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- Italian Food Distributor Reduces Infrastructure Management Time to Minutes Per Day
- By spending so much time on management tasks, IT personnel at Alimenta in Italy had little chance to focus on strategic planning. The existing infrastructure wasn't flexible enough to scale with increasing amounts of data. Over time, the company faced a growing risk of key applications being disrupted or data...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Infrastructure Management, Italian Food Distributor, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-03
- The Linux Operating System as a Managed Object: The Case for Infrastructure Management
- Organizations today face two major challenges: deployment of an increasingly rich service mix and managing the associated massive base of computing platforms. In this paper, discover a newish means of viewing a key component of the organizational architecture - treating operating systems themselves as individual managed objects. Few can argue...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Operating System, IBM Corp., Object, Linux, Operating Systems, Litigation, It Services, It Management, Software, Business Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2008-07-29
- SaaS Solutions for Remote Systems Management
- Simplify your infrastructure management. Download this Computerworld Technology Briefing today to discover why more companies are switching to Software as a Service SaaS to fulfill their PC, server, network and email management needs. Dell's on-demand services for remote infrastructure management simplify IT by delivering the visibility and control you need...
- Tags: Remote System, Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Infrastructure Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, E-mail, It Services, It Management, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, It service Management
- White papers 2008-07-15
- How Managed Services has Changed Remote Infrastructure Management
- In today's distributed computing environment, critical Information and Communications Technology ICT equipment can be located anywhere in the world. These arrangements possess unique challenges for the companies that need to access, manage, and monitor these critical systems 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Register now...
- Tags: Security, Managed Services, Infrastructure Management, ITC Infotech, It Services
- Webcasts 2008-03-26
- Scalable Non-Blocking Infrastructure Management: A Comparative Study
- Today's enterprise environments impose demands for a large-scale, highly available, fault tolerant physical layer infrastructure. Typical storage area and data communication network environments, within a single data center or across geographically dispersed sites, can easily require several thousand ports of connectivity. The ability to plan for and build out network...
- Tags: Physical Layer, Fault-tolerance, Infrastructure Management, OnPATH Technologies, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2008-03-25
- Brand-Rex and RiT Score With Arsenal Football Club
- With efficient and error-free network management a top priority, Arsenal Football Club looked for an advanced infrastructure management solution that would give them full visibility into network connections - whether in training rooms, conference facilities or special function communications boxes - and maximum control of the numerous ISDN lines used...
- Tags: Solution, Intelligent Infrastructure, Infrastructure Management, RiT Technologies, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-02-21
- Reduced Costs and Increased Productivity Through Remote Infrastructure Management and Support
- MindTree Consulting undertook the management and support for an online store application used internally by a large virtualization services company to track sales orders and support. This application forms the backbone of the client's sales process and helps them bundle different components of products to offer to their customers. It...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Infrastructure Management, Sales Strategy, It Services, It Management, Sales, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Offshore Considerations for Infrastructure Management
- Infrastructure management is increasingly offshored these days. Everest Research Institute predicts that remote infrastructure management will grow to $8.6 billion in the next three years with an annual CAGR of 61%. Gartner predicts that infrastructure management is the third wave of services to be offshored after IT services and business...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Everest Research Institute, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2008-01-09
- Web Service Architecture for Railway Infrastructure Management Systems
- The European Community pursues the 'Liberalization' of European railway traffic. One of the key issues of this plan is the separation of railway infrastructure management and transport service operation. But this also means that the 'Traditional' national railway companies have to be divided, leaving one unit managing the infrastructure and...
