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IT Automation: Moving IT from Panic Mode to Managed Mode by Kaseya
align them with business objectives. Read this white paper to learn more about IT automation and why your clients must understand the need for this strategy and why it is being used today. Most IT executives believe their organization could be doing a better job of maximizing their IT investments and aligning them with business objectives. IT automation can provide the...
Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java Applications by Oracle Corporation
This white paper outlines key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy--a ‘must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme and predictable performance and scalability. This white paper outlines key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy-a 'must have' capability for...
Grid Computing White Paper: Oracle Grid Solutions for the Next-Generation Data Center by Oracle Corporation
This Oracle white paper describes how businesses of all sizes worldwide are using Grid best practices to modernize their IT operations and increase efficiency, availability, performance, and operational agility. Enterprise grid computing is an emerging information technology (IT) architecture that delivers more flexible...
Services Oriented Storage: Principles and Applications - A Hitachi Data Systems White Paper by Hitachi Data Systems
Read the white paper to learn how Services Oriented Storage from Hitachi Data Systems facilitates intelligent tiered storage, common management of heterogeneous storage, data protection, archiving and performance optimization. Services Oriented Storage is a strategy that aligns storage resources with business needs. The...
IDC White Paper: Striving for Efficiency in Information Management with Services Oriented Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
This white paper examines the business dynamics that are shaping the need for services oriented storage solutions and discusses the specific solution put forth by Hitachi. Hitachi's Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS) are designed to better manage rapidly expanding IT infrastructures and allow organizations to...
Podcast: Illuminata White Paper: HP Non Stop Gets Bladed by Hewlett-Packard Company
on recorded webinar "HP Non Stop Gets Bladed White Paper." In this podcast, Information Technology Analyst Golden Halve discusses the Non Stop product line and explains how it enables high performance for a transactional serving environment...
Router Essentials by Global Knowledge
move packets between networks, by reading this white paper. Every time we teach a class to get students started with Cisco and networking technologies, there are always some common things that bug and stop students from getting some basic topics.We, as instructors, are always asked if there is a basic to the basic course they are taking. That's why we are putting this router...
White Paper: Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues with Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
This white paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause. This paper demonstrates six specific ways storage virtualization can help...
Blade Server Performance and Power Consumption Comparisons by Dell, Inc. and Intel
a dual-socket blade server. Read this white paper to learn how systems from Dell, HP, and IBM stack, using an industry standard benchmark. When selecting a dual-socket blade server, performance per watt is an essential metric to measure performance. This white paper reviews results from a study that tested systems by running a variety of different...
Best Practices for Next Generation IP Address Management by BT INS
This white paper provides IT professionals 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...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today. It's a no brainer - consolidating servers reduces storage management costs, requires fewer hardware and software licenses and requires less administration. The real challenge is cleaning up your data prior to the server consolidation.

The solution is simple - identify and remove "junk" data,...
File Shares to SharePoint: 8 Keys to a Succesful Migration by Quest Software
for your company's collaboration data. This white paper discusses what you need to consider when migrating data from file shares to SharePoint. Read it today. It's costly to manage and maintain multiple data platforms, yet many companies still do so. Although file shares work, their limited capabilities and high administration costs make consolidating your...
Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs across the Entire IT Infrastructure by Quest Software
In the new Quest white paper learn how Quest can expand the power of Microsoft 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...
Enabling End-To-End IT Management with Microsoft System Center and Quest Software by Quest Software
In this white paper, Enterprise Management Associates discuss how Quest can expand the power of Microsoft System Center for true end-to-end IT management. One of the greatest challenges facing IT managers today is controlling complex IT infrastructures - and doing it within a tight budget. And a lack of centralized...
Log Management in the Cloud: A Comparison of In-House Vs. Cloud-Based Management of Log Data by Alert Logic
This white paper presents some questions to consider when vetting 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...
Improve Your Business through Best Practice IT Management by Kaseya
This white paper provides insight on ways 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...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Enterprise De-Duplication Solutions: How to Navigate the Pitfalls and Hyperbole by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
the truth is often distorted. This white paper breaks through the hype and provides you with an outline on the principles of deduplication as well as tips for evaluating solutions. Data deduplication has the potential to fundamentally change the economics of data protection by providing unparalleled rewards to users. However, every data...
Benchmarking Your Virtualization Stage: Compare Your Progress to Other IT Departments by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
challenges you face typical? This white paper draws upon a survey of your IT peers to show the typical obstacles and progress of IT shops around virtualization (e.g. technical complexities, skill set deficiencies, and cost control). You've implemented virtualization in the data center, but are you maximizing its benefits? This white paper draws upon a survey of...
Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI by Shunra Software
to critical applications and services. This white paper outlines the principles and practices that will ensure that you do so. As businesses become increasingly dependent on the effective delivery of IT services over far-flung enterprise networks, technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become increasingly attractive. In...
Essential Steps for the Integrated EDW by Informatica
This white paper proposes a specific architecture for building and integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW) that directly supports master data management efforts and provides the platform for consistent business analysis across the enterprise. This white paper proposes a specific architecture for building and...
Hawaii Pacific Health Consolidates 3 Datacenters into 1 by Hewlett-Packard Company
This white paper discusses a real world scenario of how Hawaii's largest healthcare provider consolidated data centers, business processes, and business offices. This white paper discusses a real world scenario of how one organization was able to design and implement an enterprise-wide hospital information system...
How to Simplify Information Management through Advanced Storage Consolidation by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
The white paper provides key insights to helping organizations achieve better storage cost-containment, more flexible 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...
IDC White Paper: Achieving Business Value and Gaining ROI with CA's EITM Software for Optimizing IT Infrastructures by CA
This IDC white paper presents the results of an IDC study, sponsored by CA, to quantify the benefits, cost savings, and return on investment (ROI) that customers can achieve using CA's Enterprise IT Management software products. The use of automated IT management software tools typically brings direct benefits to IT...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
to maintain optimal performance.

This white paper highlights a scalable, cost-effective disk-based backup solution that works with your existing backup application. Read this white paper to learn more about this solution, how it satisfies the 7 requirements of cost-effective disk-based backup and the advantages it has over other solutions, including:
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Best Practices in Instant Messaging Management by Quest Software
  • compliance/legal issues

In the Quest Software white paper, "Best Practices in Instant Messaging Management," learn to maximize the benefits - while reducing the risks - of IM. Get the steps your business should take to keep the power of IM working in your favor. Read this white paper today...
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Using z10 HiperDispatch for vertical CPU management by Robert Crawford, Contributor
e.g, CICS and WebSphere) may need to be broken out. An IBM white paper titled, "Planning Considerations for HiperDispatch Mode" recommends promoting highly interactive WebSphere above relatively CPU-bound CICS and DB2. The same document has a nice explanation of various HiperDispatch definitions along with other chestnuts of wisdom.

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The mainframe as a "Green Monitor" by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
short up to now. Granted, IBM is offering travel- and paper-reducing software, including repurposing Lotus Notes collaboration solutions to avoid employee travel and advocating increased use of Content Manager and the like for saving paper. However, both BPM (business process management) solutions and enterprise applications such as ERP... More...
Offsite data storage advice by Rich Ptak, Contributor
of managed data assets were physical – boxes of paper, tapes, disks, pictures, etc. However, today's digital data is exploding and driving changes in handling and management.

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the... More...