Systems Maintenance

WHITE PAPER: This informative paper describes the implications of managing the availability of IT infrastructure across the enterprise and looks at the typical cost of downtime for various industries and regions. Read today for best practices to minimize downtime and discover the role of support and advance support services in maximizing system performance.

Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Your SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is mission-critical to your company, so ensuring it is running at peak efficiency is a must. Without the proper upgrade strategy, however, your ERP system could become obsolete. Read on to learn a next-gen method for making ERP upgrades efficient and effective.

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 | Published: 10 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how one company migrated from its legacy IBM i platform to Linux which reduced costs, improved performance and simplified system management processes. Discover how your organization can achieve similar benefits as well as improve response time and reduce workloads.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 19 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a look at some Windows 7 technologies that you may be able to put to use in order to make the transition from XP (or perhaps from Vista) more successful.

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Despite the benefits blade servers and virtualization offer, there are still some pressing issues in the data center. This resource reviews several of these pain points and recommends a unified computing system designed to address them.

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Companies must adapt their management practices to provide proper control over resources in the cloud. This white paper showcases a management tool designed with these types of environments in mind and discusses its key features and benefits.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Despite the benefits blade servers and virtualization offer, there are still some pressing issues in the data center. This resource reviews several of these pain points and recommends a unified computing system designed to address them.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this essential case study to learn how one company used a set of performance monitoring and reporting systems to help them increase the efficiency of their IBM machines.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: To keep pace with your peers and position your organisation for the future, you must continuously update your data centre. This white paper explains how one company refined their IT transformation strategy to improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of their business services. Explore their key objectives and best practices for success here.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The impacts of a system outage are felt within minutes of the incident and range from production and shipping stoppages to lost business, industry penalties and failed audits. Read this paper to learn how a disaster recovery (DR) plan based in the cloud mitigates these risks and protects the interests of shareholders, investors and customers.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of upgrading Microsoft Exchange and explains why it is essential that you successfully coordinate between server, storage, and network stacks to ensure stable business operations. Read this white paper to learn how a unified computing system can help you achieve this goal.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: By simplifying and making system refresh execution consistent, automation can decrease the potential for errors inherent in standard approaches. Read this paper to discover an automation solution that can be used for traditional SAP systems as well as SAP’s Business Warehouse (BW).

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This resource outlines 5 essential best practices that MSPs can follow to sell their customers on a better way of delivering IT services. These helpful tips can help you increase sales and profitability.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The paper includes calculations showing the cost of downtime expected for a given level of EHR solution uptime in practices of various sizes, as well as products associated with specific uptime levels. The report also includes a “cost per hour” tool that estimates the financial impact of downtime in practices they administer, oversee or assist.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Quest white paper discusses the changes in Exchange 2010 – and how they’ll effect your migration. Then, learn best practices for a successful, low-impact migration, and the pitfalls to avoid along the way! Read this white paper today.

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 | Published: 13 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five opportunities for infrastructure cost savings. Learn how to simplify management of your data center through integration and automation of network, compute, and virtualization technologies.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that selecting and anti-virus solution for your organization is an important decision. VIPRE Business offers an easy-to-use management console that gets you up and running fast.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managing threats to the endpoint infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult for most organizations. At the same time, many anti-malware defenses are not keeping up with the growing threats posed by malware. This white paper addresses the variety of issues facing organizations today in the context of their system manaagement challenges.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 | Published: 26 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The need to speed up patch deployment across today’s highly complex and distributed IT environment has never been more important. Read this free white paper and learn four steps to cure your patch management headache.

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 | Published: 06 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Customers face challenges when they choose to migrate Oracle databases, or any of the suite of Oracle business applications, to IBM Power, Modular, or Mainframe platforms. This paper explains what opportunities such a migration can present as well as key benefits of doing it.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems related to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a collection of power system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 04 Feb 2005

WHITE PAPER: Today's IT, facilities and data center managers face the daunting challenge of maintaining a high availability data center while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency. Learn how Transformer-based UPS designs are proven topologies for achieving high efficiency without compromising availability in large enterprise data center applications.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: A survey conducted in February 2009 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Oracle and HP, shows that in most companies both the business functions and the IT function understand the potential benefits of modernization. But that does not mean that most companies know how to do it right.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009