WHITE PAPER - APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Systems Management Software

EGUIDE - This E-guide addresses configuration and change management in a partially virtual environment. Topics include: reporting on and managing virtual servers, the effects of physical changes on servers, how to extend change management processes like ITIL to cover the SAN, and handling human problems between the networking, datacenter, and storage teams.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Hardware Configuration Management | ITIL | Network Configuration Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | SAN | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Change Management | Construction Industry | Contract Management | Contracts | Project Management

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how Tripwire provided this subscription billing service company achieve broad PCI compliance and helped them become proactive in handling security and compliance issues.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Data Security | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Security Management | Security Policies | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides seven practical steps any information security organization can take to improve information system security and achieve compliance with relevant regulations, standards and internal security and operational policy.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: April 27, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Configuration Management | Cybersecurity | Cyberterrorism | Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 | Information Security | Security Policies

PODCAST - Companies with a flexible IT infrastructure credit their success to an ability to adapt to change. Listen to find new ways to lower IT complexity and improve operating efficiency in your company.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Premiered: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Asset Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ROI | TCO

WEBCAST - Tune into this webcast to discover why Tripwire should be your go-to solution for managing the configurations of your physical and virtual IT infrastructures.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Premiered: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | Regulatory Compliance | Security Management | Security Policies

VIRTUAL SEMINAR - Find out how you can build a plan for IT simplification and automation and get practical advice for your complex challenges around areas such as: business service management, service desk and self-service, mainframe cost optimization, virtualization and cloud computing.
Posted: September 22, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Business Performance Management | Business Service Management | Change Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | IT Governance | IT Service Management | ITIL | Mainframe Operating Systems | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - Lights-Out IT Management refers to the automation of both problem identification and problem resolution. The successful implementation of Lights-Out IT Management is built upon an integrated system that provides three key management functions: find, configure, and monitor. Read on to learn more.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Network Management | Network Management Software | Network Managers | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Networking

VIDEOCAST - Check out this brief video to learn how Trend Micro is providing an integrated solution that addresses the complexity that results from companies that are more and more frequently combining security management and systems management teams.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Premiered: August 26, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Content Management | Endpoint Security | Mobile Workers | Remote Users | Security Management | Security Managers | Systems Management

CASE STUDY - A search for a tool to augment the job scheduling power of Zeke uncovered a unique solution to a common set of problems for a PA-based department store chain. Currently running a newly installed System z/10 in their long time IBM mainframe-based IT shop, they implemented SEGUS' SmartIS.
Posted: August 20, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Change Management | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | Job Scheduling Software | Mainframe Operating Systems | Reporting Software | Retail Trade Industry | Test Results | Warehouse Management | z/OS

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Check out this paper to learn about McAfee Change Control, an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. McAfee Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.
Posted: August 18, 2009 | Published: August 17, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Configuration Management | Databases | ITIL | Networking Hardware | Payment Card Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

VIDEO - In an exclusive interview with Sharon Taylor, you'll hear her address the negative user comments about ITIL V3, the improved potential for ROI and the new V3 certification path.
Posted: August 17, 2009 | Premiered: August 7, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Help Desk Management Services | Infrastructure Services | ITIL | ROI | Service Level Management

ANALYST REPORT - Poor application performance results in significant financial losses for most companies. Find out why, and more importantly how to avoid these losses by moving toward proactive application performance management, in this research from Forrester Consulting commissioned by Compuware.
Posted: August 13, 2009 | Published: January 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Applications Management | Applications Management Software | Change Management | CIOs | Configuration Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.
Posted: July 31, 2009 | Published: December 8, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Security | Information Security | Operational Support Systems | Risk Management