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Taking Cost and Risk Out with IBM POWER7 Systems for SAP Environments by IBM August 02, 2010 - (Free Research) In February of this year, IBM announced the new POWER7 System designed to manage the most demanding, emerging applications. Optimized for SAP applications, POWER7 redefines the standards of performance, throughput, and energy usage. Read this presentation transcript for more details.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Implementing an IT energy management plan for real savings by IBM November 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper will help you understand the functionality included with Active Energy Manager and assist you in developing a plan to unleash the potential of an energy-optimised data center.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM z/OS Mainframe Security and Audit Management Using the IBM Security zSecure Suite by IBM August 31, 2011 - (Free Research) Discover how the IBM Security zSecure suite contains the components you need to manage your mainframe, monitor for threats, audit usage and configurations, and enforce policies to ensure compliance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Worst Practices in BI: Why Business Intelligence (BI) Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) June 2007 - (Free Research) Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Reduce CPU Usage with 'SMART' SQL by BMC Software, Inc. November 2009 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2. We'll look at how to write SMART applications rather than writing applications that act like generic I/O modules to DB2, properly tune SMART SQL, and how to exploit SQL and application features in DB2 on z/OS version 8 and 9.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Save Money on Mainframe Hardware and Software: Five Simple Steps to Managing MIPS by Compuware Corporation September 2009 - (Free Research) This paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Expert Tips for Preventing a Datacenter Power Crisis and Curbing Energy Usage by Raritan Inc. December 2010 - (Free Research) In this expert e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, gain insight into how to monitor data center power growth and curb power demand. Learn key techniques for preventing a power crisis, including consolidating servers and optimizing data center design. And discover data center management tools that can help lower energy usage.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Impact of IT Upgrades on Energy Usage and Operational Cost by PTS Data Center Solutions October 2010 - (Free Research) Through this white paper, PTS Data Center Solutions (PTS) personnel validate these energy efficiency savings estimates using the upgrade of the IT system within its own data center facility and operations as a test bed.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Prepare For Vendor Audits and Improve Software Asset Management with Integrated IBM Solutions by IBM December 2010 - (Free Research) Read on to learn how effective software asset management can support both cost effectiveness and cost efficiency through automation and by matching inventory with actual deployments, thereby helping to reduce over- and under-licensing.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Veeam Monitor for VMware Infrastructure by Veeam Software March 2008 - (Free Research) With monitoring and alerting designed for the virtual world, support for troubleshooting, trending and capacity planning, Veeam Monitor equips you to proactively manage VI3 system performance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Simpler Database Migrations Have Arrived! IBM, ANTs Software, And EnterpriseDB Offer Innovative New Options by IBM June 2011 - (Free Research) Application developers and DBAs looking to migrate databases due to cost concerns, staffing problems, or technology issues should consider this new database compatability layer option to mitigate risk, lower migration cost, and speed the migration process.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g & 11g: Account Security (Complimentary Chapter Download) by IBM December 2010 - (Free Research) Read this chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to secure Oracle by checking for weak passwords, configuring failed login policies, preventing DoS attacks with resource limits, and auditing user profiles.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM reduces costs of its mainframe environment with service management initiative by IBM August 2011 - (Free Research) This brief paper details how IBM IT Delivery organization streamlines IT management efforts to reduce costs, minimize service disruptions and lower energy costs with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Watson – A System Designed for Answers by IBM February 2012 - (Free Research) Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Confidently maximize virtual investments with IBM Integrated Service Management by IBM August 2011 - (Free Research) IBM IT service management solutions help control costs, enhance performance and increase security in the virtual environment, with software for IT provisioning, IT monitoring, virtual storage, IT security, usage and accounting, software license management and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Data Center Facilities for IT E-Book, Chapter 4: Data Center Design and Build Out by Schneider Electric October 2011 - (Free Research) In this expert e-book from our editors, learn how to visualize each phase of your data center construction project and its energy usage. Discover topics such as: the true cost of construction, design firm selection criteria, and much more.  (EBOOK)

Building a Highly Reliable SAN by Dell, Inc. December 2008 - (Free Research) System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. This paper covers how to reduce and eliminate downtime.  (TECHNICAL ARTICLE) READ ABSTRACT |

Building a Highly Reliable SAN by Dell, Inc. December 2008 - (Free Research) System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. This paper covers how to reduce and eliminate downtime.  (TECHNICAL ARTICLE) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM Multiform Master Data Management: The Evolution of MDM Applications by IBM June 2007 - (Free Research) IBM Multiform Master Data Management manages master data domains - customers, accounts, products - that have significant impact on the most important business processes and realize the promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network by IBM December 2010 - (Free Research) The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

2012 Trends to Watch: Storage by ComputerWeekly.com February 2012 - (Free Research) Ovum analyses data growth, big data, disk shortages, public cloud storage, flash memory, and other storage trends.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

Intel Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Xeon Processor-based Platforms: Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform by Intel June 2010 - (Free Research) Cloud service providers, cloud hosters, and enterprise IT personnel who are looking to offer cloud computing services to their customers or internal users can learn much from this use case about the reference architecture, which can be used as a baseline to build more complex usage and deployment models to suit specific customer needs.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM WebSphere Distributed Caching Products by IBM June 2012 - (Free Research) In today's tech environment, your enterprise systems are seeing higher levels of traffic and more usage spikes due to the proliferation of mobile devices. In this white paper, learn how you can scale your business-critical applications and systems, while maintaining high performance to keep customers satisfied.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Guide: A Guide to Managing Data Center Power Outages and Consumption by APC by Schneider Electric April 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert E-Guide, you will discover best practices for managing data center power usage, how to prevent power outages and learn how to ensure your data center has enough power to operate at optimal capacity. It'll also discuss 5 essential steps for reducing data center power consumtion.  (E-LEARNING TUTORIAL) READ ABSTRACT |

Building a Highly Reliable SAN by Dell | EqualLogic December 2008 - (Free Research) System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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