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WHITE PAPER - In the event of downtime, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Forge® ships with everything you need to begin protecting your servers straight out-of-the-box.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Server Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - With Oracle Applications Extension for Rational Performance you no longer have to jeopardize your business engine during an upgrade. You’ll eliminate risk, increase testing productivity, speedy delivery, and ensure the quality and scalability of your business systems.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | Order Management Systems | Systems Management | Systems Testing | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn about Rational® Functional Tester, an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .Net, Java™, HTML, Siebel and SAP applications, and lets you record reliable and robust scripts that can be played back to validate new builds of a test application.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Functional Testing | Linux | Operating Systems | SAP (Product) | Systems Management | Systems Software | Systems Testing | Testing | Windows

WHITE PAPER - PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Network Capacity | Network Monitoring | Reporting Software | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Virtual Machine

PRODUCT DEMO - This demo shows how IBM Rational Functional Tester can be used to create test automation scripts to validate the functionality of an SAP system. The script generation capability of Functional Tester produces a re-usable test that can be run against all subsequent builds or releases of the SAP system.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Systems | Functional Testing | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | SAP (Product) | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Systems Testing

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | High Availability | Network Performance | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | UPS

CASE STUDY - Pearson, the international media and education company, is looking for a single tool that can provide information vital to their storage management. Its infrastructure support team selected Northern Storage Suite.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Systems Management

WEBCAST - In this webcast, gain insight into IT processes and procedures that can ensure continuous business operations in your organization. Discover how to prevent downtime by conducting a gap analysis, identifying weaknesses and simplifying IT processes.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Premiered: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | IT Management | Server Management | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

PODCAST - Join this Podcast, presented by PC Connection, featuring guest speakers Doug Washburn, Forrester Research Analyst, and co-presenter John Skinner, Intel’s Director of Marketing, Eco-Technology, as they discuss the scope of energy-efficient computing, and how new incentives can be leveraged to accelerate the ROI of your technology investments.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Premiered: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Energy Efficiency | IT Management | Network Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | ROI | Server Consolidation | Systems Management

PODCAST - In this podcast, expert Carey Dietert discusses how CIO's are reevaluating current infrastructures to determine whether a new alternative is the way to go including the changes incumbents in the Unix space especially Sun with the upcoming purchase from Oracle.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Premiered: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Systems Management | UNIX

WHITE PAPER - All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | High Availability | Load Balancing | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | SLA | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

VIDEO - Watch this demo to get an overview of the Dell OpenManage systems management solution. This solution is focused on delivering open, flexible, and integrated solutions that reduce the complexity in the systems management space.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Premiered: September 23, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Systems Integration | Systems Management | Systems Management Services | Systems Management Software | Systems Operations

WHITE PAPER - The Dell Management Console redefines much of the systems management paradigm, through a holistic, Web browser–based “single pane of glass” approach to managing enterprise-wide IT assets. Read on to learn more.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 23, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Operating Systems | Systems Integration | Systems Management | Systems Operations | Systems Software

PODCAST - Businesses trying to migrate from SPARC to a more reliable platform often run into a host of obstacles. This podcast discusses the pitfalls of this transition and offers effective migration strategies.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Premiered: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Operating Systems | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Solaris | Systems Management

WEBCAST - When developing a security strategy, it is critical for businesses to consider their System i platform in order to protect themselves from data breaches. In this webcast, learn how to control network access on System i and protect your organization from data loss.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Premiered: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Data Security | Database Security | File Transfer Protocols | FTP | Identity Theft | Network Security | Network Security Software | ODBC | System i | Systems Management