The 2009 World Payments Report from Capgemini, The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and the European Financial Management & Marketing Association (Efma) looks at the payments business amid weak global economic conditions and a challenging time for the banking industry.
F5 and VMware partner to enable live application and storage migrations between data centers and clouds, over short or long distances.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffi c Manager optimizes VMware View deployments between offices to create a user experience on par with local desktops.
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A virtualisation-ready IT network and infrastructure is something built to be fluid, dynamic, and provisionable or, in other words, immensely agile and greatly to your company’s benefit in terms of both cost and scalability. Click here to find out more about how virtualisation can be a powerful tool to help cut costs and improve availability
NetMediaEurope offers its readers the chance to download the 2009 ranking of the top 100 software vendors in Europe, elaborated by Truffle Capital. This in-depth study was presented to the European Commission on the 3rd November 2009 and lists the turnover and employee numbers of each company under analysis.
Efficiency has now jumped up the list of factors against which IT performance is measured. However, good IT management is still about measurement and control. The total cost of ownership of data centre systems may be calculated differently, but reducing it is a matter of using the right tools and plans. This second guide in
Oracle has announced a number of initiatives that highlight its mid-market ambitions, its application integration strategy and – most of all – its growing passion for partners. Although just one of Oracle’s newly announced initiatives – an expanded alliance with IBM – focuses solely on the mid- market, all of them address Oracle’s ambitions in
Oracle Database 11g for Windows provides an optimised database solution for deployments that require enterprise scalability, reliability, and high performance. This paper describes the architecture of the Oracle database on Windows and how it differs from its counterparts on UNIX and Linux.
While the respective small and midsize business (SMB) product strategies of Oracle and SAP are very different, both are highly dependent on recruiting, managing and inspiring a broad set of channel partners to be successful. In this white paper, Gartner reports that SAP has the more mature and comprehensive SMB partner program (PartnerEdge) with respect