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whitepaper Achieving Efficient Governance Risk and Compliance through Process and Automation2009-10-01 Epicor Software
  This white paper presents a low risk, high impact approach to gaining control of regulatory compliance. The procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet organizations that can master these activities, operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands. Learn how Governance, Risk, and Compliance technologies can help by downloading this white paper now.

Tags: Security Administration, Security Administration, IT Budgeting, Regulatory Compliance		   
whitepaper Which UPS is right for the job?2009-09-28 Eaton
  Traditionally, data center managers and facilities managers could choose from three UPS topologies: standby, line-interactive and double-conversion—offering widely varying levels of efficiency, performance and protection.

The latest generation of double-conversion UPSs offers unique multi-mode capabilities. The UPS operates in a very high-efficiency mode unless power conditions warrant a switch to the higher protective level typical of double-conversion mode.

This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance: • Maintaining voltage within tolerances • Transferring among modes without locking up IT equipment • Transitioning gracefully to and from generator power • Reliability and availability • Energy efficiency

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Office Equipment, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper 10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers2009-09-28 Eaton
  Once, IT was just another important business resource. Today, IT is the business for many companies.

Without it, most organizations would be incapable of serving customers, collaborating with partners, developing new products or performing other basic business functions.

As a result, data center availability has become an essential precondition to competitiveness and profitability.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Enterprise Risk Management for Colleges and Universities2009-09-23 Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services
  New opportunities and challenges emerge every day for colleges and universities. In this dynamic environment, institutions face uncertainty over whether they will achieve their goals. Uncertainty derives from unpredictable internal and external factors. With uncertainty, the risks of achieving institutional goals can become intricately and hugely challenging. Enterprise Risk Management ("ERM") is a way to better manage the challenge. This paper begins with a brief introduction to ERM and then provides detailed practical guidance on how an institution can implement ERM.   
whitepaper Green IT Impact Calculator2009-09-22 Dell
  Quantify the Impact of Green IT Virtualization Investments. Welcome to the Green IT Impact Calculator. This worksheet enables you to estimate the impact of virtualization investments to drive Green IT benefits within your organization. Simply check off areas of importance to you and provide your internal estimates. Your input will be used with the business results from more than one hundred peers to quantify virtual server investment impact.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Server Hardware, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Tripwire Proves Configuration Control Is a Best Seller With Auditors and IT2009-09-19 Tripwire
  Since 1995, MarketLive, Inc. has focused exclusively on providing enterprise-class e-commerce retail technology and services that help mid-sized businesses successfully sell goods and services online. The challenge was to deliver a single PCI compliant solution that serves all clients, to improve change control processes and to reduce unplanned work caused by inefficient operations. Tripwire Enterprise provides configuration control for file servers and databases that meets the needs of PCI compliance and provides auditors with comprehensive reports that prove risk control. With Tripwire's visibility of change for servers and databases, changes that are in exception to policy are escalated for investigation, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone rebuilds.

Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Keeping Banking Infrastructure Secure With Tripwire Software2009-09-19 Tripwire
  Members of the British and French Rothschild families set up Rothschild Bank AG in Zurich in 1968. The challenge was to attain visibility across a multi-location, multi-platform IT infrastructure, to implement an automated, cost-efficient method for monitoring change activity and to establish accountability through more stringent change and access control. Tripwire Enterprise automatically monitors change across multiple platforms, including servers and Active Directory, providing complete visibility of change activity throughout the IT. Tripwire analyzes changes, reconciling authorized from unauthorized, and providing the information needed for managing risk and ensure security of financial systems.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Tripwire Rings Up Compliance and Fuels Efficiency for This Busy Regional Company2009-09-19 Tripwire
  Starting as a refinery outlet in 1952, Wesco has grown to a regional company that includes wholesale energy division, filling stations, convenience stores, distribution center, training facility and bakery. The challenge was to become PCI compliant with minimal impact to IT staff, to increase and enforce change management processes and discipline and to reduce unplanned work. Tripwire Enterprise's configuration control solution specifically addresses many PCI requirements and provides auditors with comprehensive reports that prove effective risk control. Tripwire detects and documents all changes so that IT staff can quickly troubleshoot any service incident, and return systems to a known state.

Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Mastering Virtualized Environments2009-09-18 IBM
  Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implementations. Virtualization offers organizations of all sizes the opportunity to reduce the physical footprint of their data centers by enabling IT resource sharing and increasing utilization.

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the pressing need and strategies to master the management challenges of your virtualized environment with a new breed of service management solutions:
  • Discover and visualize the physical and virtual environments and their relationships as well as the need to rapidly provision the virtual environment.
  • Optimize the execution and maintenance of workloads as well as managing virtualized storage efficiently.
  • Learn how to manage software licensing to ensure cost-effectiveness and allocate IT costs appropriately.


Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Automating Change Management Responsibly2009-09-17 IBM
 
Automating Change Management Responsibly

Please join Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates and Stephen Nunn, Associate Partner of Accenture to discuss the economic and procedural value of process automation in your environment. Dennis will provide an overview of the advantages of automating IT processes citing industry statistics indicating automation is becoming evermore important in a challenging economic environment. He then outlines specific areas within the IT process domain that can be automated and specific items that should be considered with their automation. Dennis finishes with a more in-depth look at automating the Change process in a responsible and acceptable manner. Stephen will follow Dennis with a presentation on how Tivoli Automation solutions help Accenture's customers reduce costs and create operational efficiencies. His presentation will illustrate through examples how the implementation of process automation can and does provide tangible positive results.

Join this live webcast today!

Speakers:

Stephen Nunn, Associate Partner, Accenture

Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Research, IT Megatrends, Analytics and CMDB Systems, EMA

Tags: IT Budgeting, Enterprise Planning, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting