Systems Management Reports

EBOOK: This expert e-book explores the changes to mainframes in the past ten years. Discover how your organization can lower TCO and achieve other benefits by moving workloads to the mainframe.

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines how standardization can have significant positive effects on all three major components of DCPI business value – availability, agility and total cost of ownership. Learn how your organization can adopt modular standardization to cut costs and prevent downtime

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Companies must adapt their management practices to provide proper control over resources in the cloud. This white paper showcases a management tool designed with these types of environments in mind and discusses its key features and benefits.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this case study to discover how one banking institution used an infrastructure platform for their VDI deployment with great results. Learn how this system jumpstarted the process by delivering accelerated assessment and planning and provided valuable benefits like accelerated proof-to concept completion and faster deployment time.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

VIDEOCAST: Learn how your organization can provide instant access to work documents from mobile devices. This videocast presents a solution that extends your IT infrastructure out into the mobile world in minutes.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Premiered: Jun 19, 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines how one organization successfully migrated to Linux and consolidated 14 physical servers to a single IBM System z mainframe. Inside, discover how your business can consolidate physical servers and realize other valuable benefits like rapid provisioning and easy management of virtualized Linux environments.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 19 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover a solution that can be added to your existing IT infrastructure which makes users instantly productive anywhere without compromising IT governance or efficiency. Gain insight into flexible offline data access options and non-disruptive integration.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 18 Jun 2012

VIDEO: This short video examines a hardware-assisted approach to PC management. Find out more about this technique and how it can help you properly manage your desktop environment, regardless of system states.

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 | Premiered: 15 Jun 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide explores how cloud computing is changing your IT operations and how your organization can effectively prepare for these changes. Also inside, discover the top 10 areas to include in your data center’s standard operating procedure manuals.

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 | Published: 14 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines an enterprise-class Linux operating system that increases the flexibility and reliability of your IT environment. Inside, discover the top benefits of this system that is tailored specifically to meet your needs.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 07 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how one city migrated from their aging mainframe to a Windows platform. Learn how your organization can save on maintenance costs and increase operational efficiency by making a similar move.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief resource provides 10 reasons why customers use EMC unified storage for deploying virtualized Oracle Environments.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

EGUIDE: Forrester predicts that technologies like mobile, Software as a Service (SaaS), business process management (BPM), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and social networks are going to dramatically change the enterprise resource planning (ERP) landscape in the near future. Read this expert guide to learn more about the future of ERP systems.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Navigating enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems isn't always easy, but is necessary for the success of your business. Read this expert guide to learn five key tips and best practices for managing your ERP systems.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Inside, learn more about the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform for server and desktop infrastructures. Find out how to simplify IT management, maximize performance for both Windows and Linux operating environments, and more!

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: When planning a migration to the cloud, IT pros must carefully map a strategic plan for a successful transition. This essential e-guide, directly from our editors, describes the top criteria and guidelines that should be followed when building a cloud strategy.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Even though many companies have deployed virtualization, they have yet to adopt the private cloud into their IT strategy. Yet server virtualization actually lays the foundation to a private cloud. Access our e-guide to find out how virtualization can be an element of your cloud plan.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 24 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: To keep pace with your peers and position your organisation for the future, you must continuously update your data centre. This white paper explains how one company refined their IT transformation strategy to improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of their business services. Explore their key objectives and best practices for success here.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

CASE STUDY: This resource presents how one organisation within the finance industry was able to cut costs, respond more efficiently to customer demands and improve productivity by implementing a Hitachi Content Platform to improve data management and efficiency.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores the growth of distributed object stores (DOS) and examines the underlying mechanisms that guide their use and development.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about a service management solution that's optimized for IBM's System z, but compatible with other distributed systems, that provides the end-to-end visibility, control and automation for optimum business service delivery and IT infrastructure management.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines an optimized Oracle database solution designed to reduce overall ownership costs, reduce IT and business risks, while enabling greater efficiency and business agility to support evolving needs.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper examines why making the right server choices can help solve many challenges. It contrasts x86 multi-cores with Power Systems and mainframes. Read on to learn how making the right server choices can help an enterprise realize greater ROI while also helping extracting greater business value from the servers that it buys.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

EZINE: Though the private cloud seems to be the optimal cloud option, the road to it is by far the bumpiest. Building a private cloud for your organization requires much more than just the construction of the new infrastructure. Are you aware of all the steps you must take before you can begin? Gain expert advice on all things private cloud inside.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012