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IBM Director Server Migration Outline

Whether upgrading to new hardware or a new version of IBM Director, it is often desirable to bring up and test a new IBM Director Server before migrating monitoring to it. This paper describes several considerations and processes to assist in this migration. This paper deals solely with upgrading the...

Tags: IBM Director, Migration, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-08-27

VMware, IBM Director, and ServeRAID Manager

With the growing emphasis on improved utilization and server consolidation in the data center, virtualizations, and specifically VMware, are becoming widely used. Usually the concept of virtualization is usually associated with high-end servers, such as the IBM's family of X3 servers (x3850, x3950 and their predecessors the x366 and x460)...

Tags: IBM Director, VMware Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-31

IBM Director on System p5

This paper positions the new IBM Director V5.20 against the other IBM systems management products. Although IBM systems management software products include several choices as Cluster Systems Management and IBM Tivoli Management suite, and some features might seem to overlap, each product targets a specific environment. This paper will help...

Tags: IBM Director, IBM Corp., It Services, Network Administration, Operating Systems, Networking, Software

White papers 2007-03-01

IBM Director Security Best Practices: Authorization

The IBM Director Application interfaces with the authorization model of the operating systems it is installed on, and it comes with its own application resource authorization architecture. There are best practices for creating optimal configurations for the environment, and manual changes to convert an Express configuration to a Standard configuration...

Tags: Authorization, IBM Director, Best Practice, IBM Corp.

White papers 2007-01-01

Integrating IBM Director With IBM Tivoli Monitoring

The IBM Director integration into IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides IBM Director customers with access to the complete Tivoli Enterprise management environment. IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a dynamic, end-to-end monitoring solution for proactively managing the performance and availability of the entire IT infrastructure. It monitors IT resources across the enterprise in...

Tags: Monitoring, IBM Director, IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Monitoring

White papers 2006-01-16

IBM Director and Tools on Linux

The purpose of this paper is to document how to first install and configure the required Linux services, then how to install IBM Director and other xSeries Systems Management Tools. This document will focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 ES Update 4, IBM Director v4.21, IBM Server Plus Pack...

Tags: IBM Director, Tool, IBM Corp., Linux, Productivity, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2005-05-10

Managing IBM eServer BladeCenter Systems With IBM Director V4.1 and Remote Deployment Manager V4.1

This paper describes how to install IBM eServer BladeCenter using IBM Director Director and IBM Remote Deployment Manager RDM. It provides a concise set of instructions based on several existing documents and product publications. The BladeCenter has been designed as a solution rather than simply as a set of servers....

Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM eServer, IBM Director, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2004-01-01

Additional Resources

Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine

Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...

Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Tivoli Foundations: Designed and priced for your growing business

You're invited to a very special Virtual Event for IBM Tivoli Foundations. During these difficult economic times, mid-size companies have unique challenges and may struggle to find equally powerful yet affordable solutions, designed and priced specifically for them. Look no further! ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management

Webcasts 2009-10-15

Missing what open source cannot afford

FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...

Tags: open source, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Another view: SOA is like a mosquito, spreading viral data

Just as the Internet has shown itself to be a speed-of-light carrier of rumors, gossip, and misinformation, so can service oriented architecture within an organization. I just came across new book titled "Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic," written by Neal Fishman, program director for...

Tags: SOA, Mosquito, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-17

IBM launches business analytics system

IBM on Tuesday unveiled a business analytics system---a bundle of preconfigured and optimized hardware and software---designed to cut deployment time. The system is designed to complement and enhance IBM's existing business analytics service. The system will also have optional business intelligence and data mining software. The IBM...

Tags: Analytics, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux driversgpl2 forced them to free the source code In my opinion they need to kill virtualbox, vmware or kvm (redhat/ubuntu) so it's doesn't matter to throw some lines of code to the linux kernel via the novell proxy programmers Here is...

Tags: Federal government, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., FCC, Linux Drivers, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?

Hewlett-Packard's John Pickett has it in for mainframes. In fact, he has been known to call them the SUVs of the computer industry, big pieces of gadgetry that are over-powered. As the Mainframe Alternative Program Manager in HP's ESS Marketing group, Pickett is responsible for evangelizing the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, TTX, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-13

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity

For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...

Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Data Center Automation in an Uncertain Economy

Today, organizations just like yours are under greater than ever pressures to do more with less. Many are implementing virtualization as a means to reduce costs. However, managing a virtualized environment presents its own unique challenges. Reducing ongoing data center costs, improving utilization, and cost avoidance...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Automation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-06-04

Virtual desktop services gain TCO boost with HP clients, Desktone cloud-based 'DaaS' advances

HP and Desktone have made strong market moves into the fast-growing desktops as a service Daas space, also know as desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. These new products and services show an aggressive ramp-up and sophistication to deliver a fast-track to DaaS. HP and Desktone,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtual Desktop, TCO, Desktone, DaaS, Virtual-D Service Center, Fisher, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-01

A Twitter driven social experiment

According to my Twitter account, I have 3,852 followers. I follow about 1,500. I have no idea how many are active, passive or dead though I'm sure someone out there will have a tool that tells me. Anyhoo - over the weekend I tried an experiment...

Tags: EPIC, Twitter, Stacey Monk, Web Site Development, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-01