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IBM’s BladeCenter Foundation vs. Cisco’s Unified Computing System: A Price and Value Discussion

As we travel around the world we constantly run into a class of information technology (IT) buyer that believes that all x86-based servers are essentially the same. These buyers base their acquisition decisions almost exclusively on low-cost and simplicity (which are indeed valid buying criteria). But, we believe that they are doing themselves a disservice

Connectivity in context: Deliver application integration in days

In today’s economy, cutting costs while increasing productivity is critical to achieving a competitive advantage and ultimatelysuccess. As a result, companies are turning to Software as aService (SaaS) and cloud-based applications to decrease costs anddrive productivity. In order to realize their full value, these new cloud-based applications need to be connected in order to share

Turbo-Charge Salesforce.com with cloud integration

Fueled by today’s fiercely competitive business environment, IT managers must deliver rapid, innovative and low-cost solutions. Companies are adopting cloud-based applications to address these challenges. This new style of computing provides applications, data, and IT resources to users as services delivered over the network and in this case the application delivered as a service is

A Bathwick Group Whitepaper: A foundation for Database Simplification, Consolidation and Cost Reduction

Over the past decade the trend in infrastructure design has been towards scale-out architectures based on the x86 processor, where many machines are clustered together in order to create a virtual mainframe. In this paper we set out to challenge this approach and to demonstrate that modern mainframe technology represents a viable scale-up alternative to

IBM Cloud Services – Balancing compute options: How IBM Smart Business Cloud can be a catalyst for IT transformation

Publically available cloud services – applications, platforms and infrastructure – add a new option to IT purchase decisions. Before making a purchase, CIOs and IT Managers should consider how well the compute offering from their cloud service vendor integrates with their existing and future IT landscape.

IBM Cloud Services – How IBM is shortening the gap between customers and development value

Development and test is optimally suited for cloud service, given the security and demand variability characteristics of that key workload. In addition to cost reduction, CIOs and development managers should consider the value cloud services can provide during the development lifecycle, and how cloud can help an organization become more agile and responsive to business