Linux White Papers

Today’s threats to endpoints and data are more complex, more numerous, more varied —and changing every second. McAfee understands next-generation security in the context of your devices, additional protection technologies, and central management.

ITIC asserts that IBM's latest Linux-only Power Systems offer current and prospective Big Blue customers high performance and reliability for physical and virtualized environments at an extremely aggressive price point.

Using data from real customer deployments, Solitaire examines differentiators for network infrastructure deployments on either PowerLinux or Windows. PowerLinux clearly emerges as a preferred platform.

IDC studied a group of enterprises that had deployed SAP applications on IBM Power Systems servers running Linux server operating environments and had been working with those systems for several years.

Storage does not have to be costly SMBs take advantage of new technology on the market.

This white paper outlines how the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager VA improves traffic performance figures compared to a Linux install.

This whitepaper describes the various forms that cloud computing can take and how different types of technology relate to each other.

Learn how your organization can deliver self-service application provisioning, flexible and standardized application deployments, and integrated management, without losing control or radically change existing management and development processes.

Learn how CloudForms fully delivers on your requirements to increase business agility, efficiency, innovation, and simplified IT management.

The Red Hat Cloud Quickstart consulting engagement leverages Red Hat's Cloud Foundations Reference Architecture Edition One to speed up assessing the viability of a cloud environment for your enterprise, and, if chosen, it can demonstrate a tangible implementation of a private cloud for testing purposes.

Do you have an effective cloud governance plan? This whitepaper guides you through best practices for ensuring your applications and data can safely move between clouds - whether they are private, public or hybrid.

The IBM System x and BladeCenter families offer a broad range of servers tat support Linux, giving you the flexibility to deploy precisely the solution you need to help your business realize innovation.

Unique Express implemented a comprehensive Omnix Transport Solution running on an IBM® System x® server. The end result was a dramatically better management of driver and vehicle resources, saving tens of thousands of dollars per year.

This white paper presents a technical comparison of HP-UX 11i v3, AIX 6.1, and Solaris 10 UNIX operating systems, focusing on their functional capabilities in terms of virtualization, reliability, and security.

This paper identifies critical technical requirements, describes the significance of those requirements in current customer environments, and then shows how well HP-UX 11i v3 meets those requirements compared to the Linux systems.

This white paper highlights the benefits of the Linux operating system (OS) running on the HP DL980, and the advantage of running enterprise applications in a lower cost clustered Linux environment.

Get this white paper from Alinean and learn the TCO and business advantages of HP Linux server.

This paper provides helpful tips for taking your job schedule to a new level, and how Skybot Scheduler can help you get there.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

This use case introduces Red Hat solutions that you can use to build a world-class web application infrastructure. Learn best practices that will scale as your company grows and find out how to increase your productivity while reducing costs.

This paper demonstrates the steps to deploy and configure a LAMP infrastructure and application with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Real uses prove that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has lower costs than Microsoft Windows Server 2008, improving as you scale up. It offers more efficient management costs and better flexibility and is the most tested, secure OS backed by global support.

Learn how IBM's DB2 portfolio can help transform your data center. Download this free white paper from IBM to learn more!

In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges.