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Aligning For a More Successful Business and IT Development Paradigm
sponsored by Active Endpoints, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 09 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 09 Sep 2009 | |
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This paper examines how the adoption of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) can significantly improve Business and IT alignment.
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Size Up Top Security Vendors with Comparative Security Testing
sponsored by ESET
| White Paper: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Sep 2008 | |
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Read this paper to learn the results of a study that examined performance evaluations and comparative tests on the ESET Smart Security Business Edition package as well as other leading solutions.
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Optimizing Virtualization to Deliver Best-in-Class Outcomes
sponsored by VKernel
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 24 Jul 2009 | |
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This EMA paper (prepared for VKernel) discusses the challenges in achieving virtualization goals in the enterprise and how capacity management can help optimize resource utilization while maintaining performance.
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Why You Should Take a Holistic Approach to ITIL and Service Support
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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In these tough economic times, how do you address the challenge of reducing costs without diminishing your service quality? Companies can lower costs significantly and meet the growing demand for services by taking a more holistic approach. This paper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management and...
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Unlock the Hidden IT Opportunities in Troubled Economic Times
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...
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Ride the Express Lane in the Journey to Speed ITIL® Adoption
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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The journey to ITIL is challenging and requires clarity of vision and a disciplined execution to achieve that vision. By following ITIL practices, your IT organization will become more closely integrated with the business. BMC recommends making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through...
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Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service Quality and Reducing IT Costs
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, “Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..”
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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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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.
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Understanding ITIL® Service Portfolio Management: An Approach For Implementing Effective Service Lifecycle Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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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...
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Seven Ways ITIL Can Help You in an Economic Downturn
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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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...
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Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 12 Jun 2009 | |
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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.
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Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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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.
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10 Dying IT Skills
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 May 2009
| | Published: | 13 May 2009 | |
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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.
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Dell's SMART Approach to Workload Automation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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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.
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How Customers Are Cutting Costs and Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization
sponsored by Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 03 Nov 2008 | |
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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.
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