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- Improving Key Metrics for Application Infrastructure Management: Defining and Improving Application Infrastructure Management Metrics
- IT infrastructure is a broad term, potentially encompassing interrelated and dependent components from network switches to application and web servers. In this paper, the term application infrastructure is used to mean the set of infrastructure components above the operating system such as databases, messaging servers, application servers and web servers....
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Infrastructure Management, Server, Application Infrastructure Management, It Services, Web Servers, It Management, Internet, It service Management
- White papers 2006-01-09
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- Application Infrastructure Management Best Practices: A Best Practices Based Approach to Infrastructure Configuration Management
- Application infrastructure configuration management is a core discipline necessary to effectively manage today's IT infrastructure. Highly-effective IT organizations often practice a common set of configuration management processes, and that's what this paper is about. The processes, policies and procedures that very-effective IT organizations use to manage application infrastructures. These represent...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Configuration Management, Best Practice, Application Infrastructure Configuration Management
- White papers 2006-01-04
- Confused Infrastructure Management Strategies
- Forrester recently surveyed IT decision-makers at 64 European financial services companies about their current situation and strategic plans regarding applications, application infrastructure, IT infrastructure, and IT infrastructure management. This paper will focus on survey results concerning data center strategies and infrastructure management. With a representative sample of banks, insurance companies,...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., It Services, It Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, It service Management, Finance, Management
- White papers 2005-05-11
- Business Service Management: Aligning IT Infrastructure and Applications with Business Needs
- Control the rising costs of infrastructure management by improving the efficiency of your current resources. Learn how to automate infrastructure and application management when you read this analyst white paper. Infrastructure and Application Management offers a strategic approach for ensuring your IT operations support business goals. Find...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Business Service Management, Application Management, It Management, It Services, It service Management
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- Infrastructure and Application Management Route to Value: A Path to Effective Business Service Management
- This paper explores the need for an enterprise-wide, comprehensive infrastructure and application management solution, the criteria for that solution, and how BMC Software's Infrastructure and Application Management Route to Value meets those criteria. In addition, it addresses the impact of reduced cost of ownership and risk mitigation when dealing with...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Business Service Management, Application Management, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-03-31
- Infrastructure Management is Not Enough: The New IT Operations Imperative
- Infrastructure management is not enough to ensure enterprise applications are meeting business goals. Why? Because users experience applications, NOT infrastructure. Only Mercury's application management offerings address the critical IT disciplines to ensure production applications are not only up and running, but are optimized to deliver business value.
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Application Management, Mercury Interactive Corp., It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- The Next Frontier in Application Networking
- This webcast discusses how developments in the data center environment are changing application infrastructure management. The presenter will explain how Cisco's Application Control Engine ACE, a multi-service module for the Catalyst 6500, can enhance infrastructure management functionality with the industry's highest performance of up to 16 gigabits per second of...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., It Services, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts
- Reduced Costs and Increased Productivity Through Remote Infrastructure Management and Support
- MindTree Consulting undertook the management and support for an online store application used internally by a large virtualization services company to track sales orders and support. This application forms the backbone of the client's sales process and helps them bundle different components of products to offer to their customers. It...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Infrastructure Management, Sales Strategy, It Services, It Management, Sales, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Simplify Application Management Throughout the Software Lifecycle
- Application management is complicated by tangled and poorly understood dependencies between applications (programs, data and configurations) and infrastructure (hardware, operating system and environments). Trigence AE decouples applications from their surroundings by encapsulating them along with their critical dependencies, so one can re-use application configurations, rather than re-creating them. Encapsulation insulates...
- Tags: Software, Encapsulation, Application, Application Management, Trigence AE, It Services
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Automating IT Configuration Management to Deliver a Dynamic Application Infrastructure
- mValent Inc. is a software company with a product that helps automate and optimize the task of configuring application infrastructures in an automated and scalable manner. Its Infrastructure Automation Suite is aimed at increasing the speed at which applications reach production by easing and automating the tasks related to initial...
