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Advertorial
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BlueWorks: The Easy on-ramp to Business Process Management (BPM)
With BPM BlueWorks from IBM, it's never been easier to get started with BPM. Using cloud-based processes and strategy tools, BPM BlueWorks allows you to capture and collaborate on BPM Business Designs, discover and contribute industry-specific BPM content and participate easily in the community. See how today.
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Technology Brief
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A New Approach to Software
An All-in-One Solution with Low Downtime and Low Staff Cost.
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Act, Don`t React: A Proactive Business Continuity Solution Protects your Revenues and Reputation
For any organization, particularly small and mid-sized companies, a sound strategy for business continuity is imperative to survival. IBM offers solutions that can minimize or prevent the devastating loss of revenue and reputation that often accompanies an unexpected disaster. IBM’s business resilience plan integrates IT recovery, information security programs, and a business continuity plan.
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Addressing the Complexity and Cost of Storage and IT
Many IT managers struggle with the complexity of their heterogeneous interconnected IT environment and its effects on service levels and operational costs. The challenges are even greater for IT managers who are integrating disparate environments as a result of merger and acquisition activity or for organizations facing exponential growth with fixed budgets.
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Advanced Global Name Recognition Technology
IBM Global Name Recognition software enables any organization to minimize fraud, increase sales, expedite collections, and improve its handling of critical customer relations. Over 15 years in its development, this specialized technology has proven its effectiveness across a wide variety of platforms, and is surprisingly easy to integrate.
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Choose an IBM Webserver Configuration to Suit Your Business Needs
Your business faces tough competition in today’s global economy. This white paper shows how your business can be more agile and flexible with the WebSphere Application Server family. These solutions provide developers and IT architects with a choice of innovative, performance-based foundations for building and deploying all types of SOA applications and services.
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Podcast
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Achieve Your Team Goals with Collaborative Ease: IBM Lotus Quickr
Regardless of what department you work in, it is business critical to ensure that your team members have easy and ready access to the latest information and project team members.
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Best Practices for Building and Deploying Employee Self-Service Solutions
In this podcast you`ll hear Marty Lechleider from IBM Software Group and Pete Schutt from IBM Global Business Services discuss trends and best practices for building employee and manager self-service solutions.
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Big Blue Touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing
Tune into this TDWI Radio News interview to hear Karen Parrish, vice president of business intelligence solutions for IBM, as she explains Big Blue’s take on the evolving industry of data warehouse appliances.
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BPM Survey Results: The Real-World Analysis
Business Process Management (BPM) enables faster, more confident decision making, which results in more transactions conducted, which ultimately leads to more satisfied customers. Download this podcast to learn implementation pitfalls and how to avoid them, how BPM affects the relationship between IT and line-of-business teammates, and why BPM finds itself in such a mission-critical position for managing your bottom line.
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Forrestor Security Podcast Series
Listen IBM’s new five part series of podcasts that feature Forrester Research and cover issues relevant to medium-sized healthcare providers.
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Product Literature
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IBM BladeCenter H
IBM BladeCenter H is a powerful blade computing chassis delivering superior performance, simplicity, high speed connectivity (4 x 10GbE) and rich telecom functionality ideal for Telecom Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers.
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IBM BladeCenter HS22: Increased Performance, Utilization and Efficiency
IBM BladeCenter is helping companies in every industry sweep complexity aside. BladeCenter HS22 is a versatile, easy-to-use blade, optimized for performance, power and cooling. It actually runs applications up to twice as fast as its predecessors and can be customized and deployed quickly, without downtime.
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IBM BladeCenter S - Big Benefits for the Small Office
Read all about this flexible, blade-based chassis and see how it streamlines and simplifies small office IT.
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IBM Lotus Foundations Start Features
A snapshot of the solution’s feature sets, business benefits, and competitive differentiators.
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IBM Lotus Foundations, An All-In-One Solution Designed With Small Business In Mind
An overview of IBM Lotus Foundations’ features and business benefits.
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eWeek Slide Show
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: IBM X3500 server
eWEEK Labs takes this opportunity to provide an in-depth visual walk-through on the new features of the IBM X3500 server.
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News Release
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ASTRON and IBM Team to Help Research the First Origins of the Universe
ASTRON, one of the world`s leading astronomy research organizations, today announced a new collaborative agreement with IBM focusing on the design, engineering and manufacturing of customized, high performance analogue and mixed signal processing chips.
