Database Development

Read this guide to learn how HP works closely with organizations throughout the entire consolidation process which results in reduced costs, improved database administration, enhanced service levels to end users, and improved communication/collaboration.

Businesses expect IT management to demonstrate their contributions to end-user benefits and the bottom line while addressing immediate needs and long-term performance management goals. This white paper presents IT2020, a new performance management paradigm for meeting both of these expectations.

Data deduplication is one of a few standout technologies where the CIO can make an investment which is easy to rationalize and brings a fast payback. This paper explains why data deduplication should be on every CIO's project short list in 2009.

To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.

This document describes automation tools that are used in an organization, the problems of using different tools and the advantages of consolidating them nto a central automation solutions such as UC4 Workload Automation Suite. Learn more today!

Managing service delivery in todayís complex and dynamic business environments demands new and different approaches from IT. The explosive growth and the rate of change of information has brought particularly daunting challenges for IT that have contributed to incredibly complex underlying infrastructures. To get a true picture of all of the components necessary to support an IT or Business Service, you must access and bring together data that resides in disparate data silos throughout the enterprise.

Join us as we talk with Atwell Williams, Solutions Architect for the Office of the CTO at BMC Software. Get insights into where to start when building and managing a CMDB and find out how to define what "done" looks like. Learn whether a bottom-up or a top-down approach will work best for you, hear important tips for training your team, and get some great practical advice from one of BMC's experts.

The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures. Learn more today!

The move from UNIX to Linux makes sense in almost any environment, and now, with today's economic environment and every budget being cut, it makes more sense than ever before. The TCO of the proprietary RISC/UNIX data center is going up. With the ROI of migrating to an open systems platform based on Intel Xeon processors being measured in months, you can become a corporate hero.

Read this white paper by Don Tapscott and explore the criteria best-in-class retailers use for selecting business intelligence solutions. Companies that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.

Discover the evolution of High Availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 and the tools available to minimize Enterprise downtime.

Transform information into a strategic asset with data warehouse.

End-user expectations and high levels of performance against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) must be achieved or organizations risk the loss of business. This paper details key capabilities needed for successful end-user monitoring and provides critical considerations for delivering a successful end-user experience.

Application management requires visibility from multiple vantage points within the IT enterprise, combined with a centralized information store that pulls the technology pieces of the application puzzle into a coherent whole.

The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010. In this free white paper, they'll show you how to simplify managing all that extra data while lowering costs, by implementing unified storage.

Application Portfolio Optimization (APO) provides executives with tools and information to assess the quality and condition of application assets as well as a means for understanding the impact of proposed application changes.

Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits - from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery - is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it.

Banking on DR: HeritageBank of the South’s Investment in Disaster Recovery Software Yields High Returns HeritageBank of the South is a community-oriented regional bank serving southwest Georgia and north central Florida. Founded in 1955, the company offers personal banking, commercial banking and investment services through eight full-service offices.

This white paper explains how the IBM® Optim™ Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data both practical and desirable.

Enterprises Applications - the Challenge Businesses today rely on enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle and Microsoft SQL to provide day to day business operations.

During challenging economic times, companies are increasingly questioning every budget dollar they spend. Furthermore, companies are reviewing their core vendor relationships to assess which partnerships have lived up to their expectations vs. which have overpromised and under delivered.

Disaster recovery involves continuous data availability and much more. Companies that understand the key steps to ensuring smooth recovery from a disaster can choose solutions that meet today’s need and tomorrow’s. This white paper explains the five steps that are necessary to develop and implement a disaster recovery plan, and recommends tools, techniques and best practices to make your efforts a success.

The concept of Continuous Data Technologies (CDT) emerged on the scene two years ago, and is now transforming the data storage industry. Nearly every major storage vendor has one or more CDT products in their offering roadmap, in addition to a vital community of emerging vendors who are the true innovators in this space.

Replication has become a catchall phrase that while gaining in allure is also gaining in confusion – especially in the mid-tier where data is just as important as the high-end, but IT staffing and budgets are far more limited. IT people as well as vendors have a tendency to lump all data movement functions together as replication, regardless of the method or the reason.

This paper reviews the current status of MDM, and offers suggestions for planning, building and deploying an MDM environment.