Free White Papers

• Market Primer: ERP Systems

  Read this FREE in-depth Market Primer to find out how ERP impacts every part of your company. You’ll learn the basics on this feature-rich tool and how it can benefit your business, employees and the company's bottom-line. Learn more.

• The State of Resilience on IBM Power Systems—Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX Users

  Read the input of over 4,000 companies running IBM i (i5/OS) environments regarding their current data protection, recovery and optimization technologies and strategies. Learn more.

• High Availability in an SAP Environment - Keep Mission-Critical SAP Operations Running no Matter What

  This white paper will review the unique issues related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery in your SAP environment, including 2- and 3-tier architectures, and guide you in developing appropriate SAP data and application management strategies. Learn more.

• An Introduction to IBM System i (iSeries) High Availability Solutions

  If your company is beginning to explore the powerful business continuity technology of System i high availability (HA), this paper will give you a solid overview of IBM System i software-based replication and failover solutions—also known within the industry as high availability or HA. Learn more.

• 2010 Midmarket/Enterprise ERP Solutions Comparison Guide

  Which ERP solution best fits your unique business situation? Focus has the answers with our in-depth comparison of the top 17 ERP solutions. Learn more.

• Benefits of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Technology in IBM AIX and i5/OS (OS/400) Environments

  TiVo™ for AIX applications and other data? Continuous data protection (CDP) technology provides on-demand “rewind” capabilities. In addition to replicating data for DR protection, CDP rapidly recovers accidentally deleted or otherwise corrupted data. Learn more.

• Enterprise and Web 2.0 Application Support in a Modern Mainframe Environment

  This white paper outlines the advantages of WebSphere Portal for System z software and provides essential information to those considering adding Web-facing workloads on their mainframe hardware. Read it today.

• Data Warehousing With DB2 Family for IBM System z Customers

  This paper shows how an investment in System z, integrated with the DB2 family of solutions, can be used to meet an organization’s requirements for data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. Download today.

• System z Software Working in Harmony for the SOA Enterprise of Today and Tomorrow

  This paper is aimed at IT architects and managers who need to understand how IBM CICS® Transaction Server can be used in a modern service oriented archi­tecture (SOA) enterprise solution. Learn more.

• Hey, Can I Borrow Your Keys? I’d Like to Trash the Kingdom

  In the new Quest Software white paper, you'll learn to get the most from your Linux or Unix environment, while ensuring your data is safe and secure. Read it today.

• Rebuilding the Banking Landscape

  This paper looks at the ways that banks are making innovative changes in IT infrastructure to meet the demands of the new banking landscape. Read it today.

• Application Modernization Driving Growth in the Financial Services Sector

  Get the results of this 2010 Vanson Bourne survey focusing on how and why IT departments in the Financial Services sector are looking to Application Modernization and Migration to help them achieve their business growth objectives. Read it today.

• The New Economics of Terminal Emulation

  This white paper highlights the choices facing organizations looking to save money while maintaining, or even increasing, terminal emulation productivity. You’ll see how businesses can now benefit from new technology, improved performance and enhanced security. Learn more.

• Maintaining Trust: Protecting Your Website Users from Malware.

  The proliferation of malware designed to infiltrate computer systems without the owners’ informed consent has become one of the most challenging security issues facing users today. Learn more.

• Survival of The Fittest

  History has shown that successful organizations have the agility necessary to evolve their businesses. In fact, the biological evolutionary mantra of ‘survival of the fittest’ can just as readily be applied to the business world. Learn more.

• IMP Improves Business Agility, Reduces Costs 50% by Migrating Mainframe Application to Windows

  IMP needed to improve operational efficiency in order to deliver new capabilities faster and to support business innovation and growth. The company chose to migrate its mainframe application to the Windows platform to achieve this, while at the same time reducing IT management costs. Learn more.

• Owens & Minor Reduces Costs 77%, Drives Innovation Through Mainframe Migration

  Owens & Minor needed to modernize its business-critical mainframe enterprise systems while retaining unique business logic. The company chose to migrate to the Windows platform, to maintain the competitive advantage embedded in this business logic while reducing costs 77%. Learn more.

• Reduce Development Effort for Meeting Data Visualizations Requirements

  Applications can come with a long list of visualization requirements for structured data. By delivering your Web application output through the Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer, you can create a single design that meets multiple requirements at once. Learn more.

• Data Protection Options for Virtualized Servers

  Server virtualization continues to be a popular industry focus. This Industry Trends and Technology Perspectives white paper from the StorageIO Group provides the answers you need to protect your data in a virtualized environment.

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