Red Hat Whitepapers

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid performance factors

Fri, 10 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat® JBoss® Data Grid is an intelligent distributed caching solution that provides elastic scale, processing alongside data, cross-datacenter replication, advanced functionality, and the ability to separately manage the data grid independent of the application it serves.

Read this technical whitepaper to understand the performance impact of various configuration options of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid.

Red Hat JBoss Portal: Value proposition and differentiation

Sat, 04 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

An expensive, rigid stack doesn't give you flexibility to rapidly build the high-impact, self-service applications your business needs. But creating a complex application from scratch can be risky.

Red Hat® JBoss® Portal enables the development and delivery of highly integrated self-service applications that offer the performance, scale, and flexibility you need. Download the whitepaper to learn more.

Best Practices for Migrating to the Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

With an active subscription, you have access to features and enhancements added throughout the standard life cycle of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

Analyst whitepaper: Benefits of Migration to Modern Middleware Services

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This Hurwitz & Associates paper describes the characteristics of a modern middleware platform and how companies benefit by migrating from older, inflexible, monolithic infrastructures to a modular and flexible environment. The paper includes real-world case studies of organizations that migrated to Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform 6 as a way to cope with and accelerate business change.

Download the whitepaper to learn more.

Introduction to cloud computing

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In short, cloud computing is a convergence of technologies and trends that are making IT infrastructures and applications more dynamic, more modular, and more consumable.

Read this whitepaper to make sense of cloud computing. It covers the characteristics of a cloud computing infrastructure, the forms that cloud computing can take, cloud benefits, and more.

Competitive analysis: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.0.1 compared with Oracle Coherence Grid Edition 3.7.1

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Read this competitive brief to learn about the similarities and differences between Red Hat® JBoss® Data Grid and Oracle Coherence Grid Edition, 2 solutions for data caching and memory-based application storage needs.

A blueprint for the intelligent, integrated enterprise

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

For IT to support an organization's business challenges, it must provide the infrastructure, applications, and data services needed to make intelligent business decisions quickly.

This whitepaper discusses the comprehensive integration required—across an organization’s entire value chain—that drives transformation to the intelligent, integrated enterprise.

Why the future of the cloud is open

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Choosing how to build an open hybrid cloud is perhaps the most strategic decision IT leaders will make this decade. It’s a choice that will determine their organization's competitiveness, flexibility, and IT economics for the next ten years.

That's because, done right, a cloud delivers strategic advantages to the business by redirecting resources from lights-on to innovation. But only an open hybrid cloud delivers on the full strategic business value and promise of cloud computing.

Competitive analysis: Red Hat JBoss Fuse compared with Mule ESB Enterprise

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This competitive brief presents the high-level differences between Red Hat® JBoss® Fuse and Mule ESB Enterprise and also examines the significant economic difference between the 2 products.

Read this paper to learn how Red Hat JBoss Fuse allows you to:

Start more projects.
Deploy technology more pervasively within your enterprise.
Apply more of your budget towards innovation.

JBoss Enterprise BRMS compared to Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite (11.1.1.6)

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The combination of business rules management systems (BRMS), complex event processing (CEP), and business process management (BPM) allows companies to create business solutions with less variability, improved accuracy, and greater environmental awareness.

Download this paper to learn about the similarities and significant differences between the BRMS offerings from Red Hat and Oracle, as well as some of the benefits gained by using Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise BRMS.

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ compared with IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This competitive brief presents the high-level differences between Red Hat® JBoss® A-MQ and IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5 and also examines the significant economic difference between the two.

Read this paper to see how Red Hat JBoss A-MQ lets you:

Start more projects.
Deploy technology more pervasively within the enterprise.
Apply more of your budget towards innovation.

Open source integration software in the enterprise: an innovative, vendor-neutral, and safe approach

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Deploying open source software successfully in an enterprise environment requires careful evaluation. Not all open source software is designed for enterprise use, and not all open source communities serve the unique needs of enterprise development.

Read this paper to learn about Red Hat's proven track record of delivering IT solutions to the Forbes Global 2000.

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform: a high performance ESB story

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Read this paper to see how high performance can be achieved with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform's enterprise service bus (ESB) component. See an example of results that scale both vertically and horizontally, based on data gathered during a month-long proof of concept (PoC) project for a large financial services clearing house. Learn about the implementation details, as well as tuning tips and tricks used by the implementation team.

Maximize strategic flexibility by building an open hybrid cloud

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Want the full strategic value promised by cloud computing? You can realize it only when your enterprise cloud is built with open and hybrid in mind. An open hybrid cloud isn’t a nice-to-have for IT organizations. It’s a must-have. Learn why.

Competitive analysis: Red Hat JBoss Fuse compared with IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This competitive brief presents the high-level differences between Red Hat® JBoss® Fuse and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus version 7.5.1, and also examines the significant economic difference between the two.

Read this paper to see how Red Hat JBoss Fuse enables you to:

Start more projects.
Deploy technology more pervasively within the enterprise.
Apply more of your budget towards innovation.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse compared with Mule ESB Enterprise

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

You need your datacenter to integrate systems and share data across your enterprise. The needs of an integration bus, the technology used for middleware-based integration, can vary in complexity, data volume, and required performance.

