When the Windows® Build Verification Test lab at Microsoft needed a reliable, robust hardware platform on which to test installations of Windows Vista™ they decided that Dell had the right combination of excellent products and outstanding support.

This white paper discusses best practices around metrics, from its very definition to using it for continuous improvement.

This guide provides you with the right advice that will help you ensure that the service management implementation process is as smooth and successful as possible.

Virtualization should explore innovative IT management solutions that address the challenges posed by highly flexible, dynamic environments. These management solutions should provide both automation and service-level monitoring, to improve IT staff response.

F5 WebAccelerator is an advanced web application delivery solution that provides a series of intelligent technologies designed to overcome problems with browsers, web application platforms and WAN latency issues which impact user performance.

Because F5 application delivery products are modular, they're extensible by design and can easily incorporate new functions and quickly adapt to changing application/business challenges. The following are available Product Modules and Feature Modules for BIG-IP application traffic management products.

With Enterprise Manager, you can archive and safeguard device configurations for contingency planning, configure new devices from a central location without manually working on each device, reduce your labor costs for managing multiple F5 devices and easily and quickly roll-out software upgrades and security patches.

This paper discusses various ways to convert performance requirement into valuable and testable requirements, goals and objectives. It looks at the application from the end user’s perspective without forgetting the business objective.

Achieving “market equilibrium” between the enterprise and an organization is not a simple goal but once gained, delivers significant benefits to the IT organization and the enterprise as a whole. Read this white paper to understand the management information needed to achieve this equilibrium.

Virtuozzo is a patented OS virtualization solution. Virtuozzo creates isolated partitions or virtual environments on a single physical server and OS instance to utilize hardware, software, data center and management effort with maximum efficiency.

As the pace of business accelerates, enterprises are increasingly responding to customer demands in real time. To accomplish this feat, many IT departments have turned to service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is designed to help decrease development expenses and risk of application failures, increase asset reuse and enhance business agility.

Are you software compliant? Are you overpaying for your software licenses? Do you need to reduce costs? With one tool you can, identify monitor and track your IT assets. Mitigate your compliance risks and save money -download this white paper and learn how.

The need to carefully manage company software assets continues to move up the IT management. This paper looks at the most effective ways of maximising compliance whilst minimising cost, and concludes that automated systems can play an important role - relevant for 200+ nodes.

This Free White paper explores how to anticipate, accommodate, and leverage change to provide competitive advantage through software development.

Businesses dont wait until a product is almost available to create a strategy for how it will drive revenue. Why then do they wait until the last moment to ensure the quality of software? This Free White Paper examines Lifecycle Quality Management, including its core processes and best practices

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is emerging as a promising approach to improving the software delivery process. With Borland's Open ALM solutions, organizations can leverage their existing software development assets and achieve traceability and discipline across the software delivery cycle.