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Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 4: Scalable Enterprise Systems Management

Discover the methods used to manage enterprise resources, including storage, compute nodes, switches, and the data and services that this infrastructure provides. In a perfect world, all systems would have common configuration, monitoring, recovery, security, and performance-tuning management features. Most often, however, systems designers must carefully craft system architectures that...

Tags: Enterprise Systems Management, IBM Corp., Productivity, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-10-28

The EMA All-Stars in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008

This Enterprise Management Associates® research report highlights what it considers to be the best available software solutions in a number of specific disciplines, in order to form a 'Systems Management All-Star' team, and further highlights the 'best of the best' with selection to the All-Star First Team. It is designed...

Tags: Enterprise Systems Management, Kace, It Services, Network Administration, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

NetApi Manager 1.0.146 (Windows)

Netapi Manager is an enterprise system management application for Windows NT/2000. It provides an integrated collection of Windows NT/2000 administration utilities.

Tags: Windows NT/2000, Enterprise Systems Management, Creal'lab, Netapi Manager, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-01-17

PeopleSoft helps Verizon for Enterprise System Management

Verizon Wireless needed to quickly roll out its PeopleSoft HRMS and Financials systems to hit the ground running. PeopleSoft Global Services provided the expertise and rapid implementation to get Verizon's PeopleSoft system up and running.

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Enterprise Systems Management, Organizational Structure, Human Resources

Case studies

Additional Resources

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Pacific Timesheet 6.69 (Mac)

Pacific Timesheet Enterprise PTE is a time and work tracking platform that powers the management and secure deployment of specialized end-user tools for: Enterprise time, attendance, work, project and schedule tracking, Enterprise timesheet and custom object workflow and management, Standard Reporting, Custom Reporting and distribution,Proven, scalable, open J2EE-compliant services-oriented architecture,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Platform, Pacific Timesheet, Pacific Timesheet Enterprise, Asset Management, Data Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Productivity, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Web Services, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-17

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Easily Monitor Virtual/Physical/Cloud and Save Budget. up.time - Free Trial

Need Deep Systems Management for Virtual/Physical/Cloud that Saves you Budget? Think up.time... Easily monitor, measure and manage virtual, physical, and Cloud assets and applications from one dashboard with up.time. Whether you need to monitor and manage across remote datacenters or multiple platforms or databases, up.time provides the...

Tags: Monitor, Systems Management, Uptime Software, Up.time, It Services, Network Administration, Monitors & Displays, Networking, Hardware, Components

Download resources 2009-11-13

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

Enterprise mashup, defined

SoIt is Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence with the ability for end users to create their own analysis and data views? Nothing new there.There is something new here...Yes, end users have been creating their own spreadsheets and working with desktop tools for some time now. And a handful of...

Tags: enterprise mashup

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...

Tags: Backups, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, WHS, server, backup, small business, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Microsoft 'builds a branch to Java developers" with Teamprise buy

what I don't get it is...why would anybody using Eclipse would want Visual studio too.Eclipse is not...... the only IDE in existence. And Java is not the only language in existence. Some compagnies uses several technologies. I saw Linux and windows servers running side by side and operating in a...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, Eclipse, compagny, Java, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Java developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Strategic Secret Weapon for Tightening Business & IT Alignment: Modeling!

Achieving alignment between an organization's core goals and the IT infrastructure that supports an enterprise's strategic direction is an ongoing challenge. Learn how aligning business processes with data from information systems enables the development of a model-driven approach that will ultimately lead to heightened agility and greater productivity across the...

Tags: Business Process, Information Technology, Sybase Inc., Modeling, Operational Planning, Strategy, Databases, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-01

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Information Management, BPM and Integration: Achieving Cost Efficiency in the Financial Sector

Digital capture and storage make information easily retrievable and useful, but don't necessarily enable enterprise-wide efficiency. Data housed in Customer Relationship Management CRM software, accounting, human resources, and other applications has limited value if it's not reused efficiently everywhere it's needed. The solution? Instant, secure, central access to all of...

Tags: Information Management, Financial, BPM, Integration, Optical Image Technology, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2009-10-28

MightyQuery 1.0.1 (Windows)

MightyQuery is a single user SQL database management software working with data stored as comma separated values (.csv, .txt) in plain, flat, textual files. It is serverless, self-contained, simple and effective SQL DBMS for querying CSV files. In contrast to most database systems, MightyQuery does not require neither server installation,...

Tags: Server, SQL, Microsoft Windows, Zlatko Matic, MightyQuery, Databases, Storage, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26