System Management White Papers

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Enhanced Cloud Security with HyTrust and VMware
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations today are eager to adopt cloud computing, yet recent cloud surveys cite that security, control, and IT compliance are primary issues that are slowing down the adoption of cloud computing. This resource is tailored to assist security administrators with design, validation and utilization of cloud implementations.
Posted: 04 Oct 2011 | Published: 04 Oct 2011

Intel

Maximizing Information Systems Efficiency: How to Build a Workload Optimized, Highly-Automated, Heterogeneous Hybrid Cloud
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Though cloud computing is now a widespread technology, the next frontier in cloud computing is understanding what type of cloud suits your organization best.  This e-guide will take you through the necessary steps for implementing a heterogenous hybrid cloud.
Posted: 30 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Jul 2013

IBM

HRG Assessment: Comparing IBM PureSystems and Cisco UCS
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Keeping pace with the demand for ne IT functionality can be next to impossible for many of today's IT organizations that lack the necessary time, budget, and skilled resources. Both IBM and Cisco offer integrated systems designed to alleviate these challenges, but the two products differ in important ways. Read this white paper to uncover them.
Posted: 26 Jul 2012 | Published: 26 Jul 2012

IBM

Columbia Sportswear's New Infrastructure Reduces Operational Costs, Energizes Agility
sponsored by EMC Converged Platforms.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper illustrates the story of Columbia Sportswear's adoption of a converged infrastructure solution, highlighting key benefits and specifications of the technology implemented in the deployment. Read on to see how they achieved total system scalability and accelerated operations.
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

EMC Converged Platforms.

VMware vSphere with Operations Management
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how you can overcome these capacity management and performance monitoring complexities a single pane of glass to optimize capacity and monitor workload performance.
Posted: 23 Sep 2013 | Published: 23 Aug 2013

Dell and VMware

The Migration from Windows Server 2003 to Linux
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the process of migrating to Linux and explains why the end of Windows Server 2003 may be the best opportunity to do so.
Posted: 06 Jul 2015 | Published: 06 Jul 2015

Red Hat

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager - Streamline upgrades with automated testing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: System upgrades and other IT changes can have a negative impact on business intelligence report content, but testing thousands of reports can be tedious and time-consuming. This resource introduces a utility that relieves the burden by automating the testing process.
Posted: 15 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

IBM

Top Ten Database Security Threats: How to Mitigate the Most Significant Database Vulnerabilities
sponsored by Imperva.
WHITE PAPER: This document is intended to help organizations deal with the most critical of those threats by providing a list of the top ten database vulnerabilities as identified by Imperva's Application Defense Center.
Posted: 29 Nov 2013 | Published: 08 Oct 2008

Imperva.

Guide To Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: In this course excerpt, you’ll find a guide to the basic architecture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and the step-by-step process to install it.
Posted: 20 May 2014 | Published: 20 May 2014

Red Hat

One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case for the Custom Cloud
sponsored by BMC-Accenture
WHITE PAPER: The benefits of cloud computing are clearly beneficial to all types of organizations; the user gets what they need, and IT has the freedom to manage the aggregate of all cloud services to best optimize their environment. This paper describes how resources should be delivered through an automated provisioning process
Posted: 31 Aug 2011 | Published: 31 Aug 2011

BMC-Accenture