WEBCAST - This webcast will provide details of how organizations can get objective, real-time data on the performance and availability of their prospective cloud service providers to assist them in their decision-making process.  Watch this webcast to learn more about how to manage the performance of applications in the cloud.
Posted: August 6, 2010 | Premiered: August 6, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Cloud Computing | Grid Computing | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending

WHITE PAPER - The goal for today's IT departments is to find ways to help the business not only survive the current economic crisis but be positioned for accelerated recovery and competitive advantage when conditions improve. This white paper offers expert advice to that end.
Posted: May 3, 2010 | Published: May 3, 2010


Topics:  Competition | Economic Environment | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | Linux | ROI | SOA

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: March 30, 2010 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Change Management | CMDB | Configuration Management | Database Management Software | Enterprise Systems | IT Best Practices | IT Services | ITIL | Job Scheduling Software

WHITE PAPER - Dell consultants can help empower your team to streamline IT operations and implement changes that can result in freed up resources, increased productivity and IT innovation. Take your organization to the next level.
Posted: March 22, 2010 | Published: March 22, 2010


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Best Practices | IT Consulting Services | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Spending | IT Systems

WHITE PAPER - Organizations large and small are rapidly adopting Microsoft SharePoint as a standard platform for their online collaboration, portal, and other mission-critical services. Learn how DocAve Backup and Recovery provides a granular, full-fidelity, item- through platform-level backup and disaster recovery solution for SharePoint.
Posted: February 3, 2010 | Published: February 3, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Collaborative Applications Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | IT Best Practices | Microsoft Office | RTO | RTP | SLA | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - Find out how to measure ROI for your business. Companies of all sizes constantly evaluate their operations, seeking to make changes that will increase effectiveness while controlling costs. This paper offers concrete practices, processes, and recommendations to drive the ROI of a company's IT investment (ROIT).
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Published: January 29, 2010


Topics:  eCommerce | Investments | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending | Project Management | ROI | SOA | TCO | Value Chains | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Systems | Operational Support Systems | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
Posted: September 14, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | IT Auditing | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending | Oracle (Product) | ROI

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | IT Best Practices | Mainframe Server Hardware | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Management | Software Licensing | Virtual Machine Migration

WHITE PAPER - The service desk is the last place you should try to cut back. For external-facing organizations, quality support keeps customer loyalty and repeat business high and ensures that partners and suppliers can do business with you cost effectively. Read this white paper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits.
Posted: June 18, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Customer Satisfaction | Customer Service Best Practices | Customer Support Software | Help Desk Management | Help Desk Management Services | Help Desk Software | IT Best Practices | Service Level Management

PODCAST - In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Best Practices | Purchasing Best Practices | Server Virtualization | VMware

PODCAST - Implementing the newest blade servers will enable you to decrease power consumption and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Best Practices | Purchasing Best Practices | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | VMware

PODCAST - Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | IT Best Practices | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) best practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and...
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Satisfaction | Downtime | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL | Knowledge Management | Operational Metrics (Systems)

EBOOK - Read this E-book to learn about how you can take a proactive approach to regulatory compliance. Rather than waste time and resources tackling one regulation at a time, find out how companies are looking at the big picture and forming security strategies based on their needs. Sponsored By: Imperva and StoredIQ
Posted: June 9, 2009 | Published: June 9, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Infrastructure Management | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | Regulations | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | ROI | Social Networking

WHITE PAPER - When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Code Management | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services | IT Systems | IT Workforce | Programming | Programming Languages

WHITE PAPER - The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute it flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value as IT budgets fall.
Posted: April 3, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Process Management | CIOs | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending | Manufacturing | Project Management | ROI | Software Development Methodologies

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Security | IT Best Practices | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
Posted: March 24, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | IT Best Practices | Strategic Planning