Today’s data centres lack an established system for classifying software management tools, causing many IT pros to struggle with identifying which tools are necessary to ensure secure and efficient data centre operations. This resource divides the realm of data centre management tools into four distinct subsets and provides examples of each. 

<p>The widespread adoption of unified communications (UC) only proves its importance to the workplace. In this resource, uncover the benefits of and case for adding visual communications and video to your UC strategy.</p> 

This resource divides the data center management tools into four distinct subsets and provides definitions and examples of each. Learn how you can determine which physical infrastructure management tools are needed to operate a data center. 

This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more. 

Many organizations struggle to carry on the processes of multiple large data integration and SOA projects for reconstructing data flows, ontologies, transformations and more. This paper addresses the obstacles faced when attempting data projects and the strategic plans for overcoming these issues to attain a higher ROI and reduce overall cost. 

Mobile operators are in a unique position to capitalise on the M2M (Machine to machine) opportunity with operators such as Vodafone, o2, Verizon and KPN already putting significant resources into developing M2M business units. 

Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference. 

In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management. 

Access this essential resource to discover how data centre infrastructure management tools can help with daily maintenance operations, data analytics, planning and much more – all while driving down your bottom line. 

This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security. 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources.