IT Asset Management

ANALYST REPORT: Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

ANALYST REPORT: As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organizations are indiscriminately cutting costs. This new IDC White Paper explores 3 tangible areas that IT departments should investigate to help strategize cost reduction during the downturn.

Posted: 07 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Feb 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: With more and more sensitive data moving from file servers to SharePoint sites, it's important to keep a close eye on what users can access documents, what users have permissions to change the SharePoint sites, and what documents are getting modified.

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study to find out why Ingersoll Rand chose a virtualization solution based on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to help comply with IT optimization initiatives, boost business agility, and control costs.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how Microsoft customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure and IT processes and save money. It discusses the savings inherent in using virtualization to consolidate servers and accelerate desktops.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows technical decision makers and IT managers how organizations can reduce costs and improve their IT efficiency by optimizing their core infrastructure and adopting best practices. This paper identifies which best practices are most effective in driving IT efficiency.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is best suited for information-technology (IT) directors responsible for a company's server infrastructure, along with IT managers and staff in charge of servers. It aims to help you understand the benefits of optimizing your branch office infrastructure and determine which branch scenario may enable you to gain the most benefits.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn what total automation can do for an industrial/manufacturing enterprise, how it can dramatically improve operations by providing real-time data to all the interdependent parts of the supply chain.

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009