September 28, 2011 - Explore the impact of business intelligence in provider settings, and the results of the SearchHealthIT.com reader survey, in this exclusive report.
November 26, 2010 - If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008.
October 27, 2011 - In this SearchStorage.com expert E-Guide you'll learn seven key questions to ask regarding your current backup strategy, how remote backups are becoming more manageable with cloud-based technology, and what different remote backup options are available for different sized companies.
May 03, 2010 - Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers, Oracle® Solaris, Oracle Solaris Cluster, and educational and professional services from Oracle can help organizations maximize the availability of business-critical IT services. Continue reading to learn more.
January 27, 2012 - The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized.
February 03, 2012 - Read this e-book to compare traditional hosted enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps to Software as a Service (SaaS). Uncover the benefits and challenges of each alternative and decide which is best for your organization
November 07, 2010 - This paper explains how with a community-driven development approach, enhancements are driven by a community of users, which means the system constantly improves in the exact way a user requires. Continue reading to learn the power of community-driven product enhancement.
February 10, 2012 - Today’s IT pros are being challenged to convert their data centers from costly infrastructures into producers of business value. This resource explores how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.
October 18, 2011 - For an emerging business, connecting its infrastructure is a vital step to take it systems to the next level. View this brief video to learn how consolidating and virtualizing your organization’s environment can advance your business initiatives and increase cost-savings.
December 01, 2008 - Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs--helping simplify data management, and increase application performance.
June 17, 2010 - As with any new technology, in order to achieve a secure implementation, it is necessary to augment existing policies and practices with an understanding of how virtualization works. Read this paper to find out more.
June 01, 2008 - In this Videocast, renowned storage expert, Jon Toigo, outlines the Green Data Project, provides an overview of green storage and explores other relevant topics.
February 21, 2011 - Who could have imagined that a tablet would capture the imagination of employees and IT alike? But the iPad did, and it’s kicked off an arms race for smart mobile devices. This report introduces a simple framework to guide content and collaboration professionals through employee-fueled tablet scenarios and IT-led tablet projects.
October 07, 2011 - In today’s tough economy, organizations are pressured to maintain a low total cost of ownership (TCO). This resource can help you compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) for maintaining and extending mainframe based applications versus the costs for migrating the applications to open systems servers.
September 27, 2011 - Unfortunately, data theft and the financial consequences of such breaches can be severe. Many organizations lose customers and revenue because of the violation of trust incurred from a breach. Inside this white paper, learn about a security approach that can help reduce risk, while also controlling operating costs.
February 10, 2012 - This expert guide helps you build a solid business case for ERP including important questions to ask, how to define your business needs, comparing in-house ERP to Software as a Service (Sass), upgrade options, and more.
February 03, 2012 - This e-book explores best practices for selecting ERP software. Learn the difference between SaaS and on-premise ERP and ensure a successful implementation strategy.
January 05, 2012 - Read this white paper to learn best practices for selecting the best distribution strategy and accompanying enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for your organization.
January 06, 2012 - In this white paper, learn how Sage Software has successfully structured their manufacturing system to deliver useful information to enterprises needing to upgrade from legacy and manual systems.
January 06, 2012 - In this white paper, gain insight into how to choose a retail management system that fits the needs of your business. Get tips on how to know whether or not you're ready to buy the software, essential features to look for, and the most common mistakes companies make when selecting their system.
November 10, 2010 - In earlier times, if an enterprise presumed it had control over its network, and if it had few external connections or communication, it was feasible that the connections between operational computers probably were not an unacceptable risk.
October 25, 2011 - These days, IT needs to deliver multiple services in an increasingly complex infrastructure. Data center automation helps, but can be limited by silos. The solution? A pragmatic data center automation environment that meets the needs of both IT and business users.
November 16, 2011 - This paper from Kurt Salmon identifies the common inhibitors to innovation and how to overcome them, and sets out some important principles that can help organizations establish innovation more firmly within their normal operations.
October 20, 2009 - This paper discusses a five-step best practices approach to implementing a cost-effective and timely data privacy solution. It also details a brief case study illustrating how Compuware’s combination of tools, technology, best practices and customized services can save time and money.
