May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
February 17, 2011 - (Free Research) To help IT decision makers evaluate their options for addressing datacenter complexity - Dell posed the following questions to Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service. Learn answers to today's most pressing datacenter questions regarding cloud computing, virtualization, provisioning and more.
April 16, 2012 - (Free Research) Discover what the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is and what benefits your organization can gain from leveraging this set of best practices, such as improved service delivery and increased agility.
June 06, 2011 - (Free Research) Now is the time to start evaluating your IT infrastructure and the role private or public cloud services might play for your company going forward. This white paper discusses the promise of cloud computing as well as the three types of cloud services and primary deployment models.
October 10, 2011 - (Free Research) This exclusive case study explores how one government department transformed their IT infrastructure by streamlining contracts to improve performance and productivity. Learn how they were able to design a new services framework model to provide access to supplier services and enhance collaboration.
October 10, 2011 - (Free Research) This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future.
April 30, 2010 - (Free Research) While IT leaders understand the benefits of moving to current, standards-based infrastructure, the "how" can seem daunting. Read this white paper to learn how the expertise and guidance provided by migration services can ensure a smooth, low-risk, cost-effective migration.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.
May 2011 - (Free Research) Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
April 2012 - (Free Research) Discover how a gap analysis can reveal areas where the reality and long-term vision of your organization are diverging and provide the momentum needed to start adopting service management best practices. Find out how gap analysis can help your company identify what it does well and how to achieve its goals.
March 2012 - (Free Research) This case study examines a food services company that needed to find a more efficient way to keep track of and manage food and laundry inventories, address customer concerns in the call center, automate processes, and manage tax calculation processes. Continue reading to discover the software they used to effectively meet their business needs.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.
November 2008 - (Free Research) XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need.
June 2010 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how Dell ProConsult Services helped develop and implement a flexible, scalable, automated virtualized infrastructure for several companies, allowing them to take advantage of cloud computing and focus on their core business.
December 2011 - (Free Research) In this white paper, find out how to realize the benefits of service catalogs by following ITIL guidelines and tips from organizations that have successfully implemented service catalogs.
April 2011 - (Free Research) Thiswhite paper discusses the top-five results of this research project. Read on to find out the key results and the top-three recommendations of the ITIL Experts who participated in the project.
June 2009 - (Free Research) The service desk is the last place you should try to cut back. For external-facing organizations, quality support keeps customer loyalty and repeat business high and ensures that partners and suppliers can do business with you cost effectively. Read this white paper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn the many benefits of cloud computing as well as the 10 security concerns that need to be addressed when considering moving critical applications and sensitive data to public and shared cloud environments.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Troubleshooting is a necessary evil. Where does one start when the operating system does not start, the application does not load or run correctly, the network hangs or a network service does not listen or perform? Linux is noted for being rock solid, stable, and easy to manage but not as user friendly.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Dell has a full line of the latest sever and storage hardware and software to enable you to consolidate and virtualize your environment, control your costs, and satisfy all of your IT needs. To learn more about the newest line of single- and dual-socket servers and storage in the Dell lineup, please read on.
April 2011 - (Free Research) The Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Self-Service Creator tool streamlines provisioning and virtual desktop management in heterogeneous environments, helping reduce administrative burden, increase responsiveness, and ensure security and compliance.
April 2011 - (Free Research) Dell VIS Self-Service Creator, part of the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture, helps reduce virtual machine sprawl by automating the process of reducing, reusing, and recycling of compute resources in a shared virtual IT infrastructure.
