This highly detailed overview explains how to manage the setup of a Virtual Machine Monitor, discussing healthy implementation and problems that can occur. 

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents. 

Read the "Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)" chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to leverage DAM to prevent SQL injection attacks, monitor privileged users and track access to sensitive data. 

Read this white paper to learn about IBM's business process management solution, WebSphere Business Monitor software, which enables your organization to measure, monitor, and report on business process performance as well as identify and correct problems. 

Atrium needed help gaining end-to-end service level monitoring insights and finding a monitoring platform with a strategic vendor partnership that could help support business growth objectives. Read this case study to learn about the problems Atrion faced and how Nimsoft products helped them overcome those challenges. 

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. 

NetBotz protection brings a crucial layer of physical security to any IT environment—big or small—by constantly monitoring and protecting your IT assets from environmental threats and human error. 

Monitoring mainframe performance is something every data center does. This quick video explains a set of software solutions that can help out with mainframe monitoring by observing and managing performance, providing visibility, and improving availability while reducing costs. Watch the video now to learn more. 

This BMC webcast will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems. 

Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs. 

Lights-Out IT Management refers to the automation of both problem identification and problem resolution. The successful implementation of Lights-Out IT Management is built upon an integrated system that provides three key management functions: find, configure, and monitor. Read on to learn more.