February 08, 2010 - (Free Research) Enterprises have struggled with workload automation (WLA) implementation because of its complexities, dependencies, and costs. These obstacles existed primarily because WLA was simply not a mature technology. However, today WLA solutions are widely accessible and achievable. Read this paper to learn about the latest innovations.
August 24, 2009 - (Free Research) Blackboard needs a highly available, very scalable platform for its mission-critical learning management system offered through managed hosting from six global data centers. Ease of set-up and monitoring are of paramount importance. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers and Intel processors make it happen.
February 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Read how Enterprise Management Associates evaluates the workload automation offerings of BMC, CA, IBM, ASG, and several others. Hint: the report concludes, "BMC has the strongest product overall, scoring above average on functionality and higher than any other vendor on architecture and integration."
September 18, 2009 - (Free Research) Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA®) research shows 75% of CIOs are facing budget cuts. Most CIOs need to go beyond obvious cost reduction measures to address the largest single IT cost - staff. This whitepaper will discuss the ways that Workload automation can effect real cost savings.
July 28, 2010 - (Free Research) Salespeople want to sell. It’s why you hired them, and it’s what you’re counting to move your organization forward. The last thing you should do is slow them down with endless, time-consuming data entry and reporting. Read this paper to learn how the Landslide CRM approach gives salespeople a tool that they will actually want to use.
January 25, 2010 - (Free Research) Organizations want to run the apps they want, and not run the apps they don't want. One of the tools Microsoft has given Active Directory administrators to help in this regard, Software Restriction Policies (SRPs), has been re-engineered in Windows 7 as AppLocker.
February 19, 2010 - (Free Research) Cloud computing, virtualization, and on-demand solutions are evolving to address the system complexity issues that IT managers deal with every day. Read this paper to learn about the benefits of the cloud computing environment.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The City of Hamilton deployed NOMAD, an application from Horizant, for BlackBerry smartphones, which mobilizes the way facilities management is handled. The solution is designed to automatically push out work orders from the City of Hamilton's back-end database which are then received by tradespeople on their BlackBerry smartphones.
February 17, 2010 - (Free Research) IDG Research Services recently surveyed more than 200 CIOs and senior IT and business executives at companies of all sizes to examine the benefits of giving employees mobile access to strategic business applications, including ITSM applications. This analyst report discusses the benefits of ITSM mobilization and key findings from the IDG survey.
April 06, 2010 - (Free Research) Many data centers are using the cloud to host applications and data storage but typically aren’t using the cloud to process effective batch computing workloads. Enterprise workload automation tools can give businesses a chance to take a much greater advantage of cloud computing. Read this whitepaper to learn how.
February 2010 - (Free Research) The Center for Charters at CMU needed a unified platform upon which to collaborate effectively, store digital assets efficiently, and maintain industry compliant audit histories. Read this case study to learn how they used DocAve SharePoint Migrator for a hassle-free migration into MOSS with no metadata loss.
July 2010 - (Free Research) In the quest to reduce energy consumption and cooling costs, data center managers have been looking more closely than ever at the energy efficiency of their uninterruptible power systems (UPSs). This white paper looks at five questions you need to ask before selecting a high-efficiency, multimode UPS for your data center.
February 2009 - (Free Research) The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
October 2009 - (Free Research) IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant to themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs.
December 2009 - (Free Research) In this Expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will discover the most prominent trends in today's data centers, including power usage, virtualization implementation, and much more.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Mission-critical data processing relies in large part on the automated initiation, execution, management, integration, and recovery of batch-mode IT processing. Read about BMC Software's solution that integrates their batch process automation solution, BMC CONTROL M, with their CMDB solution, BMC Atrium.
January 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper focuses on the use of a log-based, real-time change data capture (CDC) solution to enable real-time reporting using a low overhead solution that minimizes the impact on IT infrastructure.
July 2010 - (Free Research) Servers and workstations slowing down, crashes, required offline maintenance, slow virtual platforms, free space bloating, premature hardware refreshes, spiraling energy consumption, heavy help desk traffic-- check out this solution to see how it improves performance and efficiency on even the busiest servers by preventing fragmentation.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle to stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. Read this whitepaper to learn about the 3-step 'prevent, find, fix' approach to handling performance optimization problems at any stage of the development lifecycle.
July 2010 - (Free Research) This paper explores application performance management (APM) in the past, present, and future. Continue reading to learn all about APM and learn how your company can ensure they have an APM strategy that won’t leave them high and dry when it matters most.
February 2010 - (Free Research) An effective solution for APM in a virtualized environment will quickly pinpoint the root cause of any issue. This will reduce the need for war rooms, eliminate finger-pointing and improve collaboration. This paper examines these challenges in more detail, and describes what to look for in an effective APM solution for a virtualized world.
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