- Tags: Suite, Information Technology, CMDB, International Data Group, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Offshore Considerations for Infrastructure Management
- Infrastructure management is increasingly offshored these days. Everest Research Institute predicts that remote infrastructure management will grow to $8.6 billion in the next three years with an annual CAGR of 61%. Gartner predicts that infrastructure management is the third wave of services to be offshored after IT services and business...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Everest Research Institute, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2008-01-09
- VMware Infrastructure Architecture Overview
- VMware Infrastructure is the industry's first full infrastructure virtualization suite that allows enterprises and small businesses alike to transform, manage and optimize their IT systems infrastructure through virtualization. VMware Infrastructure delivers comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities in an integrated offering. With a whole suite...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMware Infrastructure, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-09-06
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services: Secure, Scalable, and Simple Central Management
- IT organizations are challenged with conflicting requirements: to consolidate costly remote-office infrastructure and to maintain adequate service levels for remote-office users. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS provides the technologies necessary to consolidate infrastructure in the data center while also providing application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities that achieve application...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Organization, Cisco Wide Area Application Services
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services Secure, Scalable, and Simple Central Management
- IT organizations are challenged with conflicting requirements: to consolidate costly remote-office infrastructure and to maintain adequate service levels for remote-office users. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS provides the technologies necessary to consolidate infrastructure in the data center while also providing application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities that achieve application...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Wide Area Application Services
- White papers 2006-07-01
- The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) in the Application Development Lifecycle
- This webcast looks at best practices in IT Service Management utilizing the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL process framework. The webcast will discuss the changing work practices and compliance requirements that are driving new behaviors and the use of ITIL. The role of application lifecycle management in providing a link between...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Application Development, Information Technology, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- Configuration Management - The "Not so Obvious" Starting Point
- Configuration Management is tasked with capturing, keeping and providing up-to-date information about the IT infrastructure. Every IT organization has information about its infrastructure, particularly after completing major projects or when audit and impact analyses are done. Configuration Management aims to provide reliable details about the IT infrastructure, also details of...
- Tags: Information Technology, Configuration Management
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Infrastructure Change Management is the Key to Business Service Management
- IT leaders often find it challenging to start the process of aligning IT with business goals. Forrester believes that infrastructure change management puts IT firmly in control of the infrastructure and moves you closer to achieving Business Service Management. In this complimentary Forrester analyst article, you'll...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Business Service Management, Forrester Research Inc., Change Management, Leadership, It Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It service Management
- Case studies
- Mercury Application Mapping Workshop
- Changes to your IT infrastructure affecting application performance and availability? Having difficulty anticipating the business impact of infrastructure changes? Learn how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida leveraged the Mercury Application Mapping solution to overcome these and other IT hurdles. This webcast will discuss how to discover application and infrastructure...
- Tags: Information Technology, Mercury Interactive Corp., Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Cbeyond Inc. Improves Application Availability and Performance With Hosted Infrastructure
- Cbeyond Inc. provides managed Internet Protocol IP-based communications services to small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, and Los Angeles. The challenge was to ensure the availability and performance of Cbeyond's enterprise application infrastructure and reduce the company's IT management burden. The company ensured a highly reliable, scalable, and...
- Tags: Cbeyond Inc., Oracle Corp., Performance, Information Technology, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Networking, Strategy, Finance, Software, Management
- Case studies
- Comprehensive SAP Real Estate Management Application Gives Edelweiss Competitive Lead
- Formed through a management buyout by the UBS logistics management team, Switzerland-based firm Edelweiss Facility Management AG is a leader in the real estate management sector. In the search for an IT infrastructure tailored to its requirements, Edelweiss found that the mySAP ERP application provided functionality that precisely matches its...
- Tags: SAP AG, Real Estate, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Management, Software
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