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Proving Control of the Infrastructure: The need for independent detective controls within Change/Configuration Management by Tripwire, Inc.
reliability, availability and security of information systems, and addressing compliance requirements, is controlling change across the IT infrastructure. Although security often gets the spotlight, the much greater risks to an IT organization are system reliability and availability. Gartner asserts that "80 percent of unplanned downtime is caused by people and...
Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java Applications by Oracle Corporation
advantage by managing and exploiting their information systems more effectively than their competitors. But with today's tight budget constraints and technology limitations, many miss the opportunity-sometimes with disastrous results. This white paper addresses how you can gain a measurable competitive edge without compromise-today.

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Air Distribution Architecture Options for Mission Critical Facilities by APC
cooling techniques is essential knowledge for Information Systems personnel as well as Facilities Managers...
System i Security Guide: 6 Common Lapses, Current Issues, and Reporting Tools by Bsafe Information Systems
This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security. This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security. Read about current issues that AS/400 security officers need...
Grid Computing White Paper: Oracle Grid Solutions for the Next-Generation Data Center by Oracle Corporation
flexible, resilient and lower cost enterprise information systems. With grid computing, groups of independent, modular hardware and software components can be pooled and provisioned on demand to meet the changing needs of businesses. This white paper provides an overview of grid computing, its benefits and key grid techniques for IT resource consolidation, agile IT...
An Introduction to System i (IBM iSeries) High Availability - Get to Know the Core Components of HA Solutions and Important Installation Considerations by Vision Solutions
Depending on the size and complexity of your information systems, there are many other factors to consider besides the installation of a high availability solution when trying to reduce your vulnerability to planned and unplanned downtime. High availability clearly is a significant component in an overall data recovery/system availability strategy, but it often...
Hawaii Pacific Health Consolidates 3 Datacenters into 1 by Hewlett-Packard Company
and implement an enterprise-wide hospital information system that allowed them to consolidate their IT and business processes across a newly formed healthcare network to deliver improved levels of patient service and care for less. Learn what technology and strategies they leveraged to achieve:
  • Online access to single, electronic medical record for each
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Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology by Tripwire, Inc.
virtual server environments is updating management and security processes adjusting to relatively new technology. Read this whitepaper to dispel myths that surround server virtualization security. Perhaps the biggest concern with securing virtual server environments is updating management and security processes adjusting to relatively new...
Learning Guide to System i Security: Part 1 of 3 by Bsafe Information Systems
This whitepaper covers what is needed to develop a comprehensive security policy for your System i data center. It also includes key areas of focus in protecting your computing environment and the steps involved in preparing it for security. This three-part series covers what you need to develop a comprehensive security policy for your System i...
Operational Performance Management 101: Everyone Measures KPIs by Actuate
webinar to learn how Operational Performance Management provides the framework necessary to align different parts of an organization using proven methodologies and techniques to ensure individual business units are performing. Some organizations launch Performance Management initiatives "top down"; typically this happens when a visionary executive...
IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together by IBM
publication will provide the necessary information to IBMers, business partners, and customers on how to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions. An Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is designed to contain unstructured information such as files, images, and drawings. Its purpose is the delivery of the right content to the right person at the...
System i (IBM iSeries) Management Best Practices -- an Executive Overview by Vision Solutions
analyze performance and storage usage; this information can be employed to liberate wasted space and tune the system. Companies buy System i because it is easy to manage and use. But it can't read minds. Nor can it optimize itself. Over the years, resource usage patterns change, possibly creating processing bottlenecks and unacceptably slow response times for critical...
Quest MessageStats™ by Quest Software
Quest MessageStats empowers executive management, Information Technology (IT) managers, and Exchange administrators to perform business-critical analysis and reporting on Exchange e-mail infrastructures. With e-mail at the forefront of corporate communications, the need for Exchange reporting and analysis has become paramount for corporate executives, I.T. directors...
Using Real-Time Information to Improve Contact Center Performance by Genesys
The challenge is sifting through this information and analyzing it to make better decisions. There are tremendous benefits to capturing customer information in real-time or close to real-time, but many call centers fail to do so.

