IT Maintenance Reports

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.
Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

Emerson Network Power

November Information Security Magazine - Re-architect Your Provisioning System Into a First Line of Defense for Access Management
sponsored by Information Security Magazine
EZINE: November's edition of Information Security Magazine covers a variety of IT security related topics. Check out this e-zine to learn about re-architecting your provisioning system, meeting mandates in the cloud, how the economy is affecting information security professionals, and much more!
Posted: 10 Nov 2010 | Published: 10 Nov 2010

Information Security Magazine

Presentation Transcript: Mission-critical Unix Considerations
sponsored by HP & Intel®
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Unix remains an important platform for critical enterprise applications. This resource explores the staying power of this venerable operating system and details many of the emerging factors that are affecting its use in the data center.
Posted: 20 Jul 2011 | Published: 20 Jul 2011

HP & Intel®

Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Scheduled Security Update Cycle
sponsored by GFI Software
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Nick Lewis discusses the best ways to efficiently handle vendor security updates, how to prioritize patch deployment on mission-critical and non-mission critical systems, and why testing patches before deployment is such a crucial step.
Posted: 04 May 2011 | Published: 04 May 2011

GFI Software

IDC White Paper: Maximizing System Performance to Manage the Cost of IT Operations
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper describes the implications of managing the availability of IT infrastructure across the enterprise and looks at the typical cost of downtime for various industries and regions. Read today for best practices to minimize downtime and discover the role of support and advance support services in maximizing system performance.
Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

Oracle Corporation

Red Hat Network Satellite: Management And Automation Of Your Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Environment
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite server is an easy-to-use, advanced systems management platform for your Linux infrastructure. Learn the business benefits gained through increased productivity, reduced system life cycle costs, greater administration consistency, and enhanced security. This overview details the many features of each module...
Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

Red Hat and JBoss

PlateSpin Forge: "Plug in and Protect" Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Novell, Inc.
WEBCAST: PlateSpin Forge disaster recovery appliances provide fast out-of-the-box protection for your server workloads. When servers go down, you can quickly recover business-critical workloads and run them on the PlateSpin Forge appliance until they can be restored to your production environment.
Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Premiered: Sep 1, 2009

Novell, Inc.

How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms and Remote Wiring Closets
sponsored by Schneider Electric
WHITE PAPER: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.
Posted: 26 Jan 2011 | Published: 26 Jan 2011

Schneider Electric

Streamlining Systems Management: Red Hat Provides The University of Southern Mississippi With Time-Saving Solution
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
CASE STUDY: Managing close to 80 physical servers with limited technical resources can quickly become a challenge for any organization. learn how USM's IT team turned to Red Hat's 'Satellite' to provide a reliable, advanced, open source systems management solution to ease their systems management challenges.
Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

Red Hat and JBoss

Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
sponsored by GFI Software
WHITE PAPER: Managing threats to the endpoint infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult for most organizations. At the same time, many anti-malware defenses are not keeping up with the growing threats posed by malware. This white paper addresses the variety of issues facing organizations today in the context of their system manaagement challenges.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

GFI Software