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Quantifying the Benefits of HP Server Automation

Over the past few years, managing data centre environments has become one of the most costly functions of IT, with over 70 per cent of budgets going toward the management of existing systems. IT teams are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs and risks while delivering increasing value...

Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Benefit, Automation, IT Team, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Growing Beyond the Limits: Maryland government agency responds to user needs faster thanks to a server and storage virtualization solution from Dell

Growth is inherent to IT organizations, and this Maryland government agency is no exception. The agency is charged with providing IT resources to the Governor's office and other state agencies. Having room for growth is critical. The IT team is dedicated to meeting its government users' requests for services, applications...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Maryland, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Server, IT Team, Ip storage, Storage, Storage Management, Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-05-08

IT Team Reduces Disaster Recovery to Just Three Days With Automated Deployment Tools

Engro, a fertiliser company based in Pakistan, uses SAP software to manage financial and Human Resources HR tasks. In 2007, two fires damaged servers in the company's data centre, including the Linux server, which hosts the SAP software. The IT team spent more than a week restoring the operating system...

Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Disaster Recovery, Tool, IT Team, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-04-01

To Help Keep IT Systems Healthy, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Employs Intel vPro Technology for Remote PC Management

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, with almost 900 inpatient beds and dozens of clinics. With more computers used as part of patient care delivery each year, the IT team looked for ways to improve PC management and reduce downtime. The...

Tags: Intel vPro, Information Technology, PC-management, Wake Forest University, Intel Corp., Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, IT Team, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-08-01

IT Manager Webcast: Remote Infrastructure Optimization for Branch Offices Using Windows Server 2008 (Level 100)

Remote and branch offices are where most of an organization's employees reside, and are often a critical customer interface where business is won or lost. IT teams are challenged with the costs of setting up and maintaining remote offices, providing data security between and within sites, and creating an agile...

Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Remote Site, IT Team, Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Webcasts 2008-02-21

Tech idiocy in the White House

Not only has the White House lost 5 million emails - or not, they aren't sure - vital White House emails have for years been run through an insecure 12-man ISP in Chattanooga Tennessee. Why? Because our laws around Presidential records preservation are at odds with other laws against partisan...

Tags: Internet, White House, IT Team, E-mail, Online Communications, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Integrated Solution Simplifies Management, Improves Protection of Client Devices

Paul Smith, a designer and retailer of clothing and luxury goods, wanted a client security solution that would be easier to manage. The current solution had to be maintained separately, which conflicted with the company goal of a more streamlined, integrated IT environment. To improve efficiency, Paul Smith and Risual...

Tags: Virus Definition, Microsoft Corp., IT Team, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Case studies 2007-10-16

Rohnert Park's Networking Enhances City Life

Rohnert Park is a city of 43,000 residents in Sonoma County, the heart of California's wine country. Rohnert Park's communications systems were outdated and could not handle the demands of the applications required by police, firefighters, city planners, engineers and other city departments. Downloads were slow, access to critical information...

Tags: Network, AT&T Corp., Wine, Rohnert Park, IT Team, Intellectual Property, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-10-05

Business-Service Analysis, Transformation and OptimizatioN (BATON) - A Wipro-Compuware Service Improvement Solution

IT teams are being asked to consistently improve their services (increase availability, increase performance), while simultaneously being asked to reduce costs. Most organizations have structured delivery management services and metrics collection across a wide variety of sources (monitoring, service-desk tools) to meet these demands. To move up the maturity level...

Tags: Optimization, Wipro Technologies, Information Technology, Compuware Corp., IT Team, Strategy, ITIL, Six Sigma, Management, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2007-09-01

IT Team Improves Control of Messaging Infrastructure With Configuration Monitoring

Air Products provides industrial gases and chemicals to the energy, technology, and healthcare markets. With annual revenues of US$9 billion, Air Products employs more than 20,000 people in over 40 countries. The Air Products Messaging and Authentication group is responsible for more than 20,000 mailboxes and needs to constantly monitor...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Monitoring, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., IT Team, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Instant Messaging, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications

Case studies 2007-03-01

Delivering Greater IT Business Value Through Innovative Support Tools

The role of IT is changing rapidly as organisations become more complex. IT teams are no longer seen as suppliers of infrastructure, but rather as people who actively support an organisation's overall business objectives. This makes the quality of IT services - and the synchronisation of these services with an...

Tags: Information Technology, Tool, IT Team, Help Desk, Service Level Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

British team chooses design for 1000 mph car

Track?1000 mph = 16+ miles per minute...it doesn't sound like a 10-mile track will be long enough, counting acceleration and braking distances.There are faster things than the Typhoon :D.There are faster things than the Typhoon ;).Like the F-22 Raptor :D.Interesting that they can compare it to a fighter jet, though.What's...

Tags: Strategy, ICT Infrastructure, team, Information and Communication Technology, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

Awesome Soccer 1.0 (Mac)

Awesome Soccer - A Modern Day Soccer Masterpiece! Featuring the unique "Awesome Aftertouch" control system, you can effortlessly apply swerve to the ball in both directions to score amazing goals that even a certain LA Galaxy player would be proud of! Awesome Soccer boasts stunning graphics and gameplay, and is...

Tags: Team, Apple Macintosh, Red27 Studios, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-26

British team chooses design for 1000 mph car

With a design finalized, the British team that holds the current land speed record plans to smash it with a hybrid jet-rocket propelled car they aim to take beyond 1,000 mph. by Chris Jablonski

Tags: Team, Car, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Thanksgiving reading. Soccer and enterprise apps: the similarities and differences

The other evening I had the pleasure of visiting Old Trafford soccer stadium. It's the home of Manchester United, arguably the most successful soccer team in living memory. Consistently at the top or near the top of the British Premier League and European Champions League in the late 20th and...

Tags: Team, SAP AG, Team Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-25

HP debuts iPAQ Glisten, 3G Windows Mobile 6.5 world phone on AT&T

FAIL!It's running Windows Mobile....FAIL! A phone is only as good as the OS that is on it. So long Windows Mobile...It has been replaced by Open_Source technologies and Android/Apple phones that work!;)Next up Google Chrome OS will take on Windows.It is going to be interesting.I agreeandroid and Linux is the...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Wireless and Mobility, OPEN SOURCE, 3G, AT&T Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq iPAQ, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Linux, Microsoft Windows, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23