IT Asset Management

VIDEOCAST: Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 20 Nov 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This executive brief reviews the benefits of integrated asset management between development and operations and provides a concrete example of the impact analysis benefits of having a unified catalog of services and assets.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Infosys' Enterprise Architecture (EA) Survey 2008-09 reveals that EA enables business transformation, its practices continue to mature, and increased outsourcing of EA functions is a strong future possibility.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, you will see how you can take control of your IT costs by effectively managing your assets with Numara Asset Management Platform (NAMP). You will learn how NAMP automates your resource-intensive IT asset management challenges so you can improve compliance, improve customer satisfaction, reduce risk, and optimize your investments.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 04 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Infrastructure and operations (I&O) comprise 60% or more of total IT spending worldwide. I&O leaders are under intensifying pressure to reduce costs. This Gartner research note outlines the key actions that should be taken to change the I&O cost structure in the short term (through 2010) and in the longer term (during the next three years).

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The tools for assessing enterprise-level green practices have evolved from do-it yourself Excel spreadsheets to elaborate carbon accounting software suites available on a subscription basis. By first determining a baseline, organizations can set clear goals for adopting greener IT practices.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In September 2009, Wipro Ltd (Wipro), a global corporation in the Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) industry which was head-quartered in Bangalore, India, was reviewing its Green IT plan. Read this white paper to learn more about Wipro's quest to become a true ecologically sustainable company.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides analysis and advice on how Dell Virtual Remote Desktop (VRD), a server-hosted desktop virtualization, can deliver substantial benefits, simplifying lifecycle management, and driving ongoing cost and productivity benefits.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: This guide describes seven typical mistakes of IT security compliance and how you can use these lessons to help your organization achieve its compliance goals.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll read about the top objections buyers have for upgrading their current equipment. You'll also hear about the solutions Intel has to offer to help increase the productivity of your workforce, reduce energy consumption, and much more!

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™ provides a comprehensive management platform based on standardized IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes—facilitating the adoption of industry best practices and helping streamline and simplify IT management in enterprise data centers.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Companies with a flexible IT infrastructure credit their success to an ability to adapt to change. Listen to find new ways to lower IT complexity and improve operating efficiency in your company.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: It may seem there's little you can do directly to reduce the impact of the current economic turbulence on your organization. This handbook distills the actions you can take to lay the foundations of a clear, strategic action plan for the coming year.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As companies face increasing pressure to deliver more business value from their IT spending and free up funding for new business initiatives, reducing mainframe costs and modernizing legacy applications have become top-of-mind.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

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: 22 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 Jun 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: 13 May 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: 15 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization provides powerful, tangible ways to streamline many traditionally time-consuming processes and minimize the resources needed to deploy and manage IT resources. This white paper examines how Microsoft® customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure, IT processes, and save money.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: This webinar will show you how Numara FootPrints 9 provides practical, rapid ITIL v3 enablement for the vital processes that support the demands of your customers and focuses on providing the best possible experience to your customers.

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 06 Jan 2009

WEBCAST: Listen to this Webcast to learn how to manage your company's assets. Also discussed is a solution that can help your organization address its IT asset management process issues through audit, auto-discovery and process tracking.

Posted: 01 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 01 Apr 2008