Simplify your data center using wide-area data services to optimize consolidated and virtualized environments.
Is your organization grappling with the performance challenges of virtualization and IT consolidation?

Download this white paper and discover how wide-area data services (WDS) can help deliver the benefits of virtualization and IT consolidation (reduced IT complexity, lower costs, improved resource utilization, and data protection) while addressing the challenges of application performance and information availability across the WAN. Furthermore, the paper discusses the simplified IT administration and improved resource management benefits WDS solutions yield.

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Utilize these web-based calculators for predicting efficiency and availability in your data center.
Introducing APC interactive TradeOff Tools ™, web-based calculators for predicting efficiency and availability in your data center planning. Get real-world, precision!

• Find out your data center’s actual carbon footprint
• Balance your power needs with what you have
• See what cooling solution will work for you
• Know how much you can save by re-designing
• See how much virtualizing will save you
• Learn how efficient is your current data center

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Go From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.
Many companies are poised to make a commitment in the near term to Business Performance Management (BPM) which could include a focused investment in people, business process improvements, data re-architecture and technology.

This white paper focuses on how to approach and carry out the transition from spreadsheets to a commercially developed BPM solution. The foundation for success is a structured approach with requirements definition, technology selection, vendor selection and product acquisition, implementation, rollout, and continual adaptation.

Published by: BPM Partners, Inc; Presented by: Infor

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Learn about some of the best tools and strategies for managing the diverse flood of demands that threaten to overwhelm IT organizations.
Harvey Levine is our featured expert on this webinar focusing on Demand Management. Register now for this exciting On-Demand Webinar.

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Companies are presented with a wide range of technology options for their business intelligence (BI) applications. Each hardware platform decision requires them to research, and then balance, the tradeoffs between price, performance, long-term scalability, manageability, and vendor reputation.
Download this white paper and learn how HP can help you reduce the risk and deployment time for BI solutions through a comprehensive set of BI Reference Configurations that draw on:

• Extensive lab, customer benchmarks
• Industry standard benchmark investments
• HP’s global experience supporting thousands of data warehouse and business intelligence customers

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In this white paper, renowned PPM luminary Harvey Levine discusses the newest approaches to Demand Management, and how you and your company can easily manage, evaluate, and execute on your resource demands.
After reading this white paper you will have a clear understanding of:

• What Demand Management is (basic and advanced)
• Common sources of demand on resources
• How to approach various Demand Management scenarios

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This white paper describes a range of reference configurations to support mid to large online transaction processing (OLTP) solutions, capitalizing on the scalable power of HP Integrity 64-bit systems and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit).
Always a critical part of the IT infrastructure, databases are at the heart of a number of trends in IT:

• Microsoft® Windows® applications and data are growing in size and complexity. Some applications running on 32-bit platforms may be reaching the limits of the architecture, specifically regarding scalability number of processors and amount of addressable memory.
• Organizations are now able to migrate complex solutions from high-cost proprietary systems to lower-cost Windows-based systems.
• Organizations are consolidating applications to fewer servers to simplify critical data center operations. Consolidation can reduce cost, management complexity, and physical space requirements in the data center.

The objective of these reference configurations is to:

• Reduce the time to purchase SQL Server 2005 configurations
• Reduce the time to implement SQL Server 2005 databases
• Reduce the risk to implement SQL Server 2005 databases

Detailed configuration information is provided on the:

• Reference configurations
• Storage configuration
• SQL Server setup
• Bills of Material

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Learn how you can make your business processes work smarter, not harder, to improve business efficiency and performance.
Combining operational business intelligence with business-process design and deployment arms your people and processes with the precise information they need to be proactive.

Improving operational efficiency involves more than simply automating labor-intensive activities. It requires organizations to continually seek out new methods of managing increasingly complex business processes. By injecting business intelligence technology directly into critical business operations, you can ensure that the right people get involved at the right time to make decisions that impact your bottom line.

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Qualys helps organizations secure their networks & conduct automated audits to achieve & maintain compliance.
Get full access to all the features that make QualysGuard the most accurate and comprehensive vulnerability management solution. As an on demand service, there’s no software to deploy or maintain. All you need is a Web browser, a public IP address and a few minutes to forever change the way you manage network security risk. Your QualysGuard 14-day free trial includes:

• A fully functional evaluation for up to three users
• Thousands of vulnerability checks, verified fixes and reports
• Free technical workshops, online training and technical support
• No financial obligation

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Learn how to make compliance work for you, rather than the other way around – with Oracle solutions for the midsize organizations.
Oracle solutions for mid-size organizations deliver sustainable results, value and more by embedding compliance into a centralized information infrastructure. This Oracle Business Brief explains how.

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