This paper looks at the requirements of the next generation of applications moving to the cloud. The paper discusses cloud customers' desire for a greater infrastructure choice and openness to hybrid infrastructures. The paper concluded shtt hybrid cloud infrastructures are inevitable, particularly for private environments. Hybrid clouds deliver higher values with high compute density, yielding strong cost efficiency for applicable workloads.

This IDC white paper discusses an important sea change happening in IT: the development of expert integrated systems.

Today's businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in "patterns of expertise" to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.

This paper provides a pragmatic analysis about the undeniable importance of mission critical infrastructure, presenting IBM DS8870 as an assertive option to satisfy the needs of enterprise-class storage.

The skills and expertise required to stay on top of trends, industry best practices, and the latest technologies while juggling many other competing priorities can drain your IT resources. Read this Forrester Research Inc. report to learn how outsourcing your organization's business resiliency planning, strategy, and program design can be a highly cost effective, efficient option.

Live Date: Thursday 04/19/2012 11:00 AM Eastern/2:00 PM Pacific Organizations can face difficulties around team collaboration, with multi-platform development environments resulting in siloed teams using different tools across the entirety of the application lifecycle. How can your organization integrate teams across both distributed and mainframe environments? Meet the IBM application lifecycle management experts on Wednesday, April 4th to learn how you can take your organization's agility to the next level by unifying teams with a collaborative team infrastructure for all platforms. During this webcast, you will gain insights and hear real-world customer scenarios from IBM ALM thought leaders who are on the cutting edge of collaborative development and deployment technologies. The panel of experts, who span across strategy and product development, will review the capabilities of the IBM Jazz collaborative development environment, along with their experiences in helping IBM customers implement enterprise application lifecycle management