A Better Way to Manage Data in Virtualized Environments With CommVault® Simpana® Universal Virtual Server Agent  by CommVault Systems, Inc.

January 20, 2010 - CommVault offers leading solutions that work from remote office to data center and unique integration with leading storage technology vendors to help leverage the tools you already deploy in your enterprise. Server virtualization demands flexibility that only CommVault can deliver.

A Down-to-Earth look at Cloud Computing  by BMC Software, Inc.

January 26, 2010 - Is cloud computing going to take over the data center as we know it? Join us as we talk about cloud computing with whurley as he discusses some of the benefits of cloud computing as well as cracking open a few myths, discusses how cloud computing currently fits into the data-center picture, and talks about some new open source players in the cloud

A Look at Hosted Exchange and Hosted Email  by USA.NET, Inc.

August 07, 2009 - Nowadays, more and more IT shops are considering hosted Exchange services rather than running their mail server locally.They need to decide whether or not it is right for their company. Take a deeper look at hosted Exchange and hybrid models in this webcast.

A Practitioner’s Guide to More Efficient Network Management  by Hewlett-Packard Company

September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.

A Primer for IT and Business Decision Makers : Understanding the Planning and Deployment Requirements of Today’s Software-as-a-Service Solutions  by SAP

September 30, 2008 - Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.

A Scalable, Reconfigurable, and Efficient Data Center Power Distribution Architecture  by APC by Schneider Electric

October 31, 2009 - This paper discusses some of the new approaches to power distribution including modular distribution and overhead power busway, and shows their advantages when compared to the legacy approach.

A Standard Approach to Process Documentation  by Lombardi Software

December 21, 2009 - Rachel Pace-Maron, Director of Operations Support Service at PRC, was asked to document, standardize and communicate all of her company's processes to help improve business processes across 15 domestic and 5 international call centers. Listen as Rachel shares her experience and covers key learnings.

Accelerate Innovation & Productivity with Rapid Prototyping and Development: Model New Ideas, Land More Business, and Control Costs  by Attivio, Inc.

February 24, 2010 - This paper discusses how a new generation of platforms in the application stack is designed to both deliver a specific layer of functionality and enable rapid prototyping, allowing development teams to focus their efforts on the value they add and gain time for more innovation.

Accelerating Databases with the Sun™ Storage F5100 Flash Array  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

November 06, 2009 - This Sun BluePrints™ article shows how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes in order to accelerate application performance.

Achieving Business Agility with BPM and SOA Together: Smart Work in the Smart Enterprise  by PointSource

March 05, 2010 - This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from a business perspective. The primary audiences are leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA as a key differentiator for successful enterprises in their drive toward business agility.

Achieving enterprise insight: Key trends in BI and information management  by IBM

December 22, 2009 - In this videocast, SearchDataManagement.com sat down with Rick Sherman, an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience in the industry, to find out key trends in business intelligence and data management that are affecting how enterprises can achieve more insight into every aspect of their business.

Achieving Service Excellence Across The Enterprise  by Numara Software

February 01, 2009 - Common problems with interdepartmental handling of customer issues include a mismatch of priorities, no shared understanding of customer impact, and overall communication problems between teams. The solution is to create enterprise-wide workflow and visibility..

ActiveRoles Server: Active Directory Management - Free Trial!  by ScriptLogic Corporation

April 10, 2009 - Businesses today grow and change at a frantic pace, making Active Directory (AD) management one of the most time-consuming IT tasks. AD administrators struggle to keep up with requests to create, change or remove user access to various network resources.

Advancing the Economics of Networking: Ethernet Switching Solutions Reduce Capital and Operational IT Expenses  by Juniper Networks, Inc.

October 10, 2009 - Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.

Agent-less Architecture - Beyond Simple Systems Monitoring  by Hewlett-Packard Company

March 18, 2010 - This webcast explores monitoring challenges that IT pros face.  Gain insight into how to streamline your processes and improve monitoring efficiency.

