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The Pursuit of Happiness: Remote IT Infrastructure Management Services

The Managed Services and so many known benefits of it make it one of the most discussed topics amongst VARs, System Integrators, IT consultants and Service Providers. The lure of higher saving in IT budget, increased productivity, reduced IT downtime, flat predictable cost, easiness in IT maintenance, assistance in capacity...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Benefit, Trimax, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-02-07

The Future of SaaS and IT Infrastructure Management: A Survey of IT Decision Makers in North America

This new Research Report gives insights and perspective on Software as a Service SaaS as it pertains to IT Infrastructure Management. The research found that most large enterprises and medium-sized companies have deployed multiple types of IT Infrastructure Management Solutions. The top perceived benefits for adopting the SaaS model in...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Software-as-a-service, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Survey, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2008-08-30

Secure Remote Access for IT Infrastructure Management: Cyclades ACS Advanced Console Server

New technologies have replaced mainframes and minicomputers located in a single data center with a distributed infrastructure of servers, Private Branch eXchanges PBXs, and network equipment. These developments have reduced space requirements and cost, and increased scalability and flexibility in today's computing environment. At the same time, however, the configuration...

Tags: Remote Access, IT Infrastructure, Cyclades Corp., Console, Network, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Avocent Corp., Telephony, Strategy, Servers, Networking, Management, Hardware

White papers 2008-06-01

Making IT Infrastructure Management Easier and More Efficient

IT infrastructures are a growing collection of disparate and converging products from various vendors, each with their own management systems, upgrade cycles and so forth. However, all of these technologies must be configured and monitored to ensure the availability of mission-critical applications and services. Deploying, configuring and managing a variety...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Osterman Research, Information Technology, Vendor, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-05-01

IT Infrastructure Management: Avoiding the Butterfly Effect

IT Infrastructure Management is now being embraced by organizations around the world as a means of achieving large increases in availability and reliability for relatively modest investments in services and tools. Organizations implementing ITIM have achieved these goals by reducing the time required to resolve problems, improving capacity planning, streamlining...

Tags: Butterfly, IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Aperture Software

White papers 2007-12-04

ITIL - It's Value to IT Infrastructure Management Services

In globally-connected, information-based business world, IT infrastructure is core to the business growth. ITIL emphasizes the alignment of IT to business perspective. This paper covers this emphasis through cost advantage, quality, and timeliness in delivering IT services through ITIL framework. DCM Data Systems' quality initiatives including ITIL are also covered...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, DCM Data Systems, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2007-05-29

Autonomic Approach to IT Infrastructure Management in a Virtual Computing Lab Environment

This paper describes a process manager: to help manage IT resources more effectively by providing conflict identification when providing resource reservations with QoS guarantees to end users; to support change management for IT staff that perform impact analysis of proposed changes and schedule the actual changes in the context of...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Environment, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-05-05

IDC whitepaper: KVM and IT infrastructure Management

Today, companies are shifting to web-centric computing to support their extended enterprises. This has led to data center sprawl - the proliferation of large multi-platform, heterogeneous IT infrastructures with geographically distributed applications and human resources, have become commonplace. This sprawl will grow in a number of dimensions

Tags: Raritan Computer, IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, International Data Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-01-02

Out-of-Band Management: The Integrated Approach to Remote IT Infrastructure Management

For decades, business imperatives for Information Technology IT have remained constant - to cut costs and improve service levels and productivity. Although not new or unique, these imperatives have taken on renewed urgency in today's Internet-driven economy. IT is no longer the inwardly focused domain of technology specialists, but rather...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Avocent Corp., Imperative, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-12-01

The Appliance Based Approach for IT Infrastructure Management

Information Technology IT has become a critical component of the enterprise today. Ecommerce and websites are empowering business with 24 X 7 availability and five nines (99.999%) level of reliability. Internet Banking, for instance, is transforming the banking industry from branch-centric model to "Anytime, anywhere model" Given the increasing demand...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Frost & Sullivan, Workforce, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Management, Human Resources

White papers 2006-06-22

ERP Software Provider Offers Customers Strong Centralized IT Infrastructure Management

Epicor Software Corporation delivers, supports, and sells Epicor iScala, its enterprise Resource Planning ERP software, to customers in more than 140 countries and in more than 30 languages. To support the continued growth and centralization of its larger global customers, the company moved to expand support for its applications to...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Epicor Software Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., 64-Bit, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Networking

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10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

Survey: Virtualization and physical infrastructures need to be managed in tandem

Virtualization is seen as a key enabling technology. But on its own it does not address the most important operational and management challenges in a shared infrastructure. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Survey, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Traffic management: New Internet coming to your local roads

The infrastructure's already there in the carIt's the driver or passenger's mobile phone. Surely the phone carriers can provide the necessary data by logging the movement of mobile phones from mast to mast and publishing at a regular interval a summary of how many devices have moved between each pair...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

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

Lower the Cost of Your Data with IBM System x Servers and DB2

It's no secret, IBM has set the world record for the most database transactions per minute on a single Intel-based server. That achievement came with a price - in fact, the lowest price per transaction in its class. Have you been questioning the real cost of upgrading your database infrastructure?...

Tags: IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Data Management, Storage, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-11-01

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29