IT Maintenance Reports

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.
Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

Emerson Network Power

Cisco UCS – A Real World TCO Analysis
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five opportunities for infrastructure cost savings. Learn how to simplify management of your data center through integration and automation of network, compute, and virtualization technologies.
Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

8 Questions You Should Ask About Linux Systems Management
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are always looking for ways to save money and time without compromising on issues like security or compliance. Exploring the value of your systems management solution is a lot easier when you know the right questions to ask. We have a few suggestions for how to get started.
Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

Red Hat and JBoss

Datacenter Transformation: New Directions for IT
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
ANALYST BRIEF: The following report contains answers to 5 crucial data center questions posed by Hitachi Data Systems to Benjamin S. Woo, program vice president of IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems research, on behalf of Hitachi Data Systems' customers.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

Hitachi Vantara

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12C
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Companies must adapt their management practices to provide proper control over resources in the cloud. This white paper showcases a management tool designed with these types of environments in mind and discusses its key features and benefits.
Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

Oracle Corporation

Storage Magazine: How to improve your virtual server storage setups
sponsored by IBM.
EZINE: In this expert e-zine, featuring server virtualization and storage expert, David Davis, you will gain insight through the process of tweaking virtual server storage setups and discover ten tips that provide practical guidance you can use today to improve the performance of several virtual storage systems.
Posted: 26 Aug 2013 | Published: 28 May 2013

IBM.

Tube Lines Takes Stock of Its Assets with IBM Maximo Asset Management
sponsored by IBM
CASE STUDY: Integrating asset maintenance activity and equipment history in IBM Maximo with financial and planning systems is helping Tube Lines meet its financial targets, plan for long-range capital investments and improve the rail infrastructure. Read this case study now to learn more.
Posted: 08 Dec 2010 | Published: 08 Dec 2010

IBM

Gartner: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.
Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

A Layered Approach to Securing Remote Maintenance Consoles
sponsored by Raritan Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Existing techniques for accessing maintenance consoles are inefficient and leave security holes in the network. Learn how, by deploying a secure console server, maintenance consoles can be secured and the availability of the network improved.
Posted: 18 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

Raritan Inc.

Managing Multiple Operating Systems: Five Best Practices
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: Access this essential resource for best practices for managing multiple operating systems in your enterprise. Learn more about the latest trends in end point management and how to efficiently and securely run your multi-OS environment.
Posted: 31 Jul 2013 | Published: 29 Nov 2012

Dell Software