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whitepaper Outsourcing for Success - The Retained Organization: Transforming Your Team for Operational Excellence2009-07-30 novusorigo.com
  The requirements for the advanced planning and design of a skilled retained organization are paramount to the success of any outsourcing relationship, and should be facilitated early on in the outsourcing process. Additionally, key success factors in the design and implementation of a retained organization include; the ability of the team to operate against new processes and methodologies, having a clear understanding of what transactions are being outsourced, properly selecting retained resources based on skills and requirements, the understanding of all knowledge transfer requirements, and the ability to provide strong leadership to implement communications and change management.

Tags: Project Management, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Market-Based Resource Allocation for Distributed Computing2009-07-16 Information Processing Society of Japan
  Market-based resource allocation is expected to be an effective mechanism to allocate resources in a cloud computing environment, where the resources are virtualized and delivered to users as services. This paper proposes a market mechanism to efficiently allocate multiple computation/storage services among multiple participants, or the Cloud Service Exchange. The proposed mechanism enables users to order a combination of arbitrary services in a co-allocation or a workflow manner, and to receive future/current services at the forward/spot market. The evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism scales up to probable situations.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, 		  
whitepaper Don't make do, do more with IT optimization.2009-07-14 IBM
  Small to medium-sized businesses often find themselves forced to do more with fewer resources. IT optimization strategies such as consolidation and virtualization help reduce complexity, free up resources and support growth. This article explains how optimization enables agility and maximizes efficiency, so your business can be more competitive.

Tags: IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, Government, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Vendor Landscape: Web Conferencing; Show Me, Don't Just Tell Me2009-07-01 Adobe Systems
  While core Web conferencing features have become commodities, vendors are bringing specialized products to market for training, sales and team support, and marketing events. Use Info-Tech's Web conferencing vendor landscape to compare vendor and product options.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Cisco and Fluke Networks End-to-End Application Performance Management Solution for Managed Services2009-07-01 Cisco Systems
  By taking advantage of APM solutions from Cisco and Fluke Networks, MSPs and IT departments that operate in a similar manner have full visibility into application performance and can align network resources and control utilization according to business priority and application requirements and accelerate the performance of applications to essentially any user. These technologies provide the foundation for visibility, control, and optimization and enable the organization to employ SLAs based on application performance metrics to help ensure consistent performance throughout the network and provide the information necessary to confidently analyze essentially any performance challenge that may arise in the future.   
whitepaper Understanding the Components of Business Confidence2009-07-01 IBM
  Companies of all sizes and in all sectors are investing significant resources in improving their business effectiveness. Their efforts focus on a number of key areas, including technologies to improve efficiencies and remove bottlenecks, human resources to select and equip the best and the brightest, and processes to maximize the precision of delivered services and ensure organizational knowledge is carried forward. While these investments seem to take on added urgency during times of economic distress, they must really be seen as integral to ongoing business planning and operations.   
whitepaper Data Center Automation in an Uncertain Economy2009-06-04 IBM
  Today, organizations just like yours are under greater than ever pressures to do more with less. Many are implementing virtualization as a means to reduce costs. However, managing a virtualized environment presents its own unique challenges.

Reducing ongoing data center costs, improving utilization, and cost avoidance are three key areas where IBM can help, especially with our data center automation solutions. Effective management and automation of your virtualized environment can help you realize the benefits of virtualization with faster payback and drive down IT costs.

Ptak, Noel & Associates analyst Jasmine Noel will share her findings on how Tivoli's data center automation solutions can help you reduce costs and get your payback faster by automating complex tasks and processes in the datacenter. You'll also hear from Kendall Lock, director of IBM's Rome Lab, about how the lab is using some of Tivoli's own solutions to gain improved operational efficiency.

Register today to attend this live IBM event on July 14th, 2009 at 12:00 PM ET / 9 AM PT.

Speakers:

Jasmine Noel, Founding Partner, Ptak, Noel and Associates

Kendall Lock, Director, IBM SWG Rome Lab Software Development Facility

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Can your business work smarter?2009-06-03 IBM
  Today, productivity is at a premium and IT budgets are at a minimum. Work smarter with IBM Lotus Symphony - a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations - available at no charge.

Tags: IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, Office Suites		   
whitepaper Green Networking in the Data Center2009-06-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Today, advanced technology ecosystems are what fuel business. This surge of technology is one that presents new capabilities but greater challenges as companies look to meet their business needs. However, this comes with an increasing impact on the environment in which one lives. Over the past thirty years, increased awareness of effect on the environment has developed into a "Green" movement toward more economic and environmental sustainability. In response to this growing need, governmental agencies around the world are working to define and enforce regulations to help mitigate the inefficient use of natural resources and reduce hazardous waste disposal.

Tags: IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Consolidated IT Event Management: Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency2009-06-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  During a downturn, it's hard to see the upside. Today, revenues are down and budgets have fallen along with them. Companies have frozen capital expenditures and the push is on to cut the costs of operations. In such an environment, companies look hard to create efficiencies wherever possible. For IT, this means intense pressure to do far more with existing resources.

Tags: Management