IT Best Practices

EZINE: IT Service Management frameworks are helping CIOs leverage best practices to lead change, improve response time and better manage the IT/business relationship. In this CIO Decisions eZine, experts offer insights into how to roll out your ITSM implementation.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

VIDEO: In this videocast, discover how the Dallas Cowboys adopted BI strategies that optimized their tracking of manufacturing, distribution and sales. Hear from Bill Priakos, Cowboys' COO, as he explains the steps that the team took in being able to get a real-time look into the distribution chain and see trends over time.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: With the release of Windows 7, many organizations are considering migrating to this new platform. This webcast explores best practices to aid IT pros in this transition. Discover a wide range of hardware and software technology that will help you prepare for this switch.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 05 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION: EA, a key IT governance tool, plays an active role in strategic business planning. Effective EA requires managing standards and promoting best practices in architecture.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic and tactical alignment of IT with business objectives - enabling IT to do more for the business with less. By implementing all four components of Niel's model, IT can dramatically reduce system downtime and closely align their efforts and investments with business priorities.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 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

WHITE PAPER: This technical paper provides general sizing best practices to consider when planning your virtualization deployment with HP ProLiant and XenServer.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

VIDEO: Rational Talks to You - Scott Hebner sits down with Redmonk Analyst Michael Cote to discuss latest announcements around the IBM Rational Jazz platform.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 05 Oct 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Register Now to take advantage of this complimentary collection of resources to discover how IBM Rational Software may cut your maintenance cost and give you the flexibility to transform your business with assets you already have without spending a fortune.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: With Oracle Applications Extension for Rational Performance you no longer have to jeopardize your business engine during an upgrade. You’ll eliminate risk, increase testing productivity, speedy delivery, and ensure the quality and scalability of your business systems.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Learn how service-based solutions can bring flexibility and lower costs to your IT infrastructure. Find out how to maximize your organization's resources and quickly scale your infrastructure to meet the demands of expanding global online audiences.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 25 Sep 2009

TEST RESULTS: In this report, we estimate both the number of older solutions each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace and the payback period for replacing those older solutions. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents a sample Dell solution -- using the Dell R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series) -- designed to tolerate faults at multiple infrastructure layers to provide maximum level of availability for the virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: Learn more about offerings to improve energy efficiency across your infrastructure.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 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

PODCAST: Hear from Brian Barnier, Principal at ValueBridge, as he speaks on how a formal governance process will ensure a positive impact on your bottom line. Also, get answers to some of the toughest governance questions, including “how important is risk evaluation in IT governance?”

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This paper is for decision makers that are familiar with and interested in VMware View as a desktop replacement strategy. An understanding of networking and fibre channel infrastructure and how they interact with HP Virtual Connect technologies, virtualization benefits and techniques, VMware software, and datacenter practices is recommended.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper gives tips on how CIOs and LOB executives can close the gap between them when it comes to an organization’s ability to most strategically utilize technology to optimally leverage the value and power of information for the success of the organization.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

EGUIDE: In this series, Craig Mathias explores the various ways mobility solutions can be used successfully and cost-effectively in your enterprise.

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Published: 02 Sep 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: In this paper, the top information services leaders share their expertise on how to most efficiently build your IT staff. Read this paper to learn the essential qualities and must-haves for your company's IT Staff.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 2009