December 09, 2011 - This brief white paper outlines the different capabilities and properties of MySQL and Oracle GoldenGate, including real-time data warehousing, real-time reporting, OLTP query offloading and more.
November 24, 2010 - The expectations, working methods and tools used by employees in all organisations have changed as a result of advances in communications technologies.
October 07, 2011 - This resource explains how you can lower costs and improve flexibility by migrating your mainframe to open system servers. Discover the three major factors driving organizations to consider migrating application workloads off mainframe environments to open systems solutions.
February 09, 2011 - Using groups effectively in Microsoft Operations Manager can customize the Operations Manager console for your users, provide more actionable alerting and can automatically react to changes in your environment. Read this white paper now to learn more.
September 17, 2010 - In a GFS scheme the daily backup tapes should probably be replaced each year or so and the weekly and monthly tapes (assuming the monthly tapes aren't archived) accordingly. Read this tutorial to find out so much more.
December 08, 2011 - This white paper explores the attributes of an effective data center management approach and recommends a tool that can help you reduce costs, improve availability, and ensure compliance.
June 27, 2011 - Virtualization implementations are in full swing and server consolidation has led to a wave of savings associated with reductions in physical space requirements and management overhead. Check out this white paper and explore Dell and VMware solutions that are designed to deliver on the promise of virtualization and cloud computing cost benefits.
September 01, 2010 - As budgets tighten in the face of increased business requirements for data center assets, IT organizations need to find new ways to manage their resources. New software now is available to make systems management the heart of a data center transformation initiative.
October 25, 2011 - Watch this 30 minute demo to see how HP Operations Orchestration software provides the means to automate processes, including managing and provisioning of virtualized infrastructure.
December 14, 2011 - Join this webcast to learn how application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions that connect ALM with build management and source code change management systems can increase quality and accelerate time to market by introducing advanced intelligence and insight capabilities to development and testing.
July 16, 2010 - HP's Operations Manager 9.00 for Windows allows your organization to spend more time on strategic initiatives by using consolidated infrastructure monitoring tools. Download this evaluation copy and get a hands-on example of how this software works.
October 24, 2011 - This resource presents key challenges you may face with a virtual environment and presents solutions for better management and effective monitoring.
November 09, 2010 - Information protection needs to cover all data, from word processing documents to datawithin databases and executable code. It covers enterprise and personal data and is not justconfined to protecting entertainment media, which tends to be generically referred to as“Digital Rights Management” (DRM).
November 09, 2010 - The majority of user authentication schemes today still use userid and password. The burden to users of managing large numbers of userids and passwords has led to proposals for Federated Identity systems, where a single set of credentials can be used to authenticate with several organisations, which have agreed to work together as a federation.
November 10, 2010 - It is well-known that eCommerce transactions require a level of trust between participants in that trust, in this context, gives each partner confidence that the other will fulfil his part of a bargain in the future.
November 10, 2010 - Back in the time when businesses were predominantly “local” and to a large extent insulated from each others operations, it really didn’t matter very much how we defined the Business Impact of Information Risks, for we knew what we meant in each business and we didn’t have much need to share that meaning with others.
October 10, 2011 - This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future.
November 10, 2010 - Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1.
February 17, 2010 - This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP (continuous data protection) and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP - or Near-CDP - becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes.
June 03, 2011 - This expert video, brought to you by SearchWindowsServer.com, takes a closer look at Windows Server 2008 R2 and its new capabilities. Discover how your organization can lower costs, improve productivity, and increase efficiency.
February 03, 2012 - Today’s evolving business models, emerging technologies and the changing workforce are key trends looking to mission critical environments to provide a backbone. This exclusive webcast explains how a centralized platform can integrate your servers, storage, networks and facilities.
May 26, 2011 - This case study provides details of real-world best practices in IT consolidation to turn a data center from a burdensome cost center to a strategic asset with robust security, enhanced business continuity and reduced operating expenses.
September 20, 2010 - IT organizations that find server deployment complex and inefficient are looking at new options, such as HP's BladeSystem Matrix. Using this converged infrastructure approach, organizations can reduce acquisition costs for servers, storage and network infrastructure, while reducing total cost of ownership.
