As businesses have instituted internal, industry, and government mandated regulatory compliance, the need for audit data to prove conformity has also become a necessity. Read this white paper to learn how configuration audit and control provides a single, independent source for enforcing and reporting on a change policy across an organization. 

This E-guide addresses configuration and change management in a partially virtual environment. Topics include: reporting on and managing virtual servers, the effects of physical changes on servers, how to extend change management processes like ITIL to cover the SAN, and handling human problems between the networking, datacenter, and storage teams. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer. 

In this webinar, you will learn about the challenges of implementing configuration management along with suggestions on how to get started, and best practices to ensure success. You will also learn how Numara FootPrints Configuration Management takes the pain and time out of creating and maintaining a functional CMDB. 

In this whitepaper, Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008 are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios. 

In this technical brief, John Weathington, President and CEO of Excellent Management Systems, Inc.,explores Toad® Development Suite and Oracle's SQL Developer. He provides an honest look at both solutions, and helps you see how a simple side-by-side comparison isn't enough when choosing the right tool. 

This article focuses on the need for transparent collaboration, and clearly demonstrates the value of collaborative systems that work: they save money and they boost revenue. 

The focus of this white paper will outline the benefits of web-based training along with a practical framework for developing ROI when looking at the cost of traditional training methods verses e-Learning. 

This E-Guide discusses the benefits and drawbacks of consistency in ALM and provides an overview of the challenges associated with building and managing quality into the software development life cycle (SDLC). 

In August 2009, hundreds of SAP system integrators were asked to contribute their best upgrade tips for upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0. We took the best tips we received and compiled them in this eBook for you. Read this eBook to learn over 60 tips on upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0. 

This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems. 

GUI building tools allow developers to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run.