Vanguard Animation: Raising the Aesthetic Bar With IBM
Founded in 2002 by John Williams of Vanguard Films - the producer behind the CGI animation blockbusters Shrek and Shrek 2 - Vanguard Animation is creating Valiant, the first full-length animated film to be produced entirely in the U.K. To produce the film efficiently and cost-effectively, Vanguard needed to equip its animators with the right tools for the job, without having to worry about the underpinning technology - all while reducing rendering times and making rendering capacity available as necessary. Vanguard turned to IBM and its Business Partner ERA (European RAID Arrays) to implement an IBM Digital Content Creation solution.

The Future of Mac Synchronization!
Palm Desktop and the Palm HotSync Manager serve as the core components in the desktop relationship of any Palm Powered device. The combination of these two programs has been very successful and has served the Palm community quite well since their inception. Mac users have had a long history with Palm OS handhelds with versions of Palm Desktop software since Mac OS 7, through Mac OS X.

The Case for and Value of Transactional VSAM
Learn how to enhance the availability of mission-critical CICS/VSAM applications with DFSMStvs (Transactional VSAM Services). DFSMStvs is a new feature of z/OS that allows you to keep VSAM data sets available to CICS on-line applications 24 X 7, while concurrently updating these data sets with batch applications.

An Introduction to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is the standards-based systems management interface used by Dell PowerEdge servers. IPMI replaces or abstracts previous methods of accessing sensors through the systems management bus (SMBus) or intelli

Migrating Applications From CCF to J2C
This paper discusses how to change an example Java application that uses the IBM Common Connector Framework (CCF) to using Java2 Connector Architecture (J2C). The change from CCF to J2C is part of the continuing evolution of Java programming standards. There has been a need to connect Java applications to enterprise systems since the early days of Java programming, well before IBM WebSphere and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

Patch Management: Managing and Maintaining Windows Updates
The number of patches and updates software vendors release is increasing, as is the complexity of the patches, updates, and service packs released. Although this is a positive step in closing security vulnerabilities and keeping applications current, the sheer volume of patches and updates can overwhelm IT professionals. TechRepublic's Patch Management: Managing and Maintaining Windows Updates outlines simple strategies, and describes several tools, for deploying and managing patches.

Print Tracking and Control for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
This paper discusses the subject of print tracking and control, specifically as it applies to Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. The purpose of the paper is to provide some basic guidelines and requirements for a print tracking and control system. Also included is a high level overview of the Windows print architecture and the terminology associated with it.

Delivering Wireless Digital Content Reaping Revenue Rewards
Matt Hooper, Vice-President of Marketing & Alliances at UK mobile content delivery software pioneer, elata, looks at the rich revenue streams that mobile operators can further build from digital content - providing they can get their delivery strategy right

Towards a Java-Based Enterprise Client for Small Devices
This paper describes and evaluates the client applications that were built and reviews the experience of building wireless Java applications for the Palm, discusses the user interface alternatives evaluated, and presents a general mechanism for calling Palm OS functions. It concludes with some observations about wireless clients in enterprise applications.

Using Windows Embedded, Wyse Offers Its Customers a Simple, Powerful, and Flexible Solution
Wyse Technology, the leader in the thin-client market, has always responded quickly to customer demand. In the past, Wyse based its thin-client products on proprietary and Linux operating systems. Based on its experience using powerful Windows CE-based thin clients, Wyse has now standardized its high-end, flexible, thin clients on Windows Embedded. Using Windows Embedded, Wyse offers its customers a simple, powerful, and flexible way to use the latest technologies and applications. Windows Embedded provides the familiar browser and user interface customers want as they focus on developing value-added applications and getting products to market faster. In the year, 2000 Wyse shipped over 250,000 thin clients worldwide.

Performance Tuning of ICED on POWER4 Platforms
Independently Consistent Expression Discriminator (ICED) is a sample classification application for Microarray data analysis. While it is based on a robust algorithm, it can take a long time, sometimes even days, to complete a cross-validation test for large data sets on its development platform, Windows. A faster processing time is highly desired. ICED was enabled and optimized on an IBM POWER4 system. The benchmark results indicate that the optimized ICED code runs 2.6 to 4.0 times faster than the original code on Windows.

