Six Keys to Effective Reputational and IT Risk Management
This interactive guide provides insights on the key actions to take to take to safeguard your reputation through strategic, cost effective security and resilience investments.
Deployment Automation Basics
Discover the benefits of deployment automation and how to maximize your automation investments!
IT organizations have been finding it increasingly difficult to deploy more quickly without adding more people and incurring additional risks. Only until recently have there been more viable automated deployment options to offer an alternative to the slow and error prone process of manual deployment.
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IT organizations have been finding it increasingly difficult to deploy more quickly without adding more people and incurring additional risks. Only until recently have there been more viable automated deployment options to offer an alternative to the slow and error prone process of manual deployment.
Read the paper to learn about:
- The limitations of manual deployment, namely its inconsistency, lack of visibility, and proneness to error
- The benefits of deployment of automation
- The base set of features that an automated system should provide
Rational Application Portfolio Management ROI Tool
CIOs and IT Executives are being asked to "do more with less". With a complex and poorly understood application portfolio at hand a large percentage of IT funds are consumed, it leaves these CIOs and IT Executives challenged to find the funds needed for creating real value in form of innovation and enabling new business opportunities. Organizations spend too much (up to 90%) of funds on maintaining and operating an expanding application portfolio.
Intelligent Transportation Systems solution for successful development
Intelligent Transportation Systems projects in government are growing rapidly as demand increases and technology advances. Learn how to deliver successful systems and services to overcome critical transportation challenges.
Intelligent Transportation Systems ekit
The IBM Rational Intelligent Transportation Systems solution addresses the challenges with complex projects for the planning, development, deployment and lifecycle management of transportation software. Learn more by reviewing the ekit resources.
Raising the Bar for IT Service Management: EMA’s Look at BMC Remedy OnDemand
Increasingly, enterprise organizations are moving to the cloud for IT Service Management (ITSM) - but is cloud delivery right for your business? Learn about the changing face of ITSM and gain the perspective needed to make the right ITSM decision for your organization. Get the free white paper from Enterprise Management Associates.
Hybrid IT – A Low-Risk Path from On-Premise to ITaaS
IT as a Service (ITaaS) will transform future IT operations and service delivery. In the interim, Hybrid IT offers a rational, gradual approach in which some services move to SaaS while others remain on-premise. This white paper provides a strategy to move part or all of your ITSM suite to the cloud as a stepping stone to ITaaS.
A Practical Guide to Understand and Benefit from the Consumerization of IT
Consumerization of IT forces enterprises to rethink their approach to IT service delivery. What does consumerization really mean and why does it matter? Understand the basics to accurately identify the practical implications and benefits for your organization. This guide explores the realities of IT Consumerization to define challenges and opportunities. Learn best practices and get actionable recommendations.
Making the Move to a Cloud-Based IT Service Management (ITSM) Platform
Today's mature cloud-based ITSM solutions can give you the flexibility and agility you need - without sacrificing security, stability or performance. In this THINKstrategies, Inc. white paper, you'll learn why businesses are moving to cloud-based ITSM and the advantages they've achieved. Explore how this innovative approach to IT management might be right for your organization.
IBM’s System Director VMControl: Advanced Multi-Platform Virtualization Management
For IT personnel looking to manage cross-platform workloads, IBM VMControl can provide an advanced solution. Read the white paper and learn why this technology beats the competition in terms of automated provisioning, systems integration and resource pooling. Also see how this environment offers advanced image management and higher resilience.
IBM PureSystems Cut Costs and Increase Agility by Simplifying the IT Life Cycle
Discusses why converged systems, such as IBM PureSystems platforms, can radically simplify the IT life cycle and how these changes can deliver business value by accelerating time to market, improving application performance, and reducing required staff time.
10 Ways Skill & Technology Patterns Can Complete Your IT Strategy
It's no secret today's IT workforce is resource constrained. Doing more with less is a mantra. In addition, IT is now expected to on-board new skills and technologies quickly. Technology professionals must be able to ship new apps and products at a breakneck pace. Using yesterday's IT strategies won't cut it anymore. Today's IT needs to be re-structured away from large teams and rigid IT stacks to a more adaptable, solutions approach. In particular, IT needs flexible and predictable patterns of expertise.
By patterns, we mean recurring and repeatable solutions to standard business problems. These patterns can speed time to delivery and enable IT to move more quickly and with greater agility.
This IT Manager's Journal (ITMJ) makes the decisive business case for a patterns-based approach to IT. The paper lays out ten ways patterns can reduce time to action and create more efficiencies. Topics covered include Business Process Management (BPM), Databases and Database as a Service (Daas), IT patterns, patterns-based IT strategy, and much more. Download this exclusive ITMJ today and learn how your IT department can successfully implement a patterns-based approach today.
This IT Manager's Journal (ITMJ) makes the decisive business case for a patterns-based approach to IT. The paper lays out ten ways patterns can reduce time to action and create more efficiencies. Topics covered include Business Process Management (BPM), Databases and Database as a Service (Daas), IT patterns, patterns-based IT strategy, and much more. Download this exclusive ITMJ today and learn how your IT department can successfully implement a patterns-based approach today.
Go Beyond APM with Real-Time IT Operations Analytics
Operations teams stand at the intersection of IT and the business. As a result, business success increasingly depends on how quickly IT Operations teams resolve problems and respond to new demands. This white paper details how IT operations teams can harness the wealth of wire data already flowing through their environment for real-time operational intelligence. With correlated, cross-tier visibility only available through wire data, IT teams can answer the question, "What is happening in my environment right now?"
Determining Enterprise Readiness to Support Employee Owned Devices
The use of employee-owned devices (EODs) within the enterprise has exploded in just two short years. In a number of cases, the use has preceded the implementation of processes and structures to fully support them. As a result, organizations must quickly catch up. Enterprises need a cohesive plan that addresses each of the key elements of supporting EODs. This checklist looks at the most important elements that will help you determine your current level of readiness to support this mega-trend, while spelling out the key processes, approaches and best practices needed to enable it.
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10 Ways Wire Data Can Help You Conquer IT Complexity
The need for IT business intelligence is well-known, but equally important is the need for IT operational intelligence. That is, the ability to see and know everything that is happening in your IT environment right now, at any moment.
That is a very tall order considering that today's IT environments have unprecedented levels of scale, complexity, and dynamism.
Wire data is an incredible source of operational intelligence. It is the record of everything that is happening in your IT environment in real time, and provides an unmatched, in-depth view into the performance, availability, and security of your environment, including issues that you otherwise might not know about.
Download this white paper to read 10 ways wire data can help conquer IT complexity.
Wire data is an incredible source of operational intelligence. It is the record of everything that is happening in your IT environment in real time, and provides an unmatched, in-depth view into the performance, availability, and security of your environment, including issues that you otherwise might not know about.
Download this white paper to read 10 ways wire data can help conquer IT complexity.