Infrastructure Management
Infrastructure Management is a fundamental issue for any business, regardless of industry or size. Whether you have a peer-to-peer network or coordinate global offices through a remote access WAN, successfully managing your company’s infrastructure is an ongoing challenge. Are you looking for the latest trends in hardware management, wireless networking, or systems management? Or maybe your interest is more specific, such as access control, patch management, ITIL, or SaaS?
Check out these Infrastructure Management white papers to keep your company’s IT environment running smoothly and efficiently.

The Virtual Workforce in Action
This white paper takes a look at the growing virtual trend and the challenges organizations, such as yours, may confront as you transition to a virtual workforce.

RAC Be Nimble, RAC Be Quick
Read this white paper to discover a unique and easy approach to tuning Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases — without being an expert!

CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth
Learn how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to promote sustainable, profitable growth.

Selection Criteria for Remote Support Tools
Read this report to find out 10 critical selection criteria to use when evaluating remote support platforms, and identify how moving beyond homegrown or freeware tools will accelerate the achievement of business goals for your service and support operation.

Improving IT Administration Efficiency via Automated Policy & Event Workflows
This white paper highlights recommended steps to successfully implement automated policy management processes within Unix/Linux systems using the privileged access lifecycle management framework.

The True Cost of Virtual Server Solutions
Read this technology validation report to learn how virtual machine (VM) density and hypervisor performance impacts the true cost of virtualization solutions.

Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure Through Virtualization
This white paper describes how virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization.

How to Avoid the Most Common Pitfalls of an SAP Solution
Read this white paper to learn how the right SAP managed hosting and professional services provider can help you navigate around these pitfalls to minimize business disruption.

Improving Messaging System Availability in Three Simple Steps
Read this white paper to learn three easy steps to improve your UC availability and reliability, keeping service levels high, costs low and the business running smoothly and efficiently.

SiliconFS: The BlueArc File System
This white paper examines how a unique file system approach delivers the performance and scalability benefits of a SAN with the ease of management and client neutrality of NAS, all in one unified solution.

Adding Business Value with Cross-Platform Solutions
This IDC white paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis regarding the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers, including the ROI that was seen in the year following the initial deployment.

Manage Storage More Effectively with Virtualization Capabilities
This white paper explores the natural evolution from server virtualization to storage virtualization and the use of virtualization to more effectively manage storage systems.
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The Alignment-Focused Organization:
This white paper discusses how businesses can implement these best practices using strategy management software — one of the cornerstones of effective performance management — to systematize these practices across a department or the entire enterprise consistently.

Realizing Enhanced Productivity and Timely ROI from Your DLP Security Technology
Read this white paper to learn how using data loss prevention (DLP) technology will allow your organization to reduce the proliferation of sensitive data and enable your business operation to improve its data protection controls.

The Daily Fuel: Powerful Business Solutions
Visit the Daily Fuel coffee shop to learn more about how tablet computers and other powerful IT solutions can significantly improve your competitive advantage, mobility options, organizational productivity, and so much more.

Driving Business Agility Through SOA Connectivity and Integration
This white paper shows how a service oriented architecture (SOA) helps align the infrastructure with business needs in order to achieve maximum flexibility.