Information Technology Architectures White Papers

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50,000-Seat VMware View Deployment
sponsored by VMware and NetApp
WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is becoming more of a hot topic as it allows organizations to control costs and use limited resources to manage their desktop infrastructures. This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, Vmware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Learn more here.
Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

VMware and NetApp

Next Generation Data Center Infrastructure Management
sponsored by Emerson
WHITE PAPER: Due to recent technological advances such as cloud, virtualization, big data and converged infrastructures, the data center is evolving. Read through this informational white paper to learn how companies are focusing their resources their data center infrastructure management solutions.
Posted: 16 Dec 2013 | Published: 20 May 2013

Emerson

What Is an Ethernet Fabric?
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics provide the higher levels of performance, utilization, availability and simplicity required to meet the business needs of data centers today and into the future.
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Aug 2011

Brocade

Building Success in the Cloud
sponsored by Citrix Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Discover why Citrix cloud solutions are a clear choice for leading cloud providers, helping them quickly and profitably build differentiated and flexible cloud solutions that are right for their business and their customers.
Posted: 29 Aug 2012 | Published: 29 Aug 2012

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Lync Server 2010 Solution Architectures
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This Microsoft Lync Server 2010 solution architecture manual contains possible configurations that can be used to architect your Lync 2010 infrastructure. Samples can serve as a blueprint for organizations with similar requirements. Each organization’s requirements can differ greatly and include items not accounted for in these configurations.
Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g—A Technical Overview
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you'll discover what is needed for complete, open, and integrated business intelligence tools and technologies today. Explore the best-in-class capabilities for managing the development lifecycle for BI applications to meet the needs of today's insight-driven organizations.
Posted: 12 May 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

Oracle Corporation

An Introduction to Sharepoint 2010
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of common business use cases for which SharePoint is a good fit, introduces the services and functionality within SharePoint Server 2010, highlights key changes from MOSS 2007, and helps readers understand the terminology and concepts needed for planning or deploying a SharePoint 2010 farm.
Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

SUN SYSTEMS FOR ORACLE COHERENCE: An optimal in-memory data grid architecture
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Enterprise modernization: A Rational approach
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a new, broad and all-encompassing multiplatform view of modernization in the context of applications, people and teams that will help you see where to begin, and where a comprehensive strategy might lead.
Posted: 10 Nov 2011 | Published: 10 Nov 2011

IBM

Ovum Technology Review of Vertica’s Analytic Database
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

Vertica Systems