March 25, 2011 - Systems such as the HP Business Risk Mitigation solution are helping companies to prevent outages and recovery quickly from those that do occur by dramatically reducing backup time and costs, while also slashing disaster recovery time.
January 24, 2012 - Moving to an application-centric private cloud model can significantly streamline your IT infrastructure, allowing you to build a virtualized, highly automated environment. This white paper introduces an advanced platform for private cloud and IaaS that can optimize your infrastructure, monitor apps, and increase uptime for your cloud.
July 13, 2011 - Read this white paper and discover how to successfully adopt a private cloud for your organization. You'll also be introduced to HP CloudSystem Matrix, an IT infrastructure ready-to-run, and its use as an out-of-the-box platform for private clouds across the enterprise.
July 13, 2011 - This white paper focuses on HP’s CloudSystem Matrix and how it changes the way IT is approached - from hands-on to automated. Matrix welcomes IT manageability to the twenty-first century with an emphasis on delivering business applications via integrated management systems and shared infrastructure.
March 16, 2011 - More and more IT organizations are evaluating and adopting converged infrastructure, which controls a wide variety of computing resources and processes through a shared-services model to provision more efficiently and anticipates and reacts to rapidly changing business requirements.
October 27, 2011 - This resource presents how a converged infrastructure solution can help you meet growing business demands while enabling your organization to quickly harness the full potential of virtualization, cloud computing, and next-generation applications.
February 29, 2012 - This essential resource explores how you can evolve your data center into the cloud era. Access a set of interactive online events to help you optimize your data center by implementing an intelligent cloud strategy. Learn where data center transformation is headed and how a smart strategy can lead to increased efficiency and cost savings.
May 26, 2011 - Branch office solutions based upon converged infrastructure can deliver higher levels of security to ensure data protection and prevent costly, damaging breaches. Read this set of documents to learn more about servers, storage and network resources can be safely shared without inhibiting system response and availability.
January 26, 2012 - There’s no one size fits all solution when it comes to deploying virtualization. This brief video introduces an integrated virtual system that is optimized for multiple workloads, extensible to the cloud and offers a best in class architecture.
November 15, 2011 - Health care systems require high performance, availability and reliability in order to provide fast access to patient data. Inside this technical white paper, learn about server configuration in a health care setting.
February 08, 2011 - Read this white paper and discover the benefits of running the HP DL980 on the Linux operating system. Chief among these is the lower cost inherent in a clustered Linux environment.
March 17, 2011 - HP is out of the gate quickly once again with the formulation of virtual resource pools by combining the power of mission-critical systems, blade systems and scaleout systems throughout the portfolios of Integrity, Integrity NonStop, HP Proliant, Networking and StorageWorks.
January 26, 2012 - Looking to accelerate your journey to the cloud? The first step is mastering virtualization. This video introduces a comprehensive, fully integrated solution that offers unified management that can simplify your virtualization deployments. With this platform, you can map out your cloud infrastructure and jumpstart your transition today.
January 26, 2012 - While virtualization is proven to deliver the IT agility all businesses need, deploying this environment is often complex and requires significant investments. You can make the process much easier by leveraging a new, advanced virtualization system. Read this resource to learn how to accelerate your path to virtualization with this platform.
January 26, 2012 - While virtualization is proven to deliver the IT agility all businesses need, deploying this environment is often complex and requires significant investments. You can make the process much easier by leveraging a new, advanced virtualization system. This resource reviews how this platform can accelerate your path to virtualization.
December 31, 2009 - To be a true strategic partner to management, human resources (HR) requires process and systems excellence. HR needs to know the business — the drivers, mission, and challenges. Read this IDC white paper to learn how to achieve excellence in HR by focusing consistency, integration, insight, responsiveness, and agility.
January 12, 2012 - This white paper discusses hybrid computing, an approach that aims to support the heterogeneous nature of modern computing environments in a simplified way. Learn how this technology supports existing and new applications with less complexity, better performance and at a lower cost.
April 07, 2011 - A Microsoft private cloud pools and dynamically allocates IT resources across business units. This means that IT can deploy services quickly and scale them out to meet critical needs whenever and wherever they occur—all while tracking resource usage with appropriate charges back to line-of-business owners.
February 24, 2011 - This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources.
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