Open-Source Software in Digital Management in the Public Sector
This white paper contains an economic analysis of open-source software and analyzes the extended of use open-source software. It also presents a series of suggestions as to how the public sector can further the use of open-source software. This paper tries to determine whether open-source software is, or can become, a real alternative to supplier-owned software in public administration.

Advanced File System for HP-UX 11i V3: Online Storage Management for Maximum Business Agility
HP is leading the way in providing solutions for the adaptive enterprise, and AdvFS within HP-UX 11i v3 will be another major contribution to the HP strategy. This white paper will present the rich set of features provided by AdvFS. In addition, the paper will take a closer look at how the HP Advanced File System can help IT managers simplify and automate file system management, and address growing information demands with extensive file and file system scalability.

SDDC Moves Toward a Flexible, Easy-to-Manage Infrastructure With Help From IBM
Galeries Lafayette Group is a leading retailer in France, with stores that include Galeries Lafayette and Nouvelles Galeries department stores, the Monoprix supermarket chain and BHV stores, which specialize in home decor and appliances. Like many businesses, SDDC's IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex over time. SDDC looked to IBM to propose an autonomic computing strategy that would enable the company to infuse self-managing capabilities into its infrastructure. Through its Autonomic Readiness Assessment, IBM Global Services evaluated the autonomic computing maturity level of SDDC's IT infrastructure and proposed solutions and a roadmap to increase its autonomic computing capabilities.

Meeting Business Needs With Innovative Technologies Designed for Today and Tomorrow
IBM has developed technologies to power systems with some of the most advanced servers in the world: the IBM eServer product family. Based on a broad scope of open architectures and equipped with sophisticated features and functionality, IBM servers can help businesses control costs to weather rough economic conditions and to help ensure uptime of critical business applications - all in a flexible, adaptable environment that can meet the needs of on demand e-business.

OS/400 V5R2 Virtual Private Networks: Remote Access to the IBM eServer iSeries Server With Windows 2000 VPN Clients
One can use Virtual Private Network (VPN) to securely connect remote Windows 2000 users to the IBM eServer iSeries server. This paper provides a step-by-step process for configuring the OS/400 VPN tunnel using V5R2 OS/400 VPN and the Windows 2000 native L2TP and IPSec support. OS/400 VPN in V5R1 has been enhanced to provide better interoperability and flexibility when establishing a VPN connection between heterogeneous systems.

Domino Web Access 6.5 for Sun Solaris 9
IBM Domino Web Access (iNotes) is an advanced Web client that delivers leading Domino messaging, collaboration and Personal Information Management (PIM) capabilities to Web browsers. It allows users to leverage the reliability and security features of IBM Lotus Domino server, while benefiting from the flexibility of access to information through a Web browser. This paper provides a technical overview of Domino Web Access 6.5. It discusses how to install and configure Domino Web Access 6.5 on Solaris 9. It also discusses performance tuning considerations for both Solaris 9 and Domino Web Access 6.5.

The AMD Opteron Processor for Servers and Workstations
The AMD Opteron processor provides a highly scalable architecture that delivers next-generation performance as well as a flexible upgrade path from 32- to 64-bit computing.Find out more by downloading this whitepaper today.

Capricorn: Six Case Studies for Priority Investments in the Corporate Server Infrastructure
This white paper describes six real case studies that show the current environment, alternative outline solutions and the financial benefits of consolidating and integrating UNIX and Microsoft Windows servers. One major lesson learned from these cases is that the type of savings achievable vary considerably by target platform. In some cases, the hardware is dramatically reduced, in others the software, in others the people productivity is significantly increased.

Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition on the IBM eServer xSeries 445
This paper describes two flagship products from IBM and Microsoft and explains why these products are a perfect fit for one another. The IBM eServer xSeries 445 is the next-generation scalable enterprise server, with up to sixteen processors and up to 128 GB of memory. Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition is the high-end operating system for Intel-processor servers. These two products are ideal for enterprise customers who require an extremely large single-image business computing environment.