PODCAST - Learn how service-based solutions can bring flexibility and lower costs to your IT infrastructure. Find out how to maximize your organization's resources and quickly scale your infrastructure to meet the demands of expanding global online audiences.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Premiered: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Application Hosting | Cloud Computing | Content Management Services | Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Online Marketing | Online Shopping | Software as a Service | Web Site Administration

TEST RESULTS - In this report, we estimate both the number of older solutions each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace and the payback period for replacing those older solutions. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents a sample Dell solution -- using the Dell R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series) -- designed to tolerate faults at multiple infrastructure layers to provide maximum level of availability for the virtual infrastructure.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - Learn more about offerings to improve energy efficiency across your infrastructure.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Premiered: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Green Storage | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Best Practices | IT Management | Network Performance | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

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)

PODCAST - Hear from Brian Barnier, Principal at ValueBridge, as he speaks on how a formal governance process will ensure a positive impact on your bottom line. Also, get answers to some of the toughest governance questions, including “how important is risk evaluation in IT governance?”
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 16, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Management | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Infrastructure | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | ITIL | Server Consolidation

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - This paper is for decision makers that are familiar with and interested in VMware View as a desktop replacement strategy. An understanding of networking and fibre channel infrastructure and how they interact with HP Virtual Connect technologies, virtualization benefits and techniques, VMware software, and datacenter practices is recommended.
Posted: September 15, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Network Best Practices | Rack Servers | Server Management | Server Virtualization | VMware

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

WHITE PAPER - This paper gives tips on how CIOs and LOB executives can close the gap between them when it comes to an organization’s ability to most strategically utilize technology to optimally leverage the value and power of information for the success of the organization.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | CIOs | IT Best Practices | IT Management | Retail Banking Services

EGUIDE - In this series, Craig Mathias explores the various ways mobility solutions can be used successfully and cost-effectively in your enterprise.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | IT Systems | Mobile Device Management | Remote Computing

ANALYST BRIEF - In this paper, the top information services leaders share their expertise on how to most efficiently build your IT staff. Read this paper to learn the essential qualities and must-haves for your company's IT Staff.
Posted: August 18, 2009 | Published: August 18, 2009


Topics:  Employee Performance Management (EPM) | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Management | IT Workforce | Leadership | Staffing | Training | Training and Educational Services

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper will provide an overview of the benefits of Storage Resource Management as a "front end" to data deduplication. We will demonstrate how an SRM tool such as Northern Storage Suite can work in concert with data de-duplication technologies to efficiently streamline data and assure optimal performance of an organization's storage inf...
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | IT Best Practices | NAS | Network Performance | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management

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