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<title><![CDATA[www.findwhitepapers.com/Enterprise Applications/Change Management]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Change Management is the process of developing a planned approach to change in an organization. Typically the objective is to maximize the collective benefits for all people involved in the change and minimize the risk of failure of implementing the change. The discipline of change management deals primarily with the human aspect of change, and is therefore related to pure and industrial psychology.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enhancing Windows NAS Systems]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper11/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-23 15:04:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As IT costs grow, budgets shrink, and demand soars, there is an immediate need to extend and/or consolidate existing server assets. Many IT departments are currently faced with reduced capital budgets as well as decreased staffing levels for NAS Systems. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enforcing IT Change Management Policy]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1094/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:28:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Selecting a Flexible, Custom Platform to Automate Your Data Center Management]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1003/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-18 08:41:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get this whitepaper and learn how IT organizations are extending the Opsware Automation System to automate the unique change management processes and operational tasks that are particular to the unique nature of their own IT environments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Run Book Automation, Job Scheduling For IT Operations]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper508/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-25 13:00:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper highlights how Run Book Automation Software provides the new level of automation required to automate IT operations and traditional job scheduling tasks, without the costs and management burden associated with custom programming and scripts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Synchronizing Business and IT to Capitalize on Change]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper655/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-11 10:19:42</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is not enough to maintain a certain level of IT to run a business. IT has to be a driver of business goals. And that requires a rethinking of IT&rsquo;s role from maintainer to innovator. All IT management must get this free whitepaper if they want to read how HP offers ideas to transform their enterprises.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper691/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-27 13:33:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this white paper, you&#39;ll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Developing the Business Value of ITIL]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper748/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 14:13:43</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper, a sequel to &#39;Developing the Business Value of ITIL Part 1&#39;, focuses on the importance of developing a business case, and an ROI (return on investment) to justify ITIL best practice initiatives.&nbsp; Survey results are included from Evergreen Systems&#39; last survey on when, how and why companies develop business case metrics to justify ITIL initiatives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Define, Control and Refine IT Processes Across Your Enterprise]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper753/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:08:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper shows how LANDesk Process Manager can allow you to design processes once, automate them everywhere and refine them as needed - saving money, ensuring compliance and keeping even the most complex processes running reliably.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Value of HP's ITSM for IT Consolidation]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper969/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-03 11:44:57</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IDC analyzes HP&rsquo;s ITSM portfolio of software and services and discusses how it is designed to help customers with complex IT consolidation projects.&nbsp; It examines cases in which customers adopted this approach to ITC.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ITSM - It's About Managing Change]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper977/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-03 11:39:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In Implementing ITSM, education and change managementare as important as technology.&nbsp; IT executives must obtain executive and broad organizational support, engage IT staff and overcome resistance to change.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing Operation Change Through ITIL and CMDB]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1002/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-18 08:40:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper suggests what IT organizations should consider when creating a short list for ITIL and CMDB products, the Opsware ITIL and CMDB solution, and implementing change, compliance or configuration management processes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[9 Steps to Implement a Successful CMDB Project]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1040/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-10 13:20:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Simply click the title to receive this whitepaper which lays out a prescriptive nine-step plan describing how to implement a CMDB, including best practices that may be used to educate staff and design an effective CMDB project plan.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Transforming IT With Strategic Measurement]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1190/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn Forrester&#39;s 4 steps to transformation. There are occasions when an IT organization must change from one archetype to another as a result of internal or external events that change what business management is expecting from IT. The origin of change typically determines how &amp; when IT responds.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PCI DSS Compliance with Tripwire]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1104/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:24:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out step-by-step what it takes to become compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), and how Tripwire can help your company achieve and maintain PCI compliance.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The PCI Data Security Standard]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1105/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:24:47</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn about the validation requirements of the payment card industry&#39;s data security standard (PCI DSS), including administrative and technical elements of the program, and the potential sanctions for failure to comply.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors for CCM Success]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1142/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:22:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this whitepaper, you will learn how configuration audit and control can be used effectively to ensure system management productivity, and help reduce costs and sustain configuration viability within the bounds of operational, security and regulatory standards.