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Executive Update: IBM System z and Web 2.0 Deliver Value Together
This news release explains how IBM System z customers with IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 software are better positioned to leverage Web 2.0 technologies. With version 6.1 you can deploy applications across your enterprise, reduce costs and increase flexibility with workloads centralized on System z servers.
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Executive Update: IBM WebSphere Portal Enhancements
This news release announces the recent enhancements to the IBM WebSphere Portal including improved performance and extensive Web 2.0 capabilities. See how to lower costs and extract value faster with more responsive, interactive and intuitive business applications from WebSphere Portal Version 6.1.
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IBM Engineers Advanced Supply Chain Management Solution for Analog Devices Inc.
IBM and Analog Devices, Inc., a leading semiconductor manufacturer, today announced the completion of an engineering and design collaboration on a customized, highly-integrated supply chain solution that has allowed ADI to improve order and delivery processes, achieve improved customer service levels and continuously monitor customer orders, and adjusting manufacturing plans, supplies, and inventory to match customer requirements.
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White Paper
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2007 Biomarker Summit Findings Explored
In January 2007, the IBM Institute for Business Value held its third Biomarker Summit. In this white paper, you’ll uncover Summit findings that detail a radical shift in the use of biomarkers in BioPharma research and development. You’ll learn ways to fuel collaboration between researchers and stakeholders. Read about it now.
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4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Storage System
This paper describes the move to 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel, the benefits and the major applications that will benefit from this newest interconnect technology.
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6 Critical IT Operational Questions for a Successful SOA Deployment
There’s a lot of talk about service-oriented architecture (SOA). This paper presents six questions IT operations should ask the enterprise architecture team before making the leap to a more dynamic, SOA-based environment.
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A BI Agenda for Midsize Organizations: Six Strategies for Success
Success in business intelligence is all about facilitating sound, data-driven decisions at every level of the business. Read this white paper to learn six strategies for BI success, drawn from the experiences of actual IBM Cognos customers.
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A Call for Change with the Small Business Server
To stay in business, small businesses need help with basic IT chores like data backup, system recovery, patch management and system and server updates, which are becoming more mission-critical than ever even as they grow more time-consuming to deliver.
Just look at business continuity and disaster recovery. A study conducted after Hurricane Katrina by Harris International (now known as Harris Interactive) for MasterCard found that only one-third of small businesses surveyed said they were prepared for a natural disaster in the next 12 months. Considering that disaster preparedness was on everyone’s mind at the time, many industry experts believe companies were at the peak of readiness then. In other words, there are many small businesses today that are not even protected.
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Article
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Building a Reliable Data Center That’s Energy Efficient and Extra Secure
Leading-edge operators and consultants share their tips on building ultraefficient, ultrasecure, and ultrareliable facilities.
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Collaboration Not Only Improves Productivity, it Drives Down Bottom-line Costs
Collaboration software drives down operating costs. When your people are more productive and efficient, you save on bottom-line costs and are able to take on more business without adding staff. The e-kit, “Collaboration Solutions for a More Flexible Work Environment,” includes white papers, webcasts, a demo and more.
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Don’t Make Do, Do More with IT Optimization
Small to medium-sized businesses often find themselves forced to do more with fewer resources. IT optimization strategies such as consolidation and virtualization help reduce complexity, free up resources and support growth. This article explains how optimization enables agility and maximizes efficiency, so your business can be more competitive.
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ForwardView: 5 Essential Elements of Business Recovery
The disaster that seemed daunting in good economic times can be insurmountable when the economy takes a turn. This essential article outlines the five elements of business recovery which can help you reduce the risk of lost revenue that downtime represents.
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ForwardView: A Better Back Up, to Get You Back Up Fast
Hardware failure, viruses and user errors can strike anytime. Maintaining regular backups of data is crucial for recovery after such a disaster, but manual processes such as tape backups can be time-consuming. Automate regular backups with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack and gain the ability to restore data almost immediately. All the details are here in this informative article.
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Tech Analysis
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Implementing TDMF UNIX Technology for Simple, Effective and Nondisruptive Data Migrations
Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF) is optimized for local data migrations involving heterogeneous storage devices. It is designed to be lightweight, easy to install and easy to use. TDMF can scale as a solution for small to large scale data migration projects.
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Webcast
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2009 and Beyond: Managing Security and the New Compliance Landscape In An Adverse Economy
Learn how to successfully safeguard your enterprise and manage the burden of compliance with Kristin Lovejoy, Director, IBM Corporate Security Strategy and Scott Crawford of analyst firm EMA. This webcast discusses how to protect company data and meet compliance needs on a restricted budget.