Allocating Data Center Energy Costs and Carbon to IT Users  by APC by Schneider Electric

January 28, 2010 - This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision. We show that it is both easy and inexpensive for any data center, large or small, new or old, to get started allocating costs and carbon, but the expense and complexity escalate and ROI declines when excessive precision is specified.

Analytics Partners - Delivering Faster and More Strategic BI  by Oracle Corporation

January 28, 2009 - Analytics Partners chose to work exclusively with Oracle because of the strength and superiority of its product line, as well as confidence in Oracle's commitment to the emerging and mid-market as well as to its channel partners.

Aperture VISTA and the CMDB: An Enterprise Best Practices Approach  by Aperture - An Emerson Network Brand

February 22, 2010 - The last few years have seen significant interest and effort in integrating the many tools large enterprises use to manage their IT infrastructure and applications. Central to this integration effort is the concept of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Read this whitepaper to learn a best practices approach.

Application Performance Management Virtual Seminar: Build, Bug and Lifecycle Strategies  by SearchSoftwareQuality.com

February 24, 2010 - This free, one-day virtual seminar focuses on application performance across the lifecycle – from designing the architecture, to the build, to testing, monitoring, maintenance and management. Experts build a foundation for high performance, covering requirements and build stages, as well as testing and monitoring performance across the lifecycle.

Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions  by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat

April 25, 2008 - Application development professionals have better platform options to choose from than they might think. In this Forrester Research report, you'll learn about factors you should consider as application platforms evolve, four criteria that application development professionals should examine when selecting application server products, and more...

Applying Knowledge Management to Project Management  by Global Knowledge

June 01, 2009 - There is a growing, interdisciplinary field known as knowledge management that is dedicated to how we acquire, organize, manage, share, and utilize knowledge and information. This white paper will discuss what knowledge management is, why it is important, and how you can apply knowledge management to project management.

Archiving and SAP® Environments: For Business, IT, and Regulatory Requirements  by ASG Software Solutions

February 22, 2010 - A recent survey of CIOs found that over 75% want to develop an overall information strategy in the next three years, yet over 85% are not close to implementing an enterprise-wide content management strategy. Read this paper to find out more about comprehensive archiving solutions in SAP environments and how they can help manage enterprise content.

As The Market Turns Around A Hot New Communications Service Market Emerges  by Hewlett-Packard Company

February 08, 2010 - Communications as a service (CaaS) is a hot new market that promises to grow quickly. In CaaS, communications technology is located in a data center of a communications service provider, and is owned and managed by the service provider as a multi-tenant infrastructure. Read the white paper for more information on Communications as a service.

ASG-Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ASG-DDM)  by ASG Software Solutions

February 23, 2010 - This paper explains ASG's unique, automated solution for discovery and dependency mapping for change and configuration management.

Assessing Your Organization's Readiness for Windows®7  by Global Knowledge

February 24, 2010 - There has been great interest in the subject of Windows 7 in recent months, perhaps most strongly from organizations that passed over Windows Vista and are looking at a migration from Windows XP.

Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center - EMA Analyst Report  by Hewlett-Packard Company

December 22, 2008 - This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.

Automating Data Flows to Your Business Intelligence System  by Tidal Software

December 10, 2009 - This paper discusses Bad data, or data that is not current, has another, broader impact in leading to distrust of the system. And when the BI system cannot be fully relied on, its uses rapidly become limited. Read on to learn how to achieve trustworthy BI with complete, in-depth visibility and full control over the fragile dataflow processes.

Automotive Essentials ERP Solution  by Infor

December 03, 2009 - This demo will show how easy it can be to use Infor Automotive Essentials to maintain a lean, yet flexible global automotive supply chain while surviving aggressive cost cuts and supply chain complexity. Watch to learn how to turn the adversity of today's automotive industry into a long-term advantage with Infor Automotive Essentials.