This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference presents a practical 5 step plan toward achieving greater standards of database security and compliance. These steps consist of discovering, securing, monitoring, protecting and managing your databases. Download the slides to learn more. 

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. 

On this webcast I'm going to put on my drill sergeant's hat and we're going to learn the basics that every network engineer, server chick, network manager, or IT dude should know about managing networks. This is going to be a no-frills webcast where we focus on the fundamentals and making sure that we all understand them. 

Blackboard needs a highly available, very scalable platform for its mission-critical learning management system offered through managed hosting from six global data centers. Ease of set-up and monitoring are of paramount importance. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers and Intel processors make it happen. 

Hear from Forrester Research experts to learn about 5 key business and technology trends that are enabling companies to reduce costs AND ensure web application performance. 

In this video, learn how to close a Microsoft Hyper-V VM with Systems Center virtual machine manager. 

This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff. 

High-performing organizations take a more practice-based and practical, approach to measuring, managing and enhancing IT performance. Adopt new, flexible solutions to support the way that your organization uses IT to drive operational excellence. 

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. 

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. 

This demo provides an overview of challenges in monitoring and troubleshooting network performance issues in the diverse world of applications, and provides an overview of how Blue Coat helps you see traffic at the application level, track user performance, monitor voice and video quality, effectively troubleshoot and RESOLVE performance problems. 

Quickly implementing an ERP software solution can be of tremendous benefit. Read this white paper to learn about easy-to-follow best practices for achieving a successful accelerated implementation.