Increasingly demanding IT requirements are necessitating change to the data center network. The amount of data that is being collected is increasing and changing, organizations are finding new ways to analyze, evaluate, and use the information that they collect. Hardware trends are making it cost effective to capture new information sources and to automate data management. In the hardware arena especially, falling prices and increasing capacity for memory devices are reshaping the storage industry. Solid-state drives, large amounts of RAM, and new I/O technologies influence raw system performance. Read this paper to learn how system virtualization can improve the utilization of hardware, software, net-working and storage resources.

Increasingly demanding IT requirements are necessitating change to the data center network (DCN). Like servers and storage, the network needs to evolve to deliver the flexibility and scalability required by a more virtualized IT environment. In this interview, Michele Girola, IBM network integration services product manager, explains how to enhance your DCN to support evolving technologies today and in the future.

The IBM PureFlex System-a completely integrated hardware and software solution-optimized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux can improve business responsiveness, making it easier to take advantage of the power of open standards while driving efficiency with integrated management.

When your customers are counting on you around the clock, who can you count on to mitigate service interruptions? A UK security provider chose IBM Global Technology Services--Integrated Technology Services because it offered a dynamic resiliency strategy, a committed team familiar with its operations and an alternate site staged for swift migration of its environment in the event of an outage. Read the case study to learn how IBM can use its disaster recovery expertise to help safeguard your business-critical systems too.

Testing service-oriented architectures and other distributed systems has provided a wealth of expertise. Eight key lessons about avoiding some of the most common testing pitfalls are described, together with methods for mitigating certain issues.

Discover, via the virtual office, how this organization is extending their quality investments across their software application lifecycle, driving quality investments to the next level by using IBM Rational solutions. Download assets that are helping their employees achieve greater efficiencies and productivity.

As today's big data challenges increase, the demands on data systems have never been greater. Pure Data System is the newest member of the PureSystems family and is optimized exclusively for delivery data services to today's demanding applications with simplicity, speed and lower cost. Registering for this online event will provide you detailed information about each model and allow you to further your knowledge and understanding about the value of the PureData System.

By using IBM Operational Decision Management (IBM ODM) software for implementing decision logic, you can realize a major advancement in bridging the gap between business people and IT. The solution provides capabilities for the line-of-business to define policies in a form that is both understandable by the non-technical user and deployable to the systems that use them to automate decisions, facilitating clear communication between the policy managers defining the requirements and the developers implementing the business system solution.

What you may call basic SOA or IT - centric SOA applies SOA principles to the flexible integration of an enterprise IT portfolio. But controlling interactions through well-defined services and interfaces certainly applies to mobile, social, cloud, and Big Data solutions as well. SOA is simply good design for IT integration and for the business solutions of an ever-more-connected and ever-more-distributed world. This book is a guide to applying the design principles of SOA to the business problems of today.