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ITIL Best Practices: The Business Case for Change and Configuration Management and the CMDB]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1169/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-10 13:20:42</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This ITIL best practice white paper on how to build a business case for change and configuration management and the CMDB makes a strong case for Configuration Management as the only real solution for controlling Change in high volume Change-transaction enterprises. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Emerging IT Shift Toward Business Service Configuration Management]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1191/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-29 11:37:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT organizations continue to struggle with manual tasks and processes, subjective change decision making, and a lack of insight into inventories and service dependencies. Learn three product capabilities IT organizations should have, as well as the critical pieces of business service configuration management.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Total Economic Impact of the Tripwire Enterprise Solution]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1279/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:24:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hear from a leading industry analyst how your company can quickly enjoy a substantial return on investment from implementing Tripwire&rsquo;s configuration audit and control solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automating Change Management for Security, Compliance, Stability and Sanity!]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1225/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 08:35:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn the importance of change management in today&#39;s complex IT infrastructures.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Future-Proof Your Compliance Using BPM]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1238/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:03:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A BPM-based compliance solution is the most efficient and flexible way to optimize and future-proof your compliance investment to create long term business value.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1246/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 10:00:37</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don&rsquo;t cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements &ndash; the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting Business Requirements Right]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1247/</link>
<pubDate>2007-09-17 13:37:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The later in the system development life-cycle that major errors are discovered the more expensive it is to fix them. But the earliest stages of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) are most often the least consistently executed. This paper describes a methodology that brings the early stages of the SDLC up to a high level of maturity: consistent, proven, and optimized for success.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Network Lifecycle Management: A Solution Approach to Managing Networks]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1251/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-03 11:41:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper focuses on how network engineering and operations teams can achieve operational objectives. It begins with a review of some of the challenges and hurdles blocking these objectives. Then it provides a discussion of best practice approaches aimed at achieving these objectives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PCI Compliance: Learn Solutions To Help Your Organization Comply]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1307/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-28 13:01:05</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn about the key challenges of PCI DSS v1.1 and how NetIQ Security Management, Configuration Control and Enterprise Administration solutions can help you demonstrate PCI compliance. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Assess Unix Configurations with NetIQ]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1308/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how Secure Configuration Manager can help with compliance requirements in the IT controls areas of entitlement reporting &amp; segregation of duties. Discover how to make your compliance program more sustainable &amp; repeatable, while gaining visibility into sources of vulnerability &amp; risk exposure. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Monitor System Changes And User Activity]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1309/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how to meet regulatory requirements for system change and user activity monitoring with NetIQ Change Guardian for Windows, without the need for performance-hindering native auditing. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Do You Know Your Change Program Benefits Have Been Achieved?]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1588/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-21 08:54:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every change program has to have deliver something &ndash; a new service, a new process, increased market share, and so on. But how do you know what the benefits are? How do you identify them, develop them and measure them to ensure your program has achieved its &#39;end-state&#39;?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IT Service Management Metrics That Matter]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1466/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:28:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Effectively Delegate Administrative Privileges]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1496/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-27 14:33:25</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how delegating administrative privileges can aid in improving administrative productivity, system availability and security, while satisfying the demands of auditors.&nbsp; Read this new white paper from NetIQ today.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ITIL v3: Managing Application and Infrastructure Changes]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1540/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-15 10:46:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT service providers need to offer services that deliver new business opportunities whilst increasing levels of availability, controlling risks and reducing costs. This paper provides you with practical guidance based on the practices in ITIL&reg; V3 that will help you manage application and infrastructure changes and configurations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Center Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1541/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-15 10:46:40</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many firms are embarking on ambitious data center optimization projects to significantly reduce cost in hardware, maintenance, licensing, rack space, cooling and power &ndash; only to realize they are lacking fundamental data about their environment. Learn how you can accelerate and de-risk your data center optimization initiatives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CMDB Adoption in the Real World: Just How Real Is It?]