July 09, 2009 - (Free Research) The July/August issue of CIO Decisions Ezine focuses on disaster recovery in remote and branch offices, especially in midmarket organizations. Read this issue to learn some great tips and techniques for increasing your remote workers' ability to bounce back after an unfortunate event.
July 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
November 11, 2009 - (Free Research) Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.
January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability.
November 04, 2009 - (Free Research) This is a follow up to "Desperate Times Call for Strategic Measures" which argued that now is the time to consider an IT transformation project. This article will explore the viability and benefits of upgrading to SAP 6.0.
January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability.
April 17, 2009 - (Free Research) BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.
September 11, 2009 - (Free Research) Are you looking for the right Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product for your organization? Check out this Citrix e-kit for current information about desktop virtualization products.
October 08, 2009 - (Free Research) In this whitepaper, Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008 are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.
October 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
March 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This document is intended as a quick reference guide for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris™ OS on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series platform.
August 31, 2009 - (Free Research) Electronic health records are a cornerstone of President Obama's national healthcare reform. But in order to succeed, healthcare organizations need to ensure consumer privacy. As a result, changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act were recently enacted. We'll explain the new requirements and how to prepare for an audit.
September 11, 2009 - (Free Research) Monitoring and configuring a variety of complex devices (network, systems, storage, security) from multiple vendors is a daily battle that challenges even the most experienced administrators. Today's virtual and physical environments can only be handled with a centralized management solution.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Troubleshooting is a necessary evil. Where does one start when the operating system does not start, the application does not load or run correctly, the network hangs or a network service does not listen or perform? Linux is noted for being rock solid, stable, and easy to manage but not as user friendly.
July 28, 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
June 16, 2009 - (Free Research) Participants at industry conferences and events often ask where the right place to start implementing security is. This is similar to starting off a talk with a doctor by asking “What medicine should I take?” The answer is going to be more questions. This article presents three questions to ask yourself before starting a security implementation.
August 24, 2009 - (Free Research) With Crystal Reports - solve report design and information sharing issues through: powerful report and dashboard mashups, secure report sharing, management, scheduling and publishing - an affordable, cross-platform solution, that just works.
April 17, 2009 - (Free Research) This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
August 2006 - (Free Research) Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error.
November 2009 - (Free Research) In a series of three articles, this E-Guide introduces technology from Peer Software – designed to optimize file availability and collaboration across the WAN.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.
August 2009 - (Free Research) This article offers an in-depth overview of the just-released Intel Media SDK, an API that offers a single-source approach for targeting a broad range of Intel architectures.
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