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- How to Use Automation and Virtualization to Improve Service Levels of Your Applications
- Ninety percent of data center resources are sitting idle waiting for usage spikes. Because applications are tightly coupled to the machines on which they run, dedicated hardware must be set aside each time a new application is put into production. Over-provisioning translates into millions of dollars of unused assets. Create...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Automation, Over-provisioning, Cassatt Collage, Goal-Driven Automation, Virtualization Control, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers
Additional Resources
- ESG Report: Thin Provisioning
- ESG believes that Thin Provisioning is one of the most important yet misunderstood advancements within data storage. This report defines and discusses Thin Provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. Thin Provisioning minimizes the cumbersome task of storage provisioning while improving capacity utilization. The economic impact...
- Tags: Provisioning, Storage System, 3PARData Inc., ESG, Thin Provisioning, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- An Introduction to Storage Provisioning With Tivoli Provisioning Manager and TotalStorage Productivity Center
- This paper is intended as an introduction to the subject of storage provisioning and is written for anyone who needs to understand IBM's automated storage provisioning tools. IBM storage provisioning solutions are based on Tivoli Provisioning Manager TPM and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center TPC. This paper examines TPM's support for...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Storage, Provisioning, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2004 Vendor Shares
- The server provisioning market continues to grow as IT organizations drive down costs associated with server consolidation and standardize on processes for server management. This paper identifies the server provisioning market leaders and is a follow-on study to the previously published Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2005-2009 Forecast. IBM is the...
- Tags: Server Provisioning, IBM Corp., International Data Group, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Levanta Marries Provisioning with Data Virtualization
- So many vendors provide console-based systems provisioning these days that it's hard to keep track of the differences—both claimed and real—between them. If that weren't enough, there's another smaller set of products that do data virtualization of one sort or another. Find out how the marriage of these two approaches--provisioning...
- Tags: Virtualization, Provisioning, Levanta Corp.
- White papers 2005-07-08
- Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 1.1 Deployment Best Practices
- Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, a Web-based GUI product used to simplify IP telephony management with respect to activation services and call processing provisioning, is a product from the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite. Provisioning Manager provides provisioning for Cisco Unified Communications initial deployments and implementations and then remains employed to...
- Tags: Provisioning, Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Provisioning Manager
- White papers 2007-12-01
- The Business Value of Dual-Use DR: An Executive Overview of the Disaster Recovery Capability of Veritas Provisioning Manager
- Veritas Provisioning Manager is a leading automated server provisioning solution that has had great success when deployed and used to build servers within a local area data center environment. As Provisioning Manager has become more widely used, customers are discovering a growing number of ways to realize value from its...
- Tags: Server Provisioning, VERITAS Software Corp., Provisioning, Veritas Provisioning Manager, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Automated Storage Provisioning for Windows Using TotalStorage Productivity Center and Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- The provisioning of SAN attached storage capacity to a server can be a time consuming and cumbersome process. The task requires skilled storage administrators. However, there is a solution to this through automation. This paper looks at how an automated storage provisioning solution can be realized for a Windows environment...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Provisioning, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Storage Capacity, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Thin Provisioning in an IBM SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment
- This paper describes how to provision storage efficiently with IBM System Storage N series in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI deployment. Storage efficiency has historically been extremely low because of the difficulty provisioning or changing provisioning to adapt to changing needs with classic storage array architectures. System Storage N series...
- Tags: Environment, IP SAN, SAN, Provisioning, IP, IBM Corp., Storage Efficiency, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-28
- EMC Celerra Virtual Provisioning: More Than Thin Provisioning
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how EMC Celerra IP storage customers can lower cost while improving storage utilization with Celerra virtual provisioning software.
- Tags: EMC Celerra, Provisioning, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Applied Application and Service Provisioning
- This paper addresses facets pertaining to 'software life cycle management' and how application of provisioning techniques can rationalize the management of it. It describes some of the problems and challenges many organizations face today; most of them related to either people, process and/or technology. It also provides some insight into...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Provisioning, Service Provisioning
- White papers 2005-12-11
- Deploying Applications Using IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- This paper presents a simplified customer environment in which a case study is demonstrated for provisioning applications developed using IBM Rational ClearCase. This paper focuses on the tasks required for planning, implementing, and configuring all components of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for dynamic provisioning of applications directly from the IBM...
- Tags: Provisioning, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2005-11-17
- Enterprise Vault: Granular Provisioning Best Practice
- This paper describes how to successfully implement granular provisioning using Enterprise Vault for Exchange V7 and the best practices that can be adopted. With EV7 there is now a new and highly flexible GUI-driven provisioning model for Exchange mailbox archiving which provides a scalable method for managing EV mailbox archives...
- Tags: Archiving, Provisioning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-10
- Selecting a User Provisioning Product
- User provisioning products help organizations to create, manage and deactivate login IDs and other resources for users. They are intended to streamline administration of user access to systems as users are hired, move through an organization, and leave. This document helps organizations to define criteria, which can be used to...
- Tags: User Provisioning
- White papers
- Try Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, now with Vista support
- IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment delivers an easy-to-use, security-rich interface for remote configuration, simultaneous deploy¬ment, updates and restoration of Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® across hundreds of devices, in networks large and small. You can use Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment to completely automate your OS provisioning process...
- Tags: Operating System, Provisioning, Microsoft Windows Vista, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources
- TechNet Support WebCast: Introduction to the Wireless Provisioning Services
- With Wireless Provisioning Services WPS technology, the organization can offer wireless access in any location where one provides connectivity with Wi-Fi hotspots to new and existing customers in a secure and easy fashion. The presenter of this webcast explains the Wireless Provisioning Services; explain the different components involved and how...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft TechNet, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Webcasts
- IAM Executive Briefing Series: Addressing the User Provisioning Challenge
- Organizations are facing an increasing challenge in the provisioning and management of users in their IT environment. The challenge is primarily driven from regulatory compliance, cost reduction, customer satisfaction, and risk reduction drivers which are impacting all areas of the business, not just IT. Addressing these challenges can require significant...
- Tags: User Provisioning, Provisioning, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Webcasts
- Hitachi HiCommand Path Provisioning Software: End-to-end, Rules-Based Provisioning of Heterogeneous Storage
- Hitachi HiCommand Storage Services Manager software is the first storage management platform to make use of the open SMI-S protocols. Storage Services Manager software allows administrators to manage capacity across a broad range of heterogeneous storage systems, from application to spindle, using open standard interfaces. The HiCommand Path Provisioning module...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Provisioning, Storage Services Manager Software, HiCommand Path Provisioning Module, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Vista Deployment Using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment
- Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems and applications to computers using the Pre-boot eXecution Environment PXE industry standard for bare-metal installation. A bare-metal installation eliminates the need for an operating system to be present on a local disk drive. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a...
- Tags: Operating System, Installation, Provisioning, Microsoft Windows Vista, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Dynamic Provisioning of SAP Environments Using IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- This paper provides details about the dynamic provision of SAP application servers using IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP. The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP solution relies on IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V2.1 for the provisioning and deprovisioning operations. This paper focuses on the tasks required for planning, implementing, and configuring...
- Tags: mySAP, Environment, Provisioning, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-10-11
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