Avoiding unscheduled downtime and equipment failure while trying to maintain quality standards is paramount. Producing high-quality goods and optimizing resources is the ultimate goal of any manufacturing organization. Predictive maintenance, fueled by predictive analytics, helps minimize downtime and saves money. Read this paper to learn more. 

Virtual desktops may make management easier, but you have to make sure you have the right storage in place. Check out this 2-page white paper for an overview of storage-allocation tactics and technologies that will help you fully reap the cost and efficiency benefits that VDI promises. 

Enterprise services management has greatly changed over the years. Read this white paper to get a grasp on the latest architectural, design and functional changes. 

This white paper examines various hardware architectures and their unique performance capabilities. Discover new technological developments that increase availability, simplify management, and reduce energy costs. 

This white paper describes how IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager can help organizations automate and control access rights for millions of online users, while maintaining security and tracking user activity. 

In this paper, ESET research teams revisit their top ten list on what people can do to protect themselves against malicious activity, and offers key advice based on today’s changing environments, while still applying the basic principles. 

Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in IT today, but many IT professionals are struggling to determine how best to achieve cloud's promises of agile deployment and elastic capacity without losing control over data, security, and quality of service. 

This white paper provides a general overview of SAM benefits, and then addresses the specific issues involved in getting SAM up and running in your organization. 

<p>You need to maintain control over your data center as it expands, regardless of where it is physically located. This white paper describes a management tool that can assist you in this process by gathering real-time data, enhancing infrastructure efficiency, and more.</p> 

Challenges to control fixed assets include lack of accurate physical asset inventories and inadequate tools and resources to adapt to changing tax laws and methods. Read this white paper to learn best practices for managing fixed assets and how control will help you save time and money. 

It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams. 

This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs. 

In this new Quest white paper, learn about the challenges of managing Active Directory using native tools – and how provisioning in your diverse environment is equally difficult. Then, discover a third-party solution that not only delivers a comprehensive provisioning solution, but one that makes it quick, easy and painless.