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.

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.

How do your profit margins compare to other MSPs? Attend this free online webinar with legend, Gary Pica, President of TruMethods; 'Driving MSP Profit Margins'.

This paper explains how the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes a wide range of capabilities that allow for intelligent management and analysis of these forms of information.

When it comes to words, less can be more. A little can say a lot. "Man overboard!" "You're hired." "I love you." Or in business, "The prospect is ready to sign, call him before he leaves for vacation!" With the explosion of Twitter over the past year - for personal as well as business, brand-building use - it seems that now, more than ever, is an appropriate time to investigate the benefits of internal microblogging for the enterprise. When correctly carried out, the benefits of launching an internal microblogging platform for your company can be substantial and wide-ranging. This NewsGator paper will provide you with initial information regarding microblogging in the enterprise.

Success stories from companies who didn't wait until it was too late. Learn how leading companies are following these truths to take the ambiguity out of managing their organizations and are now leading their businesses into the next business boom.

Marketing. Advertising. Research. The Web has become the center of many fundamental business activities. Not coincidentally, it has also become the main source of malware. However, many businesses have not recognized this fact. They continue to dedicate most of their security resources to email defenses. Yet, email only makes up about 15% of incoming malware. It's the other 85% that comes via the Web that needs your attention. A robust Software-as-a-Security perimeter solution, together with desktop protection, will effectively protect your enterprise against Web-based threats.

Corporate IT teams are waging a significant security battle on two fronts these days: stopping attacks via the Web and through email. The more complex these threats become the more infrastructure companies have to bring in house, sending capital expenditures through the roof. In fact, companies are seeing drawbacks to owning and managing their own security infrastructure. Security SaaS solves this problem. This white paper discusses the top seven reasons why security SaaS makes sense.

Industry debate about the relative merits of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Ecma 376 Office Open XML (OOXML) highlights the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) models. The competitive stakes are huge, and the related political posturing is sometimes perplexing.

This white paper provides an overview of the growing opportunities for EDI managers and coordinators. It highlights how their role can change from being responsible for implementation of technologies for operational activities to being infrastructure leaders. It shows how they can deliver increased efficiencies and velocity for value chain automation, which increases visibility, control and agility for a business.

Design, Operate, Maintain (DOM) - key concepts in asset management and maintenance, repair and operation. Utility facility designers and those who operate and maintain those facilities need to work together closely to improve plant efficiency and business profitability over time.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

White Paper explaining the growing need for Digitally Signing Adobe AIR applications, and expanding the market reach of your application by distributing trusted code.

dtSearch Corp. - A leading supplier of text retrieval software

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

The ability to offer customers business content in multiple formats, such as Web pages, email messages, Word documents, PDF documents, etc., is vital for meeting customers' needs and expectations in today's hyper-competitive Internet economy.

DITA is one of the most important innovations in XML publishing in recent memory.  Though DITA is an IBM invention and plenty of material has been written about it already, this paper must be read as well to clear the air about any errors, omissions, or misinterpretations, from previous publications on this topic.

Security is one of the main issues when deploying Web services in the enterprise. This white paper discusses the advantages of an appliance over an agent-oriented architecture for Web services security, how cross platform interoperation is immediate with a hardened appliance, and why web services security is different from web server security.

The vast majority of IT professionals and business people agree that security is the leading concern for SOA and XML messages and most quickly realize that SSL is limited by not providing content security, auditability or reliability. This paper will discuss how to extend SOA beyond the perimeter through high performance.

Businesses are rapidly adopting Web services to provide new levels of integration between applications. By comparison with earlier data communications techniques, Web services are faster and cheaper to develop, quicker to deploy, and easier to adapt to emerging business needs. This paper discusses the special security challenges posed by the use of Web services, and how to secure networks against them.

This white paper discusses the three critical Web services deployment issues-security, provisioning connections, and operations. As each is owned by different factions within an enterprise, each can become a 'show stopper' to Web services deployment initially, and every time a change must be made.