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PHP on Microsoft IIS7

Microsoft — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This screencast will walk you through the process of getting an up-to-date development environment up and running with PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 and IIS 7.5, on Windows 7.

MySpace Uses Fusion Powered I/O to Drive Greener and Better Data Centers

Fusion-IO — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try.

Jumpstart Your Next Project with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Microsoft — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Jump start your next development project with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. This IT download allows you to support for the latest platforms, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements. Download it now!

Software Development Innovations Fueled by Intel® Xeon® 5500 series

Intel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This article provides real-life cases of how the software industry is delivering breakthrough solutions as they tap into the Intel Xeon processor 5500’s full capabilities. Learn how smart software combined with smart hardware saves time, money, and energy.

What the $#@! is Parallelism, Anyhow?

Intel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

It's amazing how many books on parallel computing use the term parellelism without clearly defining it. In this technical article, Charles Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, provides a brief introduction to this theory.

Are You Ready for Economic Bounce Back?

Micro Focus, Ltd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper examines the concept that preparing for economic recovery is not something that can wait; it is something that businesses should plan for now. It will introduce enterprise application migration strategies that can be considered within any organization and also emphasize the importance of forward thinking and planning in down economy.

Performance First: Performance & #45;based Network Management Keeps Organizations ...

NetQoS, Inc. — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this whitepaper, you will learn about the current shift in focus from network availability to application performance and how a new management model, what NetQoS calls Performance First™, will empower you to advance to the next level in managing your network for application performance.

Web Platform Installer 2.0

Microsoft — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In one neat package, the Web Platform Installer gives you the frameworks, web server, database, tools and applications you need to quickly build and run Web applications and solutions on Windows.

eBook: The New Era of Network Performance Management

SearchNetworking.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments that demand comprehensive performance management. Fortunately, technological advancement is simplifying management and addressing new challenges. This eBook explains why management is more important now than ever and how it can help deliver business-critical applications better and faster.

eGuide: How to Prepare for the Impact of Cloud Computing

Cisco Systems, Inc. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This E-Guide provides insight into how service providers can broaden their reach beyond bandwidth and hosting services by learning how to capitalize on the cloud computing age.

Reality Check: The New End-to-end Application Performance Management Imperative Virtual Seminar

Compuware Corporation — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

What Application Performance Management tactics and best practices can you apply to ensure a good end-user experience? What process and strategy can you institute to enable your IT organization to align with the business? What can you do to prepare for the additional complexities that virtualization, cloud and SOA can bring to your environment?

Podcast: Optimize Business and IT With New Generation Application Lifecycle Management

SAP Community Network — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast provides a complete overview of application lifecycle management (ALM) and discusses how SAP's integrated and open approach to ALM can accelerate innovation, ensure business continuity, reduce risk and lower TCO.

BSD Group’s Oracle Extension for Rational Performance Tester Demonstration

IBM — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This quick demo gives you a great overview of the look and feel of BSD Group’s Oracle Extension for Rational Performance Tester, its features, and its capabilities. This plug-in will help you capture, record and playback transactions using Oracle NCA technology. View the demo now to learn more about increasing application visibility during testing.

XenDesktop - Design Handbook

Citrix — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The XenDesktop Design Handbook contains a collection of the best practices for designing a XenDesktop solution. The handbook is meant to be used by consultants and architects in the designing of an appropriate XenDesktop solution.

What Do Application Developers Want?

Alcatel-Lucent — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. However, energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast examines application developers' needs and how network providers can improve their relationships with developers.

5 Steps to Reducing Downtime: Best Practices for Windows Server Application High Availability

Marathon Technologies — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.

Best Practices for Managing Data Center Costs via Application and Server Consolidation

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.

Save Data Center Dollars via Application and Server Consolidation

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Watch this webinar to learn best practices for enterprise-level server consolidation by leveraging next-generation server platforms developed jointly by Sun and Intel.

Dealing with Linux Server Sprawl

Red Hat — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Organizations that do not have an active management strategy are often left with significant server sprawl issues. This expert webcast discusses a three pronged approach for overcoming these issues and explores different options for virtualization on Linux platforms.

Presentation Transcript: Break free from high application costs and application backlog ...

IBM — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Come learn best practices for getting started with enterprise mashups and lowering application costs in this information-packed presentation transcript.

Managing the Dynamic Desktop with System Center Solutions

Microsoft — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

System Center desktop solutions help IT to reconcile competing demands of security with resource availability by streamlining the connection of any authorized user to any application, regardless of their location or connectivity, through a unified system that provides both secure access and the consistent, optimized performance your users expect.

Mobile Application Development: Making It Easier For Developers

SearchSOA.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mobile applications have not only piqued the interest of developers, but also of the average cell phone user. Download this ebook and learn why.

Winning the Future: The Business Case for Rapid Transformation

Progress Software — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Transformation has become an overused buzzword, but its real meaning remains important. Under the microscope, operations transformation is about integrating operations silos and processes, merging disparate units in the wake of acquisitions, and reducing operational expenses.

