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CHALLENGE: Florida Hospital performs recovery tests twice a year, recovering more than 100 applications. The healthcare organization needed a recovery strategy that improved communication and efficiency, managed a complex change control process, and that would keep staff at home during a disaster. SunGard Solution: With the Managed Recovery Program, SunGard is Florida Hospital's recovery team, ensuring recovery configurations keep pace with production changes, managing recovery test execution, and providing a single point of contact for the complete recovery program.

The internet has grown rapidly from a random collection of mainly academic networks and military control and routing protocols into a global, integrated and sophisticated commercial utility. No longer simply an 'Information Superhighway', it has extended to embrace voice telephony, video and mobile communications as part of a converged network. Connection options and services have expanded, with opportunities for internet service providers (ISPs) to add value beyond simply forwarding bit and bytes.

HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays are enterprise-class storage systems that deliver dependable performance for environments where downtime is not an option. Complete redundancy throughout the architecture provides non-disruptive online upgrades and no single point of failure so you can count on your data being available.

This white paper discusses elements of evaluation and the overall benefits such an evaluation will provide to you, your company and your clients.

Support virtualization enables your support reps to be at multiple locations at once, solving support issues with unbelievable speed and effectiveness.  Over 3,500+ organizations have virtualized their support reps and have decreased IT costs while increasing support rep productivity.

Since the emergence of the personal computer, IT managers have had to navigate through a computing and communications landscape where business and consumer technologies have intersected. Sometimes those intersections produce benefits for all involved; other times they result in destructive collisions.

A free tool that provides the fastest, most comprehensive diagnostic report to help IT Managers identify where system issues exist.

Get this free whitepaper now and read how a newer architecture, Appliance-enabled Software (AeS) services, combines a plug-in monitoring appliance with a hosted dashboard application to provide the benefits of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) along with failover out-of-band communication capabilities for dependable alert notification and escalation.

Capability breeds dependence. The more you can do, the more is asked of you. The more time you save, the more time you spend seeking out ways to save more time or money. If less really is more, how do you do more with less? Effective system monitoring could help you break free of the system shackles and use your System i (iSeries) network to save time and money.

By 2003, T4G was experiencing significant growth, adding offices, and increasing telecommunication expenses. This case study will show how Taridium's ipbx enterprise VoIP platform offered T4G all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware, 24x7 monitoring and software support.

Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process – from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.

Increasing infrastructure complexity has led to unprecedented growth in enterprise systems management data on all systems, including the mainframe and it is becoming more complex to manage SMF data.  Download this Technology Brief to learn how to address the complexity of managing SMF data.

Cardiff University was faced with the challenge of modernizing its work environment. By utilizing IBM WebSphere Portal software, they have streamlined their business processes with electronic forms and role-based portal applications. This webcast explains how you can reap the benefits of IBM portals and Web 2.0 in your own environment.

Picking the right servers, storage systems and management software is essential to successful IT consolidation initiatives. In the past, either scaling up (bigger, faster servers) or scaling out (more servers) would have been the answer. But one platform does not fit all needs. Scaling right means picking the scaleup or scale-out approach—or combination of the two—that best fits each situation.

Riverbed Cascade Pilot and Cascade Shark combine sophisticated, end-to-end monitoring with high-speed,high-fidelity packet capture and analysis to deliver comprehensive network performance monitoring and analysis. Download this insightful solution brief to learn more.

Based on a survey conducted by ServiceXRG, this paper explores the use and effectiveness of remote support technology across all industry sectors and how companies can take remote support to the next level to significantly improve the support transaction process, reduce service delivery costs and increase solution effectiveness.

Learn best practices for optimizing critical systems for cloud deployment in existing facilities, including optimizing power architectures for high availability.

Remember that the idea behind a help desk is to get users back online as quickly as possible when problems occur. Tracking problems and requests in tickets is a fine start, but a good help desk management solution can do much, much more.

Your organization, like most others, is probably searching for ways to improve the capability of its telephone system or replace it altogether. And given the number and variety of telephony options, organizations that fail to research their choices risk investing in a system that fails to meet their needs. However, bad IP telephony isn’t inevitable. Read this white paper to read success stories and best practices to keep your company on the right track.

Download this Solution Brief to learn how hybrid cloud architecture requires a different approach to optimizing infrastructure.

Download the report to learn how your organization can benefit from reducing the technology footprint and operations overhead in branch offices.

In this Solution Profile, we will concentrate on the importance of optimizing data protection for evolving virtual networks, and on working with a trusted partner. Virtualization technology works across all sizes of business to reduce costs, control management overhead, and increase flexibility. However, virtualization also requires that companies adapt their traditional backup and data protection practices to suit the rapidly changing virtualization infrastructure.

For all their advantages, virtualization and cloud computing bring some unique challenges: higher power demands per server and enclosure, more critical applications residing on each server, and a need for greater visibility into power conditions.

Tape's evolving data storage role - Balancing Performance, Availability, Capacity, Energy for long-term data protection and retention

The Taridium managed VoIP offering (TMV) is a complete PBX replacement solution for small to medium enterprises. Taridium Managed VoIP combines the reliability of an on-premise open standards VoIP telephony system with the convenience of a simple monthly fee for equipment, services and support.