This informative paper describes the implications of managing the availability of IT infrastructure across the enterprise and looks at the typical cost of downtime for various industries and regions. Read today for best practices to minimize downtime and discover the role of support and advance support services in maximizing system performance. 

This article examines what management tools are needed to provide functionality to your IT security needs with no additional overhead or expenditure. These tools are often already in place to provide performance management and monitoring. 

One approach to improving overall system performance is the use of a class of Traffic Management Device commonly referred to as a WAN Accelerator. This paper details the results of using one such solution. 

Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. 

Read this paper on enterprise performance to learn about financial and reporting requirements, when to adopt integrated enterprise performance management processes and system software, and hear about customer examples. 

As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE. 

Organizations need to adopt best practices and avoid common traps in order to implement a leading-edge Strategic Performance Management approach. 

Midmarket organizations are transforming their IT infrastructure to better accommodate the needs of the business. In many cases, these organizations lack the tools to properly monitor virtualized environments and meet SLAs. Riverbed has recognized this gap and is delivering a full featured, scalable solution that is priced for the midmarket. 

This paper discusses what IT Governance entails, the business decisions that must be made prior to technology investment and implementation, the features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that encourage end-user adoption yet reveal unique governance challenges, and solutions available for enhancing Microsoft’s native governance functionality. 

This paper explains an evolutionary approach to Service Level Management (SLM) that enables organizations at any stage of IT development to successfully implement SLM and begin contributing more to the business bottom line. 

This white paper examines performance practices that represent the best chance for any organization-regardless of its size and market presence-to gain alignment and win more than its fair share of the online market opportunity.