SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how innovative management solutions from CA add comprehensive support for Amazon EC2 with real-time automation, application performance, service, and database management.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Database Management | IT Management | IT Spending

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the key infrastructure management challenges facing IT managers today. It then discusses how IT teams can improve the economics of infrastructure management by taking advantage of integrated, automated performance analysis and fault isolation technologies.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: July 25, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Business IT Alignment | IT Management | IT Managers | Operational Support Systems | Server Virtualization

EGUIDE - This comprehensive, 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. This guide covers the fundamentals of how applications work, how applications flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Best Practices | FTP | Network Best Practices | Network Management | Network Managers | Software Engineers | TCP | Troubleshooting

WEBCAST - This webcast provides recommendations to help organizations better meet the diverse computing needs of their customers. Discover how to improve the end user experience with centralised virtual desktops and application virtualisation.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Customer Service | IT Management | User Experience | VARs | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This white paper compares and contrasts the two primary alternatives to thin clients and examines the differentiating characteristics that could impact your CRM implementation. Read on to learn why a smart client CRM solution may be a smarter choice.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: November 11, 2009


Topics:  .NET | ActiveX | AJAX | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | ASP.NET | ASP.NET AJAX | CIOs | CRM | CRM Best Practices | CRM Services | CRM Software | Thin Client Software

WEBCAST - Join Brian Walker as he discusses emerging trends within B2B eCommerce for you to use in evolving your own B2B online experience.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Premiered: November 17, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Performance Management | B2B | B2B Integration | Business Service Management | Business Service Management Software | eCommerce | eCommerce Services

WEBCAST - The process of SQL "tuning" involves finding the absolute fastest route to answer your query. In this webcast, discover how SQL tuning brings down your CPU costs and lowers response and run times. Also find out answers to pressing SQL tuning questions including "how do you find the SQL to tune" and "which SQL must be tuned and why?"
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Premiered: November 11, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Performance Management | Database Management Software | DB2 | Microprocessors | Multi-core Processors | Software Architectures | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn how your organization can achieve significant cost savings by conducting data migrations while applications are running rather than scheduling down time.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: December 7, 2007


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Application Server Software | Data Migration | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - IBM Rational® software has helped thousands of companies worldwide improve their agility with software best practices, tools and services. This evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Collaboration | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management

EBOOK - Manual configuration changes are the no. 1 cause of service disruptions. In this article, customers, analysts and IT experts share strategies to help automate your manual processes and ensure that changes are applied according to configurations – every time. Download the ebook.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Business Intelligence | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Change Management | Configuration Management

WEBCAST - Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Premieres: December 2, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Application Performance Management | Open Source | Software Asset Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - IDC White Paper: Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings Learn how companies like yours built custom apps 4 - 5 times faster at half the cost with Force.com Platform.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Cloud Computing | Platform as a service | ROI | Sales and Marketing Software | Sales Force Automation

WHITE PAPER - This paper will help you understand the prospects that Postgres Plus RDBMS from EnterpriseDB and the JBoss Application Server from Red Hat can provide when used in combination.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | J2EE | Oracle (Product) | PostgreSQL | Web 2.0

WEBCAST - Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Premiered: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Application Performance Management | Business Process Management | Middleware | SOA | SOA Governance

WEBCAST - Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Premiered: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Quality Control | Quality Control Staff | Quality Control Standards | Testing | Testing Laboratories