WHITE PAPER - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: May 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Service Management | Change Management | Configuration Management | Data Center Management | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | Server Virtualization | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: March 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | SOA | SOA Governance | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Systems Operations | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Database Managers | Database Performance Management | Databases | Linux | Open Source | SAP (Product) | TCO

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Posted: October 4, 2009 | Premiered: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Data Center Management | Legacy Applications Software | Mainframe Computers | Server Virtualization | SOA | Software Infrastructure | Software Project Management | Systems Management | TCO

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Posted: October 4, 2009 | Premiered: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Data Center Management | Legacy Applications Software | Mainframe Computers | Server Virtualization | SOA | Software Infrastructure | Software Project Management | Systems Management | TCO

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Posted: October 4, 2009 | Premiered: November 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Data Center Management | Legacy Applications Software | Mainframe Computers | SOA | Software Infrastructure | Software Project Management | Systems Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: February 23, 2009


Topics:  ROI | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper for a detail comparison of AS/400 WebSphere and HP/Oracle/INFINITE. Points of contrast include initial cost, ease of upgrade, return on investment, duration and intensity of training, and total cost of investment.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Oracle (Product) | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | ROI | TCO | WebSphere

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.
Posted: July 22, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | ROI | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | CRM | Customer Loyalty | Customer Retention | Enterprise | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Systems | ROI | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Management | IT Infrastructure | ROI | Server Management | Systems Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Software | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Electronic Discovery | NAS | RAID | Records Retention | SAN | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | NAS | RAID | SAN | TCO

ANALYST REPORT - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: December 8, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | TCO