Both Red Hat and MuleSoft offer multiple products that can help customers develop and deploy middleware integration solutions. Download this competitive overview to see how Red Hat® JBoss® Fuse compares with Mule ESB Enterprise.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse compared with Oracle Service Bus

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise is a common datacenter need. “Integration bus” describes the technology used for middleware-based integration. Integration bus needs can vary in complexity, data volume, and required performance. Red Hat offers multiple products that help customers develop and deploy middleware integration solutions.

Oracle offers a single enterprise product for integration bus needs called the Oracle Service Bus. This competitive brief compares Red Hat® JBoss® Fuse with Oracle Service Bus 11.1.1.6.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse compared with IBM Websphere Enterprise Service Bus

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Datacenters need the ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise. An integration bus is the technology used for middleware-based integration. Middleware integration needs vary in complexity, data volume, and required performance.

Both Red Hat and IBM offer multiple products that can help customers develop and deploy middleware integration solutions. This competitive brief compares Red Hat® JBoss® Fuse with IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus version 7.5.1.1.

Red Hat targets hybrid cloud management with ManageIQ acquisition

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

"IDC believes Red Hat will quickly merge ManageIQ's automated infrastructure provisioning, discovery, and monitoring technologies with the existing Red Hat CloudForms self-service cloud broker and middleware provisioning functionality to create a unified enterprise-scale automation and monitoring solution optimized for heterogeneous hybrid clouds."

Design patterns in production systems

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Design patterns are reusable, mini-software architectures created to solve particular classes of implementation problems that frequently arise in practice.

Read this whitepaper to discover a range of basic to advanced patterns with wide application that can be used in rule-based systems, such as Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Business Rules Management System.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 on IBM System x— A Smarter Choice

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This solution brief reviews the benefits of Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization 3 on IBM System x. IBM System x is designed to run Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, offering better performance and scalability. Unique IBM eX5 models have been tuned to deliver key characteristics and functionality that can deliver virtualization advantages.

JBoss Enterprise BRMS best practices guides: volume I and II

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Learn the technical best practices for developing with Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Business Rules Management System.

Follow the best practices outlined in these guides to create systems with better design, easier testability, and superior maintainability. Also, see how to validate JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform requirements more easily.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A higher-value and lower-cost alternative to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® can deliver a better value than Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 in real-life operational configurations used to deliver IT business services. Using an IT services delivery life cycle of five years for licensing and support (a common life cycle in today’s datacenters), the pricing models in this whitepaper identify operational and contractual benefits you can gain by choosing Red Hat over Microsoft.

Choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as your standard platform can save you money and free you to focus on growing your business.

Accenture and Red Hat solutions

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

For more than a decade, Accenture and Red Hat have teamed up to help businesses and government agencies harness open source solutions for complex enterprise-scale projects. Through open source technology and best practices, Accenture and Red Hat work together to incorporate leading technology into our solution stacks and industry solutions. The goal? To increase speed to market, enhance flexibility, and improve security and client performance.

Accenture’s partnership with Red Hat helps government organizations accelerate their implementation of SOA and open source technologies—further cutting IT costs, reducing complexity, and providing a flexible foundation for future needs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux in use: Large financial services player invests in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Analyst firm IDC interviewed a large, well-known financial services firm to understand the path this company took to standardize much of its IT on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. Download the whitepaper to see how they succeeded.

Migration best practices for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

To best manage the life cycle of your Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems, you need to keep up with technology advances and take advantage of new releases as they become available.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription model allows you to move to new releases at your own pace, based on a schedule that fits your timeline and IT and business objectives.

Download this whitepaper to understand the benefits of adopting the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

JBoss Enterprise BRMS compared to IBM Operational Decision Manager and IBM Business Process Manager Standard

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This competitive brief examines JBoss Enterprise BRMS and the combined IBM Operational Decision Manager and IBM Business Process Manager Standard software.

While both IBM and Red Hat offer business process management (BPM), complex event processing (CEP), and business rules management system (BRMS) software, Red Hat offers all 3 in 1 commercial offering.

Read this paper to understand the similarities and significant differences between these offerings, as well as some of the benefits gained when using Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise BRMS.

Competitive Analysis: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Both Red Hat and Oracle base their latest application platform offering on Java™Enterprise Edition (JEE) specification v6, which means their offerings share more than 40 major technologies and features.

Read this competitive analysis to understand the strong similarities and significant differences between these 2 platforms, as well as some of the benefits you will gain when using Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform.

IT architect's guide to building clouds

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

As organizations make the strategic decision to embrace open hybrid cloud computing, the next question is how to go about doing so. The answer isn’t the same for everyone. It depends on where you are and your specific near-term goals. And while every situation has its own nuances, Red Hat has seen 3 use cases arise time and time again.

Learn about those 3 use cases and more in this practical guide, which will help you consider, select, and implement an open hybrid cloud architecture that meets your specific needs and business objectives.

How the Shared Services Strategy is Bridging the Gap Between Business Managers and IT Shops

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

There is often a disconnect when IT developers and business managers discuss new projects. On the one hand, developers want funding for the cool new toy that will make their lives easier and give them more modern development capabilities. On the other, it’s the job of the business manager to decide whether this product and its modern development capabilities are necessary for mission success. Business managers use words like bottom line, efficiency, and productivity. Developers speak in terms of platforms, interoperability, and capabilities. In a manner of speaking, business managers and developers often don’t speak the same language.