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SAP Data Archiving Made Simple by Dolphin Corporation
This webinar explains managing data through its lifecycle with a proven approach to archiving and retrieval options with standard SAP and PBS add ons. Learn how one company is managing data with archiving today, their challenges, and how they built their archiving strategy. Companies using SAP are experiencing more data growth than ever - whether...
Observe IT Pro 4.0.3 - Free Software for Recording & Replaying Terminal and Citrix Sessions by Observe IT
Organizations today are using offshoring and outsourcing to reduce operating expenses. These 3rd party vendors need remote access to your network. You need to know exactly what they are doing and make sure they meet security and compliance policy. Product Type: Record & Replay Terminal & Citrix Session

Target User: Security & IT Managers

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Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Wire Enterprises, a 200,000 sq/ft Tier IV data center discusses how its strategic partnership with Square D CPCC contributes to its reliability, 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...
Preparing for Cloud Computing: The Managed Services Revolution by CA
for communications service providers, and looks at the challenges that cloud computing infrastructures must address and key management components providers need to put in place. Cloud computing is the logical evolution of information communication technology (ICT) outsourcing for a Web-enabled world and it can encompass many different...
The Reality Facing the Mainframe World by Acxiom Corporation
workers with new blood. For an average mainframe data center (excluding the network), roughly 40 percent of your costs are for software, 30 percent for salaries, 25 percent for hardware and five percent for facilities. Some strategies you can look at to keep that mission critical operation running for the long term include: working out a plan to keep retiring workers...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
the risks associated with outsourcing their data center, disaster recovery facilities, or off-site backup sites. This white paper examines how Oracle Advanced Security provides complete standards-based encryption that does not require any costly changes to existing applications and can help organizations achieve operational efficiencies in today's difficult...
Data Center Automation - A Forrester 2008 Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market. IT departments must spend a significant amount of time provisioning and deploying resources to meet the demands of their business. A key component of overall IT costs and meeting service levels is the...
Open, Manage, and Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications by Blue Coat
Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business pressures that keep employees out of headquarters and close to customers and partners have met head-on with other drivers that are bringing far flung servers back to the datacenter. Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business...
Automating Virtualization Management: Critical Management Practices for the Next Generation Data Center by CA
a look at how x86 virtualization has evolved and become available to a much wider audience and how it can enhance enterprise operations. Until recently only mainframe and enterprise-class server users have been able to easily flex the IT resources so that their performance and service levels are aligned with the business objectives. However, as x86...
Using Thin Provisioning to Your Best Advantage in the Data Center by Storage Decisions
about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. One reason is that no two vendors accomplish thin provisioning in the same way. Another reason is that thin provisioning serves disparate business needs ranging from capacity management to virtualization support to the green data center and more. This variety of usages makes for a powerful technology but a...
White Paper: Dedupe-Centric Storage for General Applications by Data Domain
low overhead across a full range of protocols and application environments. When deduplication is done well, people can create, share, access, protect, and manage their data in new and easier ways, and IT administrators aren't struggling to keep up.

Dedupe-centric storage is engineered from the start to address these challenges. This paper gives historical...
Choosing A Remote DBA Instead Of A Full-time Consultant? by Ntirety
is remote database administration (RDBA) and How it differs from an Onsite consultant, and help you determine if Remote Database Administration is right for your business. If it is right for your business, we examine how an organization chooses the right remote database administration vendor. In today's digital world, information resides in databases. The...
Dell Equallogic PS Series and VMware View Enhance Virtual Desktop Project Success by Dell, Inc.
by centralizing management, data protection and security. Today's user computing environments have grown more distributed, incorporating an expanding variety of devices, including desktops, laptops, and mobile units. Companies benefit from these new technologies because they provide new levels of flexibility and new ways of doing business, such as...
Not "Just a Switch" Anymore -- Data Center "Backbone" Architectures by Storage Decisions
have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. Explore this presentation to learn more. The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the...
E-Book: The Midmarket CIO's Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning by Compellent
guide, midmarket CIOs are offered expert advice and resources on a full range of issues associated with disaster recovery planning -- from virtualization and applications to outsourcing and affordable solutions. Disaster recovery (DR) is, without argument, one of the most important (and complex) aspects of IT management. But as responsibilities trickle out of IT...
Containing Vendor Sprawl: Improve Security, Reduce Risk & Lower Costs by Symantec Corporation
multiple vendors across disparate products and outline the benefits of consolidating security, storage, and systems management solutions with one strategic vendor. IDC will present key findings from their white paper of the same name, which was sponsored by Symantec. This Webcast will explain the cost of managing multiple vendors across disparate...
WAN Optimization for Dummies by Blue Coat
up. You also need comprehensive applications and user control before you can contain costs, enhance business productivity, and respond quickly to changing business requirements. Read this booklet to learn more about WAN optimization. In many enterprises, solving application delivery problems across Wide Area Networks has become a prime concern...
Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change by Wipro Technologies
IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation. Are you still depending on manual Data Center management techniques?

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Application Delivery Challenge by Akamai Technologies
topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center, Foundry Serveriron application delivery controller, transforming data center into a dynamic delivery center and managed services to complement ADC. This report explains various topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center and the internet, Foundry Serveriron application delivery...
Bloor Research - Data Integration Platforms Market Update by Talend
integration products, it has a business model and organisation that more closely resembles that of a conventional software vendor, while still leveraging the open source model. Founded in 1989, Bloor Research is one of the world's leading IT research, analysis and consultancy organizations.

In this Market Update, Research Director Philip Howard explains...
E-Guide: A Guide to Managing Data Center Power Outages and Consumption by APC
E-Guide, you will discover best practices for managing data center power usage, how to prevent power outages and learn how to ensure your data center has enough power to operate at optimal capacity. It'll also discuss 5 essential steps for reducing data center power consumtion. As businesses continue to pack more high-density computing gear into their data centers, power...
Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
and other benefits, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and explains why most current approaches to virtual system management fall short. Virtualization by definition is a technology that creates abstract versions of physical environments. As a result creating a virtual environment can be both disruptive and...
The Complete Data Center Solution by ePlus Technology
Are your data center needs outgrowing your space and capacity? Are you planning to consolidate data centers or branch office servers? ePlus can help transform your facility into a next-generation data center that will accelerate your business. Read this paper for details. Are your data center needs outgrowing your space and...
Solution Brief: Building MPLS+ Managed Services by Blue Coat
continue the consolidation of the data center to contain costs and realize security, compliance and "green IT" benefits. The key is in combining MPLS investments with adjacent application visibility, acceleration and security technologies to more effectively enhance the prioritization of traffic. This solution brief offers the breadth of technologies...
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce...
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Comparing Unix operating system vulnerabilities by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
company that tracks security vulnerabilities and viruses for thousands of software programs and operating systems. Vendors will often use information from Secunia to show how robust and secure their software is.

So let's take a look at the security vulnerability advisories in 2007 listed for each of the major Unix operating systems -- IBM... More...

Uptime Institute Symposium 2007 Special Report by Matt Stansberry, Site Editor
Institute Symposium on the Invisible Crisis in the Data Center -- power consumption. SearchDataCenter.com co-moderated sessions at the event and reported on the news and findings. Leading the special report, we have a Q&A with energy efficiency design expert Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute. Lovins gave the keynote address at the... More...
Cooling racks by Robert McFarlane
that is probably maintained in the rest of the Data Center environment. Moisture may quickly condense on and in the computing hardware, just as it does when you've been in an over-cooled space like a grocery store in summer and then step into the humid air outside and see your glasses instantly fog.)

Lastly, evaluate the accessibility inside the... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...