Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment. 

This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes. 

Watch this videocast to learn about a management tool that monitors your data center's physical infrastructure throughout its entire lifecycle, helping protect it from physical threats. Learn how you can leverage this tool to improve temperature and humidity monitoring, decrease malware and compliance threats. 

Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM. 

This paper explains the importance of IP address management, discusses the criteria for an ideal IP address management solution, and explains the features and advantages of the Infoblox IP address management solution. 

Tracking and identifying virtual machines on physical hosts or sorting out the source of I/O bottlenecks requires administrators to do a lot of investigative work. Software management tools can help, but well developed business processes are also important. Learn some tips and tricks to make managing virtual environments a little bit easier. 

Security information management systems can now be used for proactive risk management and business intelligence. This Essentials Guide explains how this can be achieved. Read on to find articles that cover topics like today's SIM trends, incident response, threat management, and data analysis. 

To regularly monitor and measure performance, senior managers require a link between their company’s strategic and operational plans. Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard can help you define a methodology-neutral strategy and measure performance against goals, monitor progress on a regular basis, and communicate across your entire enterprise. 

Operational data governance is the process of evaluating data to see if data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance. 

In this presentation transcript, learn about a unified approach to IT management. Discover how to decrease complexity introduced by virtualization and cloud computing to ensure optimal performance of your virtual and physical environments. 

This podcast explores how you can achieve the promise of SOA without compromising your architecture or getting locked into a single-vendor approach. Listen as Giles Nelson presents his views on the challenges that enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements, deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements.