Infrastructure Management Reports

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Eucalyptus co-founder & CTO Rich Wolski discusses "Services as an Infrastructure" as a way in which enterprises can architect production cloud computing environments. Explore deployment strategies based on user experiences with private clouds in various enterprise settings and learn about likely future technological developments.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper introduces three solutions capable of working together to bring your business a complete and shared virtualized infrastructure, designed to help you simplify management and enhance resource efficiency. In this paper, you'll learn about each of these three technologies and the benefits they can bring your organization.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Automation is the key to industrializing IT operations to improve productivity, reduce costs and human error, and add value to the core business. Discover how to achieve effective IT automation in today’s complex infrastructures in this presentation transcript.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Social networking, high-speed mobility and smarter devices are changing the way we do business. Read this paper now to learn how you can create value for your business through building robust social and real-time collaboration capabilities into portals.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: High-performance businesses demand a high-performance network infrastructure that provides fast, secure and reliable delivery of the applications that drive the business. Switches deployed in regional offices, campuses and data centers enable these business processes by connecting users.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WEBCAST: This webcast looks at development and test workloads that lend themselves particularly well to leveraging the cloud, such as large scale load testing, and deployment planning and automation, and offers guidance and best practices for organizations interested in cloud-based solutions.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Premiered: Nov 11, 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Desktop virtualization is sure to increase efficiency and productivity in your business but the transition comes with its fair share of challenges and pitfalls. Access this presentation transcript, featuring industry expert Gabe Knuth, to review the top reasons why desktop virtualizations fail and learn how you can avoid these fatal mistakes.

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 | Published: 19 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: With cloud computing rapidly evolving, energy management is a key factor IT professionals must address when planning and provisioning their cloud data center strategies to reduce energy costs. Access this white paper to review an open data center roadmap that addresses your key IT concerns for more secure, efficient, and simple cloud architectures.

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 | Published: 17 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Migration tools that jumpstart automation initiatives significantly accelerate the process and increase desktop efficiency. Access this informative presentation transcript, featuring industry expert Mark Minasi, to learn best practices for a successful windows 7 deployment.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

VIDEO: To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you'll learn how to review the common causes of application downtime and discusses new technologies available to help avoid increasing costs during this downtime.

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This evaluation tool provides a high level analysis of your infrastructure so you can weigh the costs against the risks of maintaining existing processes. Compare four migration scenarios and determine which makes sense for your organisation.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 28 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the technology and architecture that cloud service and deployment models offer and key areas of research and development for geographic information system (GIS) technology.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

VIDEO: Cloud computing is a new model for IT services leveraging the efficient pooling of an on-demand, self managed virtual infrastructure consumed as a service. Working in concert with the security partner ecosystem, VMware is helping businesses of all sizes migrate to secure cloud computing.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 15 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide takes a close look at what you need to know about building a cloud computing infrastructure to serve dual purposes and top recommendations to get started. Uncover the key to successful cloud computing infrastructure, best practices to build a private cloud and things you should know about the cloud before you begin.

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

VIDEO: In this videocast, learn about the various security concerns companies have when moving to client-aware cloud computing and get expert advice on how to address them.

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 | Premiered: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today's data centers must constantly evolve to continue to meet new business requirements. This white paper recommends a comprehensive strategy for improving management and performance and describes the key phases that comprise it.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper details how IBM IT Delivery organization streamlines IT management efforts to reduce costs, minimize service disruptions and lower energy costs with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: While recent emphasis has been on consolidation and cost reduction, IT organizations looking to the future are developing streamlined processes and improved time-to-market. Read this white paper from IDC to learn how IT organizations can optimize data centers and build a strong foundation for future IT operations.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures are continually gaining momentum throughout the enterprise computing community. Take a look at this exclusive resource to learn about Dell Boomi, one of the latest cloud integration products on the market.

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 | Published: 04 Aug 2011

EZINE: In this issue of the Private Cloud e-zine, we examine common challenges in developing a private cloud environment, from IT departmental silos to the lack of sophistication of cloud management tools. Access this resource to address the various factors that can block implementation.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This tutorial from SearchStorage.com explores different backup tools that can improve the efficiency and utilization of your IT infrastructure by getting the most out of your storage capacity. Backup methods discussed in this tutorial include SRM tools, tiered storage models, classification and migration tools, thin provisioning and more.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: A unified data access layer using data virtualization provides agile data services that can deliver BI to business processes. Companies with traditional BI installations disconnected from business processes lack this agility. BI/Analytics needs to be agile and more actionable in the context of business processes to realize maximum benefits.

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 | Published: 15 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Comprehensive product capability discussed throughout this 15-page technical paper, including 11 Best Practices for the IBM Cloud . Written for IT Managers, IT Architects, and developers, learn how you can better manage SaaS cloud applications and bring new applications on line in the future.

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 | Published: 14 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Applications such as high performance computing, Web 2.0 and cloud technologies are beginning to require similar features in the data center, including high density, serviceability and power efficiency. Find out how a shared infrastructure can meet these requirements, while providing significant TCO savings.

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 | Published: 06 Jul 2011