SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - When evaluating storage solutions for DR in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | WAN

WHITE PAPER - The promise of desktop virtualization technology is to centralize applications at the data center to make them easier to manage and provision. In this E-Guide learn how to navigate the challenges of desktop virtualization to make the theory a reality.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Hardware | IT Managers | Physical Security | Software | Systems Management | Troubleshooting | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This Expert E-Guide details how to implement a successful UC approach within your company and the best practices for ensuring the reliability and consistent delivery that your business can depend on in order to ensure maximum benefit.
Posted: August 28, 2008 | Published: August 28, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Enterprise | Productivity | Unified Messaging

WHITE PAPER - This white paper examines the ten common misunderstandings about monitoring and offers suggestions for implementing complete business focused monitoring strategies that can adapt to today's more complex computing environments.
Posted: August 28, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  CMDB | Enterprise | Metrics

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains Five myths of infrastructure monitoring and how end-user monitoring can help you improve customer satisfaction.
Posted: August 28, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Customer Satisfaction | Reporting Software | User Experience

PODCAST - This audiocast offers concise information about what your company can gain from virtualizing desktops and the options your IT department should explore.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Premiered: August 26, 2008


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Monitoring Software | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Computer Support | Desktop Management

WHITE PAPER - Research shows that over 60% of organizations in the US haven't really implemented a strong disaster recovery plan. This paper explores that challenges that organizations are facing when implementing disaster recovery.
Posted: August 18, 2008 | Published: August 18, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | Integration Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explores business continuity, and disaster recovery. Learn how to develop a good disaster recovery plan, and about the advantages that VMware brings in terms of consolidation.
Posted: August 18, 2008 | Published: August 18, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Information Management | Infrastructure Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn how sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.
Posted: August 7, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Fibre Channel | Load Balancing | Network Performance | RAID | SNMP

WHITE PAPER - This webcast transcript offers instruction on how to formalize your enterprise Business Analysis practice to drive greater value out of all your ITIL initiatives. Learn how to implement a best practices strategy to maximize IT services.
Posted: August 4, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Infrastructure Services | IT Auditing | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - This webcast will explore the dynamics of developing and putting in place a Business Analysis Center of Excellence and its importance from an enterprise point of view and continually driving high quality IT services throughout the enterprise.
Posted: August 4, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Infrastructure Services | IT Auditing | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | IT Best Practices | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

PRODUCT LITERATURE - This guide is intended to help new users and seasoned professionals learn new ways to design and implement successful load testing initiatives using HP LoadRunner.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Monitoring Software | Application Performance Management | Enterprise Architectures | Load Testing | Performance Testing | Scripting | Software Configuration Management

WHITE PAPER - Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue.
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 31, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | EPA | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements.
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Data Center Management | Data Centers | ERP | Infrastructure Services | IT Infrastructure