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WEBCAST - Watch SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, as he discuss best practices for combining fault, performance, and configuration management into a single, unified approach for improving the overall health and efficiency of your network.
Posted: September 5, 2008 | Premiered: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Configuration Management | Fault Management | Network Performance

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Poor change control can send your organization's security tumbling. Follow these 5 steps for a strong change management program.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management

WEBCAST - Join Steve Brasen and Lubos Parobek for an informative webinar to explore techniques and best practices for addressing and resolving the challenges that accompany systems deployment and configuration management.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Premiered: September 3, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Configuration Management

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Posted: August 18, 2008 | Published: August 18, 2008


Topics:  Configuration Management | IP Addresses | Routers | Server Management | Switches | TFTP | Windows 2000 | Windows Vista | Windows XP

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains how the differences between different FDCC automation tools affect security and IT costs. It also includes a description of Lumension Security's Vulnerability Management Solution, which has received (SCAP) validation.
Posted: August 15, 2008 | Published: August 15, 2008


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Configuration Management | Database Management | Desktop Management | Endpoint Security | Enterprise Content Management | Network Performance | Operational Support Systems | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - Medium enterprises continue to struggle in their efforts to find and deploy an effective systems management solution scaled to their needs. KACE has developed this guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Configuration Management | Enterprise | Inventory Management | Security | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - How an IT department addresses infrastructure changes has a direct impact on the value it brings to the business. In this white paper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines how organizations can develop effective deployment strategies.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Configuration Management | Enterprise | Inventory Management | IT Managers | Patch Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper shows how NETCONF and YANG can be employed to make next-generation configuration management systems considerably simpler, more understandable, and more robust than current systems.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Configuration Management | Network Management | Network Management Software | Systems Integration | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Vendors | XML

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the major categories of security requirements and compliance under MiFID and how they relate to Tripwire.
Posted: August 13, 2008 | Published: August 13, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Information Security | Patch Management | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Tripwire combines configuration assessment with change auditing to achieve and a known and trusted state, this ensures the integrity of your IT configurations by comparing them against internal policies, compliance standards and security best practices.
Posted: August 13, 2008 | Published: August 13, 2008


Topics:  Configuration Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Financial Services Industry | IT Spending | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard | Risk Management | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Security

PODCAST - This podcast will explore some of the key issues in managing changes across 5 system SAP landscapes, discuss current manual methods of managing these changes, and look at the value of change control technology in these situations.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 11, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Configuration Management | ERP | SAP (Product) | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores some of the considerations and pitfalls for purchasing a CMDB tool before taking the final leap and provides a common sense approach to evaluating the direction in which your company is heading.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | CMDB | Configuration Management | ITIL | Mainframe Operating Systems | Purchasing | ROI

WHITE PAPER - While firms have used different business strategies to insulate themselves from the effect of change, CEOs are beginning to recognize the need for their firms to become more agile in detecting and making the changes to strategy, operations, and products.
Posted: August 6, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Configuration Management | Enterprise | Manufacturing Industry | PLM | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains how Software Reuse and its underlying fundamentals have evolved dramatically. It also discusses the benefits of constructing critical enterprise software applications through reusable parts.
Posted: July 30, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Change Management | Collaboration | Configuration Management | SOA | Software | Software Configuration Management | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a high-level overview of a range of change control challenges specific to 5 system landscapes and offers a safe and flexible approach to managing change using Rev-Trac change control technology.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Collaboration | Configuration Management | SAP (Product) | Testing