WHITE PAPER - This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Mainframe Networking Hardware | Mainframe Operating Systems | Mainframe Server Hardware | Open Source | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This IDC White Paper takes an in-depth look at the use of Linux as a commercial solution in business-critical environments. It offers a deeper review of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and HP's portfolio of standards-based server solutions.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: July 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Systems | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a standards-based UNIX®-like operating system that provides a development environment similar to SunTM SolarisTM. This paper looks to highlight some of the major differences between Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help application developers port their code.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Development and Integration Services | Enterprise Systems | GNU | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Operating Systems | Solaris | UNIX | UNIX Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - Troubleshooting is a necessary evil. Where does one start when the operating system does not start, the application does not load or run correctly, the network hangs or a network service does not listen or perform? Linux is noted for being rock solid, stable, and easy to manage but not as user friendly.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Linux | Linux Clusters | Linux Desktop Environment | Linux Server Hardware | Network Configuration Management | Network Operating Systems | Network Performance | Operating Systems | Patch Management | Patch Management Software | Troubleshooting

WHITE PAPER - This paper gives a brief introduction to the Lotus Domino performance benchmarking concepts and methodology. It will also outline the detailed procedures for running the Server Load Utility with the N8Mail Workload. Finally, it presents the performance results of Lotus Domino Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for simulated workloads.
Posted: May 18, 2009 | Published: May 15, 2009


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Domino | GUI | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Lotus Notes | Messaging Middleware | Open Source | Scalability Testing | Server Management