Infrastructure Management White Papers

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How CFOs Use Business Intelligence to Turn Finance from Record Keepers to Strategic Advisors
sponsored by MicroStrategy
WHITE PAPER: This TDWI Best Practices report identifies how business intelligence (BI) enables finance and accounting executives, managers and analysts to be powerful agents of organizational change. The paper includes practical advice and best practices for finance departments to partner with IT to leverage financial and non-financial data strategically.
Posted: 30 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

MicroStrategy

Securing Privilege Delegation in Public and Private Cloud Computing Infrastructure
sponsored by BeyondTrust Corporation
WHITE PAPER: As an emerging trend that provides rapid access to dynamically scalable and virtualized IT resources, cloud computing promises new and exciting opportunities for organizations to create lean, robust and cost-effective IT infrastructures that better align with business goals. Read this paper to find out more.
Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 10 Jun 2010

BeyondTrust Corporation

Technology Audit: Imperva SecureSphere Data Security Suite
sponsored by Imperva
WHITE PAPER: Any organization delivering services or products via the Web should consider SecureSphere as a “must-have” piece of its IT protection infrastructure. The product set makes a strong case for itself as a leading contender in this market space. Read this paper to read more.
Posted: 02 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2010

Imperva

Business in the Cloud: Will Your Internet Connectivity Provide a Positive ROI?
sponsored by Internap Network Services
WHITE PAPER: Using a simple Return on Investment (ROI) approach, enterprises can quantify the value of best-in-class connectivity. What are the tangible financial drawbacks when you experience outages or latency? How do you measure your risk and then mitigate it? This paper addresses all the factors associated with being able to calculate your own ROI.
Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

Internap Network Services

The Mobile Enterprise: Moving to the Next Generation
sponsored by AT&T Corp
WHITE PAPER: Mobile technology will affect workers, customers and processes, as well as business operations, computer applications and technical infrastructure. For maximum impact, mobility must be woven into the fabric of the enterprise. Collaboration tools need to break out of functional silos, decision-making should move away from traditional top-down models
Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

AT&T Corp

Best Practices for Delivering Better Software Faster with ALM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the steps that organizations must take to improve their systems and software development processes, including key best practices. It discusses solutions for unifying fractured, global development groups with existing infrastructures.
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

IBM

Rehosting Mainframe Workloads
sponsored by Clerity
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Clerity’s unique approach to leveraging existing skill sets, application code, and administrative tools, benefiting the bottom line today and better preparing the enterprise to sustain competitive advantage in the future.
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010

Clerity

Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing & BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling
sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: At the core of any BI should be the ability to align business needs with the data infrastructure supporting them. This is almost impossible to do without a data model. Yet many BI implementers do not understand the need for these design components. This paper will examine the major benefits that data models have on BI environments.
Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

Why You Need an Infrastructure Provider - The Top 10 Things to Look For When Choosing One
sponsored by Verio
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn the benefits of outsourcing to infrastructure providers in today's competitive environment that can deliver solutions that meet the new demands of IT departments. Here are 10 things to look for when seeking out that provider.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

Verio

Achieving Financial and Functional Advantages in Connected Building Solutions with the Unified Physical Infrastructure℠(UPI)
sponsored by Panduit
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about being connected building planning requires tightly integrated, well-coordinated cross-functional communication and project management across four functional phases: organizational alignment, technology strategies, network design considerations, and financial analysis.
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

Panduit

The Unified Physical Infrastructure Approach
sponsored by Panduit
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you'll learn that UPI-based solutions provide superior business value, helping customers keep pace with technology innovations and build a smarter, unified business foundation.
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

Panduit

IT Infrastructure at Your Service: Today’s challenging business climate is driving a move toward delivering IT functions as a service
sponsored by NTT America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines many of the key considerations organizations must understand and assess before adopting IaaS.
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 13 Jan 2010

NTT America, Inc.

Platform HPC Workgroup Manager: Simplified Management of High-Performance Computing Clusters
sponsored by Platform Computing Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of Platform HPC Workgroup Manager (HPC-WM). HPC-WM dramatically simplifies both the installation and ongoing management of Linux clusters, making them accessible to even the smallest organizations.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

Platform Computing Corporation

EMC's Comprehensive Approach for Building Proven Information Infrastructure Solutions
sponsored by Wipro
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Wipro Technologies focuses on the methodology EMC follows for building its Proven Solutions for organizations of all sizes and domains. This paper also demonstrates the methodology using an example of the solution development process for Microsoft Exchange in physical and VMware environments.
Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2008

Wipro

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Vmware Edition Automated, Integrated, and Scalable Protection of Virtual Machines
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

Enhancing Virtualization Performance with VMware VStorage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: VMware® vSphere™ is the industry's first private cloud operating system that provides a comprehensive framework from which Dell can help deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities to clients.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

DELL™ PowerEdge™ Half-Height M610 and Full-Height M710 Blade
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 09 May 2008

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Implementing Best Practices: The Dell Management Console and ITIL
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Migrating to the New Dell Management Console
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how the Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from SymantecTM centralizes multiple aspects of systems management into a single easy-to-use tool.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Rapid Implementation- The New Age of ERP
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: By marrying technology with vertical industry expertise, the Oracle Accelerate family of solutions is helping midsize companies become the nimble organizations they need to be today.
Posted: 04 May 2009 | Published: 04 May 2009

Oracle Corporation

Executive Insight: Multi-Sourcing in the Call Center
sponsored by inContact
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how many executives are beginning to understand that cutting cost by outsourcing call center operations isn't always the best solution. Learn how "cheaper" often comes at the expense of "better".
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

inContact

A Guide to Systems Planning for Data Center Management
sponsored by Schneider Electric
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you will learn how to eliminate systems planning problems with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final data center design.
Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 03 Feb 2009

Schneider Electric

IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores optimization strategies and demonstrated benefits being achieved today with IBM Software solutions. Utilization of these capabilities can help you meet the increasing challenges of energy efficiency, cost containment and compliance.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008

IBM

Why Most Organizations Miss User Response Monitoring - and What to Do about It
sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This guide explains the challenges of user response monitoring and how to overcome these challenges. It also teaches you how to get a real handle on infrastructure performance and shows you how it will impact user experience.
Posted: 15 Aug 2008 | Published: 15 Aug 2008

Nimsoft, Inc.