WEBCAST - This webcast details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | ROI | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | Systems Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - As the business demands more from your tight IT budget, it's helpful to know that you can actually fund the IT improvements your business needs from savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Systems | ROI | SOA | TCO

WHITE PAPER - IDC White Paper: Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings Learn how companies like yours built custom apps 4 - 5 times faster at half the cost with Force.com Platform.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Cloud Computing | Platform as a service | ROI | Sales and Marketing Software | Sales Force Automation

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Management | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Productivity | ROI | Small Businesses | SMBs

WEBCAST - In this webcast, learn about an IT service catalog that will help you achieve virtualization benefits like cost savings and IT agility. Discover a new operating model that enables effective virtualization and cloud computing management. Learn how IT can become more cloud-like and explore how to pave the way for an internal cloud.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Premiered: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Management Services | IT Service Management | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | ROI | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Compliance with PCI DSS has become a global requirement for any business or entity that processes credit card transactions as payment for goods and services. This paper explores the ROI implications and opportunities of PCI.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Credit Cards | Payment Card Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | ROI

CASE STUDY - In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Data Security | High Availability | IT Managers | IT Spending | ROI | Software Migration | TCO | UNIX

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript Brad Blake, IT Director for Boston Medical Group, discusses his organization's rapid growth in storage requirements, relationship with Data Domain, and the benefits achieved from implementing Data Domain systems.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | ROI | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | ROBO | ROI | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Web Hosting

WEBCAST - In this webcast, learn about a wide range of high availability (HA) alternatives that meet IT requirements and reduce the risk of downtime. Determine ways to justify an HA investment and how to mix and match tools for faster ROI. Watch this webcast to learn how to align your business needs with a high availability strategy.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Premiered: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Clustering | Data Centers | Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | ROI | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Distributed Computing | Downtime | High Availability | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Remote Offices | ROBO | ROI | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - With the business intelligence functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, your company can gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability to increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Dashboards | ERP | ERP Software | ROI | SAP (Product) | SMBs | TCO

WHITE PAPER - A disciplined IT performance measurement program is critical not only for business growth but also for economic viability. This paper provides a framework for a Return on IT (ROIT™) methodology and discusses how to deploy it within a company's business processes.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Business Systems | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems | IT Spending | ROI | SAP (Product)

PODCAST - This expert podcast offers advice for deploying and completing tactical data quality projects from Forrester's Rob Karel.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Premiered: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Auditing | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Modeling Languages | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Design Verification | Quality Control | ROI

SOFTWARE DEMO - The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Linux | ROI | UNIX