Software Development White Papers

A successful managed services business is reliant on a solid business strategy and service delivery model as well as finding the right technology for your needs.

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust automates IT support and service delivery to provide 99.9% system uptime to hospital staff.

While the inevitable move to Windows 7 has been on the horizon for IT departments for several years, it’s clear that migration projects continue to plague many IT professionals.

A new storage method is revolutionizing data management, reducing costs while increasing reliability and security.

The business case for why IT Executives are making a strategic shift from RAID to Information Dispersal

Mobile technologies and cloud computing are changing what we connect, where corporate data lives, and how we transact business.

Creating Perfect Customer Experiences in e-Commerce

Since the idea of outsourcing applications development became popular in the past 20 years, much of that activity has taken place in geographies such as India, the Middle East and even Russia. Those regions have offered an abundant, increasingly tech-savvy labor force and relatively low labor rates. But for North American companies, outsourcing development of business-critical applications has proven problematic when working with developers so far removed from headquarters-based IT departments and those organizations’ user bases. Companies in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have been looking for “near-sourcing” partners that can meet – or even exceed – the technical benefits provided by outsourcing firms in other parts of the world, while delivering other tangible and intangible benefits. Here are three reasons why a near-sourcing strategy for applications development can make sense for your North American organization.

Read this paper to find out what is happening in the industry in regards to Agile ALM and what you can do to take your dev teams to the next level.

This paper is written to provide guidance for teams new to continuous integration or wanting to explore ways to improve their implementations.

If your company already uses Microsoft Lync for instant messaging, web presence and conferencing, you probably know that unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) means running all communications vehicles on a single, common, unified platform.

HP delivers the complete, end-to-end unified communications and collaboration solution for Microsoft Lync

Real-Time Database Monitoring, Auditing, and Intrusion Prevention Databases store an enterprise's most valuable information assets, but in most organizations they are poorly protected. It's common sense to secure databases, but it's not that simple.

Every database, from the largest corporate data store to a small-scale MySQL deployment, contains valuable information. Hackers are as determined as ever, and employee-related abuses are on the rise.

With many companies finding themselves under prepared for the downturn, they turned to often poorly structured forecasts on which to make business decisions. Where are the problems? Read this white paper to learn how forecasting can help in 3 ways.

Join us for this hands-on, technical VDI Design Workshop where everything from choosing the right broker to zero clients and multi-site design will be discussed and analyzed.

Symantec vulnerability assessments help to reduce the cost and complexity of vulnerability management with automated scans, actionable reports, and a cloud-based architecture that requires no software installation or maintenance.

This guide will de-mystify the technology involved and give you the information you need to make the best decision when considering your online security options.

The solutions to problems of computing security are varied and must be explored individually, but one technology shows up often: TLS or Transport Layer Security, often known by the name of the predecessor technology, SSL or Secure Sockets Layer.

This guide discusses the combined risk of data loss and customer trust, planning, deploying and maintaining SSL certificates and how SSL certificates can protect your business.

While some business rules management vendors are abandoning their .NET users, FICO continues to see increased adoption of rules technology among the .NET community.

The top 10 mistakes on SQL Server discussed in this white paper cover some of the biggest and most prevalent problems that I've encountered in scores of applications developed in IT shops of all sizes and with IT staff of all experience levels.

Risk-averse distributors may feel that the safest and simplest IT strategy is to stay with their existing "homegrown" enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. But just as sticking your money under the mattress offers no protection against inflation, maintaining an outdated system can rob you of a distinct competitive advantage.

Do you cringe at the thought of having to replace your enterprise software solution? Does it seem like a monumental undertaking, with a high risk of failure? Knowledge is power. Learn from the experiences of other distributors who have been through the ERP selection process and not only lived to tell about it, but brought great benefit to their companies.

With the ever-increasing importance of websites and web applications, performance has become a major concern for driving revenue, productivity, and user satisfaction. StingrayT Aptimizer software takes a new approach that complements traditional application delivery controller (ADC) capabilities as well as WAN optimization capabilities. Stingray Traffic Manager 9.0 builds on this traditional ADC functionality and extends it by delivering performance that end users care about.