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Provisioning: Setting up a telecommunications service for a particular customer. Common carriers provision circuits by programming their computers to switch customer lines into the appropriate networks. Self-provisioning is when...; Full Provisioning Definition >>

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Productivity: Mobile phones vs desktop computing: If you want to make the iPhone less than useful for business, just copy and apply the best practices from Microsoft desktop management to it. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Desktop, Phone, Mobile, Telecommunications Company, Provisioning, Cell Phone, Computing, Telecom & Utilities, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-24
TechNet Webcast: Windows Mobile Series: Device Management and Device Provisioning (Level 300): The presenter of this webcast provides a deep dive into device management and provisioning with Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 and Windows Mobile. What is device management, what protocols do System Center Mobile Device Manager and Windows Mobile support, and what new resources are available to securely manage...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Webcast, Mobile, Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Device Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Webcasts 2008-04-10
CEO of dissolved Open Country buys management code, launches Linux, VM provisioning company: Open Country, once a rising star in the open source management software market, closed doors in 2007. But its former CEO, Laurent Gharda, isn't giving up on its software. Gharda acquired the intellectual property rights to Open Country's core assets including its provisioning software and today launched...; Tags: License, Open Source, Installation, Provisioning, Provisioning Software, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-03-11
IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center: IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data center security and resiliency - at any scale. It will...; Tags: Data Center, Provisioning, Vision, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management; White papers 2008-03-01
Insurance Firm Uses Virtualization to Streamline Server Provisioning, Drive Agility: In business since 1917, today Alecta is the largest occupational pension provider in Sweden. The company's data center, located at headquarters in Stockholm, houses more than 100 older, underutilized servers. Alecta's IT staff deployed a Microsoft virtualization solution to improve hardware utilization, streamline server provisioning, and increase agility in responding...; Tags: Server Provisioning, Streamline, Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Alecta, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management; Case studies 2008-02-01

Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning: Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping areas into new communities. Brookfield Homes Southland Division, covering southern California north of San Diego County, employs about people...; Tags: EqualLogic, SAN, Provisioning, Brookfield Homes, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; Case studies 2008-01-18
OCTPO - Cisco ONS SONET 15454 Turn Up, Test, Provisioning, Basic ML, and Operation Training v7.0: View Available Dates and LocationsThe Cisco ONS 15454 is a fast and powerful yet easy-to-use optical platform that lowers the cost and increases the efficiency of bandwidth delivery within optical transport networks. In this instructor-led course, you'll get hands-on training on a 6-node ONS 15454 system. Working...; Tags: Provisioning, Training, Cisco Systems Inc., Ethernet, Networking; Training 2008-01-01
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Increases Security and Streamlines Provisioning: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University wanted to meet student and employee demands for online, self-service functionality - especially important given the university's geographically-dispersed locations and ensure identity management with a strong, scalable system to manage more than 70,000 accounts including students, employees, and contractors. The challenge was to replace a manual provisioning...; Tags: Security, Oracle Corp., Provisioning; Case studies 2008-01-01
Saving Time and Labor on Oracle Patching With Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack - A Case Study With Oracle Internal IT: The purpose of this paper is to detail the process and benefits of using Enterprise Manager Provisioning pack procedure to automate application of the Critical Patch Updates hence forth referred to as CPU on Real Application Clusters RAC in Oracle Internal IT (henceforth referred to as ST-IT) environments. Oracle ST-IT...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Environment, Provisioning, ST-IT, Oracle ST-IT Environment, Patches; White papers 2008-01-01
Xen and Server Consolidation: Enterprises are witnessing a server sprawl as low cost x86 boxes make their way into datacenters. Application provisioning on dedicated servers and provisioning hardware capacity for peak loads have led to unprecedented server proliferation and abysmally low utilization. Virtualization technology has the potential to play a significant role in enabling...; Tags: Provisioning, Xen, Enterprise, Virtualization Technology, Server Consolidation, Virtualization, Servers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-12-20
