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[White Paper] Application Performance Management Best Practices
May 8th, 2009Description:
The foundation for any good application performance management strategy is an understanding of the current environment. With network and application usage increasing, IT organizations face serious challenges in meeting corporate and business unit demands. Read this expert E-Guide–a series of previously published Expert Tips from SearchNetworking.com–and see how organizations are keeping application traffic moving smoothly and efficiently, while introducing new applications seamlessly into the mix.
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Posted on: April 29 2009
Published on: April 29 2009
Source: Orange Business Services
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 11 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: Orange Business Services
Author: Orange Business Services
Price: FREE
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[White Paper] 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey
March 3rd, 2009Description:
The 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey helps us to better understand if certain publicized IT risks to personal and confidential data are, or should be, more or less of a concern for organizations. The results of the study are helpful to organizations struggling to understand how they should allocate resources to help ensure their information assets are safeguarded.
Based on interviews with IT experts in operations and information security, following eight Mega Trends for this study were selected: cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and mobile devices, cyber crime, outsourcing to third parties, data breaches and the risk of identity theft, peer-to-peer file sharing and Web 2.0.
Posted on: 02 Feb 2009
Published on: 02 Feb 2009
Source:Lumension
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 30 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: Lumension
Author:Larry Ponemon
Price: FREE
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[White Paper] Why Free Patch Management Tools Could Cost You More
February 25th, 2009Description:
Today’s current economic situation underscores the importance of scrutinizing all business expenses, particularly within IT. As organizations look to keep operating expenses down, “free” technology solutions start to look more attractive. However, when choosing a solution for patching your systems and servers, it is important to consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the difference in key capabilities between point patching products and comprehensive patch management solutions. Although point patching products, such as Microsoft’s Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) may look more attractive on the surface, closer inspection often reveals hidden costs and missing capabilities. These solutions ultimately could end up costing organizations more money in the end to fully protect their IT environments. Microsoft’s WSUS lack of scalability, coverage and flexibility could leave organizations with fragmented patch management and weaker security posture while also being a more costly and cumbersome option for organizations to maintain.
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Posted on: January 2009
Published on: January 2009
Source: KACE & Lumension
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 11 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: by KACE & Lumension
Price: FREE
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[White Paper] IT Service Management: It’s About Managing Change
February 1st, 2009Description:
Implementing ITSM is as much an educational and change management task as a technology task; to ensure its success, IT executives must obtain executive and broad organizational support, engage IT staff responsible for both managing and executing ITSM processes, and overcome resistance to change.
It’s also critical that the organization addresses its competencies, rather than merely skills, and ensure that the changes it implements are internalized.
This white paper describes critical steps IT executives must take to prepare for change and manage an ITSM implementation to maximize its value and ensure that it achieves the full transformational effect it is capable of delivering.
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Posted on:01 Dec 2008
Published on: 26 Nov 2008
Source: Hewlett-Packard Company
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 8 page(s)
Language: English
Type: White Paper
Copyright: Hewlett-Packard Company
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[White Paper] Adding Mainframe Focus to End-to-End Application Performance Management
January 21st, 2009Description:
This white paper is written for CIOs and IT executives tasked with providing a strategic vision for delivering high-quality business applications at a reasonable price. It addresses high-level objectives, such as aligning IT with the business, improving IT service quality, and reducing IT costs, and also provides a structure for addressing tactically-oriented challenges, such as superior end-to-end application performance management. The paper discusses end-to-end application performance management in the context of the impact to the business.
It then highlights CA’s application quality and performance management solutions for both Web and mainframe applications, with particular focus on the integration of CA Wily with AQM Solutions’ TRILOGexpert APC for TriTune with Performance Desktop. This combination opens up the “black box” of Web-to-mainframe transactions, providing visibility essential to the process of effectively addressing end-to-end application performance management. It concludes with the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) perspective on the market in general, and on the CA solution in particular.
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Posted on: April 2008
Published on: April 2008
Source: CA
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 12 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: CA
Price: FREE
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[White Paper] Application Monitoring: Best Practices for Application Performance
January 20th, 2009Description:
A majority of applications fail at some point due to both expected and unexpected quality errors. Without an effective monitoring system, organizations are unable to identify and provide actionable alerts in real-time when errors are detected. They are then unable to ensure optimal application availability and reliability.
This white paper explores approaches for effectively monitoring business applications to ensure they achieve optimal performance and uptime. Discover the various expected and unexpected application errors that can arise during software development. Learn why an effective monitoring solution for line of business applications should be based on an always-on approach that combines reactive and proactive techniques to detect both expected and unexpected errors. Explore a practical example of how an actual organization implemented en effective monitoring solution to achieve enhanced application performance.
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Posted on: 19 Nov 2008
Published on: 01 Jan 2007
Source: AVIcode,Inc.
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 6 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: AVIcode,Inc.
Price: FREE
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Case Study – Sterling Commerce and Crowley Maritime
January 8th, 2009Description:
Crowley Maritime, offering a range of services such as shipping and barge towing, needs rapid customer billing and invoicing. The company’s electronic data interchange (EDI) volume increased by 500 percent over five years, and management wanted to sustain this growth without harming service delivery. Find out how an integration solution enabled Crowley to support new growth without adding new staff, while reducing costs.
Posted on: Oct 2008
Published on: Oct 2008
Source: Sterling Commerce
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 5 page(s)
Language: English
Type:Case Study
Price: FREE
Copyright: Sterling Commerce
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[White Paper] Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
January 7th, 2009Overview:
Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to integrate applications and databases essential to users and enables analysis of information to optimize decision-making. The hitch is in finding the right combination of information accessibility and processing power to effectively support BI across the extended enterprise.
This paper will help CIOs answer the following questions:
- How simple is it to answer event-driven or ad hoc questions based on current systems and data?
- What proportion of time is spent on collection and input of data as opposed to analysis?
- Is the IT department consumed with running queries, reports, and obtaining information from disparate databases?
- How easily and quickly can information be disseminated to the people who need it, in the format they want?
- Is it easy to identify trends in the organization’s performance?
- Does senior management have a single view of information?
- Can information be distributed to customers, employees, and partners in a consistent fashion?
Posted on: 18 Jun 2008
Published on: 01 Jan 2007
Source: Information Builders
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 11 page(s)
Type: White Paper
Language: English
Price: FREE
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[White Paper] Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence 2008
January 7th, 2009Overview:
The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms presents a global view of Gartner’s opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI) applications. Buyers should evaluate vendors in all four quadrants — those from the Niche Players and Visionaries quadrants are driving innovation in areas such as interactive visualization, in-memory data analysis, real-time dashboards, wizard-based application development and spreadsheet-based reporting. The scores and commentary in this document are based substantially on three sources: customer perceptions of each vendor’s strengths and challenges derived from BI-related inquiries with Gartner, an online survey of vendor customers conducted in late 2007, and a vendor-completed questionnaire about their BI strategy and operations.
Posted on: 10 Aug 2008
Published on: 01 Feb 2008
Source: QlikTech, Inc.
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 19 page(s)
Type: White Paper
Language: English
Price: FREE
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