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WHITE PAPER - When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Code Management | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services | IT Systems | IT Workforce | Programming | Programming Languages

WHITE PAPER - This document provides guidance in designing consolidated, virtualized, and SOA-enabled data centers based on the ultra high port-density 10 GbE switch/router products of Force10.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: February 28, 2010


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Blade Servers | Cluster Software | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Grid Computing | High Availability | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Routing | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | SOA

WHITE PAPER - The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.
Posted: February 23, 2010 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | iSCSI SAN | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper addresses twelve common issues that network administrators should examine when troubleshooting network problems.
Posted: December 12, 2008 | Published: December 12, 2008


Topics:  Network Management | Network Managers | Network Security | Operating Systems | Routers | Switches | Troubleshooting

WHITE PAPER - Securing an organization's assets requires work, but there are some basic steps that can simplify the task by taking a one-two-three approach. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how you can sort your security controls by categorizing and grouping them in order to help prevent common security problems.
Posted: August 28, 2009 | Published: August 27, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Network Best Practices | Network Management | Network Security | Security Best Practices | Security Management

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Platform as a service | Server Virtualization | Systems Operations

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.
Posted: January 13, 2010 | Published: January 13, 2010


Topics:  Applications Management | Best Practices | Continuous Data Protection | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Replication | Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | Quality Control | RAID | Storage Management | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - This guide introduces JasperSoft's application programming interfaces to product and development managers. Learn how JasperSoft's reporting and analytics enhance the quality and value of all applications through seamless integration without the frustration of home-grown and legacy systems that are far too expensive to develop, manage, and maintain.
Posted: March 18, 2009 | Published: March 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | IT Service Management | Network Management | Network Management Protocols | Network Management Software | Open Source | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Processes | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Management | Network Configuration Management | Network Management | Network Performance

WHITE PAPER - Managing the virtual infrastructure end-to-end is becoming more challenging as virtual environments continue to grow and more data center elements meld into the "cloud". This whitepaper will discuss the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud", and present you with questions that will help you create the best organizational strategy.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Service Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ITIL | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, we'll take a look at access control lists, often referred to as access lists or ACLs (sometimes pronounced "ackels").
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Published: August 27, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Access Control Software | IP Address Management | IP Networks | IP Routers | Network Address Translation | Network Management | Network Managers | Routers

WHITE PAPER - This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication.
Posted: February 11, 2010 | Published: February 11, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | IT Management | Storage Management | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.
Posted: February 10, 2010 | Published: October 10, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | Networking

WHITE PAPER - The last few years have seen significant interest and effort in integrating the many tools large enterprises use to manage their IT infrastructure and applications. Central to this integration effort is the concept of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Read this whitepaper to learn a best practices approach.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | CMDB | Configuration Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Configuration Management Software | Service Level Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper reviews the best of the newest achievements in VSAT performance and utility and shows how these solutions could become part of the mainstream of corporate network deployment and an integral portion of commercial (and competitive) service provider offerings.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Applications Management | Caching | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Systems | Network Management | Network Performance | Satellite Communications Systems | WAN