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November 18, 2009 - (Free Research) Join Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the Apache Lucene PMC, and Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS and Apache Lucene PMC member, and Sameer Maggon of AT&T Interactive for an in-depth technical workshop on the potential and application of the newly released Lucene Spatial libraries.
April 15, 2009 - (Free Research) In this Mediacast, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management.
August 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Strategic organizations are increasingly looking for ways to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their technology assets while improving the return on their investment. In this white paper, you will discover how expert customer support services can have a dramatic impact on both as you explore the success of JBoss middleware technology.
October 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.
July 28, 2009 - (Free Research) This White Paper describes a number of real-life applications and databases interoperability scenarios and explains how an Open Source approach helps in solving interoperability challenges. Read this paper to learn more about successfully connecting new technology deployments with existing infrastructure.
November 2008 - (Free Research) This paper discusses the use of industry standard servers, with an abundance of CPU and memory as storage controllers by leveraging industry standard hardware and general purpose software to create a high performance storage architecture.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Use SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses whether you conduct surveys to support business, education, or government decisions, or for your academic research. No matter your field, you now have a way to combine your qualitative and quantitative analyses using a single advanced but easy-to-use desktop software program.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Can't decide whether to build or buy a CRM system? This podcast presents a third solution that is an application development platform that provides the building blocks for faster, cost-effective application development that achieves a better fit for your business’ processes.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available.
April 2009 - (Free Research) There are many ways that people come to the conclusion that they need a search
application, and a variety of ways in which they can then proceed. Here are some of the steps that users often consider (or maybe should consider) before they're ready to start building an application.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Sun's free product trials give you the opportunity to test the very latest Sun Open Storage products and solutions for your business: absolutely free for a full 60 days, with full technical support.
June 2009 - (Free Research) What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on 11 questions every CIO should ask their IT manager, and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Read about Alcatel-Lucent's Ultimate Wireless Broadband End-to-End LTE solution. This industry leading solution enables you to successfully evolve your business model and realize the revenues, reduced costs, and increased efficiency delivered by Long-Term Evolution. Learn how it can help you take full advantage of wireless IP service delivery.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper will focus on the OpenSSH implementation, which was initially developed as part of the OpenBSD project and is installed by default on most modern BSD and Linux-based operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.
November 2009 - (Free Research) A thorough evaluation determined that Forbes needed a new email system and efficient storage to support it. Forbes selected Xiotech’s Emprise™ 5000 storage system, featuring patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology, which allowed the company to improve the performance and reliability of its email system, while reducing service fees.
May 2009 - (Free Research) This implementation guide to migrating to desktop Linux provides a technical planning reference for IT organizations, large or small, that are now considering a migration to Linux-based personal computers.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Employing UltraSPARC® T2 Plus processors - an evolution of the industry's first massively threaded systems on a Chip (SoC) - the Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Organizations have long known that implementing their records management initiatives is challenging. People and processes are both important elements, but choosing the right records management solution can be the difference between success and failure. Read on to learn about selecting the right records management solution for your organization.
December 2008 - (Free Research) OpenSolaris is the state of the art, cutting edge operating system that provides a rich, coherent platform for building and running applications.
September 2009 - (Free Research) The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
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