All Research Sponsored By:IBM

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Profiting from PCI Compliance
This paper explores the efficiency gains of building a strategy designed around PCI compliance and discusses the value of obtaining outside support in your compliance efforts; it also examines potential vendor qualifications.
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IBM solidDB Universal Cache: Accelerating a Database Near You
View this Webcast to explore the industry's first relational, in-memory caching software platform that accelerates a broad range of databases up to ten times.
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Proven strategies for archiving complex relational data
Maintaining only current active data in production environments improves service levels, increases availability and improves disaster recovery initiatives. Read this paper to learn how archiving allows organizations to reclaim valuable capacity, reduce risk and lower costs.
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Aligning Business and IT through Connected Requirements: Unifying the Development Process
Check out this white paper to learn how the connected-requirements approach serves as the framework for the use of products and technologies that are designed to allow you to optimize team performance, align the development process with your organization's business goals and meet auditing and regulatory compliance requirements.
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IBM System x Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise Data Center
IBM System x enterprise servers in the new emerging data center targets virtualization and consolidation, database, and enterprise applications, while focusing on performance, reliability, and manageability. This means better value for your IT dollar.
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Go Green with IBM System x Servers and Intel Xeon Processors
With energy prices on a steep climb, soon the cost to power and cool a server over its life span could equal its purchase price. By “going green” with energy-efficient IBM® System x™ servers featuring Intel® Xeon® processors, you can win back control of your IT budget--and win the battle with data center...
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IC Intracom Consolidates Global ERP with IBM and SAP
In order for IC Intracom to gain an enterprise-wide view of business data, the organization needed to replace its aging ERP solutions. Working with IBM Global Business Services, IC Intracom implemented the IBM Express Wholesale Distribution Solution, a qualified SAP All-in-One partner solution, hosted by IBM Applications on Demand.
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Security Appliances: New Strides in Preventing Intrusions
According to the most recent FBI/CSI survey on computer crime, hackers were responsible for over $23 billion in losses in 2006. But security appliances, which incorporate an array of security functions, now give SMBs the ability to ward off security breaches without breaking the bank or hiring more IT staff.
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IBM Security Event and Log Management Service
With Security Event and Log Management Service, you can assemble the collective mindshare of your organization's network applications and operating systems along with disparate security technologies into one platform. You can archive, analyze, correlate and trend security and network events, while managing response and remediation workflow.
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Collaboration solutions: Solutions for small and medium business
Check out this IBM resource center to identify collaboration software solutions specifically geared towards small and medium-sized businesses.
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Software and Services Financing
Financing information technology hardware is an accepted way of doing business. Clients are discovering the benefits of financing software and services and are making financing of software and services one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT financing industry. This paper explains the importance of aligning financing with IT transformation.
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IBM Introduces New Solutions to Strengthen the Security of Midsize Companies
Check out this press release to learn about new IBM software that helps midsize companies detect vulnerabilities that can lead to costly security breaches, improve organizational productivity and secure data while maintaining compliance with mandatory business regulations.
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Protection on demand: information security that works for you - instead of putting you to work.
Check out this white paper to learn more about the new approach to information security, protection on demand, which simplifies security and produces cost savings.
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Virtualization Podcasts: Infrastructure Solutions for Midsized Companies
Midsized businesses need IT solutions that will help them by cutting costs, adding capabilities and reducing risks. Hear about key technologies, trends, best practices and solutions from IBM experts, IBM Business Partners and Industry Analysts that will help you address the IT challenges facing your growing business.
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The new CIO: insights from the Center for CIO Leadership: An interview with Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director, Center for CIO Leadership
Harvey Koeppel, executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership, talks about the challenges facing CIOs today and the emerging role of the CIO as a business leader helping to drive change and innovation.
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Integrating the Finance organization for global business: Important implications for CIOs
This paper looks at the growing alignment between the financial and technical disciplines. It examines the results of the Global CFO Study 2008 in the context of IT, identifying the critical implications for CIOs, and the need for a strategic partnership with CFOs and more ongoing collaboration between Finance and IT.
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IT governance: enabling high performance in turbulent times
This paper explains how CIOs can use governance best practices to mitigate the depth and duration of performance declines that often accompany periods of change and innovation. It will clarify what governance is - and isn't - and articulate how CIOs can begin to improve governance within their organizations.
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The new collaboration: enabling innovation, changing the workplace
This white paper discusses the changing face of collaboration and the ways in which the new collaboration can benefit business. It points out that smart businesses already are looking for ways to connect communities so they can tap into both internal and external knowledge and use that knowledge to accelerate innovation.
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Five best practices for deploying a successful service-oriented architecture: Leveraging lessons learned from the IBM Academy of Technology
Check out this white paper to learn about the five best practices for deploying successful SOA and see rapid return on your investment.
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Web Application Security: Automated Scanning versus Manual Penetration Testing
This paper explains two primary methods for discovering Web application vulnerabilities: using manual penetration testing and code review or using automated scanning tools and static analysis.
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Understanding Web Application Security Challenges
This paper explains what you can do to help protect your organization, and it discusses an approach for improving your organization's Web application security.
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The New Face of IT Service Management: Aligning Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage
This research shows that a lack of trust in IT's ability to deliver business value is one of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face in bringing IT and business closer together.
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Support PCI Security Compliance with Enhanced Solutions from IBM
This white paper briefly describes PCI requirements, the benefits of compliance and the penalties for noncompliance.
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IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Version 6.1 with IBM WebSphere Adapters: Communicating with Enterprise Information Systems
This white paper reveals how WebSphere® adapter nodes within IBM® WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 speed and simplify the tasks of creating integrated processes, resulting in greater productivity and lower cost.
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How to Become an SOA Superhero
This brochure shows how you can be a superhero by making WebSphere MQ the messaging backbone for your SOA, creating a common connection for the free flow of information.