IT Managers Reports

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant to themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs.

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Calculate the optimal refresh rates for your firm based on equivalent annual cost (EAC) analysis. The tool also provides an assessment of further TCO reduction opportunities offered by Intel® vPro ™ technology.

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 | Published: 28 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a discussion of TCO components and complexities, as well as cost analysis and business impacts that companies should consider when building a business case. This paper offers tips for assessing the total cost of ownership in delivering best practices through an in-house IT service delivery model.

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript discusses the steps essential for creating a virtual infrastructure for cloud computing to improve the delivery of data center applications.

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

EBOOK: Design, management and testing can make or break high availability in your virtual environment. Chapter 3 of this Advanced Virtualization E-Book discusses the essentials of high availability planning.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: In the Global Knowledge/TechRepublic 2010 Salary Survey, conducted at that end of last year, one of the questions put to respondents was "What skill set will your company be looking to add in 2010?" Here's the complete list, with the No. 1 skill listed being in the highest demand.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In the third presentation transcript of this three-part Q&A series with expert Greg Shields, learn what IT Management is and why, as a small business, you need to understand and care about IT Management.

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

EBOOK: IT managers are looking to governance structures and the discipline of risk management to help them make decisions and create sustainable processes around regulatory compliance. Read this E-book to learn more about risk management and evaluating GRC solutions.

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 | Published: 11 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Download this free white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud computing.

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the emergence of standards-based architectures, virtualization, and ubiquitous high-speed connectivity, cloud computing technology is primed to form the basis for a new, highly efficient enterprise IT infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: While PC prices continue to fall, the total cost of using PCs remains high, when the cost of the deployment activities themselves is considered. To help companies optimize their PC deployment process, Dell has developed a series of offerings that can be used to simplify the deployment process and reduce the time needed to deploy PCs.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: Dell systems with Intel® vPro™ technology running Microsoft® Windows® 7 can enhance your user experience and help optimize your IT resources helping to save time and money.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This series of articles and accompanying poster is an end-to-end scenario that outlines how to plan, design, build, and maintain an enterprise's Internet presence Web site based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This scenario focuses on the design, creation, and deployment of an Internet presence site in a large enterprise.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn how to manage Windows Server 2008 R2.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2009

VIDEO: Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, expert Michael A. Clark, Managing Director for EDDix LLC, highlights eDiscovery and offers insight for preparing your company for litigation.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 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

DATA SHEET: The Hyper-V Technology Introduction with Advanced Management for Windows Server 2008 is an approximate 10 day service and consists of either a single-node implementation or dual-node highly available (HA) host-based cluster configuration and up to two servers for the System Center elements. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: Simplify, consolidate, and aggressively accelerate virtualization with a portfolio of services that help decrease TCO and speed time to value. Dell ProConsult Virtualization Services simplify virtualization by helping you assess, plan, design and implement virtualization projects. Read this data sheet to learn more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: The property tax system for Marin County, California, was increasingly expensive to maintain; furthermore, it was not possible to integrate it with newer modern technologies. Read this case study to learn how they updated and modernized this critical application without losing valuable IT assets embedded in the current system.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Following a Business Process Outsourcing agreement for the administration of Life and Pension products, HCL Insurance BPO Services, undertook a full analysis of the inherited infrastructure. A risk was identified with the third party mainframe used to host its CAPSIL insurance application.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009