WHITE PAPER - Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | IT Service Management | IT Spending | Network Appliances | Network Management Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Process Automation | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Service Level Management | SLA | SLA Management Services | SOA | SOA Governance

WHITE PAPER - IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) best practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and...
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Satisfaction | Downtime | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL | Knowledge Management | Operational Metrics (Systems)

WHITE PAPER - Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation.
Posted: June 12, 2009 | Published: June 12, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | CIOs | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | IT Service Management | ROI | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Systems Management

WEBCAST - Watch this webinar to get an overview of Numara's Track It! software solution and free trial download that offers everything needed to manage your Help Desk and IT assets while enabling your organization to cost-effectively employ industry best practices.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Premiered: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Cost Benefit Analysis | Desktop Management | Help Desk Management | Help Desk Management Services | Help Desks | IT Asset Management Software | IT Best Practices | IT Service Management

WHITE PAPER - As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Service Management | IT Auditing | IT Departments | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | ITIL | Security Best Practices | Security Managers

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

WEBCAST - BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.
Posted: April 24, 2009 | Premiered: April 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Service Management | Capacity Planning | Data Management | Data Storage | IT Service Management | IT Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs.
Posted: April 18, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Service | Enterprise Architectures | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Job Scheduling Software | ROI | Systems Management | Workload Automation

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Businesses today grow and change at a frantic pace, making Active Directory (AD) management one of the most time-consuming IT tasks. AD administrators struggle to keep up with requests to create, change or remove user access to various network resources.
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Active Directory | Enterprise Systems | IT Service Management | IT Systems | Network Management Software | Network Security | Server Management

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Human error and hardware or software failures can easily corrupt Active Directory. AD objects can often be modified or deleted by mistake and faulty scripts can overwrite attributes. The result is unplanned system downtime and lost user productivity.
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Active Directory | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Disaster Recovery | IT Service Management | Network Management | Network Management Software | Online Backup Software | Online Backups

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization provides powerful, tangible ways to streamline many traditionally time-consuming processes and minimize the resources needed to deploy and manage IT resources. This white paper examines how Microsoft® customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure, IT processes, and save money.
Posted: March 19, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Asset Management | IT Auditing | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Spending | IT Systems | ITIL | Operating Systems

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which dramatically simplifies application integration today. As a purpose-built solution designed exclusively for application integration, it eliminates complexity from an integration problem and enables companies to implement projects in days, rather than weeks or months.
Posted: February 23, 2009 | Published: February 23, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Intelligence | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Service Management | ITIL

ANALYST BRIEF - ITIL is quickly becoming the global standard in IT service delivery, and for good reason - it offers IT leaders a robust, flexible, and transparent way to manage technology services and align with the business. Read this brief for advice on it's proper implementation.
Posted: February 19, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL

WHITE PAPER - This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.
Posted: February 17, 2009 | Published: December 22, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Data Center Management | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise Systems | High Availability | IT Service Management | Network Management | Regulatory Compliance | ROI