Systems Maintenance

WHITE PAPER: This informative paper describes the implications of managing the availability of IT infrastructure across the enterprise and looks at the typical cost of downtime for various industries and regions. Read today for best practices to minimize downtime and discover the role of support and advance support services in maximizing system performance.

Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Explore why root cause analysis has become such a difficult task in today's day and age and uncover why a monitoring solution is paramount to root cause detection success.

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 | Published: 29 Apr 2013

EGUIDE: This E-Guide from MicroScope.co.UK offers advice that will help MSPs and VARs find the ideal remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution for their organization.

Posted: 17 Apr 2013 | Published: 17 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Your SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is mission-critical to your company, so ensuring it is running at peak efficiency is a must. Without the proper upgrade strategy, however, your ERP system could become obsolete. Read on to learn a next-gen method for making ERP upgrades efficient and effective.

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 | Published: 10 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how one company migrated from its legacy IBM i platform to Linux which reduced costs, improved performance and simplified system management processes. Discover how your organization can achieve similar benefits as well as improve response time and reduce workloads.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 19 Jun 2012

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: Smartphones, tablets and the like present enterprises and SMBs alike with opportunities for communication and collaboration that they’ve never had before.

Posted: 23 May 2012 | Premiered: 22 Mar 2012

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: This classroom will give you the information to build a mobile environment with integrity, support that with a robust wireless LAN infrastructure, and leverage it with collaborative applications.

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 07 Aug 2012

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: The convergence of storage and data center networks, the proliferation of mobile devices, the growing need for always on communications and access to data, and the emergence of cloud computing have all profoundly transformed the demand placed on the network and how it runs.

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 22 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Despite the benefits blade servers and virtualization offer, there are still some pressing issues in the data center. This resource reviews several of these pain points and recommends a unified computing system designed to address them.

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study examines the challenge Miami-Dade County faced when their business intelligence (BI) grew in strategic importance. Their existing infrastructure didn't have the capacity to support the needed growth to extend their use of Congos BI and its capabilities. They decided to explore using IBM's System z for their current and future needs.

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 | Published: 21 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Companies must adapt their management practices to provide proper control over resources in the cloud. This white paper showcases a management tool designed with these types of environments in mind and discusses its key features and benefits.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Despite the benefits blade servers and virtualization offer, there are still some pressing issues in the data center. This resource reviews several of these pain points and recommends a unified computing system designed to address them.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this essential case study to learn how one company used a set of performance monitoring and reporting systems to help them increase the efficiency of their IBM machines.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: To keep pace with your peers and position your organisation for the future, you must continuously update your data centre. This white paper explains how one company refined their IT transformation strategy to improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of their business services. Explore their key objectives and best practices for success here.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The impacts of a system outage are felt within minutes of the incident and range from production and shipping stoppages to lost business, industry penalties and failed audits. Read this paper to learn how a disaster recovery (DR) plan based in the cloud mitigates these risks and protects the interests of shareholders, investors and customers.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of upgrading Microsoft Exchange and explains why it is essential that you successfully coordinate between server, storage, and network stacks to ensure stable business operations. Read this white paper to learn how a unified computing system can help you achieve this goal.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

EZINE: System management is a crucial issue in virtual environments, but selecting the most appropriate tools can be extremely challenging. Find out when it's better to deploy a comprehensive system management framework, when point tools are the right choice, and when an organisation should go with both.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: By simplifying and making system refresh execution consistent, automation can decrease the potential for errors inherent in standard approaches. Read this paper to discover an automation solution that can be used for traditional SAP systems as well as SAP’s Business Warehouse (BW).

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: In order to combat the ever-evolving challenges of today’s networks, it’s time to head back to school in our exclusive Network Evolution University – Featuring three distinct classes and nine progressive learning lessons that explore all there is to know about next generation networks and how to overcome the challenges they present.

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2011

WEBCAST: Access this exclusive video to discover how user virtualisation can reduce the time and cost of a Windows 7 migration.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Premiered: Aug 16, 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource outlines 5 essential best practices that MSPs can follow to sell their customers on a better way of delivering IT services. These helpful tips can help you increase sales and profitability.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Virtual systems management is a major new opportunity for VARs provided that it is implemented correctly. This expert e-guide explores the fundamentals of virtual systems management from a reseller's perspective and explains how it can allow customers to fully leverage their virtual environments.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The paper includes calculations showing the cost of downtime expected for a given level of EHR solution uptime in practices of various sizes, as well as products associated with specific uptime levels. The report also includes a “cost per hour” tool that estimates the financial impact of downtime in practices they administer, oversee or assist.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This series overview points out the challenges of IT systems management and showcases technologies designed to overcome them. Learn how to simplify hardware and software inventory, patching, and more across your organization.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Unix remains an important platform for critical enterprise applications. This resource explores the staying power of this venerable operating system and details many of the emerging factors that are affecting its use in the data center.

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 | Published: 20 Jul 2011