Virtual Applications and Virtual Desktops, Decision Criteria

Citrix — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This document will explain how to look at an environment and identify the best solution, a virtual desktop or a server-hosted applications, for each user.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Broadband - Notice of Funds Availability

Motorola, Inc. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The USDA Rural Utilities Service and NTIA jointly announced the availability of funding and application requirements for the broadband initiatives contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Read on to learn about the RUS grant program, its requirements, and how Motorola can work with you toward an RUS approved grant.

Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.

Sybase Raises the Bar on Database Replication: Offerings Focus Strongly On Performance, ...

Sybase, Inc. — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This report presents all the features and functionality of the Sybase Replication Server, such as support for real time, bi-directional movement of data, conflict resolution, optimized resource utilization, and heterogeneous data sources. Read this report to learn all the advantages that the Sybase Replication Server can have for your organization.

Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games - Part 3

Intel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this 3rd part of the Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture.

Best Practices for Cost Effective Mainframe Management and Upgrading

BMC Software, Inc — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications.

Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM)

SolarWinds, Inc. — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Orion APM delivers at-a-glance top 10 lists, map views, and graphs that enable you to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues with business-critical applications. With Orion APM as your co-pilot, you can isolate performance issues before they affect your end users. Download this free trial to check it out for yourself.

Deploying Operating System Images on Dell Business Client Systems using Microsoft & reg; ...

Dell, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time.

Shavlik Integrates Sunbelt Software Technology: Keeping Endpoints Secure, Compliant and ...

Shavlik Technologies — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This Market Alert from Aberdeen group draws on current research findings to analyze endpoint security solutions and identify Best-in-Class companies as far as protecting and managing endpoints. Read this analyst written article to learn more.

Application Performance Management Best Practices

Orange Business Services — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The articles in this E-Guide include "Application performance management: Developing a strategy", "Understanding the network application environment", and "Application performance management: How to prepare for new applications with an impact analysis". If you've got a question about application performance management, the answer is probably here.

Managed Services Delivery: From Packets to Applications

Blue Coat — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Check out this brief analyst report to learn how a comprehensive up-the-stack approach supports today's mission-critical enterprise networks and provides reliable, rapid response times for network-centric business practices and applications on a 24/7 basis.

INERGY Automotive Systems Increases Network Performance and Enterprise Security while ...

Blue Coat — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this case study to discover how INERGY Automotive Systems enhanced overall security, protected business-critical applications, diminished need to expand WAN bandwidth, and optimized access to centralized systems and applications by implementing successful data and network convergence using Blue Coat Intelligence solutions.

Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.

Intelligent Control with an Application Delivery Network

Blue Coat — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper details how the Application Delivery Network (ADN) combines real-time intelligence about users, applications, business rules, network status and security policies to deliver applications quickly and securely across the WAN and Internet.

Oracle WebLogic Suite: A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This free white paper shows that Oracle WebLogic Suite packages many essential middleware capabilities to help organizations implement application grid concepts. Learn how to create an infrastructure layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which business applications and SOA run.

Guide to Troubleshooting Application Problems

Fluke Networks EMEA — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Getting Started with Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This book provides basic information about the capabilities of and requirements for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

CONSOLIDATING ORACLE & reg; SIEBEL CRM 8 ON A SINGLE SUN SPARC ENTERPRISE & reg; SERVER

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Recognizing the need to grow efficiently while scaling Siebel CRM 8 capabilities, Sun created a proof-of-concept solution that consolidates Web, Gateway, Application, and Database tiers on a single Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 server, reducing the number of physical machines needed to effectively deploy applications.

VUE Software: Enterprise Incentive Management

CSSI — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

VUE Software solves the complexities of insurance sales commission and incentive compensation plans by delivering flexibility and automation. VUE Software’s web-enabled EIM solution reduces costs while driving accuracy and efficiency into your organization. This comprehensive solution provides the ease of a total solution from one vendor.

Blue Coat and SAP: Network Infrastructure Enhancements for Successful Enterprise SOA ...

Blue Coat — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape.

SUN SPARC & reg; ENTERPRISE T5120, T5220, T5140, AND T5240 SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors - the industry's first massively threaded Systems on a Chip (SoC) - Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.

The Hidden Costs of Data Migration

IBM — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

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.

How to Simplify .NET Testing

Hewlett-Packard Company — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

HP QuickTest Professional software is a useful tool for regression test and function test automation. This paper will briefly review the challenges or testing Windows Forms applications and review the functionality of HP QuickTest Processional and its .NET add-in capabilities.

Winning with HP Integrity servers for SAP with Windows Server 2003

Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.

Managing the WAN to Optimize Business

Blue Coat — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.

Improved Manageability and Availability Spur Move to Virtualize Desktops

AMD and VMware, Inc — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Companies are now looking to apply the same technology to their desktop computers.

Application Monitoring: Best Practices for Application Performance

AVIcode, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

This white paper explores how to optimize application availability and reliability through an always on approach to application monitoring that combines reactive and proactive techniques.