Automated Migration and Provisioning Tools Reduce Cost of Migrating to Active Directory and Simplify Training and Troubleshooting: The Cisco Systems IT group traditionally maintained separate NOS and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP directories for each application server, including mail servers, MeetingMaker calendar servers, TACACS+ authentication servers,, Oracle applications, and Macintosh and Windows desktops. Cisco developers, in turn, had to write different code for every directory that their...; Tags: Provisioning, Migration, Training, Cisco Systems Inc., LDAP, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-12-18
Lowering Database Storage Complexity and Management Cost With HP Thin Provisioning XP and Oracle Database 10g and 11g: This paper explores and outlines how to apply HP StorageWorks XP Thin Provisioning and other HP XP technologies to help simplify and manage an Oracle Database 10g/11g environment. HP Thin Provisioning ThP provides significant capacity usage reductions as it allows administrators to allocate storage based on traditional methods, but only...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Provisioning, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-12-01
Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 1.1 Deployment Best Practices: Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, a Web-based GUI product used to simplify IP telephony management with respect to activation services and call processing provisioning, is a product from the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite. Provisioning Manager provides provisioning for Cisco Unified Communications initial deployments and implementations and then remains employed to...; Tags: Provisioning, Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Provisioning Manager; White papers 2007-12-01
Virtual Lab Automation: A Quantum Leap in IT Cost Reduction and Application Development Process Improvement: Responding to an explosion in the number of underutilized servers that have accumulated across software development teams and to the unsustainably increasing percentage of time spent on repetitive system setup and configuration tasks in support of AD activities, enterprise application development teams, and the software development teams in leading software...; Tags: Software, Team, Application Development, Information Technology, Provisioning, Quantum Corp., Automation, Software Development, Team Management, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management; White papers 2007-10-11
A Guide to Provisioning, Billing and Nurturing Users of Web Applications and On-Demand Solutions: A confluence of factors is driving customers to adopt a new generation of web-based, on-demand business applications. The emergence of these SaaS solutions is being driven by three primary forces: Growing frustration among end-users and executives with the costs and complexities associated with traditional, on-premise applications...; Tags: Billing, On-demand, Web Application, Provisioning, OpSource, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies; White papers 2007-10-09
Brasil Telecom Increases Efficiency of Network Management and Service Provisioning: To meet Brasil Telecom's regulation-related business and service provisioning challenges, the company needed to improve its order management and provisioning processes and reduces its capital expenses and operating expenses. To operate more efficiently and gain market share, the company needed an inventory system with an architecture that could speed up...; Tags: Process Management, Network, Provisioning, Service Provisioning, Network Management, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-10-01
SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (exe): This code sample shows how accessing and manipulating various SharePoint Server components programmaticallysuch as the Member group and user permissions, and business data catalog and legacy line-of-business LOB data sourceswith the built-in SharePoint Server APIs enable this type of business process automation. The automation was developed primarily by using Visual...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Provisioning, API, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; Software downloads 2007-09-20
Support Professional's User Administration Tool Kit: Support Professional's User Administration Tool Kit collects the account, asset, and policy tools and templates that small and medium businesses require to efficiently manage day-to-day end user tasks, from budgeting for the technology needs that a new employee presents to tracking computers, laptops, and other equipment to locking down user...; Tags: User Account, Administration, Provisioning, Tool, Productivity; Download resources 2007-09-14
Memory Provisioning Recommendations for VMware Infrastructure 3: Operational Best Practices: Physical memory is a critical component of all VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) deployments, and appropriate sizing is necessary to ensure the success of solutions based on VI3, such as Server Consolidation. Provisioning the ideal amount of physical memory for VI3 components is more important as systems with an ever increasing...; Tags: Provisioning, Memory, VMware Inc., Best Practice; White papers 2007-08-30
Optimizing Storage Performance, Provisioning, and Manageability for Microsoft SQL Server: Microsoft SQL Server has become very popular as a database environment driving a broad range of mid-level business applications, ranging from CRM to eCommerce and from ERP to supply chain integration. The combination of affordability, performance, ease of deployment, and sophisticated analytical features has led to a significant proliferation of...; Tags: Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Environment, Storage, Provisioning, Server, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-08-29