The release of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) version 6 from IBM has sparked numerous questions from existing TSM v5 customers. This white paper is designated for existing TSM v5 customers who would like to explore the options for upgrading to the latest and greatest release of TSM. 

From its inception, Tivoli Storage Manager was designed to be a highly scalable and available data protection solution. However, Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 takes data protection scalability to the next level with a new relational database, based on IBM DB2® technology, designed to store many more objects and manage more data. 

CloudBurst is a ready to go system complete with software, platform, and the services to make you productive immediately. This tightly integrated system encompasses your networking fabric, storage fabric and compute fabric complete with service management. 

The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies. 

In an economic downturn, IT must do more with less while delivering better application service levels to users. Compuware Vantage helps pinpoint application problem areas to improve application performance and avoid unnecessary investments. 

Business continuity is a comprehensive business solution that outlines the strategies, plans and actions a business must implement to ensure persistent operations. A complete business continuity solution includes strategies for physical location, equipment, and personnel, as well as business and IT systems. 

In this paper Gomez poses several questions to Tim Grieser, vice president of IDC's Enterprise System Management Software program, on behalf of Gomez's customers. Read on to learn the answers to some of the most important questions regarding web-based applications. 

Read this paper to learn why Load Testing 2.0 solutions are needed and who benefits. Learn best practices to get business value out of advanced load testing features, the limits of load testing 1.0 solutions, how today's approach complements existing 1.0 solutions, and what factors are important for selecting successful Load Testing 2.0 solutions. 

Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This webcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI. 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008. 

This white paper reviews the technology spectrum available for IBM i and AIX environments, including the latest, next-generation solutions, with a goal of preparing IT professionals to evaluate and adopt those most effective and appropriate for their organization. 

How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software. 

Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system.