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 - This document provides guidance in designing consolidated, virtualized, and SOA-enabled data centers based on the ultra high port-density 10 GbE switch/router products of Force10.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: February 28, 2010


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Blade Servers | Cluster Software | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Grid Computing | High Availability | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Routing | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | SOA

WEBCAST - In this webcast, gain insight into IT processes and procedures that can ensure continuous business operations in your organization. Discover how to prevent downtime by conducting a gap analysis, identifying weaknesses and simplifying IT processes.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Premiered: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | IT Management | Server Management | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Platform as a service | Server Virtualization | Systems Operations

ANALYST REPORT - Windows Server on WAAS is an exciting new offering that directly addresses the vexing challenge of branch IT – finding the right balance between delivering application performance and availability in the branch, while improving the cost-effectiveness of IT as a whole. Read this analyst report to learn more.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Blade Servers | CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | IT Management | Network Managers | Remote Network Management | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | WAN | Windows Server 2003

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Processes | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Management | Network Configuration Management | Network Management | Network Performance

WEBCAST - In this webcast, learn about top cloud management issues and how to overcome them. Discover the differences between managing public and private clouds and find out how to handle user accessibility issues and application conflicts with leading cloud platforms.
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Premiered: March 3, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Data Centers | Hosting Services | Infrastructure Management | IT Management | IT Outsourcing Services | Platform as a service | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing | Software as a Service | Systems Management

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast Q&A session to learn how batch tuning can enable your organization to reduce their required computing resources and run-time, ultimately saving money. Learn how to significantly gain insight into how you can improve the results of your batch tuning initiative by changing the traditional approach to batch tuning projects.
Posted: February 2, 2010 | Premiered: February 2, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Best Practices | Data Centers | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Management | Job Scheduling Software | Microprocessors | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - Managing the virtual infrastructure end-to-end is becoming more challenging as virtual environments continue to grow and more data center elements meld into the "cloud". This whitepaper will discuss the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud", and present you with questions that will help you create the best organizational strategy.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Service Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ITIL | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication.
Posted: February 11, 2010 | Published: February 11, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | IT Management | Storage Management | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

TRIAL SOFTWARE - AdminStudio® allows IT to quickly prepare reliable virtual and MSI packages for error-free rollout with leading software deployment solutions. A complete application readiness toolset, AdminStudio also provides automated tools to help ensure application portfolios migrate smoothly to Windows 7. Download this free 21 day trial now!
Posted: January 12, 2010 | Published: January 12, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Downtime | Help Desk Management | IT Management | Operating Systems | Software Migration | Software Testing | Software Virtualization | Windows

EBOOK - Design, management and testing can make or break high availability in your virtual environment. Chapter 3 of this Advanced Virtualization E-Book discusses the essentials of high availability planning.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | High Availability | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Replication | Testing | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.
Posted: February 10, 2010 | Published: October 10, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | Networking

WHITE PAPER - The last few years have seen significant interest and effort in integrating the many tools large enterprises use to manage their IT infrastructure and applications. Central to this integration effort is the concept of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Read this whitepaper to learn a best practices approach.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | CMDB | Configuration Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Configuration Management Software | Service Level Management

ANALYST BRIEF - Tight budgets and complex IT environments mean that IT operations teams must operate as efficiently as possible. Read this Q&A session with Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service, to better understand how integrated, automated management tools can improve IT productivity.
Posted: January 20, 2010 | Published: January 20, 2010


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Change Management | Configuration Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Customer Satisfaction | IT Management | IT Service Management | IT Services | Performance Testing | Service Level Management | Systems Management | Workload Automation