High Availability

Assessments are the key tools for uncovering vulnerabilities in your security that may be well hidden. This webinar explains how your organization can gain value and insight from the various types of security assessments that safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your critical business data.

This IDC white paper discusses how the current need for server virtualization, infrastructure consolidation and energy efficient technology requires significant changes to IT systems. It describes the steps to take to achieve high availability and reduce operational costs, while still adhering to the requirements of “green IT.”

The all-in-one configuration of the IBM BladeCenter S makes it a perfect fit in a small office. It integrates servers, storage, networking and I/O into a single chassis, which uses a standard electrical outlet. Plus, it's easy to use and manage, with tools that help manage energy use to lower total operating costs. Read all about this flexible, blade-based chassis and see how it streamlines and simplifies small office IT.

In preparation for disasters, it’s critical to have a backup site that can be used if your primary location goes down. Does your business have the right procedures and equipment to recover after a disaster? Get answers. Download this article about a new enterprise data center and learn more about protecting your IT infrastructure.

IBM HACMP supports a wide variety of configurations, and provides the cluster administrator with a great deal of flexibility. With this flexibility comes the responsibility to make wise choices. This paper discusses the choices that the cluster designer can make, and about the alternatives that make for the highest level of availability.

This white paper outlines the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions in addressing the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the SOX regulations.

Unique Express implemented a comprehensive Omnix Transport Solution running on an IBM® System x® server. The end result was a dramatically better management of driver and vehicle resources, saving tens of thousands of dollars per year.

IP address management (IPAM) provides the ability to effectively manage, control, monitor, and assign the IP address space within a company. An IPAM solution reduces operations costs and improves network uptime by minimizing administrative effort and network downtime.

Network monitoring software packages require complex installation, ongoing maintenance and additional costs for servers and third-party applications. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network monitoring alternatives greatly simplify implementation and maintenance, but they rely on uninterrupted Internet access to function, often require complex VPNs or firewall modifications, and typically provide limited access to historical data.

This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper takes a close look at automated IT management, especially for  medium-sized businesses.

A complete and holistic solution can help organizations create system snapshots that can be restored quickly and efficiently, getting users back up and productive immediately.

A holistic, forward-looking and flexible IT security strategy can help organizations avoid common pitfalls and meet security threats head on in a cost and time efficient manner.

SkyVantage, a provider of hosted airline reservation services, provides an industry-leading airline reservation and management system for specialized small-to-medium and start-up airlines, as well as airline charter organizations. In an industry with high operating costs and tight competition, SkyVantage was founded based on the need to deploy a web-based, lower-cost software management solution to the airline industry, without sacrificing features.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

This paper explores some of the types of insider threats organizations face today and discusses monitoring and managing privileged user actions.

There is hope for IT administrators seeking to gain control over the Windows environment while still offering local admin rights to the user base.

The 2012 State of the Endpoint focused on four topics on the state of endpoint security: risk, productivity, resources and com­plexity. Find out more!

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

McAfee® Vulnerability Manager for Databases automatically discovers networked databases; determines if the latest patches have been applied; and tests for common weaknesses, making it easier to demonstrate compliance and better protect critical data.

McAfee delivers a complete database security solution that protects your entire database environment efficiently and cost effectively, while maintaining optimum system performance and availability.

If you're in IT, you understand all too well the challenge of competing priorities. Security is important-but so are all of your other jobs. That's why McAfee offers a practical approach to managing security and lays out an approach for managing security in just 15 minutes a day. Read more.

Making Your Email Archive Work Harder for Business Advantage

With recent high profile cases, such as the News of the World hacking scandal, hitting the news headlines, the issue of email retention has quickly moved up the IT Director’s agenda.

The secure email gateway market is mature. Buyers should focus on strategic vendors, data loss prevention capability, encryption and better protection from targeted phishing attacks.

Enterprise information archiving is contributing to organizational needs for e-discovery and compliance requirements, and reducing primary storage costs. Gartner evaluates vendors offering products and services that provide archiving for email, files and other content types.