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Top to Bottom Performance Management Excellence at the City of Chicago
In this featured City of Chicago case study, learn how the City's performance management efforts leveraged BIRT Performance.
Effectively Implementing Datacenter Automation
Hear directly from one your peers on how to effectively evaluate and implement a datacenter automation solution. Proven best practices are thoroughly explained.
Aligning IT to Business: The Rising Importance of Application Delivery Networks
Application Delivery Networking (ADN) will play a vital role in helping enterprises incorporate strategic technologies to achieve business initiatives. But the most strategic technologies are often the most disruptive. What are these technologies? And how can ADN help you adapt them into your enterprise architecture to gain the most benefits?
Strategies for Driving Down IT Support Costs with Lite ITIL Practices
Today, IT support organizations are under constant pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency on an increasingly limited budget. But how do you strategically focus limited time and resources to ensure success?
Mitigate Risk, Lower Costs and Improve Network Efficiency
Create a stable IP network that not only meets today's challenges, but is flexible enough to also meet future demands.
Architecting Business Intelligence Applications for Change: The Open Solution
New and changing requirements are facts of application development life. Fueling this constant stream are underlying changes to the business: evolving user demands, new business processes, and data consolidation. Don't miss out on this webcast to hear more about BIRT and what it can do for you.
Managing Secure File Transfer to Save Time, Money and IT Resources
Learn how companies are using innovative technology to overcome these challenges and improve user productivity by offloading e-mail attachments and replacing FTP with Managed File Transfer solutions.
Efficient Root-cause Analysis in the face of Datacenter Complexity
Isolating Virtualization & n-Tier Application Issues, Adjusting Best Practices & Metrics, Improving Incident Response & Service Reliability, and Enabling Technologies
Data Protection is not an insurance policy -you cannot buy-back lost data
IBM's Comprehensive Data Protection Solution combines powerful and affordable server and disk platforms, and storage management software, to deliver a solution that is suitable for small to medium businesses who want a backup and recovery solution that is inexpensive and easy to deploy. Learn all the details by listening to our podcast featuring John Weber principle IT Advisor at Illuminata.
How Computrace Tracks and Secures Laptops
View this flash demo to see Absolute in action. No matter where computers are connected, you can monitor installed software/hardware, track location using GPS and WiFi and take action if a device is lost or stolen.
Managing Laptops Outside the Office
In this webinar, learn how you can reduce costs by tracking mobile computers no matter where they are located. Featuring the specialist of IT asset management at a major insurance group, this webinar discusses the business value of internet-based auditing and theft recovery.
Security Convergence Equals Network Security Cost Savings
Listen to IBM Internet Security Systems' take on network security convergence.
Enterprise Data Governance: Bridging the Business-IT Gap
Register now and get practical, real-world advice on defining the rules of engagement between IT and business users across the enterprise - creating a true Enterprise Data Governance environment. We'll also review common challenges such as how to create a common understanding of what it means to "execute"
- which usually can determine if your data governance initiative will succeed or stall.
Usability Is Everything
Learn what sets Workday's HR and Payroll solutions apart from the competition.
The Value of Real SaaS at Workday
Cost savings, speed to value, and innovation brought to the enterprise by Workday's software-as-a-service solutions for HR and Payroll.
SaaS at Flextronics, Inc.
Dave Smoley, CIO of Flextronics, discusses the real value of software-as-a-service and why he chose Workday for his HR solution.
Preparing Your Business Services for the Future
Would you trust your network monitoring tools enough to know when something is truly halting a business service? While Mary Nugent won't use this podcast to attempt to tell you technical details on the correct alarming thresholds, she will share some excellent stories about predicting a system's behavior. Find out this and more in this informative interview with Mary Nugent, vice president, Service Assurance, BMC Software.
BMC Application Performance and Analytics: Predictive Intelligence in Action
See the highlights of BMC's Application Performance and Analytics; a predictive, resourceful and intelligent solution that empowers IT Operations to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR), avoid problems with early warning, find problems faster using fewer resources, ensure applications meet business requirements and put the right person on the right problem, every time.
ITIL in Tough Economic Times
Learn how you can avoid reinventing the wheel, what it really means to sell ITIL in the organization, and why it pays to find opportunities in crises.
Taking the Service Desk to the Next Level
Listen to this conversation with Doug Mueller to learn how standards and processes have evolved to bring us the service desk of today and tomorrow. Discover what changes in direction surprise even Doug as he builds architecture for efficient service desks. Doug's enthusiasm for taking the service desk to the next level is noticeable in this podcast, and you just might come away with some new perceptions of the service desk of the future.