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Delivering on the Promise of Predictive Control

The core business value of BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management’s (BPPM) predictive analytics is advanced risk mitigation, enabling enterprises to anticipate and remedy issues before they disturb essential processes. Using BPPM, you will avoid the costly erosion of business that comes from suboptimal performance and availability, and position your service delivery to win in today’s marketplace.

Prioritize Capacity Planning with BMC Capacity Optimization

Current trends underscore the requirement for truly global and adaptable capability for optimizing capacity across domains with full insight into business service outcomes. Learn why EMA has put BMC in the lead as the vendor with the fullest breadth and depth of its capacity optimization capabilities.

Three Ways System Downtime Affects Companies and Four Methods to Minimize It

Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.

Challenging Some of the Myths About Static Code Analysis

Why Static Code Analysis? Static code analysis, or SCA, can be described as the analysis of whole-program source code without the execution of that program. A number of interpretations and even misconceptions about this technology and how it impacts or benefits you, the developer, have emerged over time. You may have heard some of them yourself.

To help tell the right story, we put this paper together to dispel some of the ‘myths’ about SCA, myths that serve mostly to distort the true value static analysis can bring to you and your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

What is this “File Sync” Thing and Why Should I Care About It?

Not so long ago, the office was the only place you could work. But when smartphones and tablets came along, the only thing holding us back from getting work done anywhere, any time was having access to our data. That led to the creation of a whole new class of solutions designed to keep files current across our rapidly proliferating fleets of devices — through a technology known as ‘sync.’ All of a sudden, getting a file from your work laptop to your iPad became as simple as clicking “Save.” So it’s no surprise that 55% of information workers in North America and Europe who use a tablet at work are using file sync and share tools.

The Truth About Cloud Security

“Security” is the number one issue holding business leaders back from the cloud. But does the reality match the perception? Keeping data close to home, on premises, makes business and IT leaders feel inherently more secure.1 But the truth is, cloud solutions can offer companies real, tangible security advantages. Before you assume that on-site is the only way to keep data safe, it’s worth taking a comprehensive approach to evaluating risks. Doing so can lead to big benefits.

Evaluating File Sync and Share Solutions: 12 Questions to Ask about Security

File sync and share can increase productivity, but how do you pick a solution that works for you? There will likely be a number of factors guiding your decision, and if you’re like most businesses, security is high on the list. Download to learn some important questions to ask file sync and share vendors about security.

Achieving Business Agility Through An Agile Data Center

A common trait across successful businesses is their ability to efficiently adapt to the latest trends and processes that have positive impacts to business performance and revenue growth. Here technology trends play a key role in enabling greater business agility. IT organizations can be an innovative adopter of new technologies that quicken the route to market and drive greater market demand for end-user product.

Symantec and VMware: Virtualizing Business Critical Applications with Confidence

Business-critical applications and the systems they run on must be highly available. A common way to increase application availability in a physical environment is to deploy a traditional high-availability clustering solution. IT administrators can move applications for server maintenance with zero downtime and no data loss. The operating-system isolation that VMware virtualization natively provides makes it simple for a small set of highly consolidated servers to provide very high uptime at reduced administrative cost.

Pushing the Boundaries: Symantec’s Software Defined Data Center Powered by VMware

Symantec has evolved from an antivirus software company to a global, Fortune 500 company whose mission is to help customers of all sizes secure and manage information. Symantec finds itself in an industry that is defined by tough competition, as well as an ever-changing variety of sophisticated security threats directed at its customers. To compete in this dynamic environment, Symantec has embarked on a strategy to streamline and simplify the company around its customers.

Confidently Virtualize Business- Critical Applications

All businesses have a core set of applications that are critical to successful growth. These applications require a higher level of availability than other applications and services in the organization. In physical environments, traditional high availability clustering solutions are most commonly used to increase the availability of business-critical applications. These solutions help minimize unwanted downtime and also minimize planned maintenance downtime, by providing application failover to additional standy-by servers in the cluster.

Virtualization and Cloud are Changing Enterprise Backup. How Prepared are You?

Symantec is your central information broker for long-term future direction and global repository of actionable intelligence. Symantec is the central point of integration for backup, archive, security, compliance, and eDiscovery Single source of truth for all your information.

Lab Validation Report

The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about data center technology products for companies of all types and sizes. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement.

Taking the Leap to Virtualization: Security and Backup Considerations in the Virtual Environment

Many mid-market companies have invested significant time and resources to secure and back up their servers, client computers, data, and overall network infrastructure in what was the traditional client-server setup. Now, what were considered emerging technologies just a few years ago, cloud computing and virtualization have arrived on the scene, bringing both significant benefits and new challenges. Find out more about this transition to get the most out of your virtual environment.

Conquering the Top 5 Enterprise Data Protection Challenges

Today's datacenters face a gauntlet of challenges including protection of physical and virtual environments, fast recovery of data, reducing backup times and storage requirements, server consolidation, and disaster recovery. How are savvy CIO's conquering these types of challenges? Find out how in this white paper by Expert, David Davis.