Data Center White Papers

A Comprehensive Framework for Securing Virtualized Data Centers

Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement.

Sponsor: HP

Solve the 6 top problems in your data center Business White Paper

Whether your data center is large or small, it faces a similar set of roadblocks to efficiency, uptime, and ROI. This white paper reveals the six most common and intractable problems facing the data center and explains how to rectify them while improving efficiency and uptime.

Sponsor: HP

The Reasons CMDBs Don't Work: A Comparative Report of Traditional CMDBs and ITinvolve's Revolutionary Approach

There is no shortage of reasons why CMDB initiatives fail. A lack of trust in the data, the time consuming nature of these projects, and the inability of end users to see their value are frequently cited. Discover how the features of a revolutionary, cloud approach compare to a traditional CMDB and learn how it can handle complex IT environments and improve change, incident, and asset management.

Sponsor: ITinvolve

Proven strategies for uncovering cost savings with IBM DB2

Learn how your organization can take advantage of recent breakthroughs to lower the cost of data management. This informative e-book describes proven strategies for lowering the costs associated with:

- database administration
- database development
- database systems
- data storage

This e-book also discusses the new breakthrough features that make it easier than ever for you to move to DB2. Not only is it easier than ever to move your database to DB2, it is also easier than ever to find skills to work with DB2. Organizations around the world are using these valuable strategies to lower their IT costs. Make sure that you use them as well.

Sponsor: IBM

Is Your Database Ready For Your Company's Future?

This brochure is targeted to executives and will cover all the business benefits of DB2. No matter what industry or market you are in, data has become more than just details of recorded transactions, events and customer records - it's the lifeblood of your business, as vital as cash.That makes your database a critical part of your business. Can it stay a step ahead of the demands that your customers, employees and partners place upon it?

Sponsor: IBM

Deliver Cost-Effective Business Continuity with Extreme Capacity

IBM DB2 provides application cluster transparency technology that equips organizations running OLTP applications with the ability to deliver high availability and continuous uptime for transactional data, plus the flexibility and capacity they need to remain competitive.

Sponsor: IBM

Information Governance: Turning Data Into Business

In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to explore current information governance practices, challenges, and ROI among US, UK, and German firms. In conducting an online survey of 200 information governance decision makers and follow up in depth interviews with five of these respondents - Forrester found that companies that implement an information governance strategy across their enterprise achieve better business results than those that are less mature in their governance initiatives.

Sponsor: IBM

Top Reasons Why CIOs Love ITinvolve for Change Management

ITinvolve transforms and simplifies the way IT is managing changes in the data center. This powerful new change management tool, delivered as a cloud service, empowers IT to understand the impact of changes before - not after- changes are implemented.

Sponsor: ITinvolve

See How New ITinvolve helps resolve IT issues 75% faster in this Customer Success Story

Learn how Jalasoft uses ITinvolve to define and maintain an up-to-date view of its entire IT environment and how they use this information source to resolve IT problems and issues up to 75% faster than before, and streamline IT change management.

Sponsor: ITinvolve

Learn How The Director of Technology and Infrastructure at a US Federal Agency Manages IT Changes

Among its initial IT users, this Federal agency calls the experience with new ITinvolve for Change Management "love at first sight." Learn why its IT Director says, "Before we were introduced to ITinvolve for Change Management, we were looking for a way to help structure our knowledge and management of changes. Now that we're using ITinvolve for Change Management, we've got our solution!"

Sponsor: ITinvolve

New IT Change Management Cloud Service Significantly Reduces MTTR

As much as 80 percent of the time related to MTTR (mean time to repair) is spent on identifying the key components, relationships, and people involved to determine the cause of a problem and fix it. In this scenario, an IT operations service group grapples with seemingly unrelated issues that turn into a cascade of problems. Alternatively, this white paper will examine how the scenario could have gone with ITinvolve for Change Management.

Sponsor: ITinvolve

New IT Change Management Cloud Service a "Game Changer" Says EMA Analyst

Learn why Enterprise Management Associates analyst Dennis Drogseth calls ITinvolve for Change Management "a breath of fresh air in humanizing change management and streamlining collaboration across a wide range of relevant stakeholders. The result promises to deliver substantial improvements in IT's ability to assess the impact of changes prior to implementation."

Sponsor: ITinvolve

Gary Watson, CTO, Nexsan: 6 Tips for Selecting Hard Drives

What type of drives should be used for what types of data? Selecting a drive and interface can seem complex with considerations of random access performance, sequential performance, cost, density and reliability. Gary Watson examines six factors to consider.

Sponsor: Nexsan

Hybrid Storage: How to Get the Best of Solid-state and Disk

Traditional disk storage has struggled to keep up with the I/O pressure in virtualized environments. SSD-only storage is relegated to the fringe due to cost and capacity. Enter hybrid storage for the best of both.

Sponsor: Nexsan

Taneja Group: Blazing Performance on Unified Storage!

Unified storage combines block and file traffic into a single system. It's a good deal for mid-sized IT environments: users can save money over purchasing separate block and file storage, reclaim data center space, and save on energy costs. They may be able to save on management overhead and data protection costs depending on how the storage vendor has integrated block and file storage management. And performance ranges from acceptable to excellent for sequential data streams, which makes it a solid performer for backup/archival and media storage. These benefits make unified block and file storage a great choice in computing environments where physical space and IT resources are constrained.

Sponsor: Nexsan

Storage Switzerland: Unified Storage for the Rest of Us

Unified storage systems have been targeted primarily at large data centers and enterprises, leaving the mid-sized data center to fend for itself and manage two separate storage systems. Or, they've had to use a SAN-connected Windows or UNIX file server. Ironically it's the mid-market that can probably benefit the most from a unified storage system, but until recently their choices were limited.

Sponsor: Nexsan

Analyst WP: ESG-Proven value with the Oracle Database Appliance

IT organizations of all sizes are looking for ways to reduce cost in their data center. While larger enterprises can more easily muster the necessary skills and resources in pursuit of this goal, mid-sized organizations typically have limited time and funds they can denote. Consequently, for databases supporting business-critical operations, more and more mid-sized companies are turning to appliances- such as the Oracle Database Appliance. The Oracle Database Appliance offers the highest levels of database availablity, without requiring the expertise traditionally associated with building and maintaining a custom high availability solution. This executive brief highlights the data management challenges a California-based organization faced and illustrates how their chosen solution resulted in cost savings and in better overall use of IT resources- and exceeded all expectations.

Sponsor: Oracle & Intel

Adaptable and Resilient VDI Deployments

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments offer tremendous advantages but can also impact server and network resources significantly. A complete VDI solution should deliver a reliable, high-performing desktop user experience while taming complexity and supporting scalability within a secure, stable framework.

Sponsor: F5

Optimize Application Delivery to Support Data Center Consolidation

Efforts to reduce capital and operating expenditures by consolidating data centers can fail if the applications and the network are not optimized. Learn about a consolidation strategy that goes beyond centralizing servers, routers, software, and switches to solve multiple business problems.

Sponsor: F5

Improve VDI with Scalable Infrastructure

Learn how to unburden your VDI infrastructure and gain added security, network performance improvements, and optimizations, while improving the architecture for non-VDI application specific systems.

Sponsor: F5

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