How to Leverage SOA Investments using Agile Methods
Transitioning to SOA is a complex process that adds its supporting technologies, methodologies and staff to an enterprise’s existing layers of already fixed and difficult-to-change architecture. Agile development environments quickly and efficiently handle implementation and utilization issues, extending the value of deployment that optimizes SOA performance and dissolves the barriers of SOA advancement with reward in early return-on-investment. This SOA white paper provides you an implementation roadmap and addresses key questions to help you achieve SOA's business value promise: What makes the most influential business case for SOA, What benefits and complexities exist in a SOA transition, How to address lifecycle challenges to fully realize the potential of SOA’s benefits, and What early measures can be taken to achieve an incremental approach to SOA using Agile methods.

Cloud Computing Use Cases
For this white paper the Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers. The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in, and increasing customer choice.

Bringing the Edge to the Data Center: a Data Protection strategy for SMEs with Remote Offices
Small and midsize businesses with remote offices need data protection strategies that are closely aligned with their business priorities, IT infrastructure, and regulatory requirements for data retention. This white paper from HP discusses how small and midsize businesses can effectively address their data protection challenges, implementing solutions that help store and protect their business-critical data as they cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability.

Desktop Delivery: Making Desktop Virtualization Work
This whitepaper discusses Desktop Virtualization and the impact on desktop management challenges, and considers the challenges for desktop management in a pre-Desktop Virtualization world, how these challenges are addressed by Desktop Virtualization, issues that are not well addressed by Desktop Virtualization, and views on how to best address these remaining issues.

Server Energy Efficiency Implications on Large Scale Datacenters
Trends in servers are pushing cloud computing providers and in-house data center operators to restructure their organizations, eliminate misplaced incentives, increase capital utilization, and change the ways they specify and purchase equipment.

5 Proven Ways to Reduce IT Costs Now
Continued economic slowdown is placing organizations under enormous pressure to use existing IT assets more effectively. Budgets are shrinking, but IT departments are still expected, perhaps more than ever, to deliver the increased business value required for growth...

Enterprise Cloud Services: Deriving Business Value from Cloud Computing
Until recently, much of the discussion around Cloud computing has focused on new, and usually non-mission critical, applications. The ability to apply Cloud economics to core enterprise applications provides, perhaps, the beginning of the tipping point for CFOs...