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IT Management includes a variety of functions for managing computers in a networked environment, including software distribution, version control, backup & recovery, job scheduling, virus protection and performance and capacity planning.

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5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jun 26, 2006
Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.
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Riverbed
A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
By : SAP Published Date: Dec 01, 2007
Learn how to make better decisions through IT: Efficiency is at the heart of your business goals—whether it is efficient operations, customer interactions, financial transactions, or human resources support. If your company is operating efficiently, you make faster, smarter decisions, respond quickly to market changes, reduce costs, and consistently meet performance standards.
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SAP
A Dynamic Force for Optimizing IT Operations
By : HP Service Management Published Date: May 19, 2008
As IT's role is morphing away from being a cost center towards being a competitive business enabler, making wise investments in technology can enable a more collaborative and automated way of working. See why Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) says HP's integrated ITIL-based service lifecycle approach reflects a strong sense of modularity and flexibility in support of CMDB deployments, intelligent analytics, automation, and business alignment.
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HP Service Management
Bill 198 and Internal Controls for Technology
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jul 05, 2007
Find out about the requirements and issues addressed in corporate governance Bill 198, Canada's version of Sarbanes-Oxley, for internal controls for technology and how IT configuration auditing brings compliance.
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Tripwire
BlackBerry Platform Management: Mobile User Management with ITIL and ITSM
By : BoxTone Published Date: Apr 16, 2008
For advanced enterprise BlackBerry administrators only. IT Service Management (ITSM) - as defined by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – is now the required approach to ensure superior BlackBerry service levels at the lowest possible cost. Read this White Paper to see how ITSM/ITIL can transform your approach to mobile user management.
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BoxTone
Compliance. Protection. Recovery. A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Corporations
By : Absolute Software Published Date: Feb 20, 2008
This paper discusses the problems IT departments face with laptop theft, mobile data protection, IT asset tracking, and regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and California Senate Bill 1386.
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Absolute Software
Compliance. Protection. Recovery. A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Government
By : Absolute Software Published Date: Aug 14, 2006
This paper discusses the problems IT departments in government agencies face with laptop theft, mobile data protection, IT asset tracking, and regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and California Senate Bill 1386.
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Absolute Software
Don't Dread that Network Audit: Compliance with Government Regulation and Industry Standards
By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
Security administrators need to be more proactive about preventing attacks, making vulnerability assessments a crucial tool in their portfolio.
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Qualys
Enforcing IT Change Management Policy
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.
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Tripwire
Executive Guide to Understanding Business Requirements
By : IAG Consulting Published Date: Nov 01, 2006
This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.

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IAG Consulting
Enterprise Architecture Is More Than Engineering
By : Burton Group Published Date: May 06, 2008
While many enterprise architecture (EA) programs may be less than effective or threatened by extinction, the EA discipline is still an important set of skills and processes that improve IT decision-making and CIO effectiveness. Yet, after decades of architecting systems, the advent of several EA frameworks, and the many definitions available for the term EA, we still strive to understand what EA is, what it does, and what it looks like when it is successful.
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Burton Group
Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps
By : IAG Consulting Published Date: Aug 17, 2007
Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don’t cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements – the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.
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IAG Consulting
Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking IT Assets
By : Absolute Software Published Date: Mar 05, 2008
Discover how Grant Thornton standardized its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of leased computers to reduce loss rates, achieve regulatory compliance and drive down total cost of ownership. By tightly controlling all network end-points, Grant Thornton was able to achieve close to 0% loss of all mobile IT assets.
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Absolute Software
IT Service Management Metrics That Matter
By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 07, 2007
Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.
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Tripwire
IT Asset Management Basics: A Guide to Increasing Value
By : CA SM Published Date: Nov 16, 2007
According to industry experts, organizations that systematically manage the life cycle of their IT assets will reduce the cost per asset by as much as 30% in the first year alone. Yet today, many organizations have little or no insight into exactly what assets they own, let alone how they can optimize assets throughout their life cycle, from requisition to disposal. The same holds true for major IT investments.
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CA SM
Keeping Up Your SOX Compliance and Turning IT into a High Performer by Improving Change Control
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jan 26, 2007
This paper covers the implementation, disclosure and ongoing evaluation of internal controls for SOX compliance with a focus on the role of IT, as well as the penalties for non-compliance.
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Tripwire
On-Demand Vulnerability Management
By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
Learn how to start your own self-auditing process by setting goals and answering key questions about your infrastructure. This podcast examines what to look for in a self-audition solution, how to use vulnerability management to ease the pain and why your software solution really matters.
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Qualys
Service-Oriented Architecture: Developing the Enterprise Roadmap
By : Burton Group Published Date: Jul 13, 2006
Most large enterprises have launched an initiative to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), but SOA is not a solution that comes in a tidy little box. SOA is a new way to design systems, and it is more about culture than it is about technology. SOA will impact many aspects of an organization—from software development and operations to accounting and incentive systems. Governance is critical.
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Burton Group
There's a Hole in Your Network: Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery
By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
Learn how vulnerability management allows you to keep on top of these problems by identifying an organization's greatest security vulnerabilities and proactively recommending fixes.
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Qualys
The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery in i5/OS (AS/400) and AIX Environments
By : Vision Solutions Published Date: Aug 23, 2007
This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution. Readers will be able to quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT.
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Vision Solutions
What's Missing from SEM? Security Management is More than Event Management
By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jan 10, 2007
This white paper identifies what is required for a comprehensive and integrated security management solution and examines the difference between SEM, SIM and SIEM and the challenges of enterprise level security monitoring.
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NetIQ Corporation
An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.
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iWay Software
Butler Group on iWay Service Manager
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006
iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.
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iWay Software
Datacenter Power & Cooling Problems? Here are 3 Innovations
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Sep 14, 2006
Download this IDC white paper from HP, that cites 3 new technologies designed to quickly identify and address the key TCO operating expense issues facing today's data centers, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, power and cooling.
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HP BladeSystem
Economist: A New Mandate for IT
By : SAP Published Date: Apr 25, 2006
Innovation is no stranger to the information technology function. Armed with increasingly sophisticated applications, IT-led teams have consistently found new ways to streamline enterprise business processes, vastly improving operating efficiency and reducing costs. Corporate leaders, however, are raising the bar: they expect IT’s core mission to expand from cost-cutting to enabling revenue generation within a short period of time.
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SAP