Systems Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This expert handbook offers information to help you properly prepare for the most critical decisions in your data center construction project. Download now to uncover ways that help you future-proof your investments and avoid costly construction mistakes such as: site selection, negotiating with contractors and more.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Keeping pace with the demand for ne IT functionality can be next to impossible for many of today's IT organizations that lack the necessary time, budget, and skilled resources. Both IBM and Cisco offer integrated systems designed to alleviate these challenges, but the two products differ in important ways. Read this white paper to uncover them.

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 | Published: 26 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover an operations management tool that can support your virtual and physical IT environment. This solution provides full physical/ virtual topology, virtual storage discover, easy integration with VMware, and more.

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) can provide accurate, real-time information and help planning and management in the data center. Access this white paper to learn how your organization can benefit from the right DCIM tools and optimize efficiency and capacity in your IT environment.

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents a virtual replication solution that protects virtual machines at the disk format file level, which prevents management and TCO challenges associated with array-based replication. Discover how your organization can take advantage of features like non-disruptive process, virtual protection groups and more.

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines how standardization can have significant positive effects on all three major components of DCPI business value – availability, agility and total cost of ownership. Learn how your organization can adopt modular standardization to cut costs and prevent downtime

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 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: Access this case study to discover how one banking institution used an infrastructure platform for their VDI deployment with great results. Learn how this system jumpstarted the process by delivering accelerated assessment and planning and provided valuable benefits like accelerated proof-to concept completion and faster deployment time.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines how one organization successfully migrated to Linux and consolidated 14 physical servers to a single IBM System z mainframe. Inside, discover how your business can consolidate physical servers and realize other valuable benefits like rapid provisioning and easy management of virtualized Linux environments.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 19 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover a solution that can be added to your existing IT infrastructure which makes users instantly productive anywhere without compromising IT governance or efficiency. Gain insight into flexible offline data access options and non-disruptive integration.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 18 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines an enterprise-class Linux operating system that increases the flexibility and reliability of your IT environment. Inside, discover the top benefits of this system that is tailored specifically to meet your needs.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 07 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how one city migrated from their aging mainframe to a Windows platform. Learn how your organization can save on maintenance costs and increase operational efficiency by making a similar move.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief resource provides 10 reasons why customers use EMC unified storage for deploying virtualized Oracle Environments.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 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: This resource explores the growth of distributed object stores (DOS) and examines the underlying mechanisms that guide their use and development.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about a service management solution that's optimized for IBM's System z, but compatible with other distributed systems, that provides the end-to-end visibility, control and automation for optimum business service delivery and IT infrastructure management.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines an optimized Oracle database solution designed to reduce overall ownership costs, reduce IT and business risks, while enabling greater efficiency and business agility to support evolving needs.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper examines why making the right server choices can help solve many challenges. It contrasts x86 multi-cores with Power Systems and mainframes. Read on to learn how making the right server choices can help an enterprise realize greater ROI while also helping extracting greater business value from the servers that it buys.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this essential quick start guide to the cloud to learn about the top 3 things resellers should know about the cloud, how to define your cloud business model, 8 steps required to build a successful cloud practice, and much more!

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today’s organizations are looking towards automation as a way to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Automation can help reduce capital expenditures by enabling businesses to retire administrative applications. It also minimizes risks and lowers labor costs. Access this resource to learn more about what automation can do for your company.

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

WHITE PAPER: Most IBM i-centric businesses face one or both of two core challenges today:  frustrations with the green-screen user interface and/or the need to migrate off of RPG and perhaps even the IBM i platform. Explore how you can use ASNA’s application modernization strategy to get an affordable, easily improved user interface for your RPG programs.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to learn about an innovative solution that can optimize your server virtualization and offer your business enhanced performance, improved availability, personalized support and much more.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011