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BMC Software Solutions Integrate and Automate ITIL Best Practices |
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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management. ITIL defines terminology and processes across IT organizations by providing a common language and set of standards for quality IT service. If you are looking to implement ITIL, it is crucial that you understand how specific solutions support ITIL guidelines.
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ITIL and CMDB Synergy: Enhanced Service Management |
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IT organizations that want to achieve the full business value from their service management initiatives need consistent, current, accurate, and secure information. That’s why an increasing number of these organizations are seriously looking at how a configuration management database (CMDB) can help them manage their infrastructure more effectively.
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Network Change and Configuration Management: Optimize Reliability, Minimize Risk and Reduce Costs |
| By : CA WA |
Published Date: Feb 27, 2008 |
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One of the most dramatic innovations in the infrastructure management marketplace in the last five years is the rise of Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) as a strategic requirement. This white paper will focus on the strong values that NCCM can bring to reliability, risk and cost management, as well as some of its powerful operational and lifecycle asset values. This report will also introduce the CA SPECTRUM Network Configuration Manager as a distinctive leadership offering.
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Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers |
| By : CA WA 2 |
Published Date: Apr 23, 2008 |
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Data Center Automation enables you to manage change processes, ensure configuration compliance and dynamically provision servers and applications based on business need. By controlling complexity and automating processes in the data center, your data center becomes more adaptive and agile. Effective Data Center Automation lets you leverage virtualization, manage capacity, and reduce costs and also helps reduce energy usage and waste.
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2008 IP Telephony Deployment Best Practices |
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In this document, you'll learn to enable the successful execution and completion of IPT Deployment projects through a standardized set of processes and methodologies based upon Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards.
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Reducing the High Cost of High Availability |
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High availability (HA) configurations seek to bring downtime to zero - but can increase complexity across the IT organization, often in the form of excess technology, financial, and human capital investments. Learn how application virtualization can reduce planned and unplanned downtime, and deliver greater flexibility.
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How To Develop an Asset Management Program |
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This white paper explores the definition of IT asset management and the business case for developing an asset management program. Motivations for developing a program are discussed, most notable being the development of a centralized repository for IT assets in preparation for developing a configuration management systems and a CMDB.
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Developing the Business Value of ITIL |
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This white paper, a sequel to 'Developing the Business Value of ITIL Part 1', focuses on the importance of developing a business case, and an ROI (return on investment) to justify ITIL best practice initiatives. Survey results are included from Evergreen Systems' last survey on when, how and why companies develop business case metrics to justify ITIL initiatives.
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9 Steps to Implement a Successful CMDB Project |
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Simply click the title to receive this whitepaper which lays out a prescriptive nine-step plan describing how to implement a CMDB, including best practices that may be used to educate staff and design an effective CMDB project plan.
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Security vs. Flexibility: Must IT Management Choose? |
| By : Faronics |
Published Date: Jun 06, 2008 |
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IT Managers are tasked with making the desktop environment more secure and locked down to a uniform corporate standard, yet flexible enough to handle the myriad of exceptions that arise across the enterprise. Centralized Configuration Management (CCM) tools are great, especially in environments with branch offices. But CCM tools can’t do the big job of making your environment inherently more secure or more flexible.
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Assess Unix Configurations with NetIQ |
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Learn how Secure Configuration Manager can help with compliance requirements in the IT controls areas of entitlement reporting & segregation of duties. Discover how to make your compliance program more sustainable & repeatable, while gaining visibility into sources of vulnerability & risk exposure.
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How to Manage Your Servers with Group Policy |
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Learn how to successfully extend your deployment of Group Policy to your servers by implementing end-to-end management of this pervasive technology, including advanced offline management and real-time monitoring of authorized and unauthorized changes.
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Achieving Configuration Compliance in a Regulatory Framework |
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Regardless of whether your company is subject to HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, any number of state regulations, or none at all, configuration compliance has a place in most if not all business and government organizations. Find out in this paper how you can achieve automated configuration compliance with the SafeWord SecureWire IAM appliance from Secure Computing.
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Identifying Critical Change Control Failure Points |
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Identifying critical change control failure points in your infrastructure can help reduce the threat of costly downtime, potential security breaches, and compliance weaknesses. Read this paper for guidelines on how to identify and categorize systems that have characteristics which heighten risk.
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Putting the ROI into ITIL |
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Demonstrating ROI for service management investments can be difficult, especially with multi-phase deployments like ITIL that can require significant up-front investment in exchange for returns produced in the future. Learn how setting milestones and measuring the value of each phase of an ITIL implementation can help prove the project’s value and shape its focus.
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Automated Server Provisioning: What Every CIO Needs to Know |
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IT organizations are looking to leverage automation to improve the delivery of business services across the enterprise, while reducing costs. Automation can be implemented in many ways; however, today’s enterprise demands a higher level of sophistication than simple scripts. This whitepaper from Stratavia discusses the key aspects of automated server provisioning that every CIO should know.
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