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SAP® Custom Development: Meeting the Needs of Utilities Companies by SAP America, Inc.
and metering infrastructures, such as the development of smart meters and smart grids. Plus, utilities operating in deregulated states must keep up and comply with constantly evolving regulatory requirements.

Because all of these issues put a chokehold on profits, it’s essential that you find ways to contain costs. Your current solutions probably don’t meet the growing demands of energy markets and new infrastructure requirements. You need solutions that are developed to...

Maximize IT Flexibility and Lower Costs with Grid Computing on Windows by Oracle Corporation
View this webcast to learn about grid capabilities including resource pooling and sharing, dynamic resource provisioning, and automated monitoring and management. To stay competitive, organizations need a flexible IT infrastructure to support rapidly changing business needs. Grid computing enables you to respond immediately to new requirements by quickly adding capacity on demand and integrating applications to create new business processes.

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Best Practices in PC Grid Computing by Univa UD
the features, components and benefits of a state-of-the-art PC grid computing solution - and how to choose one that's best for your organization. Companies across a range of industries have found that proven, scalable PC grids are able to address the data sharing and storage issues that many companies face. With a proven, secure grid product, applications can be run and managed easily without disrupting the device owner's daily work.

At its core, PC grid computing involves the...

HPC maturity benchmark 2012 by IBM
Grid technology is maturing, yet the pressure to increase computing capabilities has never been higher. This resource details the results of a recent high performance computing survey, providing a grid maturity benchmark that will help you plan a more intelligent grid strategy.

Grid technology is maturing and has recently transitioned from a specialist technology to a more accessible commodity. At the same time

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What you Need to Do Coming out of a Downturn (and How to Actually get it Done) by Infor
your organization for peak performance. With just a few smart moves you can position your organization to come out of the downturn even more successful than before and for years or decades to come. Read on to learn more about these 6 smart moves that will ensure success.

Now is the best possible time to re-engineer your organization for peak performance. With just a few smart moves you can position your organization to come out of the downturn even more successful than before and for...

New! Smart SOA Connectivity and Integration Podcast Series by IBM
in this exclusive, listen-at-your-own-pace podcast series on Smart SOA Connectivity and Integration.

Listen to software development experts from the IBM® Software Development Laboratory in Hursley, England and some of their U.S.-based counterparts explain how to reduce complexity, improve access to vital business information, and optimize IT budgets in this exclusive, listen-at-your-own-pace podcast series on Smart Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Connectivity and Integration.

Building Solutions For Smarter Governments: Six Ways to Increase Responsiveness, Service Quality, Accountability and Taxpayer Value by IBM
This paper describes how smarter government means making operations and services truly citizen-centric, integrating their service delivery, coordinating programs and allowing a choice of access channels, as well as placing the most needed transactions on the Web.

There is a universal constituent need for better public services and multiple access channels to these services, mirroring their experience in the commercial world where they can shop, bank, find information and...

IBM Storage Efficiency Calculator by IBM
This calculating tool allows you to see how much you could be saving when switching to a smarter storage solution that can help increase utilization and simplify storage management.

Enterprise Grid Solutions from Sun and Oracle: Taking IT to a Higher Level by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
If you're already running your business on an enterprise grid—good. And if you're running on Sun and Oracle—even better. But if you want to maximize the advantages of your grid, it's time to upgrade to the latest generation of enterprise grid computing products from Sun and Oracle. Together, Sun and Oracle can dramatically increase the performance, scalability, security, and availability of applications and make it easier for you to meet your service-level objectives. Whether you're...
JBoss Data Grid 6: Big Data = Big Opportunities by Red Hat
Read this paper to learn how the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid is able to effectively scale data tiers in order to empower enterprises to do more with their web applications.

Today's data growth is changing the way many organizations do business and, in some cases, introducing new challenges to companies and government agencies that don't have the capacity to accommodate "big data" – especially when it comes to online customer information. Data-driven applications are available to

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Algorithmics and IBM Platform Computing Solution for Financial Markets by IBM
computational demands of advanced risk analytics across a grid computing environment enables today's banks to cost-effectively perform risk simulations for their largest trading counterparties in a few minutes, comply with post-crisis regulations such as Basel III, and much more.

In the wake of the financial crisis, banks are investing to improve their risk management infrastructure.

Many have found that spreading the computational demands of advanced risk analytics across a...

Smarter Products - The Building Blocks for a Smarter Planet by IBM
IBM offers the first integrated software platform dedicated to the delivery of smarter products, with our portfolio of software, hardware and services, IBM can help companies create and manage smarter products for a smarter planet. Read on to learn more. Businesses are delivering a new generation of smarter products that are increasingly instrumented, interconnected and intelligent - enabled through software. Integration of software engineering with electronic and...
Maximizing Data Efficiency: Benefits of Global Deduplication by NEC Corporation of America
environment complexity.

NEC's HYDRAstor uses an innovative grid architecture that provides the scalability and scope companies need to support their growing backup and archive needs on a single system to fully optimize deduplication globally for all data across all nodes. Its grid architecture is a new breed of simple to manage and grow grid storage systems that companies need to implement to offset the complexity prevalent today. HYDRAstor is the one system that companies can...

