In this demonstration you will get an inside look at Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), and learn Dell AIM's value add in highly virtualized environments. 

This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

Faced with limited budgets and even leaner staff resources, small companies realize that making the most of in-house talent is critical to executing on strategic goals. Read this paper to learn how automating performance appraisal and measuring every employee against clear, objective goals can improve execution of a small company's strategy. 

This report introduces best practices for understanding and improving the performance of mission-critical networked applications and provides pointers for what to look for in a measurement tool in a WAN optimized environment. 

This paper outlines the five fundamentals for a successful FCR program. 

Using groups effectively in Microsoft Operations Manager can customize the Operations Manager console for your users, provide more actionable alerting and can automatically react to changes in your environment. Read this white paper now to learn more. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is gaining traction in today's constantly changing and complex application environment. This paper outlines the increasing need for such a solution, offering insight into the five dimensions of modern APM, how to ensure a positive end-user experience, how to measure APM and so much more. 

Computing infrastructure today is highly versatile and this has many benefits for businesses. Unfortunately, it also has downsides; use that infrastructure unintelligently and costs can get out of control. 

In this tutorial on Site Recovery Manager disaster recovery best practices, learn what you need in place to use VMware Site Recovery Manager, how to test and execute your recovery plans, and if Site Recovery Manager would be a good fit for your company's disaster recovery strategy. 

In late 2004 and early 2005, DB Kay & Associates conducted a market survey to uncover the best practices for deploying Virtual Support Networks. 

This expert e-guide will help you formulate an application performance management strategy. Read this now and learn about certain techniques that can help your agile development team prevent potential problems before deploying apps. Discover why communication is an essential component to preventing problems, as well as three testing models. 

Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management.