Discover the six leading-edge capabilities and versatile tools needed to help ensure an accelerated return on investment for an application development environment

In this thought leadership white paper, discover the six leading-edge capabilities and versatile tools needed to help ensure an accelerated return on investment and time to value for an application development environment.

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A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances

The purpose of this paper is to provide independent guidance for companies thinking about purchasing SOA appliances - Dedicated servers designed to help with the challenges thrown up by adopting a service-oriented architecture. After setting the scene with a discussion about appliances and their role in SOA, the focus will be turned on three SOA appliance candidates; IBM's DataPower range, Intel SOA Expressway and the SecureSpan range from Layer 7. Each offering will be summarized and then the three offerings will be compared against each other to identify the pros and cons of each solution.

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Using Business Process Management and Business Analytics Together for Smarter Work

IBM helps organizations confront business challenges with a combination of industry leading Business Process Management and Business Analytics technologies. The combination of these technologies can help CIOs raise the ROI of IT investments, make innovation real by leveraging the latest technology and position their companies for growth in this flat world.

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Application Foundation — Modernize your applications for immediate ROI (eBook — Banking, Telco, and Insurance)

This eBook will demonstrate how companies can modernize their application infrastructure to work smarter, reduce costs and roll out new services faster for every size business, no matter what industry you’re in. Learn how the Smart SOA Application Foundation delivers highly effective application performance that satisfies customers, efficient application development and management to reduce costs; and application innovation that allows you to leave the competition behind.

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WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Security Guide

Carla Sadtler, Fabio Albertoni, Leonard Blunt, Shu Guang Chen, Elisa Ferracane, Grzegorz Smolko, Joerg-Ulrich Veser, Sean Zhu

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides the information that is needed to implement secure solutions with WebSphere® Application Server V7.0. It focuses on security for the application server and its components, including enterprise applications.

This book includes administrative and infrastructure security, application security, and z/OS specifics.

This book is intended for anyone who plans to secure applications and the application serving environment.

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Batch Processing with WebSphere Compute Grid: Delivering Business Value to the Enterprise

Snehal Antani

This RedGuide can help you understand the issues that enterprises face today with regard to batch processing, and how Compute Grid can be used to resolve these issues.

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Rapid WebSphere Application Server Provisioning with WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance

Krishna Avatar Allada, Marc Haberkorn, Carla Sadtler, Ruth Willenborg

This Redguide provides a high level overview of the new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, including current issues being faced in the information technology industry and how WebSphere CloudBurst can address many of these issues.

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IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Web Services Guide

Henry Cui, Raymond Josef Edward A. Lara, Rosaline Makar, Nicky Moelholm, and Felipe Pittella Rodrigues

This IBM® Redbooks publication describes how to implement Web services in IBM WebSphere® Application Server V7.

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WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) Compute Grid: Technical introduction

Snehal S. Antani

This white paper is for IT Architects, administrators and developers and discusses the role of an emerging technology - WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid - and how it will play on batch modernization and enterprise grid computing.

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