WEBCAST - Find out how implementing user service alignment in your organization allows IT to become a revenue driver, lowers resource costs, maximizes infrastructure utilization, and achieves true BSM.
Posted: March 9, 2010 | Premieres: March 25, 2010


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Service Management | Business Service Management Software | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Network Infrastructure | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - Testing and analysis demonstrated that the newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processors based on Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem) can significantly enhance server performance, providing an opportunity for Intel IT to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by 42 percent.
Posted: March 8, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Computing | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Microprocessors | ROI | Server Hardware | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how SOA holds the promise of accelerating application development in support of new business initiatives while at the same time reducing the overall cost of delivering these new products or services. 
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: August 11, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - The concept of Lean IT is emerging to describe the best practices required to strip inefficiency out of day-today IT operations in ways similar to how Lean Manufacturing strategies streamline manufacturing processes. This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with today's economic and operational IT challenges.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: May 4, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Applications Management | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Virtualization | SOA

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

CASE STUDY - Increased market challenges from new and old competitors meant that IMP had to look for new ways to innovate its business, while at the same time reducing IT management costs. Read this case study to learn how IMP utilized solutions from Micro Focus to successfully migrate their business critical application off mainframe to the Windows platform.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Business Continuity Planning | Enterprise Applications Software | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Productivity | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn how HP's expertise and technology leadership can help you transform your infrastructure—at your pace—by engineering your IT resources to work better together.
Posted: March 4, 2010 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Converged Networks | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Network Convergence | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Server Virtualization | SLA

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Dell Infrastructure Manager offers an open, standards-based software solution designed to unify and simplify management of heterogeneous servers, storage devices, and networks - while offering a smooth migration path toward a virtualization-ready data center that can adapt quickly and easily as enterprise needs change.
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Network Management | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Systems Management

PODCAST - In this podcast, learn how to address common cloud computing management issues. Discover which IT management processes work best in cloud computing environments and find out how to reduce the complexity associated with managing applications in the cloud.
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Premiered: March 3, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Applications Management | Backups | Cloud Computing | Data Centers | Infrastructure Management | IT Management | IT Outsourcing Services | ITIL | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

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

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to receive best practices for preventing downtime in your organization. Learn how to reduce the human error that often causes downtime. Discover how you can protect your hardware, storage and networks for completive availability coverage. 
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Premieres: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Business Process Automation | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | High Performance Computing | IT Management | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Systems Management

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Reduce the time to troubleshoot IT problems and security incidents to minutes or seconds, instead of hours or days. Monitor your entire IT infrastructure to avoid service degradation and downtime. Try this 60 day free trial now!
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Compliance (Finance) | Downtime | Enterprise Systems | High Availability | Indexing Software | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Reporting Software | Security | Security Management | Security Threats

EGUIDE - Convincing upper management to make the move to Windows Server 2008 requires extensive research and planning. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchWindowsServer.com and Microsoft, you will gain insight into the top reasons to migrate to Windows Server 2008.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Desktop Management | IT Management | Operating Systems | Productivity | Software Selection | Software Upgrades | Terminal Server Software | Windows Server Software

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this presentation transcript to learn about different data center expansion options. Discover the pros and cons of colocation, cloud computing and IT outsourcing and determine which model is best for your organization.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Co-Location Facilities | Co-Location Services | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | IT Management | IT Outsourcing Services | IT Spending | ROI | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the challenges facing IT administrators as datacenter environments become more complex, heterogeneous, and interconnected. It describes how integrated infrastructure performance and availability monitoring tools can help IT managers improve service levels and staff productivity.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Network Management