke, inc. Market Mover Array Report for Testing Platforms. Coverity's rating is recognition of the impact that Coverity's software integrity strategy is making in shaping the future of the testing market.

Learn how Mocana's NanoSSH can speed your product development while providing best-in-class SSH services custom-built for device environments. Download the NanoSSH whitepaper and receive a free trial.

In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges.

This white paper explains how an integrated middleware suite helps customers create and manage effective SOA environments.