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Virtual Environment documentation made easy
Having a clear and concise piece of documentation gives an edge of professionalism to any task. While using Visio like this surely gives the eye candy, it also delivers quality information to any virtualization administration. The first step in preparing documentation for a virtual environment is to...
Tags: Environment, Virtual Machine
Download resources 2008-04-30
Generate synchronization scripts in SQL Server with TableDiff
DBAs often have to find the differences between lookup tables in different database environments (i.e., development, quality-assurance, staging, and production). The data in these lookup tables are required to be the same across environments to ensure that your testing is accurate. There are a variety of great...
Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Environment, Server, TableDiff, Tim, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Tim Chapman
Blog posts 2008-04-22
Choosing a free alternative to Microsoft Office
Once upon a time, if you were using software that you had acquired free, you were a pirate and doing something wrong. Those days are gone forever as people have begun to embrace a new concept. Free is good. And it's legal. While this...
Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Tricia Liebert
Blog posts 2008-05-09
10 reasons your star programmer may be looking to leave
Top programmers are not easy to find. It takes time to cull through dozens, if not hundreds, of resumes to find the magic combination you want, and it takes hours to perform interviews. After all of that, you still need to jump through hoops to make sure that your best...
Tags: Job, Employee, Environment, Programmer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Justin James
Blog posts 2008-05-01
Digital Intermediate (DI) Infrastructure Foundation for Post-Production Services
RIOT has initially installed 18.6 TB of raw capacity used as shared storage between the studio's Thomson Spirit 2k telecine, Da Vinci color correction system, AutoDesk Fire editing system, Flame compositing and Inferno visual effects suites. This allows RIOT to easily scale their bandwidth and capacity needs as they grow,...
Tags: Capacity, Environment, Storage, Hardware
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Cadence Design Systems Relies on High-Performance Storage From Network Appliance
Cadence Design Systems is the leader in global electronic-design automation innovation. For Cadence's larger sites, the biggest challenge is managing the massive amounts of data. Maintaining this data-intensive environment is a constant challenge. Cadence relied on a heterogeneous storage environment in which all business groups independently selected their own storage...
Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Cadence Design Systems Inc., Environment, High-performance, Storage, Hardware
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MARP: A Multi-Agent Routing Protocol for Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Supporting mobility in a multi hop wireless environment like the MANET still remains a point of research, especially in the context of time-constrained applications. The incapacity of ad hoc networks to offer services of the likes of static or infratructured networks may be attributed to two major reasons. One, unpredictable...
Tags: University Of Illinois, Mobile, Network, Environment, Mobility, Routing Protocol, Networking
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Lenzing AG Improves Service Quality in SAP Environment
Lenzing AG, which is traded on the Vienna Stock Exchange, is the world leader in the production of man-made cellulose fibers. The company wanted to find an economical way to protect business-critical data and enhance performance in the SAP environment. The solution to this was achieved by implementation of NetApp...
Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Environment, SAP AG, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
Case studies
Canon Europe Consolidates Company-Wide Storage With Network Appliance Solution
Canon Europe is one of the three regional head offices of the Japanese company Canon Inc., one of the world's largest suppliers of office machines, cameras, and advanced optical equipment. As IT requirements continued to increase, a number of problems arose, primarily in the areas of management, backup, and disaster...
Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Environment, Canon Inc., Canon Europe, Storage, Roi/Tco, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
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British Olympic Association Replaces Infrastructure Ahead of London Olympics
The British Olympic Association (BOA) needed to replace its Novell-centric operating system in the run up to the next Olympics and the London 2012 Olympic Games that follows. The BOA was unable to benefit from modern messaging services with its legacy system and wanted to improve its services to British...
Tags: Olympic Games, Environment, Microsoft Corp., British Olympic Association, Workforce Management, Hardware Upgrade, Groupware, Directory Services, Human Resources, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
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CCPL Constructs a 'Virtual City' Environment for Sharing Information Across Stakeholder Communities
Established in 1904, CCPL Gruppo Industriale Cooperativo is one of Italy's biggest cooperative industrial groups. The company wanted to implement a technology infrastructure to support diversification away from a construction-industry base. The challenge was to ensure transparent integration with existing software including third-party management system and create an environment for...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Environment, CCPL
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EnergySolutions Improves Stability of Technical Environment
EnergySolutions specializes in nuclear services, such as high level waste management, spent fuel handling and transportation; complex decommissioning/decontamination projects of nuclear reactors and highly radioactive nuclear facilities; high-end technical challenges such as fuel sludge treatment and high-level waste treatment; and major decommissioning of both government and commercial nuclear facilities. The...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Environment, EnergySolutions, Government, Transportation, Vertical Industries, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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Visible Breakthrough: Noridian Mutual Insurance Company Creates a Secure Environment to Fuel Growth
Fargo, North Dakota-based Noridian Mutual Insurance Company began operations in the 1940s, offering the state's first prepaid hospital and medical health coverage plans. The company wanted to ensure highest levels of security and performance to support healthcare claims and member services processing with agility to support future growth. Noridian Mutual...
Tags: Unisys Corp., Environment, Health Care, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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Visible Breakthrough: Carnival Cruise Lines Maximizes Availability and Security With a Modern Technology Environment
As the world's largest cruise operator, Carnival Cruise Lines (Miami, FL) must have a modern, scalable technology environment that can grow with the company while helping to continually optimize performance. The company wanted to create a modern, scalable technology environment designed to optimize performance, minimize downtime, and establish a foundation...
Tags: Security, Unisys Corp., Environment, Performance Management, Business Structures, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
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Proactive Optimization of Virtualized Environments
This webcast has been specifically designed for IT managers who are currently leveraging virtualization technologies, or plan to do so in the future and who are concerned about maintaining their availability and optimizing their performance. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to leverage ITIL processes and best practices...
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Webcast, Optimization, Environment, It Management, Virtualization, ITIL, It service Management, Hardware, It Services
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Improve Your Management of Heterogeneous Production Environments
This webcast will illustrate how a person can more effectively control the production management platforms.
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Environment, It Management, It service Management
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Managing Service Quality Objectives in a Virtualized Environment
IT organizations seek to improve operational efficiencies and at the same time be more service oriented. IT needs to know whether systems & applications are performing and delivering service in a way that will meet the needs of the business and at the right cost. Service level management has become...
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Environment, Service Management, Service Level Management, It Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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Impact and Event Management in Virtualized Environments
Virtualization has increased the complexity of IT environments and managing that complexity has become even more critical to ensuring the delivery of services to users and customers alike. Changes in virtualized environments can affect the performance and availability of services. Understanding how those changes, planned or unplanned can impact the...
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Virtualization, Environment, It Management, It service Management
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Five Steps for Implementing ITIL and BSM in Your SAP Environment
BMC Software presents integrated management solutions and user scenarios to implement Business Service Management (BSM) in SAP environments, based on ITIL Service Impact and Service Support Best Practices.
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Environment, SAP AG, ITIL, It Management, Process Improvement, It Services, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations
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Reality Check: Customer Examples of ITIL and BSM Implementations in SAP Environments
BMC Software Business Service Management (BSM) experts and learn about real, customer implementations of the ITIL and BSM philosophies in SAP environment.
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Environment, Business Service Management, SAP AG, ITIL, It Management, Process Improvement, It Services, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations
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