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FREE TRIAL: Patch Authority Ultimate Version 6.1 - Prevents Attacks! by ScriptLogic Corporation
ScriptLogic's comprehensive, enterprise-class patch management solution, prevents attacks and exploits through centralized control of updates on all Windows desktops and servers.

Product Type: Windows Server Management

Target User: Network administrators, IT managers

IT Download Description: Patch Authority Ultimate's rich interface and extensive feature set deploys...
Improve Your Business through Best Practice IT Management by Kaseya
that MSPs and IT departments can improve their management of services. Learn how using ITIL best practices with an automated management solution can address a number of the unique challenges these businesses face. MSPs and corporate IT departments each have their own particular challenges that they face. MSPs are often rapidly growing and are forced to grow profits...
Automating and Optimizing Service Desk Performance by Kaseya
your clie... A key component of any successful IT management strategy is an effective service delivery capability, and an organization's service desk is essential to ensure quality service and support. Although the service desk is often the first line of defense that must react to IT issues, most organizations have not designed their service desk to effectively...
IT Automation: Moving IT from Panic Mode to Managed Mode by Kaseya
and inventory, OS deployment, patch management and systems upgrades of remote systems.

This white paper examines the need for and use of IT automation solutions, both in-house and via a managed services provider. Download this white paper to learn how IT automation can help your clients overcome the common challenges in their IT environment by assisting...
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environments from a centralized Web-based management console, Kaseya's Systems Management Framework streamlines a consistent and scalable service delivery process. By automating essential administrative duties and managing the process from afar, Systems Administrators can improve systems performance and availability while requiring little IT...
Proving Control of the Infrastructure: The need for independent detective controls within Change/Configuration Management by Tripwire, Inc.
and process issues, including poor change management practices, while the remainder is caused by technology failures and disasters." Many IT organizations, in the spirit of being nimble and responsive to their customers, are actually putting themselves at risk in the everyday process of making changes to their own systems. If industry analysts are...
Protect Your DNS Infrastructure from Attack! by BT INS
Attend this free webinar to learn about DNSSEC and how it can help resolve DNS cache poisoning attacks. This webinar will be live September 11, 2008 from 12:00 noon EDT to 1:00 PM EDT. See you there. The Internet DNS community has been shaken by the reporting of a major DNS cache poisoning vulnerability by Dan Kaminsky of IOActive, Inc. This widely...
Oracle Unbreakable Linux: An Overview by Oracle Corporation
This white paper reviews support programs that address common problems on three Linux architectures: x86, x86-64, and Linux Itanium. Learn how to execute bug fixes and lower the risk of applying patches. When problems occur in a large, complex enterprise environment on a Linux platform, it's often impossible to reproduce such occurrences with...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
state and data within the computer caused management challenges such as storage over provisioning, data duplication as well as expensive and ineffective backup solutions. Shifting data storage to Storage Area Networks (SAN) provided numerous advantages in both hard and soft dollar cost savings. The final evolution of storage management is to separate the...
Easily Manage, Provision & Deploy Virtual Desktops by VMware, Inc.
View Manager 3, an enterprise-class desktop management solution that streamlines management, provisioning and deployment of virtual desktops. A key component of VMware View 3, VMware View Manager provides secure, easy access to virtual desktops to simplify upgrades and patches and let you efficiently manage 100s or 1000s of desktops- saving time and resources...
Taking Virtualization from the Data Center to the Desktop: A Closer Look by Hewlett-Packard Company
new opportunities for reducing client management costs and improving enterprise security. Much of this concern associated with the rise cost of PCs is around security: patching the operating system (OS) and applications on each system; updating antivirus, antispyware, antispam, and firewall definitions on each system; backing up the data; and more. As a result of...
5 Virtualization Do's and Don'ts by Information Security Magazine
Patching, staging, deployment and change management--chronic headaches for IT security--get easier in virtualized data centers...
Adaptive Network Architecture by Hewlett-Packard Company
Networks today need the capacity and flexibility to create rapid yet secure infrastructure access for partners, customers. Read this white paper and learn a new adaptive networking approach. Adaptive Network Architecture embodies the design principles of:

1 - Simplification - The traditional network model is a legacy of the pre-...
Try XenServer Enterprise Edition Now with a Free 30-day Trial by Citrix
Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition is a powerful platform managing virtualization as a flexible aggregated pool of compute and storage resources, for dynamic managed virtualization environments for the enterprise. Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition is a powerful platform managing virtualization as a flexible aggregated pool of...
SAP Solutions on VMware Infrastructure: Customer Use Cases by VMware and Intel
This document explores the ways real SAP customers have used VMware virtualization to: Optimize datacenter resources; Ease SAP upgrades, new implementations, and platform migrations; Better meet SLAs and Support service delivery to the business. At the most basic level, virtualization allows you to run multiple workloads in "virtual...
Get in the Groove with SQL Server Consolidation by Quest Software
is an extremely popular relational database management system (RDBMS) that is easy to install, administer, and program. It ships with many shrink-wrapped applications and it is included with various Microsoft products such as Office and Visual Studio.