Server and Application Protection - Behind the Lines by Trend Micro
For organizations evaluating the benefits of server and application protection systems and making a case for incorporating them into the IT infrastructure, Trend Micro recommends examining nine different areas of business interest. This white paper details these topics and examines Trend Micro server and application protection software.

Cyber attacks can bypass or penetrate even top-of-the-line perimeter security, and it’s increasingly recognized as a security...

Smarter Commerce for Consumer Products by IBM
The connected customer is changing the way you must conduct business. In order to comply with your customers' demands, you must change the way your products are sourced, manufactured and distributed. Smarter commerce enables this, allowing you to transform how quickly you can manage and adapt your source, market, sell and service processes.

The connected customer is changing the way you must conduct business.

They expect you to deliver higher levels of service, better prices...

Turning Smarter Collaboration into a Strategic Asset Using IBM Client for Smart Work by IBM
Check out this white paper to learn about IBM Client for Smart Work software, an open, security-rich, and cost effective Microsoft® desktop solution

CIOs are being counted on to deliver IT innovation to respond to accelerating and evolving business challenges. The goal is to expand business impact and make innovations real while raising the return on investment (ROI) of IT. One of the most cost-effective ways to spur innovation and change is to tap employees and even customers...

New Intelligence for a Smarter Planet: Driving Business Optimization with IBM Analytic Solutions ebook by IBM
for our customers and how IBM InfoSphere Warehousing and Smart System Analytics solutions contribute to a Smarter Planet.

On a smarter planet, leveraging information is critical to achieve the insights needed in today's businesses.  This book was written to describe New Intelligence for our customers and how IBM InfoSphere Warehousing and Smart System Analytics solutions contribute to a smarter planet.

IBM Smart Analytics System Brochure by IBM
The IBM Smart Analytics System helps accelerate the delivery of insights for faster, smarter action; helps lower the cost of deriving more value from enterprise information; and features a modular architecture that enables organizations to easily add capacity and adapt to changing business needs. Check out this paper now to learn more.

The IBM Smart Analytics System helps accelerate the delivery of insights for faster, smarter...

Deliver Business Insight Faster: The IBM Smart Analytics System on IBM System x Servers Running Intel Xeon Processors by IBM and Intel
This paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.

Every day, your organization collects more data about its customers, partners and markets. BI and analytics give you the ability to make sense...

The state of smarter banking: Smarter Industries Symposium, Barcelona, November 2010 by IBM
This white paper discusses how data standardization along with better analytics and business intelligence can be a defining factor for success in financial markets by enabling smarter banking. Learn how these tools help blunt the impact of radical changes while delivering a better customer experience.

The financial industry is challenging in many unique ways: while a new product intended for medical use experiences rigorous trials before release to the market...

IBM Smart Analytics: Working Smarter with Analytics by IBM
Read this white paper and find out how the IBM Smart Analytics System can arm your organizations’ decision makers with the insights needed to achieve mission goals and address the challenges of tomorrow.

The key to working smarter is having the ability to leverage the latest information and data. Read this white paper and find out how the IBM Smart Analytics System can arm your organizations’ decision makers with the insights needed to achieve mission goals and...

Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by ORACLE APAC
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Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. 

Learn how you can transform your business, budget, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Inside you’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.

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Smart cards: security risks by ComputerWeekly.com
new features introduced in Java Card 3 Connected Edition smart card specification and their associated security risks.

 

 

Version 3 of the Java Card smart card specification, released in March 2008, overhauled the technical architecture of the smart card.

 

The Connected Edition of the specification introduced a significantly enhanced execution environment and a new virtual machine. It includes new network-oriented features, support for web applications with new Servlet APIs...

Business Continuity and Resiliency Services from IBM: Strengthen Your Business with Cloud Computing—Delivering Greater Resiliency and a More Globally Accessible Environment by IBM
Cloud computing can simplify scalability to improve business resiliency and flexibility. Read this paper to discover how cloud computing combined with IBM continuity and resiliency services can improve the efficiency of your infrastructure while also improving your business continuity.

As the world gets more complex and smarter, organizations are facing tremendous data-growth challenges, increased demand for continuous uptime and the need to significantly lower...

IBM DB2 9.7 and Smart Analytics Systems: Architecture and Key Capabilities for Data Warehousing (WinterCorp) by IBM
reviews the product architecture of IBM’s DB2 9.7 and IBM’s Smart Analytics System for consideration by organizations that need a platform for data warehousing, data analytics or business intelligence.

In this 28 page whitepaper, Winter Corporation reviews the product architecture of IBM’s DB2 9.7 and IBM’s Smart Analytics System for consideration by organizations that need a platform for data warehousing, data analytics or business intelligence. The authors conclude that...

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Top data backup software trends: Source dedupe and virtual machine backup by Carol Sliwa, Features Writer
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A common thread in each of the trends is the industry's attempt to address the problem of explosive data growth, as IT shops confront... More...

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Intel answers Project MegaGrid questions at LinuxWorld by Mark Brunelli, News Editor
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such as clusters, thread handling and some additional performance gain. But the server will run and the applications will run.

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Q&A: Author and Microsoft C# MVP highlights new enhancements and common challenges with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 by Rob Barry, News Writer
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