Systems Management Reports

ANALYST BRIEF: Craft an IT infrastructure that allows you to create and sustain market leadership. This brochure will get you started with the IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments. This analysis will give you in-depth insight into your current application performance and the levels of performance that can be achieved. Get the brochure.

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 17 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: IBM continues to provide the scale-up UNIX data center with a plan, and a predictable drumbeat, for the future. To learn more about IBM’s forthcoming POWER7 and AIX7, please read on.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Through data modeling of BI systems, we can meet many of today’s data challenges. Through logical and physical modeling of business intelligence systems, we can enable the delivery of the correct business information to business users. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

EZINE: With the number of virtual machines increasing in the data center, backing up servers today has become much more than just copying data files. Take a look at how virtualization technologies have changed traditional backup strategies and examine some of the approaches that protect against issues like accidental file loss and server crashes.

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Using Robot/CONSOLE, we’ll show you how you can streamline your run book, eliminate manual tasks, and make your operations team more responsive to your critical business processes. Read this presentation transcript and learn how Robot/CONSOLE can solve the headaches of resource monitoring.

Posted: 20 May 2010 | Published: 20 May 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript features a demonstration from Dell and Microsoft that highlights the use cases and technology that represent best practices for using virtualization today. Learn how to move workloads onto virtual servers and gain insight into how to prepare your staff for the transition.

Posted: 17 May 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you are considering upgrading from a current bladed or non-bladed server design to a next generation server, this white paper is intended to highlight some of the capabilities of the HP Integrity server blades to aid in your evaluation.

Posted: 03 May 2010 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than a technology. It is a way of thinking about problems that allow us to go beyond the physical limitations nor­mally associated with entire classes of hardware, from servers to storage. Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization, however, requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

WEBCAST: Using Robot/CONSOLE, we’ll show you how you can streamline your run book, eliminate manual tasks, and make your operations team more responsive to your critical business processes. Watch this FREE 30-minute Webcast and learn how Robot/CONSOLE can solve the headaches of resource monitoring.

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 | Premiered: Apr 28, 2010

WHITE PAPER: The powerful functionality and continued development of the QSystems Management Suite is driven by our commitment to meet the ever-changing, real-world needs of our customers. Learn more about money and time saving strategies available for your business by reading these examples.

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 | Published: 27 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Large-scale consolidation using Dell PowerEdge servers with the Intel Xeon 7500 series processors and Hyper-V can multiply the benefits of virtualization, while significantly reducing associated costs. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 10 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript of the webcast “Critical Lessons to Help You Deal with the Top Six SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade Challenges” explores the top challenges of an SAP ERP 6.0 upgrade and provides must-know advice, real-world examples, technical tips and other tricks to help you solve them.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 07 Apr 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: In environments based on Dell™ servers and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization, the Dell Server Performance and Resource Optimization Management Pack (Dell PRO Pack) provides robust, integrated monitoring and proactive management through Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, System Center Essentials, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 | Published: 30 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Voice and data on a single wire is an exciting network development. MPLS technology, which enables voice and data to be transported together on wide area networks (WANs), has matured to provide a platform for almost unimaginable communications and cloud computing possibilities. Learn more about MPLS by reading this white paper.

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 | Published: 26 Mar 2010

WEBCAST: Integrated Data Management is the ability to manage enterprise application data and optimize data-driven applications, from requirements to retirement, across these heterogeneous environments.

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 | Premiered: Mar 23, 2010

PRODUCT DEMO: This demonstration shows all the capabilities of the IBM Cognos 8 BI product. Demos are presented for all roles including employees, managers, BI professionals, business analysts, and system administrators.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Premiered: 17 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn about top cloud management issues and how to overcome them. Discover the differences between managing public and private clouds and find out how to handle user accessibility issues and application conflicts with leading cloud platforms.

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 | Published: 12 Mar 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The Dell PowerEdge M-series blade solution is a breakthrough in enterprise server architecture. Built from the ground up using Dell's Energy Smart and FlexIO technologies, the M-series is designed to combat data center sprawl and IT complexity.

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

EBOOK: Some IT managers have steered clear of server virtualization technologies because the deployment process can seem too daunting to begin. But this step-by-step handbook maps out the deployment process in four easy-to-follow steps.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today's virtual environments.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Dell Infrastructure Manager offers an open, standards-based software solution designed to unify and simplify management of heterogeneous servers, storage devices, and networks - while offering a smooth migration path toward a virtualization-ready data center that can adapt quickly and easily as enterprise needs change.

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

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: This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP (continuous data protection) and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP - or Near-CDP - becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT workload automation results in average annual savings in staff costs alone of $750,000. Learn more about automating complex IT processes - read the white paper.

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript provides best practices for designing and deploying disaster recovery tools for critical applications. Discover how your organization can leverage these tools to improve availability and avoid costly downtime.

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010