This BMC webcast will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems. 

Before investing in an event management solution, you’ll want to know how the product will fit within your overall event-to-incident and problem management processes, including workflow, escalation and integration with service desk tools. Gartner assesses the vendor landscape in their latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis. 

This paper was created to help companies searching for a SIM solution narrow their options and determine which technology is the right one for their IT environment and security objectives. 

Participants at industry conferences and events often ask where the right place to start implementing security is. This is similar to starting off a talk with a doctor by asking “What medicine should I take?” The answer is going to be more questions. This article presents three questions to ask yourself before starting a security implementation. 

Read this paper to learn how to create event-driven schedules based on system events across your enterprise with Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise. 

Read this book for an introduction to the subject so that you can understand its promise and perils — and create an action plan to decide whether virtualization is right for you, as well as how to move forward with implementing it should you decide it is right for you. 

This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs. 

Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA®) research shows 75% of CIOs are facing budget cuts. Most CIOs need to go beyond obvious cost reduction measures to address the largest single IT cost - staff. This whitepaper will discuss the ways that Workload automation can effect real cost savings. 

This collection of articles from Realtime Publishers presents a clear and concise overview of security information management (SIM). The articles present the business case for SIM, operational and organizational issues, and hints and tips for ensuring a successful SIM implementation. 

Change management: Information security professionals have been known to cringe when they hear these words. But the change management process doesn't have to be as complicated as it might seem. 

This video covers highlights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in 2009, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote address. 

This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference gives an overview of the changes in security compliance regulations and the resulting changes in security technologies. Download the slides and learn about changes in regulations, the evolution of technology, keeping virtualization and cloud computing compliant, and more. 

Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.