Open Source Software Reports

EZINE: As cloud continues to evolve, IT managers are looking for better integration of cloud platforms with existing tools, greater control and management, improved self-service and greater portability among cloud environments. This e-zine takes a look at trends in cloud computing, using open source software, moving applications to the cloud.

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 | Published: 10 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this comprehensive white paper on Adobe CRX to learn how this enterprise content management (ECM) platform provides developers with a stable, open, well-documented and extensible content and query model.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the value of the huge volumes of data generated by today's Web-oriented, virtualized, real-time applications. Read this paper to learn how to meet increasing demands for immediate information with the modern data management products of the VMware vFabric platform.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Lean software development and deployment should figure prominently in every organization’s IT strategy. The growing pervasiveness of virtual and cloud environments makes the need even more urgent.  Read this paper to learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lean, lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is a pre-integrated, lightweight Java Platform application server built on Apache Geronimo technology. Available at no charge, it harnesses the latest innovations from the open source community to deliver a readily accessible and flexible foundation for developing and deploying Java applications.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the features of JBoss Enterprise Middleware and highlights technical and customer support as the key characteristic that sets this middleware apart from the competition.

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: IBM Lotus Domino Symphony is a suite of office productivity software for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, which supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) - allowing organizations to use their documents without becoming locked into one particular vendor for their productivity tools.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 09 Jun 2011

EBOOK: Data integration software is now much more than just ETL tools - it encompasses a wide range of platforms and technologies supporting real-time integration as well as traditional batch-oriented approaches. In this e-book, learn about the trends and emerging best practices that are shaping the data integration process at leading-edge organizations.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

EBOOK: In this e-book, you'll learn how to manage data quality efforts during an economic downturn and find out what trends are emerging in the data quality market. You’ll also learn about common mistakes, the financial costs of poor data quality and how data quality tools and strategies can improve data quality.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In today's economic climate, IT organizations are looking for ways to achieve cost savings in the short term. Based on this study, the IT organizations achieved this goal by realizing an average payback period for JBoss Operations Network of a short 5.3 months - recovering their initial investments well within the first half-year of deployment.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat's suite of open source software provides a rich infrastructure for cloud providers to build public/private cloud offerings. This Volume 1 guide for deploying the Red Hat infrastructure for a private cloud describes the foundation for building a Red Hat Private cloud.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WEBCAST: ActiveMQ is the most popular messaging platform in use today. This webinar will explain some reoccurring messaging patterns that are used for application integration - and then see how they have been applied in large enterprise deployments with ActiveMQ.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Premiered: Mar 1, 2011, 11:00 EST (16:00 GMT)

WHITE PAPER: The results from the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report detail the findings of analyzing more than 61 million lines of open source code from 291 popular and widely-used open source projects such as Android, Linux, Apache, Samba and PHP, among others. Read on to learn more about these results.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

VIDEO: In this video, Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel, discusses the importance of standards organizations like the Linux Foundation as well as thought on the future of Open Source at Intel.

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 | Premiered: 01 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks, to help you determine whether your company should turn to an open source solution, a commercial application, or a combination of both.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Aug 2010

EGUIDE: With pressure on IT budgets, interest in open source data integration technology is growing yet implementations of open source data integration tools are rare compared with commercial deployments. Read this e-guide and learn to address such limitations and make open source data integration an attractive, lower-cost option for your organization.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 03 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Proper master data management (MDM) is very valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics. However, master data projects are often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. This paper explains why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Caucho Technology aims to certify the Resin 4 application server on the newly finalized Java EE 6 Web Profile. This white paper discusses the Java EE 6 Web Profile and how it fits with the development philosophy of Resin as well as the details of our implementation including Resin extensions to the Java EE 6 Web Profile.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 04 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Discover the differences between PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server and optimize your choice of open source database. You'll learn enough about the different capabilities, modules, and uses for each product to make the best Postgres choice for your organization.

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010

IT BRIEFING: There has never been a better time to migrate your proprietary RISC servers to Intel® Xeon® processor-powered Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This brief discusses how you can reduce costs and scalability, flexibility and performance with this trio of leading technology vendors supporting your business.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

DATA SHEET: This evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

EZINE: Download Perform today for informative and insightful articles including how open source is changing the face of enterprise software, tips from the field on how to ignite enterprises to reach new levels of performance excellence, and deliver unmatched insight to users.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009