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5 Important Steps to Successful Performance Management and BI: An Analyst's Perspective
Successful companies today use information to optimize their business and drive sustainable competitive advantage. However, many organizations struggle to make their information work for them. They face data fragmented across multiple systems, enormous data latency and data quality challenges.
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Accelerate Results by Aligning Lean Six Sigma, BPM and SOA
There has never been a more important time to uncover process waste, reduce non-value adding activity, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma produces real results, and when combined with business process management and service oriented architecture can position a company for growth as the economy begins to improve. Find out more about best practices, the value of measures and monitoring, and how to get started in this webcast.
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Accelerating Employee and Customer Self-Service with WebSphere Portal and .NET Integration
Tune into this webcast to learn how Opal quickly and successfully delivered their customer self service site using a combination of their assets and skills along with WebSphere Portal and Mainsoft technologies.
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Achieving High Availability through IT Optimization
We all know that downtime is an event that an organization of any size cannot tolerate. However what many business and IT professionals don't know is that complexity and system sprawl are key contributors to downtime and system problems. Optimizing your IT environment can not only lower costs, but improve availability. Hear how on this important webinar.
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Video
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An Easier Way for Small and Mid-Sized Companies to Run Their Business Apps: IBM Smart Business
Small to medium businesses do not define themselves by their size. And with the nature of business changing, small to medium businesses are one of the fastest growing segments of the global economy. A new era for SMB begins now.
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BPM Physician Mutual Insurance Video
Listen to Physicians Mutual Insurance Company (PMIC) tell how how BPM enabled by SOA helped them to effectively implement their corporate strategy, using WebSphere Business Modeler, Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) process models, and Insurance Information Warehouse (IIW) data models. These IBM solutions help them get off to a quick start.
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Calculate Your Energy Savings with IBM Power Configurator Tool
Energy costs keep going up, and IT departments must find new ways to save. The IBM Power Configurator tool is designed to show you how IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers offer high-performance and flexibility businesses need, plus advanced power management that keeps energy costs as low as possible.
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CMP Discusses Best Practices for Server Migration
Learn the essentials of a successful server migration – in just six minutes.
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Controlling, Even Reducing, Energy Costs in Data Centers
In this video, you’ll learn about the energy efficiency assessments IBM is conducting and that are making an amazing difference in data centers large and small. You’ll also discover how easy it is to go green and cut your annual energy bill by up to 40%. Watch the video now.
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Brochure
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Add System Performance Without Adding To Your Budget
Today's rapid technological expansion has put growing strain on IT departments looking to be on the cutting edge and delivering optimal service levels to their businesses. This brochure provides six case studies that show how IBM has boosted application performance and efficiency, while reducing costs.
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Establish and Maintain Secure Cardholder Data with IBM Payment Card Industry Solutions
Failure to meet PCI DSS requirements can have widespread economic impacts for merchants and financial institutions. IBM Payment Card Industry solutions are designed to help you achieve and maintain PCI compliance in accordance with annual audits. Plus, IBM supports organizations through the five phases of PCI compliance: assessment, design, deployment, management and support. Read this brochure to learn more.
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How To Become An SOA Superhero
Imagine being able to connect with, interact with and deliver
information to any and all of your technology assets, whether
they are home-grown assets, packaged applications, mobile
devices or even unmanned devices on a remote oil pipeline. This brochure shows how you can be a superhero by making WebSphere MQ the messaging backbone for your SOA, creating a common connection for the free flow of information.
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IBM Enterprise Content Management Starter Packs
The ECM Starter Packs from IBM are four full-featured offerings targeted for smaller or departmental deployments. So you can purchase just the right number of licenses to meet your current needs, which can help you realize a more significant and rapid ROI. Plus, you can scale the solution up to a full enterprise deployment at any time as your business grows. Read this brochure to learn more.
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IBM Lotus Foundations Start
A summary of the main business benefits derived using IBM Lotus Foundations Start.
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Research Report
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2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant on Enterprise Content Management
IBM has been declared a Leader in Gartner`s 2007 Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant. A company`s position in the Magic Quadrant is based on the combination of its product capabilities, market performance, customer experience, and overall vision.
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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures.
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BPM: Leveraging Competencies and Streamlining Processes to Achieve Operational Excellence
Business process management solutions are designed to help an organization optimize its productivity by enabling people, systems and content to work together in an environment of automated processes. By integrating, optimizing and automating content and processes, business process management solutions help an organization make better decisions based on more timely and accurate information.
