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- Setting up a telecommunications service for a particular customer. Common carriers provision circuits by programming their computers to switch customer lines into the appropriate networks. Self-provisioning is when...
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- EMC CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning
- When implemented appropriately, thin provisioning can be a powerful complement to organizations' processes and technologies for improving ease of use, enhancing performance, and utilizing storage capacity more efficiently. CLARiiON Thin Provisioning integrates well with existing management and business continuity technologies, and is an important advancement in capabilities for CLARiiON customers.
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Stop Buying Storage - Part 2: Maximize Storage Assets With Thin Provisioning, Tiered Storage, and Cluster File Systems
- Thin Provisioning represents an opportunity to immediately optimize the storage systems and make more capacity available to the applications. Although thin provisioning is a storage array feature, servers need to be 'Thin aware'. In order to migrate from "Thick" to "Thin," one need tools that makes the transition seamlessly and...
- Webcasts 2009-04-16
- Best Practices for Fast, Simple Capacity Allocation With EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning
- EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning, which marks a significant advancement over technologies commonly known in the Industry as "Thin provisioning," adds a new dimension to tiered storage in the array by improving capacity utilization and simplifying storage management. Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning integrates with existing device management, replication, and management tools, enabling...
- White papers 2009-04-14
- Sychron OnDemand Desktop 3.0 - another take on desktop virtualization
- Although the industry's attention has largely be focused on server virtualization and consolidation, there is a very dynamic market for desktop virtualization as well. From time to time I have the chance to speak with executives of companies focused on this market. This time, I had the chance to chat...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- IT Management in Tough Economic Times
- Every small and midsize business knows what these are: manually upgrading applications, applying patches, provisioning servers, fixing the same problems over and over. All too often, IT organizations find themselves caught up in a cycle of service and support that is anything but efficient. But in tough economic times, the...
- White papers 2009-03-17
- AppZero's Virtual Application Appliances cloud computing simplified
- AppZero, formally Trigence, demonstrated a different approach to allowing organizations to take advantage of the computing resources made available by hosting suppliers at Demo 09. Rather than taking the approach that is typically proposed by the suppliers of virtual machine technology, AppZero's approach is to encapsulate applications rather than complete...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Racemi and BMC take on disaster recovery and datacenter consolidation
- Racemi and BMC Software are presenting a different take on how to go about the task of making virtual servers more highly available and more manageable. They're combining a physical/virtual management product BladeLogic Operations Manager with a powerful disaster recovery/backup/system portability product DynaCenter to create a reliable, agile computing environment....
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Interview: Guillaume Nodet and Adrian Trenaman on Apache ServiceMix and role of OSGi in OSS clouds
- As SOA and open-source projects have already collided, and as OSGi is gaining favor as the container model de jour, it makes a great deal of sense to apply these software advances to the need for higher productivity and lower total costs on the business side. Open source on-premises enterprise...
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- The Death of Passwords: 3 Easy Steps to Increasing User Productivity, Enhancing Authentication, and Lowering Password Reset Costs With Enterprise Single-Sign On
- Eliminating passwords is no longer a "Pipe dream." It is an attainable reality - one that can be implemented in the enterpriser. Enterprise Single Sign-On ESSO is no longer the unattainable "Holy grail." The Passlogix v-GO Sign-On Platform has emerged as the first industry standard sign-on platform with a full...
- White papers 2009-02-10
- Best Practices for Provisioning Databases for Test & Development - Oracle Applications
- Organizations maintain on average 8 to 12 database copies per production application which are typically used for testing, development, training and QA. As production databases get larger, the traditional approach of generating non-production copies incurs significant costs. This paper from Applimation, now Informatica, provides information on best practices and new...
- White papers 2009-02-03
- TechNet Webcast: Consolidation and Rapid Provisioning (Level 300)
- Contoso has seen the benefits of virtualizing their test and development environments, now Contoso wishes to proceed on a wide-spread deployment of virtualization technologies with a wider scope. This webcast looks at how to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to move production servers into a virtual environment, the...
- Webcasts 2009-01-30
- TechNet Webcast: If I Virtualize It, How Do I Manage It? (Level 300)
- Contoso wishes to go further and consolidate a number of server workloads to fully realize the benefit of server consolidation. Based on their experience of managing a small number of guests, Contoso needs a management solution that can scale as they consolidate servers, and they also want to provide a...
- Webcasts 2009-01-29
- Johns Hopkins University APL Streamlines IT Management and Reduces Provisioning Time by 97%
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL wanted to reduce time and effort associated with applying quarterly Critical Patch Updates CPU, which have to be applied within a month of their release and enable the organization to more efficiently provision new servers and software across various tiers - Oracle...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- TechNet Webcast: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" (Part 3 of 3): Extensibility and Provisioning With ILM "2" (Level 300)
- For those who want to learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager ILM "2", the presenter of the webcast shows how to use the extensible platform of ILM "2" to address complex business problems. The presenter walks through the process of customizing ILM "2" and...
- Webcasts 2008-12-10
- TechNet Webcast: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" (Part 2 of 3): Expressing and Enforcing Business Policy (Level 300)
- Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager ILM "2" introduces powerful policy management features that help organizations mitigate compliance risks more effectively and efficiently. The presenter of this webcast shows how to use ILM "2" policy management features to easily author and ultimately to enforce identity management policies and associated provisioning processes. The...
- Webcasts 2008-12-03
- NetApp Uses Automated Provisioning to Reduce Manual Effort Time From a Few Weeks to a Few Clicks
- NetApp wanted to reduce two-week time frame needed for IT group to create a complex multitier Service-Oriented Architecture SOA deployment with components spanning various hosts. The challenge was to provision new deployments for a growing number of internal customers quickly, efficiently, and in a manner that complies with corporate standards...
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Simplifying Complexity of Customer Premises Equipment Provisioning for Business Users
- British Telecommunications BT is a global leader delivering innovative IT and network solutions to business customers worldwide. BT is transforming its business, leveraging its next generation 21CN network platform to build a customer-centric organization focused on innovation and speed to market. It has adopted an 'Oracle First' approach to strategically...
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Day One Employee Productivity and Increased Security: Integrated Provisioning and SSO
- The pressure to increase productivity - among end-users and IT administrators alike - is an ongoing challenge for companies of all sizes. The abundance of on-line information and enterprise applications available to employees today ultimately improves productivity, potentially providing a competitive advantage in the market. But facilitating fast and secure...
- White papers 2008-11-12
- What's next after server virtualization? Orchestration
- What's next after server virtualization? OrchestrationWhy not use... Grid based computing via VMsMost of those items you ask/declare ARE available, with a bit of glue effort and getting APIs to talk together.http://www.3tera.com/ has a few neat items.Its not JUST Cloud computing...For instance: http://www.3tera.com/AppLogic/My work has some very neat things...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Taking the Leg-Work out of Systems Provisioning: Best Practices for Reducing Deployment Costs
- This white paper examines the current provisioning challenges facing organizations, and how traditional approaches using disk imaging and scripts are unable to significantly reduce deployment costs and complexity. Then, current provisioning best practices and their benefits are discussed. Finally, this paper illustrates how KACE KBOX appliances can be used to...
- White papers 2008-11-04
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