IT Solutions Guide

Azul Systems, Inc., has announced the availability of the Azul CentiCore integrated solution, combining the power of multicore architecture with open source software designed to provide SMP processing power at an affordable price for small or medium size enterprises (SMEs). The CentiCore solution is a pre-configured integrated solution comprised of one specially configured 96-way Azul Compute Appliance with 32GB shared memory, two 2-way/1GB Linux servers, an HP ProCurve Gigabit Ethernet switch both from Penguin Computing, and the open source JBoss Application Server and JBoss Portal. This specially-configured solution enables small and mid-tier enterprises (SMEs) with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) quality compute resources, while delivering all the benefits of commodity scale-out economics with significantly fewer servers to manage. Without any application level ... (more)

Parasoft: Ensuring Security and Reliability in Web Services Deployments

To learn more about Parasoft Web services solutions, go to: http://www.parasoft.com/ITmag_article. As enterprises today increasingly depend on IT to help drive business innovation and provide competitive differentiation many are turning to web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to create the flexible and agile IT infrastructure necessary to be able to be responsive to changing business demands. The potential for Web services to deliver considerable business benefits by connecting organizations to partners and customers cannot be overlooked in today's intensely comp... (more)

MapInfo: Location Intelligence

To learn more about MapInfo, go to: http://MapInfo.com Your company collects enormous amounts of information. Data that tells you a lot about the "who," the "what," the "when" and the "how many." Whether you realize it or not, that data contains a hidden asset you can't see in a spreadsheet or chart that can provide you with a significant competitive advantage. The "Where" Organizations are realizing the power and benefits of including Location Intelligence in their day-to-day operational and analysis tools. This additional capability has benefits such as: Helping employees make ... (more)

Xythos Software: Document Management Everyone Can Use

To learn more about Xythos, go to: http://www.xythos.com Unmanaged Content is Drowning Many OrganizationsUnstructured data is doubling in size each year within most enterprise organizations. Yet in many of these same organizations, this vital information is hidden within individual desktops and fragmented in server silos across the enterprise. Employees spend countless hours looking for relevant content and waste many more hours reproducing work, ultimately costing employers millions of dollars in lost productivity. Organizations must find safer and easier ways to manage and shar... (more)

HP Announces New Customer Wins for its Midrange Storage Line

HP today announced that Rydex Investments and Wheaton Franciscan Services have deployed HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVAs) in their IT environments. The HP EVA disk array family delivers the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership in a virtualized array and meets a broad range of budget, capacity and performance requirements for customers. In a recent storage industry benchmark, the HP EVA8000 midrange disk array offered price/performance that was 64 percent better than a corresponding disk array from IBM. HP’s EVA family is enjoying solid success in ... (more)