WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic and tactical alignment of IT with business objectives - enabling IT to do more for the business with less. By implementing all four components of Niel's model, IT can dramatically reduce system downtime and closely align their efforts and investments with business priorities.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Downtime | High Availability | IT Best Practices | IT Spending | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Windows Server Software

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

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 - Many businesses today are delivering applications to users as an on-demand service. This reduces the cost of application management and can improve application and data security. This white paper explores what availability really means, and how availability correlates to RTO and RPO baselines.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Citrix XenServer | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | RPO | RTO | Service Level Management | SLA | SLA Management Services | Systems Management | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: June 18, 2008


Topics:  Service Process Optimization Software | SOA | SOA Governance | Systems Management | Systems Management Services | Systems Management Software | Systems Operations

WHITE PAPER - IT organizations are always looking for ways to save money and time without compromising on issues like security or compliance. Exploring the value of your systems management solution is a lot easier when you know the right questions to ask. We have a few suggestions for how to get started.
Posted: July 29, 2009 | Published: July 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Enterprise Systems | IT Management | Linux | Open Source Software | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Because organizations are demanding 24x7 availability from their IMS, DB2®, and VSAM applications, it is imperative that those applications do not experience outages. Read this whitepaper to find out how BMC's Hybrid Copy techniques help for faster system recovery in the event of a local outage.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Database Management | Database Security | DB2 | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Imaging Software | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Tape Backups | VSAM

WHITE PAPER - No recent IMS enhancement has more potential to improve internal processing than does the Common Services Layer (CSL). The CSL provides many benefits. This document describes the basics of CSL usage and how to get started with the CSL.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Internal Controls | Systems Management | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Managing the complexities of today's operating systems, business applications, and networks challenges even the most knowledgeable IT professionals. ACO PAGER is proven technology, capable of processing thousands of mission-critical events daily. The software is pre-configured, easy to install, and greatly improves staff efficiency.
Posted: April 8, 2009 | Published: April 8, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Messaging Security | Network Management Software | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | TCP/IP

WHITE PAPER - LINQ is an acronym which stands for Language Integrated Query. This new technology comes built into the .NET Framework 3.5 and can be used with any of the different languages that run under .NET. This paper serves as an introduction.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Memory | Productivity | SQL | Systems Management | Systems Management Services | Systems Management Software | Windows | XML

WHITE PAPER - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Enterprise | Hardware | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Development Life-cycles | Systems Management Software