September 28, 2011 - Explore the impact of business intelligence in provider settings, and the results of the SearchHealthIT.com reader survey, in this exclusive report.
November 26, 2010 - If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008.
June 02, 2011 - This article shows how an application grid built on Oracle Fusion Middleware can not only prevent unplanned outages, but it can improve the overall performance of mission critical business applications.
November 28, 2011 - This webcast discusses the high availability and load balancing of data clusters. Learn how to maintain continuous availability in order to save on cost and time, eliminate testing, and achieve true zero-down time maintenance.
December 31, 2010 - This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing.
January 27, 2012 - The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized.
October 17, 2011 - Access this white paper to learn about an innovative technology solution that can help your business to increase cost-savings, improve storage scalability, enhance IT performance and more.
October 18, 2011 - For an emerging business, connecting its infrastructure is a vital step to take it systems to the next level. View this brief video to learn how consolidating and virtualizing your organization’s environment can advance your business initiatives and increase cost-savings.
February 21, 2011 - Who could have imagined that a tablet would capture the imagination of employees and IT alike? But the iPad did, and it’s kicked off an arms race for smart mobile devices. This report introduces a simple framework to guide content and collaboration professionals through employee-fueled tablet scenarios and IT-led tablet projects.
September 27, 2011 - Unfortunately, data theft and the financial consequences of such breaches can be severe. Many organizations lose customers and revenue because of the violation of trust incurred from a breach. Inside this white paper, learn about a security approach that can help reduce risk, while also controlling operating costs.
November 14, 2011 - In this white paper, we’ll look at how three enterprises practice rolling forecasting, deploying the process at various levels and in various departments to guide them through market volatility.
November 05, 2009 - The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008.
December 07, 2010 - Many organizations are scratching their collective heads over how to build andmature a business analysis center of excellence (COE). Where do we start?
January 24, 2012 - Depending on the size of an enterprise, a job scheduler may manage thousands of individual mission-critical business processes every day. Access this resource for a brief history of the job scheduling marketplace and to learn what to look for in job scheduling software, including a checklist with which to evaluate your options.
September 17, 2010 - Getting the right tape library isn't black magic, but it does take some care and thought. An expandable, modular tape library supported by sophisticated management features and tied to modern backup software will support your enterprise for years to come. Read this tutorial to find out so much more.
November 10, 2010 - In earlier times, if an enterprise presumed it had control over its network, and if it had few external connections or communication, it was feasible that the connections between operational computers probably were not an unacceptable risk.
November 24, 2010 - The expectations, working methods and tools used by employees in all organisations have changed as a result of advances in communications technologies.
February 10, 2011 - Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference.
January 04, 2012 - Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them.
November 23, 2010 - Security is one of the most commonly cited barriers preventing IT managers from taking advantage of cloud computing – yet some experts say the cloud could and should be more secure than in-house IT. This paper looks at how to be confident about security in the cloud.
March 01, 2008 - This technical brief explains how you can prove the identity of the other party in an e-transaction or exchange of information and also describes why Quest’s Defender is an excellent solution to help you accomplish this.
December 08, 2011 - This white paper explores the attributes of an effective data center management approach and recommends a tool that can help you reduce costs, improve availability, and ensure compliance.
January 24, 2012 - Business users can benefit from unified and simplified access to the data and actions they need to increase their productivity and make nimble business decisions.
June 27, 2011 - Virtualization implementations are in full swing and server consolidation has led to a wave of savings associated with reductions in physical space requirements and management overhead. Check out this white paper and explore Dell and VMware solutions that are designed to deliver on the promise of virtualization and cloud computing cost benefits.
December 20, 2011 - Sizing servers for your virtualization initiative is critical. Not every workload requires the same amount of power. Smart virtualization admins will right-size their hardware to meet the need of their virtual workloads. Discover how to do so in this webcast.
November 09, 2010 - IT audit is about the formal verification and validation of the quality and effectiveness of ITcontrols to support the overall business control objectives. From a security controlperspective the residual IT security risks are relatively well understood in a networkperimeter protected environment.
November 25, 2010 - This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available.
November 10, 2010 - Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1.
May 31, 2011 - This expert e-guide from SearchVMware.com contains vital virtual hardware statistics for your consideration, including virtual CPU counts and consolidation ratios. Additionally, the benefits of scaling up and scaling out are weighed.
January 13, 2012 - Today’s data center networks must be able to support tomorrow’s on-demand, virtualized IT environments. Discover how you can leverage a unified, virtualization-optimized infrastructure to meet escalating bandwidth and performance demands, security needs and more.
May 10, 2011 - Read this white paper and trace the steps to a successful converged network infrastructure. By identifying today's most important IT trend - virtualization - you'll be on your way to implementing HP supported technologies to enhance your virtualized computer networks.
March 25, 2011 - Systems such as the HP Business Risk Mitigation solution are helping companies to prevent outages and recovery quickly from those that do occur by dramatically reducing backup time and costs, while also slashing disaster recovery time.
March 18, 2011 - Information Technology as a "service" has benefited from early adopters who've deployed some major solutions. "Converged Infrastructure" is how HP describes the products and processes that use this approach and this reference guide give a business and technical perspective of it.
October 27, 2011 - This resource presents how a converged infrastructure solution can help you meet growing business demands while enabling your organization to quickly harness the full potential of virtualization, cloud computing, and next-generation applications.
October 01, 2009 - Virtualization is changing everything for IT professionals who must plan and manage data center infrastructure. In order to achieve greater agility and lower operating costs, companies are becoming more innovative in how they provision computing resources and juggle support for hardware, software and network infrastructure.
May 26, 2011 - Branch office solutions based upon converged infrastructure can deliver higher levels of security to ensure data protection and prevent costly, damaging breaches. Read this set of documents to learn more about servers, storage and network resources can be safely shared without inhibiting system response and availability.
January 03, 2012 - Complexity can quickly morph into increased cost and risk with today's IP networks. Read this Enterprise Management Associates (EMA™) report that details the current drive to simpler yet more robust networks, leading to a future of lower costs and risks.
November 15, 2011 - Health care systems require high performance, availability and reliability in order to provide fast access to patient data. Inside this technical white paper, learn about server configuration in a health care setting.
September 15, 2011 - HP’s data center drives simplicity through streamlined network designs and centralized management; enhancing agility with high performance, security, and accelerated provisioning; and saving money with energy efficiency. In this paper, we’ll lay out the challenges healthcare organizations are facing and what to look for in a data center.
January 12, 2012 - This white paper discusses hybrid computing, an approach that aims to support the heterogeneous nature of modern computing environments in a simplified way. Learn how this technology supports existing and new applications with less complexity, better performance and at a lower cost.
February 24, 2011 - This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources.
June 13, 2011 - The average utilization of servers in data centers is less than 20%, and many organizations are not getting the full cost savings out of their virtualization initiatives. This webcast highlights how proper capacity management solutions can help you recognize top benefits.
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