White Papers by Topic: Cloud computing

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Desktop Virtualization: The key to embracing the consumerization of IT

Making the right moves to manage consumerization while empowering the worker

IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative

On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce", a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for Commerce 2.0 solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies.

Aberdeen Analyst Insight: Does Your Enterprise Have a Dropbox Problem?

Without policies, awareness and supported alternatives for sharing files securely, end-users will often overlook security and compliance in favor of getting the job done. Read this whitepaper to determine if your enterprise has a "Dropbox Problem" and ways successful organizations address this problem.

Modernizing Application Platforms for Cost-Effective Cloud Readiness: IDC Report

With increasing challenges and complexity confronting business, application platform modernization is no longer an option. IDC presents a closer look at the structural changes and functionality--including lightweight frameworks, in-memory data management, and application management--required in order to successfully evolve to a cloud-ready application platform.

Lightweight Application Development Systems Ride the Cloud: IDG Report

Cloud computing is gaining widespread adoption, and for good reason. This paper highlights companies' confidence level in deploying custom Java applications in the cloud. Learn how to accelerate application deployment and transition to cloud computing by virtualizing applications, implementing a lightweight development framework for quickly building modern applications and deploying them in a lightweight runtime environment that is ideally suited for virtual environments.

TechRepublic: Cloud Computing - Potential Value for Your Company?

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Imagine a world without the hassle of licenses and hardware management - cloud computing makes this possible. Learn more about why are businesses embracing it and understand its payoffs.

Forbes: Enterprises Set Their Strategies for Cloud Computing

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This Forbes Insights paper shares how enterprise companies are still crafting their strategies and testing their options to determine if cloud computing is the right solution for them.

HBR: What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud

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This Harvard Business Review article explains the Cloud and its benefits, highlights the implications of various concerns, and makes recommendations of actions you should take.

Cloud Applications Deep Dive: Choose and Provision Your Own Cloud Services

This Deep Dive provides some general guidelines for establishing cloud services, including identifying, justifying, migrating, and validating the transformation of new and existing application services to true cloud services. With this information, you'll get a rough idea of how to set up resilient services inside or outside the enterprise.

Operationalizing Cloud

Cloud computing is a complex and often confusing array of sometimes logically unrelated technologies
with consistent roots in virtualization and on-demand service delivery. But perhaps what's most
relevant about Cloud computing is the catalytic effect it's having on IT organizations as they seek to
become more resilient and responsive in enabling new and existing services, while minimizing capex
and opex costs.

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