WHITE PAPER - This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for the organization.
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | Best Practices | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Configuration Management | Network Management | Network Security | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This report by Clabby Analytics, an independent research firm, examines trends in scale-out system designs and the critical impact that virtualization is having on enhancing overall systems utilization, management and operations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, CA presents an eye-opening look at ways to improve your IT infrastructure at its most fundamental level.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Productivity | ROI | Service Level Management

WHITE PAPER - For businesses running SAP solutions, manual processing of customer order and billing documents is often the single most limiting factor in their ability to improve order-to-cash performance.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | ROI | SAP (Product) | Software | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - One of the biggest challenges today for infrastructure administrators is how to provide a secure environment. This white paper provides administrators with the starting place for designing security into the App-V infrastructure.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | Networking | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper reviews the foundational building blocks needed to achieve fast payback from investing in demand generation.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  B2B | Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Campaign Management Software | CRM Analytics | CRM Software | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Demographic Profiles | Email | Enterprise | IT Infrastructure | Lead Generation | Marketing Information Systems | Productivity | Profiling | Sales Force Automation | Sales Representatives | Software as a Service

CASE STUDY - Vesta implemented Tripwire® Enterprise as it continuously monitors IT infrastructure for all unauthorized change to help maintain known, trusted, and compliant system environments ensuring audit requirements are met.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | IT Infrastructure | Payment Card Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Many organizations look SOA to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements. To achieve this agility architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Cluster Management | ERP | IT Infrastructure | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will examine the monitoring challenges faced by finance departments and reveal the many advantages of real-time transaction monitoring for SAP.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Financial Services | Fraud Protection | IT Infrastructure | SAP (Product) | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn why a migration to the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem can boost your business results in two ways: by improving the performance of your critical business systems, and by reducing your data center facility costs.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Databases | IT Infrastructure | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - The dynamic nature of today's infrastructure makes it impossible to rely only on traditional manual intervention modes and makes the use of intelligent automation a business imperative. Learn how this works in practice in this whitepaper.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Architectures | Network Configuration Management | Network Forensics | Network Monitoring | Network Performance

ASSESSMENT TOOL - This assessment test will evaluate your IT infrastructure capabilities with two types of results, general individual performance indicators and a more detailed and personalized evaluation of current performance and suggestions for areas to improve.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 20, 2008


Topics:  Asset Management Services | Business Processes | Continuous Data Protection | ERP | IT Infrastructure | Performance Testing | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - In response to the growing threats, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) strengthened its regulations pertaining to the access of targeted data in particular, CPNI.
Posted: September 22, 2008 | Published: September 22, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Regulatory Compliance | Security

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents vital information about the regulatory requirements that enterprises must satisfy and how digital data protection helps enterprises to satisfy these requirements.
Posted: September 22, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Encryption | HIPAA Compliance | IT Infrastructure | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Storage Management

WEBCAST - James Champy will discuss the research and findings from his new book, "OUTSMART!, How To Do What Your Competitors Can't."
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Premiered: September 22, 2008


Topics:  Business Models | Information Management | Information Technology Association of America | Information Technology Professionals | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure