SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts.
Posted: December 1, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Change Management | Process Control Software | Workflow Software | Workload Automation

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Double-Take® Software workload optimisation software products help reduce the cost of managing, provisioning and maintaining server and workstation workloads while simultaneously increasing the efficiency, availability and flexibility of your existing infrastructure.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Replication | Desktop Management | Disaster Recovery | Server Management | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - Join BMC's John McKinney with featured speaker Milind Govekar, Gartner analyst, for an informative webcast reinforcing the cost-cutting benefits of workload automation.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Premiered: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Spending | Job Control Language | Job Scheduling Software | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - Job Scheduling tools are often perceived to reduce operational costs and increase IT efficiencies. Attend this webinar to find out how companies reduce their costs by switching to BMC CONTROL-M.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Premiered: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Contact Center Workforce Management | Data Management | IT Management | Job Scheduling Software | Systems Management Software | Workload Automation

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Downtime | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Processor Architectures | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Workload Automation

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Intel’s family of workstation platforms provides you with a range of options to meet your needs. They give you the tools to multi-task more productively, iterate through alternatives faster and innovate more.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Digital Network Hardware | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ITIL | Memory | Memory Management | Memory Management Interface Standards | Memory Management Units | Microprocessors | Processor Architectures | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Workload Automation | Workstations

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Enterprises that rely on enterprise resource planning and business intelligence applications have a solution that can manage exploding volumes of data while lowering cost and simplifying operations. HP Integrity server blades are designed to be always available, always scalable, and always virtualized to support applications such as SAP.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | ERP | IT Systems | Oracle (Product) | RACF | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers | Server Hardware | Server Management | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this study is to determine if a multi?node Oracle RAC cluster can be replaced with a cluster consisting of fewer Dell PowerEdge 11G nodes (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series), and still process the OLTP workload faster with less power consumption and lower Oracle RAC licensing fees. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Multi-core Processor Architecture | Multi-core Processors | Oracle (Product) | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA®) research shows 75% of CIOs are facing budget cuts. Most CIOs need to go beyond obvious cost reduction measures to address the largest single IT cost - staff. This whitepaper will discuss the ways that Workload automation can effect real cost savings.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | ITIL | Job Scheduling Software | Log Management | SLA | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - Use Event Monitors to create an event-driven schedule for your enterprise using system events on your Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers to launch reactive jobs through Robot/SCHEDULE.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Job Scheduling Software | Linux | Log Management | Network Monitoring | Network Monitoring Software | Reporting Software | Server Management | Service Level Management | System i | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Performance Management Software | DB2 | High Availability | SQL | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Workload Automation

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast to learn how an IT organization serving four credit unions adopted Innotas project management solutions to identify the difference between requested project portfolio and actual company resources, and how Innotas solutions helped them make drastic process improvements and reset expectations.
Posted: September 4, 2009 | Premiered: September 4, 2009


Topics:  IT Governance | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | SLA | Workflow Software | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - Running multiple, disparate job scheduling solutions can cost your company a lot of unneeded expense. See how BMC CONTROL-M gives you a single point of control for all your jobs, across all platforms and applications. Watch a 2-minute overview of BMC CONTROL-M and make the switch to enterprise workload automation.
Posted: July 29, 2009 | Premiered: July 29, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Application Monitoring Software | Application Performance Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Management | Job Scheduling Software | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores common challenges associated with server virtualization deployments and the ways Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V together with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations maximize the value of server virtualization.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Desktop Virtualization | High Availability | HyperWave | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs.
Posted: April 18, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Service | Enterprise Architectures | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Job Scheduling Software | ROI | Systems Management | Workload Automation