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- How Managed Services has Changed Remote Infrastructure Management
- In today's distributed computing environment, critical Information and Communications Technology ICT equipment can be located anywhere in the world. These arrangements possess unique challenges for the companies that need to access, manage, and monitor these critical systems 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Register now...
- Tags: Security, Managed Services, Infrastructure Management, ITC Infotech, It Services
- Webcasts 2008-03-26
- Reduced Costs and Increased Productivity Through Remote Infrastructure Management and Support
- MindTree Consulting undertook the management and support for an online store application used internally by a large virtualization services company to track sales orders and support. This application forms the backbone of the client's sales process and helps them bundle different components of products to offer to their customers. It...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Infrastructure Management, Sales Strategy, It Services, It Management, Sales, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Application Development, Application Management, and Infrastructure Management for a Leader in the Travel Domain
- MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the travel domain and its experience in application development and maintenance to execute new application development and maintain existing applications for a leading provider of distribution solutions in the travel domain. With MindTree's engagement, the client is able to optimize its investment with a...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Application Development, Infrastructure Management, Leader, Domain, Application Management, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-12-18
- Simplify and Integrate Your Application Infrastructure Management
- How healthy are the business-critical applications right now? What is the impact of being down or slow for a few minutes, hours or days? If there was a problem, can anyone quickly isolate the root cause, and find out which services are affected? This webcast on the value of managing...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-09-13
- Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing
- IT has largely been forced to use upgrades to ensure they meet batch commitments. While this sometimes delivers timely results, it can also significantly increase costs and further erode the IT cost of ownership position. Fortunately, infrastructure management technology provides alternatives to upgrades; alternatives that deliver more consistent and better...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Upgrade, It Management, It Services, Strategy, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2007-09-07
- CNPC-BGP Lowers Total Cost of Ownership by Simplifying Infrastructure Management
- CNPC-BGP Inc. BGP is one of the world's leading onshore geophysical service providers. The company offers petroleum-surveying services with a focus on geophysical data acquisition, processing, interpretation, equipment manufacturing, and software development. Increasing competition has put pressure on BGP to improve efficiency and lower costs. The company has expanded rapidly...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Oracle Corp., TCO, CNPC-BGP, BGP, Networking
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Unified Infrastructure Management: Simplified Management
- The presenter of this webcast explains how Unified Infrastructure Management delivers more common and streamlined business processes across the IT organization.
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operational Planning, It Services, It Management, Digital Media, Business Operations, It service Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- IBM Storage Infrastructure Management for Growing Data Needs Solution Brief
- Organizations in a wide range of industries are struggling to manage a rapidly rising volume of data. This data explosion has been caused in part by an increasing reliance on ready access to information for everyday business processes and operations. The good news is, you can improve storage utilization,...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, News, IBM Corp., Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2006-11-01
- A Project Summary: VMware - ESX Server to Facilitate: Infrastructure Management Services Server Consolidation Storage & Testing With Production Servers
- Many companies are spending their IT budget more on maintaining existing system rather than on innovation, virtualization will enable customer to spend more time in improving business. This will happen when customer has his applications running on Virtual Machine; it could be for infrastructure management, testing, or for storage. VMware...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Server Consolidation, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Vensoft, It Services, Servers, It Management, Hardware, It service Management
- White papers 2006-03-16
- Turkish Bank With 437 Branches Centralizes Windows Server System Infrastructure Management
- One of the largest private banks in Turkey - with assets of U.S.$24.4 billion - Garanti has a large IT infrastructure that includes extensive use of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The company's technology subsidiary, Garanti Technology, uses Microsoft Operations Manager MOM...
- Tags: Bank, Infrastructure Management, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Operations Manager Agent, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Data Centers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-02-01
- Improving Key Metrics for Application Infrastructure Management: Defining and Improving Application Infrastructure Management Metrics
- IT infrastructure is a broad term, potentially encompassing interrelated and dependent components from network switches to application and web servers. In this paper, the term application infrastructure is used to mean the set of infrastructure components above the operating system such as databases, messaging servers, application servers and web servers....
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Infrastructure Management, Server, Application Infrastructure Management, It Services, Web Servers, It Management, Internet, It service Management
- White papers 2006-01-09
- Application Infrastructure Management Best Practices: A Best Practices Based Approach to Infrastructure Configuration Management
- Application infrastructure configuration management is a core discipline necessary to effectively manage today's IT infrastructure. Highly-effective IT organizations often practice a common set of configuration management processes, and that's what this paper is about. The processes, policies and procedures that very-effective IT organizations use to manage application infrastructures. These represent...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Configuration Management, Best Practice, Application Infrastructure Configuration Management
- White papers 2006-01-04
- Infrastructure Management is Not Enough: The New IT Operations Imperative
- Infrastructure management is not enough to ensure enterprise applications are meeting business goals. Why? Because users experience applications, NOT infrastructure. Only Mercury's application management offerings address the critical IT disciplines to ensure production applications are not only up and running, but are optimized to deliver business value.
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Application Management, Mercury Interactive Corp., It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Infrastructure Management Strategies
- Companies can't seem to decide between integrated frameworks, point products, or even developing their own tools. IBM Tivoli, due to its deep market penetration, has a unique opportunity to change this in favor of integrated framework solutions. After interviewing 64 European Banking companies, Forrester has compiled a summary...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, IBM Corp., It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-07-27
- Confused Infrastructure Management Strategies
- Forrester recently surveyed IT decision-makers at 64 European financial services companies about their current situation and strategic plans regarding applications, application infrastructure, IT infrastructure, and IT infrastructure management. This paper will focus on survey results concerning data center strategies and infrastructure management. With a representative sample of banks, insurance companies,...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., It Services, It Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, It service Management, Finance, Management
- White papers 2005-05-11
- Infrastructure Management: Standards, Best Practices, ITIL
- ITIL emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and offered introductory knowledge on common process areas that had been nearly ignored by the IT community. Most new computing tools arrived without a road map or some process framework. In many circumstances, technologies were implemented on top of a...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Best Practice, Standards, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2002-06-10
- HP ProLiant-Based Citrix Environment Solves Infrastructure Management Challenges
- Montreal-based IPEX Inc. conducts its integrated thermoplastic piping systems manufacturing, sales, and distribution at more than 35 locations across North America. The company's IT staff needed to replace more than 250 desktops at dispersed sites. They were looking for ways to drive down costs - while simplifying maintenance and improving...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ipex, Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Desktops, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- VMware Saves NetIQ Time When Developing on Windows
- NetIQ Corporation is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure management software that enables organizations to optimize the performance and availability of their Windows NT and Windows 2000 based systems and applications. They needed to spend a great deal of development time installing Windows 2000 and Windows NT with various service...
- Tags: NetIQ Corp., Infrastructure Management, VMware Inc., Kennedy, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, It Services, It Management, Software, It service Management
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- Exploring Infrastructure Management Buzzwords, Trends, and Concepts
- This webcast presents a brief overview of infrastructure management history, examining the business and technology drivers for management change and clarifying some of the more important concepts and jargon such as business service management, business impact management, service level management, service delivery management, autonomic computing, virtualization and adaptive management, utility...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, TeamQuest Corp., Management, It Management, It Services, It service Management
- Webcasts
- The Next Frontier in Application Networking
- This webcast discusses how developments in the data center environment are changing application infrastructure management. The presenter will explain how Cisco's Application Control Engine ACE, a multi-service module for the Catalyst 6500, can enhance infrastructure management functionality with the industry's highest performance of up to 16 gigabits per second of...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., It Services, It Management, It service Management
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