IT Management

Distributed work programs are one of the most effective ways of achieving badly-needed operational savings. To be effective, however, you need to know which practices and tools are most effective for managing remote staff. This new white paper addresses three fundamental management questions, explores key challenges of managing remote workers and provides best practices for setting up a successful remote work program.

Video conferencing use is growing. In fact, users recently surveyed by 1080 Group expect it to grow by 211% in the next year. Better make sure you're putting your best virtual face forward. Video conferencing no longer has to mean 'go to a room with expensive, hard-to-use equipment installed.' This new 1080 Group white paper explores best practices for video conferencing and provides a handy checklist for preparing and conducting a successful video conferencing session.

It's one thing to change yourself, but to effect change in the world around you, you have to get other people involved in the process - which isn't always easy. Watch this on-demand webinar to hear Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Alltop.com and founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, explain how enchantment enables you to influence people's hearts, minds and actions to bring about voluntary, enduring and delightful change.

Great leaders always have one thing in common: They are able to inspire people to act. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Steve Jobs, leaders with the ability to inspire don't start with what they want done or how they want it done. Great leaders always start with Why. Watch this on-demand webinar to hear Simon Sinek, leadership expert and best-selling author, explain how real inspiration starts with Why and what changes you can make - in both your business and personal life - to achieve the same success.

Building a team culture can be challenging - particularly if members of your team are distributed around the globe. Teamwork ensues when the team feels stable, is focused, able to envision the work required to achieve it and collaborate in an ego-less structure of contribution. This new white paper explores how to build a team culture regardless of where team members are located.

Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple incompetence brought their server rooms down. This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.

Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying software management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center "Operations Technology" into four distinct domains and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these domains. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine what kinds physical infrastructure management tools they need - and don't need - to operate their data centers.

Fire safety regulations and their application to UPS battery installations are reviewed. In some cases, fire codes do not clearly recognize improvements in battery safety resulting from changing battery technology. Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) batteries are frequently deployed within data centers and network rooms without the need for the elaborate safety systems that are required for Vented (Flooded) Lead Acid batteries. Proper interpretation of the fire codes is essential in the design and implementation of data centers and network rooms.

DC power distribution has been proposed as an alternative to AC power distribution in data centers, but misinformation and conflicting claims have confused the discussion. A detailed analysis and model show that many of the benefits commonly stated for DC distribution are unfounded or exaggerated. This paper explains why high efficiency AC will likely emerge as the dominant choice for data center power distribution.

When budgets are tight, it's more important than ever to get the best performance from the people who deliver, support and deploy technology. But over the past decade, managers have fallen into the trap of believing that motivation requires ever larger bags of money. Watch this on-demand webinar with Paul Glen, author of Leading Geeks, as he discusses the most effective and surprisingly inexpensive ways to motivate geeks. Getting the best from your people requires clearly understanding what really drives them.

This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to address the requirements of IT and end-users without compromise.

Read this white paper to learn about the direct link between cloud computing and business agility.

Virtualizing Active Director DCs can make your life easier in the long run, download this white paper to start moving toward right configuration!

Published by Aternity, the paper includes 8 real-world cases detailing how Aternity empowers SAP customers with a user-centric approach to proactive IT management.

Take a look at this summary which reveals that companies who have implemented comprehensive B2B Integration programs are reaping huge benefits!

This executive report reviews 6 key factors that affect the data center "build or buy" choice, including those which extend beyond basic TCO analysis.

Download this complimentary white paper for a detailed exploration into how scalable density designs can extend the life of your colocation investment and improve the TCO of your colocated solutions and infrastructure.

Consumer-focused technologies that are deployed by employees can provide tremendous value to any business and can provide IT organizations with more functionality than they can afford or are willing to deploy. However, consumer technologies must be appropriately managed in order to satisfy corporate security, compliance and other requirements. This means integrating consumer technologies into the existing IT fabric in order to achieve the greatest possible synergies between consumer-focused and IT-deployed technologies.

Read this paper from Acquia and learn about the underlying drivers for enterprise social software; key requirements and how Drupal meets those; how open source development outpaces proprietary alternatives; examples of communities built with Drupal and Acquia.

Ethernet's now global and is expanding its reach even further. But will it still be Ethernet?

Tata Communications WAN Ethernet Services provide cost-effective, secure, low and high-speed connectivity solutions that easily scale with your business needs for access and WAN, while allowing you to maintain control of your network routing. These Layer 2 Ethernet services simplify network design and management, extending your Ethernet LAN to the world, seamlessly.

This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware View environment, providing administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or by utilizing a script-based approach to optimize a traditionally installed Windows 7 virtual machine.

This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Explore how the project demonstrates the most reliable methods for deploying a scalable and easily expandable environment, anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 seats.

Security professionals are wondering how to best deal with the oncoming tide of personal mobile devices finding their way into the workplace. Download this research report to learn some key areas of consideration before moving ahead with a mobile implementations strategy.

This white paper provides guidelines to help you create policies for computer energy consumption that are sensible and easy to enforce.