This White paper explores how On-demand, outsourced IT models, such as application service provider, business process outsourcer and managed service provider have become fairly common. But true on-demand delivery of enterprise applications has only recently gained traction – fueled in part by improved communications availability, security, reliability and bandwidth. Customer relationship management, payroll, human resources and more are now available on demand.

Efficiency is crucial to the success of every enterprise. For manufacturing companies, the need to continuously improve efficiency—to be “lean” by reducing or eliminating waste in terms of time and materials—has never been more important than it is today. This Free White Paper provides a vision for a perfect Lean Market.

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.

A select group of CIOs from the UK Financial Services industry gathered at the Financial Times’ Headquarters to debate the question: ‘What’s Driving Data Centre Transformation?’

To find out more, download a report of the proceedings. It includes:
- Commentary on the key drivers in data centre management today.
- Predictions on what the data centre will look like in five years to come.
- Attitudes toward the ‘green’ data centre.

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.

Data management, OS deployment and Personality Migration solutions from Novell make migrating to Vista simple and easy. View the first of our Windows Vista Migration Web seminar series and learn how you can transfer applications, files, settings and personalities from your existing OS to Vista in just a few clicks.

Data management, OS deployment and Personality Migration solutions from Novell make migrating to Vista simple and easy. View the second of our Windows Vista Migration Web seminar series and learn how you can transfer applications, files, settings and personalities from your existing OS to Vista in just a few clicks.

Data management, OS deployment and Personality Migration solutions from Novell make migrating to Vista simple and easy. View the third of our Windows Vista Migration Web seminar series and learn how you can transfer applications, files, settings and personalities from your existing OS to Vista in just a few clicks.

No matter how good its products, or innovative its services, no organisation can perform to its full potential without an adequate planning structure in place. Allowing enterprises to allocate their most precious (and finite) resources — money and people — in response to changing conditions and objectives, todays enterprise planning solutions facilitate a dynamic planning process that both promotes best business practices and spawns new ones.

A synthesis of new original survey results and recent analyst research on the portal market, this information-packed report incorporates independent analysis and industry trends into a comprehensive perspective of real-world deployment practices, trends and ROI anecdotes for portal technologies

An objective viewpoint from Dr. Bruce Silver on how a BPM suite from BEA can improve ROI, by updating the way your organization thinks about, designs, and measures business processes.

View this on-demand TechRepublic Webcast, sponsored by SWsoft and featuring Daniel Olds, analyst for Gabriel Consulting Group, to learn about the two main server virtualization technologies that are available today and how they can solve the problems associated with underutilized x86 servers.

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.

Wide-area Data Services (WDS) is a rapidly growing area of technical interest that most enterprises are now considering as part of their strategic IT portfolio. But with so many different approaches to the WAN application performance problem, so many vendors, and a wide variety of claims, how do enterprises sort through the mess to find out what is really right for their organization?

Simplify change management and administer centralised accurate records throughout your organisation with IntaChange, powerful web-based change management, for change control from a central point, 24/7.

GFI Network Server Monitor is a network monitor that enables administrators to scan the network for failures or irregularities automatically. When a failure is detected, GFI's network monitor can alert you by email, pager or SMS, as well as taking corrective action by, for example, rebooting the machine, restarting the service or running a script.

IT organizations rely on solutions such as the ITIL® and COBIT to help understand the challenges of compliance regulations. This white paper from BMC® Software discusses how the two can be used together.