- Tags: Web, Marketing, Infrastructure Management, Aachen University, Web Service, European Community, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Application Development, Application Management, and Infrastructure Management for a Leader in the Travel Domain
- MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the travel domain and its experience in application development and maintenance to execute new application development and maintain existing applications for a leading provider of distribution solutions in the travel domain. With MindTree's engagement, the client is able to optimize its investment with a...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Application Development, Infrastructure Management, Leader, Domain, Application Management, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-12-18
- Simplify and Integrate Your Application Infrastructure Management
- How healthy are the business-critical applications right now? What is the impact of being down or slow for a few minutes, hours or days? If there was a problem, can anyone quickly isolate the root cause, and find out which services are affected? This webcast on the value of managing...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-09-13
- Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing
- IT has largely been forced to use upgrades to ensure they meet batch commitments. While this sometimes delivers timely results, it can also significantly increase costs and further erode the IT cost of ownership position. Fortunately, infrastructure management technology provides alternatives to upgrades; alternatives that deliver more consistent and better...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Upgrade, It Management, It Services, Strategy, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2007-09-07
- CNPC-BGP Lowers Total Cost of Ownership by Simplifying Infrastructure Management
- CNPC-BGP Inc. BGP is one of the world's leading onshore geophysical service providers. The company offers petroleum-surveying services with a focus on geophysical data acquisition, processing, interpretation, equipment manufacturing, and software development. Increasing competition has put pressure on BGP to improve efficiency and lower costs. The company has expanded rapidly...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Oracle Corp., TCO, CNPC-BGP, BGP, Networking
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Unified Infrastructure Management: Simplified Management
- The presenter of this webcast explains how Unified Infrastructure Management delivers more common and streamlined business processes across the IT organization.
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operational Planning, It Services, It Management, Digital Media, Business Operations, It service Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- IBM Storage Infrastructure Management for Growing Data Needs Solution Brief
- Organizations in a wide range of industries are struggling to manage a rapidly rising volume of data. This data explosion has been caused in part by an increasing reliance on ready access to information for everyday business processes and operations. The good news is, you can improve storage utilization,...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, News, IBM Corp., Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2006-11-01
- A Technical Overview of VMT's Architecture: Virtual Infrastructure Management
- Virtual Infrastructure Management VIM is the technical architecture pioneered by VMT to address the IT operations needs of small and midsize businesses. The goal of VIM is to actively monitor a company's IT infrastructure to detect not only system failures, but detect problems before they occur. The objective is simple...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Architecture, Virtual Management Technologies, Virtual Infrastructure Management, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-12
- The Analytic Hierachy Process as a Tool for Infrastructure Management
- The role of infrastructure management has been continously changing since the late 1980's. Public agencies have started incorporating private sector practises. These new practises include using customer inputs to develop new goals and policies, developing new evaluation procedures for priority programming optimization, and adding feedback loops into infrastructure management systems....
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Tool, Analytic Hierarchy Process, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2006-08-06
- A Project Summary: VMware - ESX Server to Facilitate: Infrastructure Management Services Server Consolidation Storage & Testing With Production Servers
- Many companies are spending their IT budget more on maintaining existing system rather than on innovation, virtualization will enable customer to spend more time in improving business. This will happen when customer has his applications running on Virtual Machine; it could be for infrastructure management, testing, or for storage. VMware...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Server Consolidation, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Vensoft, It Services, Servers, It Management, Hardware, It service Management
- White papers 2006-03-16
- VMware - ESX Server to Facilitate: Infrastructure Management Services Server Consolidation Storage & Testing With Production Servers
- Many companies are spending their IT budget more on maintaining existing system rather than on innovation, virtualization will enable customer to spend more time in improving business. This will happen when customer has his applications running on Virtual Machine; it could be for infrastructure management, testing, or for storage. VMware...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Server Consolidation, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Vensoft, Ip storage, It Services, It Management, Servers, It service Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-16
- Turkish Bank With 437 Branches Centralizes Windows Server System Infrastructure Management
- One of the largest private banks in Turkey - with assets of U.S.$24.4 billion - Garanti has a large IT infrastructure that includes extensive use of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The company's technology subsidiary, Garanti Technology, uses Microsoft Operations Manager MOM...
- Tags: Bank, Infrastructure Management, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Operations Manager Agent, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Data Centers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-02-01
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