IT Best Practices Reports

WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy.

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

PODCAST: Welcome to the IBM developerWorks Smarter Planet Industry Solutions technical podcast series, your source for technical discussions regarding IT solutions for your industry. Tune in every few weeks to hear a new expert discussion.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: Oct 21, 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Private cloud computing picks up where virtualization left off to provide the support and efficiency data centers now require. In this mediacast, discover how to move your virtual environment to an efficient and secure private cloud.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

EBOOK: This eBook explains the performance management and governance software and methodologies that can align technology with business goals and bring IT costs under control.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 28 Jul 2011

EBOOK: This eBook addresses how IT and business professionals can align network performance with business requirements to accelerate the Web-enabled business and gain significant competitive advantage

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 | Published: 13 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the 7 steps to aligning IT with the business. Find out what they are and how they can help your business provide customer-driven results.

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 27 Jun 2011

EBOOK: Automation is sometimes seen as a cure-all for IT departments looking to cut costs, but IT pros who implement this technology need to be sure they apply it correctly to really save money. Find out which mistakes are common when it comes to implementing automation.

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: All IT organizations face the constant and sometimes contradictory struggle to improve both the efficiency and quality of the IT services they provide. In this e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, our experts share 10 considerations to keep in mind when implementing change management processes.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agile techniques and SOA principles are necessary elements to successfully delivering business software in this environment but by themselves they’re not sufficient. This report highlights key features of tools that you should consider if you’re interested in delivering IT capabilities that integrate people, processes and systems in flexible ways.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: With the release of Windows 7, many organizations are considering migrating to this new platform. This transcript 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: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Today, IT resources can be provisioned quickly and cheaply—some would say too quickly and cheaply. But those IT resources rely on brick and mortar as well as megawatts, which are abstracted from the IT department. This Webcast will identify pitfalls data center teams should avoid.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, experts Sacha Dawes and Kenon Owens discuss topics including best practices to monitor virtual and physical workloads, meet high availability needs, improve CMBD, asset management and integrating a self-managing solution to accelerate troubleshooting and problem resolution.

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 23 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: To survive in today's economy, your IT organization will face increasing pressure to do more with less and work from anywhere at anytime. Imagine how much more productive your service desk personnel could be if they were able to periodically manage and respond to issues from the field, rather than having to check in at their desktops.

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 | Published: 26 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, 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 order to get a real-time look into the distribution chain as well as seeing trends over time.

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript of the "Understanding and Managing VM Sprawl" webcast, you'll find out how to mitigate the risks and root causes associated with VM Sprawl - the rapid proliferation of virtual machines without sufficient IT oversight. Also learn best practices for managing the entire virtual machine lifecycle.

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

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

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: 01 Sep 2008

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: 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: 01 Mar 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: 01 May 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: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the enterprise architecture concept and highlights how an actionable enterprise architecture approach from IBM can help organizations manage complexity and align IT projects and solutions with business objectives.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

EZINE: Virtualization has changed the concept of configuration management in data centers. In this month's issue, find out what to look for when shopping for the perfect configuration management tool. Virtualization has also had an impact on system security. Learn how to keep your virtual environment safe.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 10 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009