"Business-Class Servers for a PC Budget," Edison Group covers in this whitepaper one socket servers. Including updates to Windows Small Business Server to help sell a bundle of Windows SBS and IBM servers. Use it to help promote the benefits of our entry-class servers.

It should come as no surprise that storage budgets are constantly under pressure from opposing forces: On one hand, economic forces are pushing budgets to either stay flat or in many cases shrink as a percentage of a company's revenue. On the other hand, the infrastructure struggles to keep up with the pace of data growth, pressured by many variables, both social and economic. Businesses have no choice but to acclimate their storage infrastructure to the unprecedented levels at which data is growing.

In this Research Report, Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at IBM's Flex System converged architecture. The new Flex System's advanced blade offering shines compared to its closest rival: traditional blade architecture. Flex System offers superior manageability, faster communications, more storage capacity (using up to eight internal solid state drives SSDs per compute node) and better storage management - as well as broader/better physical/virtual system management - than all of today's leading blade competitors.

Two years ago Clabby Analytics wrote a report that evaluated Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) and revealed shortcomings in the UCS design, stating that Cisco blade environments are "good enough" computing environment. Since then Cisco made improvements to their system design, but the blade market didn't stand still waiting for them to catch up as IBM announced a new system design: The IBM Flex System. Continue on to this new assessment from Clabby Analytics that compares Cisco's UCS blade server offering to IBM Flex System's in a soup-to-nuts evaluation. Also find out how these two major players compare to the competitors in the blade marketplace.

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.

IBM Application Lifecycle Management, powered by Jazz, delivers the IBM vision for a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management process. The IBM Application Lifecycle Management platform can now also be integrated with SAP Solution Manager to enhance quality throughout enterprise applications lifecycle for SAP and heterogeneous projects. In the Technical White Paper you will understand how SAP Solution Manager is integrated with IBM ALM.

Developers must deliver high-quality applications while limiting their testing expenses. In this challenging environment, a combination of automated integration testing and test virtualization can enable test teams to improve software quality and keep up with the rate of change.

Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscape reports recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace. This report notes that "IBM offers a comprehensive suite of products aimed at testing the most demanding and complex apps." For more information download the report today.

Read this document to find out how and why IBM Flex System surpasses mere blade systems.

IBM Rational Focal Point 6.5 is a highly flexible portfolio-management solution designed to help organizations make better strategic choices in domains including projects, products, applications and any other area where a set of initiatives must be evaluated, compared and prioritized.

In October 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying IBM Rational tools and IBM professional Services to drive improvements in the application portfolio management (APM) process. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of IBM tools and services on their organizations.

Collaborative design management helps you address complexity both at the team level and at the individual developer level. It enables integration of Architecture, Design and Development disciplines with the rest of the lifecycle and supports the ALM imperatives. Read the white paper to learn the details. Design and Construction capabilities to help organizations be more productive delivering applications leveraging the latest in emerging runtimes, technologies and standards.