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

WHITE PAPER - The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.
Posted: February 23, 2010 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | iSCSI SAN | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn about 12 best practices for data backup and recovery such as Reliability, Breadth of Offering, Security, Accessibility, Scalability, Cost-effectiveness and more!
Posted: January 11, 2010 | Published: January 11, 2010


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Security | Storage Spending | Storage Standards | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Protecting virtual machines is not an easy task. Existing agent-based and proxy server-based approaches to backup and recovery for VMware vSphere environments can be disruptive or limit recovery point service levels. These often require downtime to perform backups - a completely unacceptable condition in today’s 24x7 virtual datacenters.
Posted: February 11, 2010 | Published: February 11, 2010


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Storage Best Practices | Storage Industry | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | VMware

WHITE PAPER - When deployed together, highly virtualized storage from 3PAR and server virtualization from VMware deliver a compelling utility computing solution. This combination boosts VMware ROI by allowing you to build a highly scalable virtual datacenter that serves more applications with fewer hardware resources and less management.
Posted: February 11, 2010 | Published: February 11, 2010


Topics:  Data Centers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | VMware

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

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.
Posted: January 13, 2010 | Published: January 13, 2010


Topics:  Applications Management | Best Practices | Continuous Data Protection | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Replication | Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | Quality Control | RAID | Storage Management | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - The incredible growth in the amount of electronic data generated for both business and personal use has resulted in higher costs for data storage and backup. Several factors have lead to these spiraling cost increases, including storage of larger files, multiple backups, and enforcement of industry regulations. How often is your company backing up?
Posted: January 11, 2010 | Published: January 11, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Storage | Email | Email Archiving | Storage Management | Storage Spending | Storage Standards

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the several reasons to implement a messaging archiving system and provides an overview of ten vendors whose offerings are focused squarely on the archiving space.
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Published: January 29, 2010


Topics:  Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Downtime | Email Archiving | Messaging Protocols | Messaging Security | Messaging Software | Storage Management

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

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 Sun BluePrints™ article shows how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes in order to accelerate application performance.
Posted: December 24, 2009 | Published: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | High Availability | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | High Availability | Mainframe Server Hardware | Networking Hardware | SAN | Storage Management | Switches

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