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- Making IT More Effective: The Asset Analytics Imperative
- Enterprise Management Associates EMA research has uncovered several trends and best practices in the industry around asset management and asset intelligence. These best practices are focused on solving some of the most difficult challenges facing enterprises today. Business growth that outpaces increases in IT headcount coupled with escalating complexity in...
- Tags: Asset, Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-11-01
- A Practical Application for Grid Computing
- Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing HPC environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Storage, Parallel Processing, Grid Computing, Computing
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Compuware Vantage: An ROI Study in End-User Experience Monitoring
- Off late, Information Technology IT organizations have been under pressure to adopt a more business-oriented view of the technology services they deliver. IT staff at all levels are feeling this pressure and are struggling to put the work they do into the context of business relevance. At the same time...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Monitoring, ROI, Compuware Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Advice on Enterprise Policy Management for Security and Compliance
- Off late, the nature of network security has undergone a dramatic change. It was not that long ago those efforts focused primarily on securing a perimeter around the trusted network. Security policy was implemented by control points that filtered traffic passing between trusted and untrusted networks. These control points typically...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Network, Compliance, Access Control, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Avoiding Death by Complexity: Simplifying Management on the Enterprise IT Floor
- Effective management of business-critical data requires that enterprises get the most out of every investment in corporate IT. The current level of infrastructure complexity found at most large-scale datacenters, however, makes this nearly impossible. Fortunately, a relatively straightforward simplification strategy based on consolidation of the IT infrastructure offers clear advantages...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System: A Safety Net for SMBs
- The advent of Serial ATA or SATA-based disk-to-disk backup changes the outlook for groups with limited IT resources, providing an inexpensive disk-based technology that can speed up both backup and recovery, streamline both processes, and deliver reliable, automated backups with substantially greater recoverability. HP has taken advantage of this technology...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Backup System, Small And Medium Business, Backups, Serial ATA, Smb/Sme, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Vendor Consolidation: An Opportunity to View IT Through a Single Pane of Glass
- IT managers have traditionally avoided becoming "Too involved" with a single vendor, preferring to spread their IT investments among several vendors in order to maintain vendor independence. Reducing the number of vendors necessary to conduct effective IT operations offers the benefits of simplifying both IT infrastructure and the processes needed...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Consolidation, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Best Practice Operations Management for System Virtualization
- Virtualization - which Enterprise Management Associates EMA defines as a technique for hiding or abstracting the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources - is being rapidly adopted across IT. Examples of virtualization include making a single...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Resource, Best Practice, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- IBM IT Service Management Solutions for Retail
- Retail has undergone a wholesale transformation in past few years. Brick-and-mortar businesses have been revolutionized by formulas for retail success that have changed the game substantially, not only for retailers but for their suppliers as well. Online retail continues to be a strongly disruptive influence, presenting high opportunity for some...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Service Management, Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Business Application, IBM Corp., Service Level Management, It Services, Enterprise Software, It Operations, It service Management, Software
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Virtualization 101: Technologies, Benefits, and Challenges
- Virtualization - the technique of managing systems and resources functionally, regardless of their physical layout or location - is of growing importance to IT. Some areas are approaching significant maturity, such as storage virtualization or thin-client computing; others, such as application streaming, are just beginning to energize the market and...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Benefit, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Mercury ITIL Foundation: Mapping ITIL to the Real World
- This paper investigates Enterprise Management Associates (EMA's) finding on ITIL adoption, trends in ITIL practices, and a brief description of the market. It also discusses ITIL in the context of major shifts in IT practices, including Configuration Management DataBase CMDBs, SOA and Service Catalogs. Next, the ITIL framework is explained...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Bridging the IT Operations Divide With ITSM
- IT Service Management ITSM is becoming a near panacea for information technology - helping IT to serve the needs of customers, ensuring positive user experience, improving productivity, and increasing the bottom line through positive results. Technology adoption is no longer driven by the awe of the innovation itself. Rather, IT...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Technology Adoption, Service Level Management, It Services, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Reducing Infrastructure Costs While Ensuring Service Quality
- The bottom line of next-generation Business Service Management is that IT dollars can be redeployed from basic maintenance activities to revenue-enhancing projects that can be key differentiators for the business. With the pace of business quickening, and end users indicating to Enterprise Management Associates EMA that businesses that are able...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Choice, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-06-01
- How HP's Infrastructure Optimization Solutions Stack Up: An EMA Assessment
- This report from Enterprise Management Associates EMA explains how business trends such as the adoption of best practice initiatives and the move toward consolidated operations are driving developments in the IT management marketplace. The paper outlines the aggressive requirements that EMA considers essential for Next-generation Service Assurance and details how...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- White papers 2006-05-01
- IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Express: Enterprise-Class Identity Management for the SMB
- IBM announced Tivoli Identity Manager Express as part of the initial launch of its Tivoli Express portfolio. The IBM Express family offers solutions targeted specifically for the Small-to Mid-sized Business SMB, extending the values of the company's popular suite of enterprise management products in a form factor and at a...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., Identity Management, Smb/Sme, Utility Computing
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Service Management Made Simple for Mid-Sized Organizations
- In this Raritan-sponsored white paper, Enterprise Management Associates EMA discusses an approach to service management that appeals specifically to mid-tier companies, whose challenge is to make service management simple. In reality, it does not have to be a huge, expensive undertaking. The key is to start with core...
- Tags: Raritan Computer, Service Management, Enterprise Management Associates Inc., It Services
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Touchpaper and Mid-Market SLM
- In early 2006, Touchpaper announced its new IT Business Management ITBM suite - bringing ITIL-oriented IT service management and Service Level Management SLM to the mid-market. Touchpaper addresses the important Service Support aspects of service management, such as an integral Configuration Management Database CMDB with connection to Incident, Problem, Change,...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., CMDB, Touchpaper, Service Level Management, Service Management, ITIL, It Operations, It service Management, It Services
- White papers 2006-03-01
- High Definition Broadcasting: The Looming Content Crunch
- As broadcasters are shifting from analog to digital operations, they are also reallocating resources to accommodate growing consumer demand for high definition content. IT operations at every stage of the industry's value chain now strain to support environments that must accommodate larger files, increased bandwidth requirements, and accelerated time-to-market expectations....
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Broadcasting, Definition, Intellectual Property, Storage, Channel Management, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- SLM: Moving From Theory Into Action
- Service-Based management of IT represents a cultural shift. IT must begin to view its role in a different context - one that moves away from the "silos" of network, systems, and applications and begins to address business needs more directly. One approach that is now gaining momentum in North America...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Theory, Information Technology, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Enterprise Management Associates White Paper: Reduce Operating Expenses with SRM
- Thanks to vendor support of the SMI-S standard, backup and tape libraries are finally becoming part of the managed storage environment, taking their place alongside disk and fabric resources. The results? More reliable backup and reduced operating expenses. In this white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, find out how you...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Tape Library, Quantum Corp., Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-05