To get more insight into using real-time analytics to optimize the contact center, SearchCRM.com called on Ken Landoline, Program...
IBM System Storage DS Family by IBM
support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management. The IBM System Storage DS Family offers flexible, scalable storage options.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage DS Family can support business...
BI and Performance Management Best Practices for Your SAP Investment by Cognos, an IBM Company
unify all data, to deliver analytics and create information to support critical business planning and decision-making. Your challenge is to provide... In today's economic climate, there is a growing pressure to do more with less and efficiently deliver access to critical business information within, across, and beyond the enterprise. View this Webcast and complimentary...
Technology Audit CA Unicenter Network & System Management r11.1 by CA
CA's Unicenter Network and Systems Management r11.1 is an enterprise-class service and systems management solution, aimed at maximizing service availability. CA's Unicenter Network and Systems Management r11.1 is an enterprise-class service and systems management solution, aimed at maximizing service availability. It can significantly...
How to Simplify Information Management through Advanced Storage Consolidation by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
storage architectures, streamlined storage management, and an overall better storage quality of service to meet current and future needs. Despite the benefits achieved from today's breed of mature networked storage infrastructures, enterprises continue to struggle with exploding data growth, information compliance requirements and storage expenditures that...
IBM System Storage DS Family-Telecommunications by IBM
optimize storage infrastructure, leverage information, mitigate risk and enable business flexibility. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for the Telecom industry.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a telecommunications business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage...
IBM System Storage DS Family-Financial Svcs Institutions by IBM
can support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management with competitively priced storage options. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for financial institutions.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a financial institution can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM...
Best Practices: The Ultimate Archiving Challenge by Storage Magazine
consequences long into the future. We have more information available to us than ever before. If you fast forward 50 years or 100 years, how much of this information will be accessible and in usable form? Given current data management practices--in terms of both physical storage and logical data representation--it's questionable whether electronic information created and...
Netuitive SI: Automated Performance Knowledge for Improved Systems Management by Netuitive, Inc.
SI is a product that has the ability to take systems management into the realm of preemptive management. With capabilities that provide beneficial, accurate automation coupled with truly seamless integration with existing systems management environments, Netuitive SI provides superior investment protection of those software investments, and a substantial...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
44; uptime and an ultimate success. Power systems in today's data centers represent the highest level in optimization for reliability. This is a necessity, since the computer and IT equipment in these facilities and served by these power systems are extremely sensitive to even a momentary loss of power. When a data center has reached the highest level of...
IBM System Storage DS Family--Electronics by IBM
Learn how the IBM Systems Storage DS Family is an ideal partner for businesses in the electronics industry looking for secure and resilient data storage. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for the electronics industry

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step an electronics business can take toward...
End-to-End Enterprise Compliance, Provisioning and Role Enforcement: With Sun Java™ System Identity Manager and SAP GRC Access Control by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
the integrated product stack. Identity access management (IAM) and compliance are becoming increasingly more important for the majority of enterprises. Nevertheless, most organizations today have only adopted ad-hoc solutions, leading to costly process integration, higher operating costs, and less effective information protection and compliance.

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Implementing ITIL in the modern data center by Rich Schiesser
as Microsoft, Sun, HP and IBM, and include change management, high availability, capacity planning and business continuity.

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Check out our resources on ITIL. Certified ITIL Practitioner Rich Schiesser identifies 18 key infrastructure processes and discusses how to assess whether or not you are using best practices to... More...

Managing server virtualization complexity by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
and co-authored the Network World Fusion Network and Systems Management newsletter for several years. Audrey is currently an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associate. Server virtualization, whether it's operating system virtualization, grid clustering or logical partitioning, adds complexity to any data center. Managing those environments can be achieved with... More...
Calculating costs of data center cabling infrastructure by Carrie Higbie, Contributor
Take into consideration both in-band and out-of-band management.

Data center cabling cost calculator

For new equipment and even when considering retrofitting older equipment with replacement fiber cards or other capabilities, an end to end planning guide will help. To put this into practical dollars and cents, consider the following worksheet... More...

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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
said an IBM spokesperson, "which is based on Transitive technology and allows Power Systems servers to run Linux x86 binary applications unmodified without recompilation. IBM is evaluating Transitive's other products as part of its overall Systems product strategy."

Whatever the case, acquiring Transitive makes sense for IBM, because shifts in the... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe... More...

Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
instead of two [or more]," Kernochan said. "You don't have to communicate between two systems or walk between them, so administrative costs can be lower."

But what about sharing resources on the same box? Is there concern that Linux apps could hog mainframe resources from z/OS, or vice versa? Not anymore.

"If you asked me that 10 years ago, I might give you a different... More...