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Hardware Neutral Imaging with ImageX: The Ghost Killer sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: Learn how ImageX can help facilitate successful image management and lower the total cost of ownership of your Vista implementation. Posted: 14 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: IT Auditing \| IT Best Practices \| IT Departments \| IT Services \| IT Spending \| Network Best Practices \| TCO

Taking Control of Software Licensing sponsored by BDNA WHITE PAPER: Software licensing is full of complexity and factors outside your control. Having accurate information is the best strategy for managing vendors, negotiating with them, and avoiding vendor audits. This paper offers insight to enter conversation... Posted: 30 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 TOPICS: IT Asset Management Software \| IT Auditing \| Negotiation \| Portfolio Management (IT Management) \| Software Asset Management \| Software Licensing \| Strategic Sourcing

The Netweaver Upgrade: Ensuring Performance While Balancing Cost with Risk sponsored by HyPerformix WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses critical factors every IT decision maker needs to know when upgrading to NetWeaver, to ensure system performance and availability, and to balance cost with the risks of downtime. Posted: 16 Jul 2008 \| Published: 16 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Collection \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Management \| NetWeaver \| Spreadsheets

Aberdeen Report: Achieving Quality across the Global Manufacturing Network sponsored by Infor WHITE PAPER: Companies that are disciplined in managing the quality of their engineering, manufacturing, purchasing and human resource operations perform better. Read this white paper today to learn what strategic actions organizations can take to improve q... Posted: 10 Nov 2006 \| Published: 01 Dec 2005 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| Data Quality \| Enterprise Resource Management \| QOS \| Systems Operations

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Vmware Edition Automated, Integrated, and Scalable Protection of Virtual Machines sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security. Posted: 24 Jun 2009 \| Published: 24 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Security Architectures \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Virtualization

8 Questions You Should Ask About Linux Systems Management sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are always looking for ways to save money and time without compromising on issues like security or compliance. Exploring the value of your systems management solution is a lot easier when you know the right questions to ask. We have a few suggestions for how to get started. Posted: 29 Jul 2009 \| Published: 28 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Management \| Linux \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Open Source Software \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Software

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Metrics \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance

The Desktop Dilemma: Liberty vs. Lockdown sponsored by Bit9, Inc. WHITE PAPER: CIOs and IT departments are under tremendous pressure to implement better processes over how software is deployed, managed, and used by their employees on their company computers. This document will outline a nine-step methodology that can make or break your transition to a well-managed and controlled Windows environment. Posted: 09 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Monitoring \| Applications Management \| Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Management \| Employee Monitoring \| IT Governance \| IT Management \| Software Installation \| Windows

The Perfect Storm - Why Now Is The Time For Open Source sponsored by Red Hat and Intel WHITE PAPER: Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions. Posted: 19 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| IT Governance \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Linux \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| Operating Systems \| UNIX

Achieving Cost Savings in Backup with Deduplication sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication. Posted: 09 Jul 2010 \| Published: 09 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Deduplication \| Data Storage \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| IT Management \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Libraries