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Remote Data Protection Demo SOFTWARE DEMO: Backup is a pretty complex ecosystem. There's data explosion, increasing recovery demands, a shrinking backup window and a limited IT budget. In this webinar you'll hear 2 key backup experts discuss the best practices around critical success factors. Posted: 31 Oct 2008 \| Premiered: 30 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| ERP \| Networking \| Remote Access Protocols \| Remote Access Security \| Remote Network Management

IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution for SAP PRODUCT LITERATURE: The IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for SAP® offers comprehensive, proven capabilities for de-identifying test data, making the data appropriate for testing. Posted: 29 Oct 2008 \| Published: 29 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Authorization \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Databases \| ERP \| SAP (Product) \| Testing

The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure: Practical Implementation Strategies WHITE PAPER: This VMware® white paper, especially useful for senior IT managers, describes best practices for implementing virtualization technology and provides strategies for convincing decision makers and others to support server virtualization. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Databases \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Infrastructure \| NAS \| ROI \| SAN \| VMware

Solving the Distributed Data Problem WHITE PAPER: Companies need to reevaluate traditional methods of protecting branch office and PC data such as tape backups and other localized do-it-yourself solutions. Read this white paper to learn about remote on-demand services. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Data Security \| Distributed Data Management \| Enterprise \| Internet \| NAS \| Productivity \| RAID \| SAN

IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover the implications, so you can enhance information security for the rest of 2008 and beyond. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Databases \| HTML \| Internet \| Internet Security \| Malware \| SQL

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn how to determine risks, calculate impact, evaluate your current structure's response and test overall resiliency. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CRM \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| ERP \| High Availability \| Risk Management

Exploiting DB2 on System z to Meet Your Data Warehousing Needs WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the role of data warehousing and DB2 on System environments, and it explains how you can standardize and consolidate your existing data marts and warehouses to form a mixed workload solution. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Warehouses \| IT Infrastructure \| OLTP \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Systems

Creating and Managing Value with IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z can help you reduce the overall cost of IT by transforming your data centre from a reactive, resource focus to a business-driven, proactive service. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Service Management \| ROI \| System z \| TCO

Creating a Green Data Center to Help Reduce Energy Costs and Gain a Competitive Advantage WHITE PAPER: The data center is often the engine that drives the growth of the enterprise, and energy efficiency is the key. Posted: 20 Oct 2008 \| Published: 17 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Enterprise \| Environmental Compliance \| Environmental Industry \| Environmental Law \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Managers \| Leadership \| Vendors

IBM Smart SOA Global Virtual Forum: How to Get Smarter Business Outcomes WEBCAST: Adapting to change is hard for today's professional architectures, but with the dynamics of the industry, change is a must. This webcast will show how to gain successful agility and maximize business IT value with the Smart SOA approach. Watch now! Posted: 13 Oct 2008 \| Premiered: Nov 5, 2008, 10:30 EST (15:30 GMT) TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Development \| Application Development and Integration Services \| Business Processes \| Database Management Software \| Programming Languages \| SOA \| SOA Governance

Move Web Application Security Testing into Your Development Cycle WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the role developers can play in solving Web application security issues, and it details how IBM Rational® AppScan® Developer Edition software can enable them to do so. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Security \| HTTP \| Risk Management \| Security Threats \| Software Testing \| Web Application Security \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools

Strengthening Web Application Security: Charting a Robust Strategy That Starts at Development. WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the current dilemma that security auditors face with the bottleneck for Web application deployment. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Budgeting \| Software Development Methodologies \| Testing \| Web Application Security \| Web Development \| Web Services

IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization WHITE PAPER: This paper explores optimization strategies and demonstrated benefits being achieved today with IBM Software solutions. Utilization of these capabilities can help you meet the increasing challenges of energy efficiency, cost containment and compliance. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Cooling Capacity \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Infrastructure Management \| Power Supplies \| Regulatory Compliance \| Software Development Methodologies

Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Data Centers \| Energy Industries \| Environmental Compliance \| Environmental Industry \| Environmental Law \| IT Infrastructure \| Systems Management

IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together BOOK: This IBM Redbooks publication will provide the necessary information to IBMers, business partners, and customers on how to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 03 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Disaster Recovery \| Email Archiving \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Content Management Software \| SAP (Product) \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Virtualization

Extending the Value of RPG Applications on the IBM i Platform WHITE PAPER: Applications based on the RPG programming language running on the IBM i operating system on the IBM Power Systems platform are the cornerstone of many companies' business processes. Posted: 17 Sep 2008 \| Published: 17 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Application Programming Interfaces \| BPEL \| Business Process Management \| Productivity \| SOA

IBM BladeCenter: The Right Choice BROCHURE: In this brochure, you’ll read about the advantages of IBM® BladeCenter®, including its flexible architecture, easy deployment and energy-efficient features. Posted: 11 Sep 2008 \| Published: 11 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| DVD \| Memory \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| Switches \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

IBM System x Servers - The Right Choice. Open. Easy. Green WHITE PAPER: IBMSystemx is a portfolio of robust servers built on IBMX-Architecture's our blueprint for bringing innovation tox86systems. Innovation that helps set you apart from the competition. Learn more in this paper. Posted: 11 Sep 2008 \| Published: 11 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Cooling Equipment \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Center Management \| Power Supplies \| RAID \| Risk Assessment \| Scalability Testing \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

The Ideal Blade Solution to Replace Your Rack Server: IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express Blade PRODUCT LITERATURE: Read this article to learn how to simplify your traditional UNIX, IBM i and Linux rack-mount and tower setup with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade and BladeCenter S chassis. Discover how it delivers a complete integrated business system. Posted: 11 Sep 2008 \| Published: 11 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Blade Servers \| Chassis \| High Availability \| Linux \| Rack Servers \| Security \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Staffing

Becoming Value-driven: Focusing on What Matters Most WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the six key areas essential for becoming a value-driven organization. Discover how to gain the visibility and control essential to meet and exceed customer needs. Posted: 20 Aug 2008 \| Published: 20 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Competition \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Customer Satisfaction \| Market Trends \| Portfolio Management (Finance) \| Product Management \| Project Management \| Regulations \| Revenue Projections

The Business Impact of EAM BOOK: The Business Impact of Enterprise Asset Management provides a straightforward, jargon-free look at the way Enterprise Asset Management is changing the world of business. Posted: 13 Aug 2008 \| Published: 01 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Asset Management (Finance) \| Best Practices \| Enterprise Asset Management Software \| ERP \| Financial Management \| Risk Management

Choose Your Collaboration Destiny VIDEOCAST: Test your skills real-time and learn how IBM collaboration solutions - backed by Web 2.0 technology - are greatly assisting businesses to take collaboration to the next level across employees customers, suppliers, and partners. Posted: 13 Aug 2008 \| Premiered: Aug 13, 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Collaboration \| Productivity \| Social Networking \| Testing

IBM Information Server FastTrack WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how IBM's Information Server FastTrack accelerates the translation of business requirements into data integration projects. Data integration projects require collaboration across analysts, data modelers and developers. Posted: 13 Aug 2008 \| Published: 13 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Application Development \| Business Logistics \| Data Integration \| Data Modeling \| SOA \| WebSphere

Driving Business Success with Software Reuse WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how Software Reuse and its underlying fundamentals have evolved dramatically. It also discusses the benefits of constructing critical enterprise software applications through reusable parts. Posted: 30 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Change Management \| Collaboration \| Configuration Management \| SOA \| Software \| Software Configuration Management \| Testing

The IBM Rational AppScan Lifecycle Solution BROCHURE: IBM Rational® AppScan® is a suite of marketplace-leading Web application security solutions that gives organizations the necessary visibility and control to address various critical challenges. Posted: 29 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Security \| Vulnerability Management \| Web Application Security