Learn how Trillion, the nation’s largest Managed Service Provider (MSP) for K-12 school districts, has dramatically increased its IT efficiencies and customer satisfaction using Nimsoft.
In the past 3 1/2 years as a Nimsoft customer, Trillion has proactively identified and resolved potential IT performance solutions using Nimsoft, resulting in a reduced number of customer service inquiries by 80 percent.
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This white paper offers a detailed look at the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures, and it offers a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges and setting the stage for successful VMware deployments.
VMware’s virtualization capabilities have been deployed in an array of organizations around the world, and for good reason: they have helped many organizations significantly optimize the performance of their infrastructure. Yet for all the benefits virtualization delivers, it also presents a range of challenges—most critically when it comes to doing effective capacity management.
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Are you aware of the drivers for log management scalability and the resulting requirements that should be considered in any log management evaluation?
In the last few years, log management has become increasingly relevant to multiple groups within any organization. Audit teams leverage logs to automate compliance reporting and detect policy breaches. Security teams monitor log data to detect internal and external threats as well as for forensic investigations. Logs are also widely used by IT operations or helpdesk teams for faster troubleshooting and better adherence to service level agreements.
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The idea that businesses of all sizes should have real insight into their operations and their customers - to be able to do their planning, forecasting, modeling and adjusting based on data that is current, accurate, accessible and flexible - is at the core of today’s expanding BI and EPM market.
Spearheading and driving this market with its typically aggressive approach is Oracle, a company that has always been a pioneer in developing progressive and industrial strength software solutions for businesses, particularly among the larger global enterprise companies.
Oracle, through acquisitions and its own software development, has turned its attention to the mid-market with a coordinated approach that is powerful, innovative and - most important - highly attuned to the needs and price points demanded by mid-market and emerging companies requiring leading-edge BI and EPM solutions.
Oracle’s range of offerings to midsize and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes. This paper discusses how building BI and EPM solutions is a process. Some companies will necessarily start smaller than others and focus on specific areas of the business where they will be able to see immediate benefits.
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Learn why the TCO of a Server-Based Computing deployment used to deliver all applications to users is around 50% lower than that of an unmanaged desktop deployment.
Citrix XenApp is the industry-standard way to virtualize business applications through a centralized and secure architecture. This means that IT can centralize and consolidate applications in the data center where they can be better controlled, managed and secured, while delivering a secure, satisfying user access experience to local, remote and mobile users, on any device or network.
This white paper compares user densities and the resulting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for two types of implementations of XenApp 5 on Windows Server 2008.
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This video showcases how to manage change management with database project.
Microsoft MVP, Brian Randell walks you through how to take an existing SQL 2008 database and reverse engineer the catalogue data into Visual Studio Project and put it under version control using Team Foundation Server 2008. This allows you and your team to really take control of change management when it comes to database catalogue.
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Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:
- How 16 computer and Internet industry leaders became successful
- What the common thread that unites these leaders is
Why you should read How to Think like the World’s Greatest High-Tech Titans
Erika Brown profiles 16 computer and Internet industry leaders in this informative and entertaining book. A senior reporter for Forbes, Brown brings a journalist’s insight to each profile and seeks to extract the ideas and strategies that made each of these over-achievers successful. She packs plenty of information into chunks that seem a bit short for a book, but are at least longer than today’s standard magazine profiles. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of her profiles is the way many of them reveal the dynamics between two powerful leaders at companies like Microsoft and Intel. getAbstract com recommends this book as a brief introduction to the men and women whom history will record as the titans of turn-of-the-century technology.
About the Author
Erika Brown is a senior reporter for Forbes, covering local business trends and Internet-related stories in Silicon Valley. She has also worked on the Forbes 400.
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Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:
- How disruptive innovations can make great companies fail
- Why this happens even if they keep doing everything that made them great in the first place
- Why it sometimes makes sense to do the wrong things
Why you should read The Innovator’s Dilemma
Professor Clayton M. Christensen’s excellent book is a classic of strategy literature. The innovator’s dilemma is that doing the right things can lead to failure. Sometimes it is wrong to listen to customers, invest in the highest return opportunities and do all of the things that made a successful company succeed. Clearly written, amply documented, provocative and challenging, this book is indispensable for anyone in business. If it has a shortcoming, it is that it focuses more on the dilemma than on resolving it and it does not offer specific remedial prescriptions. However, Christensen has authored or co-authored two other books that attempt to remedy that deficiency. getAbstract.com heartily recommends this book, which remains the leader of the three. It has the potential to change the way managers think about business - any business.
About the Author
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, with joint appointments in Technology, Operations Management and General Management, at Harvard Business School. He holds a doctorate in business administration.
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Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:
- What software development failure is
- Why this problem is common, costly and hard to solve
- How your company can avoid software development meltdowns
Why you should read Software Development Failures
Here’s a two-ingredient recipe for disaster: take a big organization and mix in ambitious plans for a state-of-the-art software system. The disaster already happened at the IRS and Denver International Airport, both victims of software development missteps. Such failures are common, costly and all-too-avoidable, writes academic Kweku Ewusi-Mensah. While his prose can be dry, the examples he uses prove quite juicy. A little common sense could have saved the IRS billions and the Denver airport millions. Both fell victim to surprisingly basic pitfalls, such as unclear or unrealistic goals and over optimistic expectations that inexperienced people could get the job done. Ewusi-Mensah convincingly argues that organizations need to share such learning experiences, although he acknowledges that would mark a reversal from common practice. getAbstract.com recommends this book to managers and engineers involved in developing software. This cautionary tale could save your neck.
About the Author
Kweku Ewusi-Mensah is a professor of computer information systems at Loyola Marymount University.
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Learn how Parade Magazine successfully upgraded their System i application.
Every Sunday when you open your newspaper, out falls PARADE Magazine. PARADE was once produced using a System i application but is now produced using a modern Windows based application—still using RPG. If you’re running a System i and are considering user interface modernization, extending your System i applications or moving them to Microsoft.NET, you may be interested in how the most widely read magazine in the United States, upgraded their System i application—saving them time and money in the production of this iconic American publication.
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