Could your data center network do a better job supporting new technologies?

Increasingly demanding IT requirements are necessitating change to the data center network (DCN). Like servers and storage, the network needs to evolve to deliver the flexibility and scalability required by a more virtualized IT environment. In this interview, Michele Girola, IBM network integration services product manager, explains how to enhance your DCN to support evolving technologies today and in the future.
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Next Gen IT and the Cloud

Find out how next-gen IT solutions are flexible, intuitive, social and powerful - and how IT in the cloud will help your organization not only keep up with today's complex IT ecosystem, but manage it more efficiently than ever before.
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IT Governance, Risk and Compliance with ServiceNow

Organizations are faced with many auditing challenges and often find themselves defining controls in documents and spreadsheets, manually tracking audit task assignments and storing audit documentation in disparate locations. With the ServiceNow IT GRC functionality, organizations gain a central repository that contains policies, risks, controls, findings and more all in one place. It also provides a way to automate audit tasks for remediation efforts and a dashboard view to manage the entire audit process. Learn more during this webinar.
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The Now State of IT

Join Craig McDonogh and Rob Phillips for a demonstration of what can happen when ServiceNow is used across an enterprise. You'll see representative examples from the CIO to the Facilities Manager and everyone in between.
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How Does Your Service Desk Stack Up?

A successful Service Desk should be aligned with business processes, improve user satisfaction and productivity, optimize the organization from the inside out, and serve as a single point of contact between a company's customers, employees and business partners.

More importantly, the Service Desk should be a key part of a completely integrated IT systems management strategy.

View this informative webinar as Chris Brand (IT Director, Fairfield School District, CT) demonstrates how he has transformed his reduced staff into a process driven IT department through an integrated service management solution.

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Rational Focal Point -OVUM Technology Audit

IBM Rational Focal Point 6.5 is a highly flexible portfolio-management solution designed to help organizations make better strategic choices in domains including projects, products, applications and any other area where a set of initiatives must be evaluated, compared and prioritized.
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How to Keep Control Over External IT Service Providers

IT Managers often worry when external IT service providers require access to company systems. Internal IT Employees, however, can keep tabs on their system partners using the GoToAssist Corporate support tool. In this white paper you will learn "How IT Departments Can Retain Control over External IT Service Providers" IT experts from Citrix explain which solutions really work to ensure that external service providers diligently follow compliance specifications.
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SOA Design Principles for Dummies

What you may call basic SOA or IT - centric SOA applies SOA principles to the flexible integration of an enterprise IT portfolio. But controlling interactions through well-defined services and interfaces certainly applies to mobile, social, cloud, and Big Data solutions as well. SOA is simply good design for IT integration and for the business solutions of an ever-more-connected and ever-more-distributed world. This book is a guide to applying the design principles of SOA to the business problems of today.
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5 Ways to Move From IT Resilience to Cloud-Based Business Resilience

By now most IT departments have some form of resilience strategy in place and is likely already out of date. Many of these legacy plans rely on expensive remote locations and duplicate facilities, concepts that are no longer feasible in today's business environment. Learn five ways your organization can better utilize cloud computing to build a better, holistic resilience plan that will cover the entire business, not just IT infrastructure and systems. This IT Managers' Journal covers all the topics for cloud-based resilience, including cloud-based offsite backup and data protection, service-level agreements (SLAs), disaster recovery, virtualization and more.
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Service Virtualization for Dummies book

Discover service virtualization and how it fits into the big picture of software quality. In this book, Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition written by industry analysts Marcia Kaufman and Judith Hurwitz, learn how to deliver higher quality software by increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing processes while reducing testing downtime and testing cost.
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The software edge: How effective software development and delivery drives competitive advantage

The IBM Global CEO study found today's business leaders rank technology as the most important external force that will impact their organizations. A 2013 Institute for Business Value (IBV) software development study supports this, with IT and business leaders identifying five top technology trends critical to competitiveness. However, the same survey reveals that most organizations are not prepared to take advantage of these trends. While management recognizes that software is crucial to capitalizing on technology for competitiveness, they are not successfully executing.

Learn how organizations that leverage effective software development can help close the execution gap and gain competitive advantage.
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Security Intelligence Can Deliver Value Beyond Expectations And Needs To Be Prioritized

First-generation security intelligence and security incident and event management products have promised a lot, but some of these tools require considerable resources to manage the solution. The growth in security-as-a-service offerings, however, offers an opportunity for information security teams to follow the path successfully laid by many other IT departments. Read this white paper, "Security intelligence can deliver value beyond expectations and needs to be prioritized" for an overview of market adoption of security-as-a-service.
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The ServiceNow Service Automation Platform

Learn how savvy enterprises, like Tickets.com, Verisign and Omnicare, use ServiceNow as a platform to enable business users to rapidly create applications with IT's full guidance and support. During this webinar, you will discover how ServiceNow is enabling organizations to increase their competitive agility, user satisfaction and productivity, all while enhancing IT's value to the business.
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Hitting Your Targets with Service Catalog

Providing a good online shopping experience starts with understanding customer needs and expectations in order to deliver suitable goods and services. Employees expect a similar experience with a Service Catalog. An effective business service catalog captures employee needs and communicates negotiated service offerings and service level agreements. However, hitting service level targets requires more than just listing services. It's essential to provide an automated self-service portal and open communication.
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