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- ScalarCalc (exe)
- ScalarCalc is a calculator that is to solve real math problems with units and simple enough to perform everyday unit conversions. Try the built in Equations feature to solve common problems. A print feature allows you to print your work. Demo mode operates with fewer significant digits. This version is...
- Tags: HP OpenView, ScalarCalc, Print Feature, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. by Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- Tags: Secure Computing Corp., Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Appliance, Software, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Tools & Techniques, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- Live Webcast: Reduce Your Costs and Prepare for Tomorrow with BMC CONTROL-M
- In IT, many datacenters accommodate more than one scheduling solution, often deploying one for each of their major platforms and applications. While historically this approach has offered good automation capabilities for specific platforms, it is now apparent that it is not only costly, but fails to accomplish the automation efficiencies...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Webcast, BMC CONTROL-M, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2008-07-08
- CGI Group Inc. Turns to BMC Application Problem Resolution to Improve Customer Satisfaction for Top Telecommunications Client
- CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest IT and business process service firms in North America. The company wanted to improve process for resolving application problems for CGI's top client. CGI Group deployed BMC software for its solution and implemented BMC Application Problem Resolution system to quickly reveal root...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Customer Satisfaction, CGI Group Inc., Telecommunications, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Minimizes Downtime and Drives Out Costs With BMC Application Problem Resolution
- Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. is a lifecycle solutions provider of hardware, software, and services for consumer transaction environments in North America. The company needed to lower support costs and improve the reliability of GlobalSTORE, the company's Windows-based retail application, by minimizing the difficulties associated with supporting myriad, site-by-site customized variants....
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Downtime, Fujitsu Ltd., It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Largest U.S. Integrated Direct Marketer of Consumer Electronics Maintains Hundreds of Customized Enterprise Applications With BMC Application Problem Resolution
- Crutchfield Corporation is the nation's first integrated marketer of consumer electronics products. The company needed to streamline integration, migration, upgrades, and general problem resolution for an exceptionally complex, proprietary, 250-application enterprise system. Crutchfield deployed BMC systems for its solution and implemented BMC AppSight Application Problem Resolution System to swiftly pinpoint...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Enterprise Application, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- University Closes Information Gap With BMC Service Desk Express Suite
- Liverpool John Moores University is a city-based university, with more than 27,000 students studying 200-plus courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The University needed a flexible and sophisticated service desk solution to replace a number of disparate systems. The University deployed BMC software for its solution and implemented BMC Service...
- Tags: Service Desk, BMC Software Inc., Liverpool John Moores University, It Management, It Services, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- The Regence Group Provides Information to 6,000 Users With BMC Remedy Knowledge Management
- The Regence Group is the Pacific Northwest's largest affiliation of health care plans. The Group needed an easy-to-implement knowledge management solution that had faster and easier searches, and was easy to use for all types of users. The Regence Group deployed BMC systems for its solution and implemented BMC Remedy...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Remedy Corp., Regence Group, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, It Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, It service Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise
- One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability to identify and allocate resources needed to build and run applications on demand and in almost real time, without months of negotiation or waiting for the hardware procurement cycle to facilitate it. While most discussions...
- Tags: Webcast, Grid Computing, Grid, Intel Corp., Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-04-22
- Ensuring Premium Data Quality and Precision at One of Switzerland's Leading Health Insurance Providers
- CONCORDIA AG is one of Switzerland's top five health insurance companies. The company wanted to ensure complete data quality and integrity across its production and development environment. The challenge was to introduce new DB2 database definitions and structures into production without errors occurring. CONCORDIA deployed BMC software for its solution...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Health Insurance, Data Quality, Health Care, IBM DB2, It Management, Databases, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source
- Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...
- Tags: Appistry, Application, Open Source, Grid Computing, Appistry EAF, Digipede, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- TSM on System i: Information and Considerations
- This paper helps customers to understand the Tivoli Storage Manager TSM products on the System i platform and understand why the TSM Client solution is often not the best choice for System i backups. The TSM product has multiple components. The two key ones are the TSM Client that gathers...
- Tags: Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Corp., Tivoli Storage Manager Product, Storage Management, It Management, Storage, Hardware, It service Management
- White papers 2008-03-28
- ActiveX woes bite CA BrightStor
- Another day another ActiveX problem. This time an ActiveX vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCServe Backup could be exploited to compromise a user's system. A Secunia alert rates the vulnerability "highly critical." Here are the details: Krystian Kloskowski has reported a vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup,...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Computer Associates International Inc., ActiveX, CA BrightStor, Exploitation, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Storage Management, It Management, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Storage, Hardware, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation
- BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, BladeLogic, Automation, Data Centers, Blade Servers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Grid Computing With Oracle Database 11g
- This paper discusses the evolution of the datacenter toward the adoption of grid computing and details the benefits derived from this development. It considers the implications for database systems and details the requirements of a database for successful deployment in a grid computing context. It then reviews the features of...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, Oracle Database, International Data Group, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Storage, Databases, It service Management, Networking, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Vodafone Turns to the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite to Streamline Its Service Support Infrastructure
- Vodafone was awarded the third Australian mobile telecommunications carrier license in December 1992. Vodafone wanted a solution suite to manage companywide incident management and change management workflow, as well as associated service levels and assets. Vodafone turned to the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite to help it identify and...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Service Management, Vodafone Group Plc., Streamline, Remedy Corp., Change Management, It Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite Rings in Service Improvements
- Telkomsel is the leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Indonesia. Telkomsel wanted an IT service management solution based on IT Infrastructure Library ITIL best practices to provide a platform for improved customer service. The company deployed BMC software for its solution and implemented BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Service Management, Remedy Corp., Telkomsel, It Management, ITIL, It service Management, It Services
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Digipede Network Version 2 Launched
- Once again, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Digipede. As usual, I was impressed with their pragmatic approach and the fact that they're trying very hard to make grid computing/high performance computing concepts available to everyone by utilizing Microsoft's .NET architecture as a platform. This...
- Tags: Developer, Administrator, Performance, Network, Grid Computing, Tool, Digipede Control Features Drop, Performance Management, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Maximize IT Flexibility and Lower Costs with Grid Computing on Windows
- To stay competitive, organizations need a flexible IT infrastructure to support rapidly changing business needs. Grid computing enables you to respond immediately to new requirements by quickly adding capacity on demand and integrating applications to create new business processes. To learn more about the promise of grid...
- Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Grid Computing, Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-02-13
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