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Data Center Asset Planning: Regaining Control of the Data Center
After years of uncontrolled growth, many data centers face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. While remedies exist, present business practices do not encourage the prioritization of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business -- the data center.
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Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - Part One: An Opportunity for Leasing
This research report from the Robert Frances Group discusses how leveraging server leasing can enable data center and business application initiatives.
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Survey Results
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Corporate Data Governance Best Practices: 2006-07 Scorecards for Data Governance in the Global 5000
This IBM-sponsored survey of over 50 Global-5000 businesses looks at business investments in “data governance” and the challenges faced by these companies in managing their data governance programs.
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Power Consumption and Cooling in the Data Center: A Survey
Power consumption and cooling issues in the data center are important to companies, as evidenced by a survey conducted by the Strategy Group, an independent research company.
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eSeminar
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FastTrack your Data Integration Projects: Four Critical Factors for Success
This eSeminar explores how long-standing challenges associated with data integration projects have grown with expanding organizational pressures and new auditing requirements. Learn the four critical factors that influence the success of your project.
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Getting the Best Out of Your Contracts – 6 Steps
In this 1-hour live webcast, learn how the entire contract process can be managed more consistently, confidently and profitably through the application of enterprise content management.
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Transition to Intel`s New Quad Core Processors
Boost performance and energy efficiency with the new 45nm multi-core Intel Xeon Processor 5400 Series.
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Tool
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Balanced Warehouse Assessment Tool
Every organization has something they do well, and something they could do better. Take this self-assessment quiz to understand how optimized, simple and flexible your solution is today and learn what next steps are recommended to establish a warehouse solution that can easily grow with your demands and bring greater business value.
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BladeCenter eKit
Blades promise data center improvements across the board. So toss your cables and take the leap. IBM BladeCenter uses less energy and gives you more choices and control. You have nothing to lose but complexity. Download a complimentary copy of the IBM BladeCenter eKit which contains white papers, videos and case studies featuring real-life success stories.
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BPM Business Value Analyzer
IBM has crafted this tool to help you understand the Business Process Management (BPM). This tool features videos, white papers, and stories to help you get the most information you need to develop a better understanding of your business and IT goals.
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BPM ROI Calculator
Content-rich processes, from opening a new account to customer billing, are central to day-to-day operations. These processes, however, tend to be inefficient and carry excessive costs. This tool helps demonstrate the value of implementing an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solution to address these issues.
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Business Continuity: How Quickly Do You Plan to Bounce Back?
Watch this IBM ForwardView webshow to find out how Business Continuity Planning can help minimize the impact that downtime can have on your business, your customers, and your bottom line. You’ll see how to recognize which resources take priority and which people need immediate access to them. Start planning today.
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Case Study
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Aberdeen Proving Ground Case Study
Read this case study to learn how a center for U.S. Army material testing has improved efficiency to support the garrison’s expansion and drive a 10 percent reduction in year-over-year spending for millions of dollars in savings with IBM Maximo software.
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Austin Diagnostic Clinic Recovers Critical Data in Less Than an Hour With IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
With IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack software, the Austin Diagnostic Clinic can now recover critical data in less than an hour. ADC reduced their backup window for electronic medical records from two hours to five minutes, were able to restore many services in under an hour, reduced the time and cost of their server consolidation initiative, and achieved up to 75% reduction in testing times. Read this case study to learn more.
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Bank of Montreal Enables Rapid Recovery with High Availability Technology from IBM
One of the five largest banks in Canada, Bank of Montreal (BMO) is a highly diversified financial services organization with assets that totaled over US $366 billion in 2007.
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Canada’s Fastest Computer
The University of Toronto’s SciNet consortium shows what can happen when you combine industry-leading innovation in processors, servers, and data center design. SciNet’s 4,000-server IBM System x iDataPlex supercomputer—powered by more than 7,500 Intel Xeon processors 5500 series, and installed in a brand new data center—gives Canadian researchers a supercomputer that’s over 10 times more powerful than any other system in Canada and saves enough energy every year to run more than 700 homes. Read this case study to learn more.
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Case Study: Bryant University Boosts Energy Efficiency with IBM Solutions
Bryant University’s decentralized IT infrastructure was costly, inefficient and increasingly unable to scale to growing demands for IT services. So they implemented IBM’s Scalable Modular Data Center solution with advanced InfraStruXure architecture from IBM Alliance Partner APC and reduced physical servers from 75 to 40 while adding more services.
