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A Practitioners Guide to More Efficient Network Management sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 13 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 25 Sep 2009 | |
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Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.
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Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 13 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 25 May 2009 | |
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This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
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Fixing the SAP Upgrade Process: Nine Best Practices sponsored by Panaya, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 10 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 10 Nov 2009 | |
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This paper takes a new look at the SAP upgrade process in light of emerging best practices and new technologies. This report offers a discussion of the value of both technical and functional upgrades as well as a discussion of some of the best practices to enhance the value of your SAP upgrades while lowering overall cost.
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49 Do's, Don'ts, and Customer Lessons for SAP Upgrades: Going beyond the SAP Upgrade Clichés sponsored by Panaya, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 10 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 10 Nov 2009 | |
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In this article, the best advice on upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 is compiled into a list of SAP upgrade dos and donts for your reading enjoyment and practical use. Also included are some customer lessons from those who have upgraded to ERP 6.0 and have stories to tell.
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IT Survey Results: Top Priorities Through 2010 sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 09 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 09 Nov 2009 | |
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What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies.
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Reduce Downtime by 70% - Without Spending a Dime: Applying Best Practices of Successful IT Organizations sponsored by Marathon Technologies
 | White Paper: | Posted: 26 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 26 Oct 2009 | |
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Read this paper to learn Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic and tactical alignment of IT with business objectives - enabling IT to do more for the business with less. By implementing all four components of Niel's model, IT can dramatically reduce system downtime and closely align their efforts and investments with business priorities.
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Solutions for Small to Medium Data Centers sponsored by APC
 | White Paper: | Posted: 23 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 23 Oct 2009 | |
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APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.
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Change Management Best Practices for the Engineering and Construction Industry sponsored by Oracle Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects.
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Seven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 27 Apr 2009 | |
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This paper provides seven practical steps any information security organization can take to improve information system security and achieve compliance with relevant regulations, standards and internal security and operational policy.
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'Lights Out' IT Management -- Automate Problem Identification & Resolution sponsored by Dorado Software
 | White Paper: | Posted: 16 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 16 Sep 2008 | |
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Lights-Out IT Management refers to the automation of both problem identification and problem resolution. The successful implementation of Lights-Out IT Management is built upon an integrated system that provides three key management functions: find, configure, and monitor. Read on to learn more.
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Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 31 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 08 Dec 2008 | |
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This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.
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Solution Brief: Achieve and Maintain Compliance with Configuration Control Solutions sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 31 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 22 Dec 2008 | |
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Achieving and maintaining compliance tops the list of ongoing IT projects for many organizations ranging from small regional companies to giant multinationals. Read this brief document to learn what Tripwire solutions have to offer.
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Visibility and Control: Key to Accelerating Your Business sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 30 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 08 Dec 2008 | |
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Read this paper to learn how to eliminate all undesired changed within the enterprise by following the steps outlined here.
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Why You Should Take a Holistic Approach to ITIL and Service Support sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 18 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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In these tough economic times, how do you address the challenge of reducing costs without diminishing your service quality? Companies can lower costs significantly and meet the growing demand for services by taking a more holistic approach. This paper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management and...
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Ride the Express Lane in the Journey to Speed ITIL® Adoption sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 18 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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The journey to ITIL is challenging and requires clarity of vision and a disciplined execution to achieve that vision. By following ITIL practices, your IT organization will become more closely integrated with the business. BMC recommends making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through...
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