This Yankee Group report outlines the importance of taking both a broad and narrow approach to maintaining the health of network and security infrastructure. In the following sections, we describe and analyze the current risk landscape for enterprises and show the current state of operational management for enterprise networks and security. 

Read this paper to discover how Tripwire Enterprise is the first solution to effectively combine configuration assessment and file integrity monitoring, enabling automated and sustainable configuration control throughout virtual and physical infrastructures. 

Check out this download to see how the Orion Network Configuration Manager aids in managing network configuration files in multi-vendor network environments, monitoring changes to device configurations and ensuring compliance with federal and corporate policies. 

Manual configuration changes are the no. 1 cause of service disruptions. In this article, customers, analysts and IT experts share strategies to help automate your manual processes and ensure that changes are applied according to configurations – every time. Download the ebook. 

This whitepaper provides an overview of using the operating systems deployment capabilities of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007™ to deploy a customized OS image on Dell client systems in a heterogeneous environment. 

This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime. 

Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software. 

Read this paper to learn it's ITIL v3 incarnation, ITSM is an IT management approach focused on end-to-end services rather than individual technology components. It is more aligned with the cus¬tomer view of IT than the technology view. 

These eight best practices and maintenance tips will keep BlackBerry Enterprise Server running properly in your Lotus Notes Domino environment. 

This document describes the Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software. 

With just under 100 days to go to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Magnus Alvarsson, chief integrator at Atos Origin explains what has been done so far and what lies ahead for the technology team. Watch this video to understand the remaining steps that must be taken to ensure the 2010 Olympics go off without any major problems. 

This paper outlines Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic alignment of IT with business objectives. It also describes how Marathon's everRun® software supports the execution of these steps by providing automated high availability and tiered availability levels for Windows Server applications.