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Product Demo
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Application Server Revolution: Feature Packs and the New World of SOA + Web 2.0
Learn how to deliver the secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure you need for your SOA. Watch this demo of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Feature Packs and the IBM WebSphere software platform. It shows how a CTO was able to harness the power of his partners, suppliers, customers and internal assets in a single, powerful, agile Web 2.0 application.
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Content Manager OnDemand Product Demonstration
View this recorded product demo to get a first-hand look at IBM Content Manager OnDemand, an industry leading Enterprise Report Management solution.
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Deep Compression with DB2 9
Need Disk Space? Check out this demo and see how IBM DB2 9 can save you up to 80% in disk space.
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Demand the Best in On-demand Data Protection
Now more than ever, it is important for companies of every size to employ company wide data protection strategies. IBM Remote Data Protection is a powerful and cost-effective solution for business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance. This demo explains how the service works, and how it quickly gets your business back on track after a disaster.
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ESB Without Limits
An ESB without limits provides a solution with a complete set of connectivity capabilities beyond those delivered by just an ESB.
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eWeek Podcast
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Education the Key to IT Skills Shortage
Kevin Faughnan, director of IBM`s Academic Initiative, explains how businesses need to match their IT skills needs with what universities are teaching and the degrees students are getting, in this eWEEK podcast.
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IBM: To Infinity and Beyond
In this eWEEK Podcast IBM shoots for Infinity and beyond with new middleware; SAP targets the midmarket; hackers target gift cards; and VON showcases VOIP solutions.
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IBM’s Ecosystems
In this eWEEK podcast, Mike Vizard speaks with Ravi Marwaha, IBM`s worldwide channel chief, about the ecosystems surrounding IBM.
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ISVs and the Channel
In this eWEEK podcast, Mike Vizard talks wtih Jim Corgel, the new general manager of ISV and developer relations at IBM, about ecosystems for ISVs in the channel.
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Virtualization Virtually There
Virtualization project starts seem to be leveling off, but Annette Miller, Program Director for IBM`s Virtualization Strategy, explains how to get more off the ground in this eWEEK podcast.
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Tutorial
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Smart SOA Tutorial
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. With the Smart SOA approach, you can find value at every stage of the SOA continuum, from departmental projects to enterprise-wide initiatives.
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Review
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‘Woodcrest’ Shows its Stuff
IBM’s X3500 Server leverages power and efficiency of new processors. (eWEEK Review)
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IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2
IBM has made several significant performance improvements in this update. (eWEEK Review)
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IBM Polishes Collaboration Platform
With version 7 of the Lotus Domino server and Notes client, IBM continues to make the case for an integrated collaboration and application platform. (eWEEK Review)
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IBM Rational Web Developer 6
IBM`s Rational Web Developer update is a far more visually attractive tool than we`re used to seeing from IBM, showing attention to developers` need to focus on specific tasks rather than being overwhelmed by general-case capability. (eWEEK Review)
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IBM Retools Sametime
IBM Sametime has been retooled with a client architecture that is now more inviting to third-party developers. (eWEEK Review)
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Trial Download
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AppScan Trial Download
Previously known as Watchfire AppScan, Rational AppScan Standard Edition V7.8 is a leading testing tool that scans and tests your Web applications for all common vulnerabilities. Download the trial to see how it automates the testing process so you can address problems early.
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Domino 8.5 and Notes 8.5: Complimentary Download
Download this complimentary trial of Lotus Domino and Lotus iNotes 8.5. Lotus Domino server software. You’ll see how it provides enterprise-class messaging and collaborative capabilities in a robust platform on a wide variety of operating systems.
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LotusLive Trial Download
Download this complimentary trial of LotusLive. You'll see how your business can be more efficient. LotusLive... Collaborating just got a whole lot easier.
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ROI Tool: Informix Compression ROI Tool
If the volume of data you need to manage is exploding, and you need to reduce storage costs, try the ROI tool to see how much compression with the IBM Informix Storage Optimization Feature can save you.
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Smart SOA Widget
Your personal Smart SOA assistant just became SMARTER with version 2!!! With this widget running on your machine, you will receive up to the minute updates around customer case studies, presentations, SOA whitepapers, SOA newsletters, events, and more in one convenient location. Rest assured with the SOA widget you will have the latest IBM Smart SOA information at your fingertips.
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