System Maintenance Reports

8 Questions You Should Ask About Linux Systems Management
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are always looking for ways to save money and time without compromising on issues like security or compliance. Exploring the value of your systems management solution is a lot easier when you know the right questions to ask. We have a few suggestions for how to get started.
Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

Red Hat and JBoss

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.
Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

Emerson Network Power

Integrated Systems and Streamlined Practices Propel New, Responsive IT Organizations
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access this report for Forrester to discover how organizations are responding to the need to transform. Discover some of the challenges faced with the transformation, and how the change is far more fundamental than previously anticipated.
Posted: 26 Nov 2013 | Published: 26 Nov 2013

IBM

PlateSpin Forge: "Plug in and Protect" Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Novell, Inc.
WEBCAST: PlateSpin Forge disaster recovery appliances provide fast out-of-the-box protection for your server workloads. When servers go down, you can quickly recover business-critical workloads and run them on the PlateSpin Forge appliance until they can be restored to your production environment.
Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Premiered: Sep 1, 2009

Novell, Inc.

Presentation Transcript: Mission-critical Unix Considerations
sponsored by HP & IntelĀ®
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Unix remains an important platform for critical enterprise applications. This resource explores the staying power of this venerable operating system and details many of the emerging factors that are affecting its use in the data center.
Posted: 20 Jul 2011 | Published: 20 Jul 2011

HP & IntelĀ®

Server Monitoring: Centralize and Win
sponsored by TNT Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: One of the main limitations of native tools in a Windows OS is that it stores all of the event & performance logs information locally in each individual system. For an environment with multiple systems, this makes problem analysis much more challenging. This paper will discuss the importance of effective, centralized management solutions.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

TNT Software, Inc.

Gartner: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.
Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Managing Multiple Operating Systems: Five Best Practices
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: Access this essential resource for best practices for managing multiple operating systems in your enterprise. Learn more about the latest trends in end point management and how to efficiently and securely run your multi-OS environment.
Posted: 31 Jul 2013 | Published: 29 Nov 2012

Dell Software

Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Scheduled Security Update Cycle
sponsored by GFI Software
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Nick Lewis discusses the best ways to efficiently handle vendor security updates, how to prioritize patch deployment on mission-critical and non-mission critical systems, and why testing patches before deployment is such a crucial step.
Posted: 04 May 2011 | Published: 04 May 2011

GFI Software

Dell KACE K Series Overview
sponsored by Dell KACE
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This series overview points out the challenges of IT systems management and showcases technologies designed to overcome them. Learn how to simplify hardware and software inventory, patching, and more across your organization.
Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

Dell KACE