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1543/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-15 10:46:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that&#39;s focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB &ndash; as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners &ndash; read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prepare for Successful Audits: A Change Management Manager Checklist]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1630/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 16:02:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This IT audit checklist guide includes advice on assessing the effectiveness of change management in a variety of areas.&nbsp;&nbsp; As companies grow more dependent on interdependent IT systems, the risks associated with untested changes in development and production environments have increased proportionately. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Change Management + Control = Higher Availability]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1631/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 15:48:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is widely acknowledged that unauthorized changes made to an IT Infrastructure cause up to 80% of system unavailability.&nbsp; Learn how adding change control to your existing or planned change management infrastructure can help improve IT service availability, lower compliance costs, and accelerate your ITIL implementations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Identifying Critical Change Control Failure Points]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1632/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 16:12:27</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Identifying critical change control failure points in your infrastructure can help reduce the threat of costly downtime, potential security breaches, and compliance weaknesses. Read this paper for guidelines on how to identify and categorize systems that have characteristics which heighten risk. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Putting the ROI into ITIL]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1633/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-05 12:33:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Demonstrating ROI for service management investments can be difficult, especially with multi-phase deployments like ITIL that can require significant up-front investment in exchange for returns produced in the future.&nbsp; Learn how setting milestones and measuring the value of each phase of an ITIL implementation can help prove the project&rsquo;s value and shape its focus.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Improving SOX Compliance Efforts with Self-Service Auditing]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1634/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 16:19:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper lays out the challenges with complying with SOX and suggests a radical solution: build a self-service, automated IT control framework in which all the information required to verify compliance is available in a single reporting system. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Center Transformation: Simplify data Center Build Outs, Consolidations and Acquisitions]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1661/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-26 13:17:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Changes in information technology (IT) can be split into two broad categories. Moves, additions and changes (MAC) are day-to-day IT activities which involve adding and removing end-user personnel, changing end-user locations such as when an employee moves to a different cubicle and upgrades services. Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions (BOCA) are large-scale projects which can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ensuring SOX Compliance via Enhanced Change Management]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1668/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 16:09:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Assure SOX compliance and address key questions asked by SOX auditors with simple change management enhancement. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enhance BMC Change Management with Closed-Loop Control]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1706/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-04 14:23:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you about to implement change management using BMC Remedy Service Management or BMC IT Service Management for Mid-sized Businesses (a.k.a. Magic or Service Desk Express)? Have you already implemented one of these systems and want to maximize the return on your investment? Get this white paper to see how others have optimized their change management implementation approach to derive the most value from their investment by adding closed-loop control.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration and Change Management for IT Compliance and Risk Management]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1738/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:30:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn from industry analysts how IT organizations are using configuration management to meet compliance requirements and instill best practices. Find out how these organizations are applying the resulting processes to enhance security and improve operational efficiency in order to increase their level of service delivery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Strategies to Enable Business Change in IT Operations]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper1893/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-14 16:37:40</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Change is occurring in IT people, processes and technology. Like all departments, IT operations must step up to meet change with change of its own, and often with little or no additional budget. But outdated or uncoordinated management tools mire IT operations in the past, preventing them from taking the steps necessary to move the business ahead.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enabling SOA Through Organizational Change and Governance]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper2129/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that offers business agility, speed to market, improved profitability and reduced costs. An SOA is also widely recognized as an enabler of innovation and new business operating models.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper2150/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:29:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CMDB: Cornerstone of ITIL-based Integrated Service Support]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper2168/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A CMDB, when used in support of ITIL best practices, is the cornerstone of IT Service Support, providing a centralized view of IT data that is essential to delivering consistent, reliable, effective, and efficient service to your business customers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fighting Fire with Fire: 5 Strategies to Enable Business Change in IT Operations]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper2333/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-14 18:34:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HP Operations Center software helps IT operations managers enable change in the organization, in processes and in technology. Download this white paper to view five strategies to enable business change in IT Operations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimizing Infrastructure Control]]></title>
<link>http://www.findwhitepapers.com/whitepaper2665/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-08 12:36:25</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security.]]></description>
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