The Challenge To introduce new applications for major clients in the insurance and rail transport industries, Atos Origin needed be able to support large numbers of users and high transaction volumes. The company required a high-performance infrastructure that could offer 24×7 availability. The Solution Atos Origin decided to implement the new applications in Linux environments
Building on Your SAM Foundation to Contain Costs If you’re reading this paper, the chances are good that you’ve started a Software Asset Management (SAM) discipline to survive your next vendor software audit with minimum fees and penalties. At this point in your SAM journey, you’ve probably implemented a basic entitlement program that allows you
A Software Audit Looms in Your Future If you are increasingly anxious about software audits, you have good reason to be concerned: midsize and large organizations can expect at least one software audit during the next 12 months, according to Gartner Research. Software companies have made it their business to collect on revenue losses from
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
Today, workers are bringing consumer technology into the workplace, with IT departments figuring out how to best use them for work. The iPass Open Mobile for Android helps an enterprise empower mobile employees, while able to deploy, manage and report on enterprise mobility.
Corporate spending on enterprise mobility is growing exponentially with no apparent ceiling. With the growth of the mobile workforce, combined with fragmentation of the market, the steepest rise in the cost curve is still approaching and most companies are completely unprepared to manage the impact. In this white paper learn about large, near-term cost reduction
In today’s business environment, workforce mobility has become a strategic capability that is essential for maximizing productivity, efficiency, customer responsiveness and business agility. This paper describes how organizations can leverage an open management approach in their mobility solutions to leverage existing investments, optimize existing service contracts, provide wider choice for users and greater value for
While it is possible to virtualize almost any component of IT, this report will focus on three forms of virtualization: server virtualization, desktop virtualization, and virtualized appliances. A key reason for this focus is that significant synergies exist between and amongst these forms of virtualization. The majority of IT organizations have already implemented server virtualization
This document details the performance figures obtained by the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) on VMware vSphere 4.0 and outlines the methods used to achieve these performance figures. A comparison of the performance of various virtual appliance configurations relative to that of the native install of Linux on the same hardware is also
Attacks against web applications are increasing in sophistication, and automation makes them increasingly common. These attacks are geared toward discovering and exploiting weak points, not at the network level, but in the application code and framework itself. However, the target of the attacks remains the same – confidential information. Stingray Application Firewall is a sophisticated,