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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

Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation Solution for SAP System Refresh
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: By simplifying and making system refresh execution consistent, automation can decrease the potential for errors inherent in standard approaches. Read this paper to discover an automation solution that can be used for traditional SAP systems as well as SAP’s Business Warehouse (BW).
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

Cisco Systems, Inc.

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

Cisco UCS – A Real World TCO Analysis
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five opportunities for infrastructure cost savings. Learn how to simplify management of your data center through integration and automation of network, compute, and virtualization technologies.
Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Unified Computing System: Meet the Challenges of Today’s Microsoft Exchange Server Workloads
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of upgrading Microsoft Exchange and explains why it is essential that you successfully coordinate between server, storage, and network stacks to ensure stable business operations. Read this white paper to learn how a unified computing system can help you achieve this goal.
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

A Layered Approach to Securing Remote Maintenance Consoles
sponsored by Raritan Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Existing techniques for accessing maintenance consoles are inefficient and leave security holes in the network. Learn how, by deploying a secure console server, maintenance consoles can be secured and the availability of the network improved.
Posted: 18 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

Raritan Inc.

Monitoring the Computer Room's Physical Environment
sponsored by Sensaphone
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses the greatest environmental threats to the functionality of small to medium computer rooms and presents the time and cost savings associated with the integration of a remote monitoring system.
Posted: 22 Apr 2008 | Published: 22 Apr 2008

Sensaphone

Why Customers Love VIPRE Business
sponsored by GFI Software
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that selecting and anti-virus solution for your organization is an important decision. VIPRE Business offers an easy-to-use management console that gets you up and running fast.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

GFI Software

Integrated Systems and Streamlined Practices Propel New, Responsive IT Organizations
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access this report for Forrester to discover how organizations are responding to the need to transform. Discover some of the challenges faced with the transformation, and how the change is far more fundamental than previously anticipated.
Posted: 26 Nov 2013 | Published: 26 Nov 2013

IBM

IBM Systems Director: Optimized and simplified management of IT infrastructures
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource presents a new solution that is essential to bridge the gap between the daily reality of the IT manager and the strategic goals of the organization.
Posted: 15 Jul 2013 | Published: 15 Oct 2011

IBM