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whitepaper Bet Your Excel Spreadsheet Can't Do This - Align IT and Business with Demand Management2008-05-01 Serena Software
  In this white paper, renowned Project Portfolio Management (PPM) luminary, and former PMI President and Chairman, Harvey Levine discusses the newest approaches to Demand Management, and how you and your company can easily manage, evaluate, and execute on your resource demands. After reading this white paper you will have a clear understanding of:
  • What Demand Management is (basic and advanced)
  • Common sources of demand on resources
  • How to approach various Demand Management scenarios


Tags: Strategic Planning, Methodology, Services, IT Reliability		   
whitepaper Planning-Based Scheduling for SLA-Awareness and Grid Integration2007-11-19 University of Paderborn
  Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are powerful instruments for describing all obligations and expectations in a business relationship. It is of focal importance for deploying Grid technology to commercial applications. The EC-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids) aimed at introducing SLA-awareness in local resource management systems, while the EC-funded project AssessGrid introduced the notion of risk, which is associated with every business contract. This paper highlights the concept of planning based resource management and describes the SLA-aware scheduler developed and used in these projects.

Tags: SLA, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Efficient Resource Virtualization and Sharing Strategies for Heterogeneous Grid Environments2007-02-27 IBM
  Resource virtualization has emerged as a powerful technique for customized resource provisioning in grid and data center environments. This paper describes efficient strategies for policy-based controlling of virtualization of the physical resources. With these strategies, virtualization is controlled taking into account workload requirements, available capacities of physical resources, and the governing policies. Realizing this control requires simultaneous handling of three problems: determining the virtual resource configurations, the mapping of resulting virtual resources to physical resources, and the mapping of workloads to the virtual resources. The paper pose this as an optimization problem and solve this problem using a Linear Programming (LP) based approach. It evaluates this approach by implementing it in the Harmony grid environment consisting of heterogeneous resources and heterogeneous workload.

Tags: High Performance Computing, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Forrester Best Practices: How IT Must Shape and Manage Demand2007-02-12 13:27:17 FrontRange Solutions
  Download the Forrester Research white paper, "How IT Must Shape and Manage Demand," to read about best practices in IT demand management, a critical IT governance process that:
  • Aligns IT resources to optimize business value
  • Influences and modifies end user behavior by providing meaningful information
  • Enables a more complete understanding of the costs and tradeoffs associated with the consumption of IT services and resources
The paper explains how the increased transparency you gain through the process of demand management leads to improved decision-making and increases the business value of your IT investments. 		  
whitepaper Next Generation Continuity Solution for Exchange Email Server2007-01-05 NEC Corporation of America
  When it comes to protecting your Microsoft Exchange server, you need a continuity solution that:
  • Mitigates both planned and unplanned downtime
  • Integrates application and data protection
  • Offers support for synchronous and asynchronous data mirroring
  • Provides high availability for quick disaster recovery
Download this white paper from NEC to read about NEC ExpressCluster X, a complete and versatile Exchange continuity solution that's intuitive, efficient, and affordable. 		  
whitepaper Reduce Costs, Minimize Risk and Improve Network Performance with Managed Services2006-12-13 01:00:20 Siemens
  Managed services are among the fastest growing segments of the IT/networking industry. This THINKstrategies white paper shows how enterprises can leverage managed services to reduce costs, minimize risk, and improve network performance.   
whitepaper The Middleware [R]evolution2007-01-05 11:42:21 Oracle
  How did middleware evolve from a necessary evil—proprietary plumbing that glued disparate systems together—to one of the most strategic areas of IT and business today? Enter SOA. Service-oriented architectures get many of their core services directly from middleware. Those services include:
  • Security functionality
  • Deployment and management capabilities
  • Business intelligence
  • Content and collaboration tools
  • Portal capabilities
To learn more about the important role that middleware plays within an SOA, read this short white paper from Oracle.

  
whitepaper Oracle and Microsoft: Interoperability Pays Business Dividends2007-01-05 11:42:07 Oracle
  While Oracle and Microsoft have been competitors historically and still compete in key areas such as the database, both companies recognize that their technologies must work together to drive business value. So rather than choosing one environment over the other—and ripping and replacing existing IT investments—savvy companies are using middleware to integrate Oracle and Microsoft technologies. Download this white paper to learn more about middleware and how it can help your company derive maximum value from its Oracle and Microsoft investments.

  
whitepaper Osterman Research: A Comparison of Leading Messaging Management Tools2006-12-14 19:21:43 Sunbelt Software
  To understand organizations' perceptions about various email management systems, Sunbelt Software engaged Osterman Research to survey organizations that are using five different email management systems including Barracuda Spam Firewall, GFI MailEssentials, McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange, and Symantec Brightmail. This white paper presents the results of that survey, comparing Sunbelt Software's Messaging Ninja with the other four systems. The tools were evaluated on these key criteria:
  • Anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, and attachment filtering capabilities
  • Improvements in spam capture efficiency
    over time
  • Improvements in anti-spam false positive performance over time
  • Ease of use
  • Reliability
  • Person-hours spent on system deployment
    (per 1,000 users)
  • Person-hours required for system management (per 1,000 users)
This paper is a must-read for any IT strategist or e-mail administrator who's actively researching messaging management tools for a mid-market enterprise. 		  
whitepaper Coaching Techniques for Dealing with Underperformers2006-11-29 08:17:40 Global Knowledge Network
  How, then, do we deal fairly and firmly with under-performing employees? The secret is to give effective feedback on a regular basis, link that feedback to a 6-12 month coaching plan, link individual coaching plans to your company's performance review process (if you have one), and, if the situation warrants, link that to progressive discipline