In fact, SQL Server is so easy to use that in many enterprises, individual departments have installed SQL...
ITIL V3 and the PMBOK® - Distinct but Complementary by Global Knowledge
Library Version 3® (ITIL V3®) and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). This white paper examines the IT Infrastructure Library Version 3® (ITIL V3®) and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). While there are numerous project management methodologies around the world, the quintessential project management methodology in the North...
up.time 5 - Powerful IT Systems Management that Deploys in Minutes by uptime software inc.
Powerful and Scalable IT Systems Management for Enterprises that Deploys in Minutes - up.time provides browser-based 'Single Pane of Glass' views across domains, Platforms, Environments (Physical & Virtual), Applications, and Databases. Product Type: IT Systems Management

Target User: System Admnistrator and IT Manager

IT Problem: up.time solves downtime...
Applying ITIL Best Practices to IPAM by BT INS
areas can be applied specifically to IP address management (IPAM), and the benefits that can be achieved from using an ITIL management framework. Providing structure and discipline to network configuration, changes and monitoring functions, helps organizations reduce miscommunications and configuration errors, as well as continually improve processes...
Best Practices for Next Generation IP Address Management by BT INS
with a guide to flawlessly execute tasks for IP management and recommends 19 crucial best practices for simplifying the IP management process. These best practices are derived from numerous implementations of... This 2009 edition white paper provides IT professionals with guidelines that help flawlessly execute these three critical IP address management...
Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs across the Entire IT Infrastructure by Quest Software
System Center for true end-to-end IT management. For many companies, the power of Microsoft's System Center suite provides a powerful management platform to handle today's ever-changing IT environment. However, expanding Microsoft System Center's capabilities not only improves the value of your IT investments, but you better achieve IT goals...
Log Management in the Cloud: A Comparison of In-House Vs. Cloud-Based Management of Log Data by Alert Logic
your business needs against each type of log management model. Vendors have begun to offer log management in-the-cloud (or Software-as-a-Service) as a way to simplify log management. To help with the process of choosing an in-house or cloud-based log management solution, Alert Logic offers this white paper authored by Jerry Shenk of SANS. This white paper presents some...
Network Management - From Reactive to Proactive Mode Using Centralized Management Tools by Stonesoft Inc.
In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches are needed. In this white paper IT departments are advise to change from reactive to proactive and become more vigorous in the process of network management. In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches are needed...
SAS® Strategic Performance Management by SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Strategic Performance Management facilitates the creation, communication and execution of strategy - promoting focus, alignment and agility throughout the organization. SAS Strategic Performance Management facilitates the creation, communication and execution of strategy - promoting focus, alignment and agility...
Management Strategy for Network Critical Physical Infrastructure by APC
Physical infrastructure management is the key to system availability, minimizing downtime risk and increasing personnel productivity. Learn the factors that should be considered when choosing a management solution for the physical infrastructure la... A best in class NCPI management scheme should incorporate the use of an NCPI element manager...
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Data center disaster recovery Web resources by SearchDataCenter.com, Staff
a base of knowledge in contingency planning and the management of risk. The group focuses on educational and certification programs for those engaged in the practice of business continuity planning and management.

Iron Mountain
What about disaster recovery services? There are a number of vendor offerings out there that specialize in different... More...

Green data centers are about money, not the environment by Richard L. Ptak, Contributor
latest fad of IT greening.

Data centers ripe for power management
Facility managers have long recognized and treated the data center as a potential target for cost savings from energy management and automated environmental (heating and air conditioning) control. The data center has been the focus of facility audits provided by a wide range of... More...

Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS by Robert Crawford, Contributor
B is the backend to your company's web site, management wants answers and wants them now. Don't laugh, it's happened.

The monitors for B show an elongated dispatch time. Here, dispatch time is defined as when elements of the workload are eligible to run and on a dispatch chain but have to wait for the CPU. Therefore the performance analyst for B... More...

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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...

How will data centers weather the economic downturn? by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
senior systems architect at Quinstreet and Linux author

Open source systems management tools could edge out expensive incumbents
For data centers, tough economic times mean keeping the existing IT services up and running without additional budget allocations and even figuring out how to create new IT services with little to no money. Hence, the... More...

With IBM blades and VMware, firm shrinks data center footprint, cost by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
to reduce space requirements, cut power and cooling costs, and make data center management easier.

Until a few years ago, the real estate company's technology was warehoused in a colocation facility with 17 racks of about 93 HP and Compaq servers. The cost of hosting and maintaining all those racks of servers, along with the company's website hosting, was... More...