Best Practices Reports

WHITE PAPER: Migration to Windows 7 is a future reality for most. Regardless of the starting point, a migration to Windows 7 is a path that holds as many questions and challenges as it does potential rewards. Planning now can ensure a smooth transition in 2010.

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

EBOOK: All hypervisors essentially do the same job, but not in the same way. The three top hypervisors all have differences that require specific management tactics. Read this e-book to learn best practices and recommendations you can follow to optimize and maintain VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, get insight into choosing the right tools and software to meet your organization's specific virtual infrastructure management needs. Learn what steps and considerations cannot be missed before making a purchase decision and get tips for ensuring your selection will stand the test of time.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper illustrates how proven methodologies and best-of-breed tools, such as Rational DOORS, Rational Rhapsody, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager, can help you design high-quality products that meet customer requirements.

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

EBOOK: This e-book explores the five key elements of PC Lifecycle management, a practise that can help you to greatly reduce the ongoing costs of operating your PC fleet.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 04 Aug 2010

EBOOK: As health care providers collect increasing amounts of patient data, the burden on IT infrastructure only worsens. This SearchHealthIT.com e-book discusses server consolidation in a health care setting, moving apps and servers to virtualized platforms, desktop virtualization for health care, best practices for server virtualization, and more!

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

EBOOK: Effective enterprise role management is essential for properly managing user access rights and enforcing access policies, but the implementation process can be challenging. To be successful, organisations should implement and maintain enterprise roles using 3 Best Practices described by our expert Andras Cser.

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 | Published: 29 Jun 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript features a demonstration from Dell and Microsoft that highlights the use cases and technology that represent best practices for using virtualization today. Learn how to move workloads onto virtual servers and gain insight into how to prepare your staff for the transition.

Posted: 17 May 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Whether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is becoming a standard IT practice. It is becoming more popular among ArcGIS customers as well. ESRI uses virtualization technologies for the development, QA and certification processes of ArcGIS Server. This paper provides an overview of virtualization and addresses some common questions regarding ArcGIS Server and virtualization.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the role that planning plays in the success or failure of virtualization adoption. Gain insight into each phase of the project life cycle and how the associated processes can be improved for effective implementation.

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 | Published: 18 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This SearchDisasterRecovery.com presentation transcript will give you a crash course on how to implement a cost-efficient disaster recovery plan. You'll hear an overview of disaster recovery and recieve some general advice to get you started on the business and technology considerations that are going to be crucial to you.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010

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

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: As the data center continues to grow in complexity, the Data Center Service Management (DCSM) discipline is becoming widely adopted by organizations that wish to migrate to higher levels of process maturity. This technical brief will discuss the benefits of using DCSM.

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 | Published: 22 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Ovum will offer a short guide for enterprises as they establish and then continue to evolve their managed mobility strategies.

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn how batch tuning can enable your organization to reduce required computing resources and save valuable run-time, ultimately saving money for the enterprise. Gain insight into common problems data center pros run into when implementing batch tuning, and explore tools to overcome these challenges.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 18 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: The report examines a side-by-side comparison of VMware View 4 and Citrix XenDesktop. While the desktop virtualization landscape may appear to be crowded with options, customers can have confidence in their choice with VMware® View, because it’s the only end-to-end integrated solution built for delivering desktops as a managed service.

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Why do most organizations continuously fail in utilizing knowledge? In this presentation transcript, learn from case studies that illustrate how you can optimize the value of knowledge in your organization through improving e-discovery and data retention practices and eliminating wasteful and under-utilized tools.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the innovations in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 that make interoperability with SAP easier than ever.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document provides recommendations and best practices for moving a user’s data from their physical corporate workstations into the virtual Citrix XenDesktop environment.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

EBOOK: If you're an enterprise developer then you're probably familiar with the term "cloud computing," but you may still have questions. In this eBook, you'll learn about the benefits of cloud computing, what it really means to compute in the cloud, some of the different cloud types, and much more!

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009