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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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Lean, Green and Sustainable IT
By : GreenITTools.com Published Date: Aug 19, 2008
The terms "Green IT" and "Lean IT" and "Sustainable IT" are used prolifically these days and often inter-changeably.  The three areas are the focus of exciting innovation the IT industry these days are significantly impacting IT operations departments both large and small and are described below.  Lean IT focuses on reducing hardware, green IT builds on lean IT to reduce consumption and sustainable IT builds on green IT to reduce impact on economy, society and the environment.
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GreenITTools.com
A Consulting Assessment: Examination, Evaluation and Recommendation
By : AT&T Published Date: Aug 02, 2008
Whether you’re implementing new technologies, upgrading existing infrastructure or evaluating current needs, consultants can help you identify and document the gap between your current situation and a desired future state. When an assessment is done correctly, it can provide a solid foundation for successful implementation and improvement. The consultant first interviews stakeholders, analyzes data, and compares your business against best practices or specific industry competitors.
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AT&T
Entrepreneurs & Managed IT: Putting Big Company Strategies to Work for Small & Mid-Sized Businesses
By : Managed Systems, Inc. Published Date: Jul 31, 2008
No matter the size of the business, technology plays a critical role in its financial success. At the most basic level, companies have to deal with desktop and laptop computers for all their employees, e-mail, access to the Internet, Blackberries, and other kinds of on-site and remote devices. Add networking issues like viruses, spam and bandwidth utilization, and suddenly, this effort becomes a major challenge to anyone operating a small or mid-sized business (SMBs) with limited resources and a limited budget.
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Managed Systems, Inc.
Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation
By : CA WA Published Date: Jul 30, 2008
Despite increasingly complex data center environments, IT is expected to provide business owners with faster service, higher reliability, and greater agility than ever before – all within a tight budget. It is impossible to meet these goals with manual IT processes. However, EMA research shows that IT Process Automation (ITPA) helps achieve these goals, delivering annual savings of $500,000 on staff costs alone, and 64 hours of additional uptime per year – plus improved resource utilization, security and compliance, problem response
times, and agility.
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CA WA
7 Steps to Controlling Social Networking. A Guide by MessageLabs
By : MessageLabs Ltd. Published Date: Jul 10, 2008
The rise of online social networking poses new risks for businesses and new challenges for IT Management. As sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo become evermore popular with end-users, businesses must consider risks such as employee cyber-slacking, reputation damage, broken privacy, identity theft and the threat of virus and spyware infections. This guide will help you reduce the risks of uncontrolled social networking use within the workplace and prescribes seven simple steps for both you and your end-users.
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MessageLabs Ltd.
Reducing the Cost of Messaging
By : Mailtrust Published Date: Jun 23, 2008
Email is absolutely critical in making users productive: for example, a February 2008 survey conducted by Osterman Research found that 93% of email users consider email to be important or critical in helping them to get their work done. However, most decision makers are not aware of the true cost of providing email functionality to their users.
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Mailtrust
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
Go Green with an Energy Efficient Data Center and You'll Never Go Back
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 23, 2008
This Q&A-style article from CIO Green Edge Zone covers some of the many ways businesses can benefit through green technologies. Becoming more energy efficient not only dramatically reduces power costs, but can actually help companies improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, enhance customer service and heighten brand awareness.
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IBM
The Titan 3000: Business Velocity on a New Scale
By : BlueArc Corporation Published Date: Apr 21, 2008
It’s no secret: The scale and pace of business change today is challenging all of us to do more -- better, faster and with ever greater efficiency. Customers are demanding more and wanting it now. Market expectations for product and process innovation are growing. Mergers and acquisitions in many industries are at or near all-time highs. Complex global supply chains and highly distributed organizations are the norm.
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BlueArc Corporation
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
IBM BladeCenter—Integrate Servers, Storage and Networking
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 08, 2008
By doing more with less, you can realize savings and reduce complexity at the same time. IBM BladeCenter is a complete, compact and integrated system designed to simplify IT in small and mid-sized offices and distributed environments. It's packed with energy-saving features that lower operating costs and it's flexible enough to grow with your business. Learn about the features and options of the IBM BladeCenter and see why it’s the right choice for your diverse business needs.
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IBM
Achieving Business Performance Goals through Virtualization Management Best Practices
By : eG Innovations Published Date: Apr 08, 2008
This EMA white paper investigates virtualization management issues in detail, outlining the key drivers and outcomes of virtualization, explaining critical inhibitors to virtualization success (and how to overcome them), and describing core virtualization performance management solution requirements. It also briefly describes one such solution, the eG Enterprise Suite, and includes a short case study highlighting this solution in action.
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eG Innovations
Gain Strategic Insight into Business Services. Optimize Availability and Performance
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 02, 2008
Many enterprises depend heavily on business services to generate revenue. But they often have trouble correlating availability and performance information from individual systems with the business as a whole. To do this, you need a clear view of your service infrastructure. Integrated availability and performance solutions can provide the visibility, control, and automation that your IT environment needs.
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IBM
Data Center Asset Planning: Regaining Control of the Data Center
By : Quocirca Published Date: Mar 17, 2008
After years of uncontrolled growth, many data centers face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. While remedies exist, present business practices do not encourage the prioritization of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business — the data center.
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Quocirca
Cost Transparency for Business
By : Tideway Systems Published Date: Mar 11, 2008
Cost transparency in relation to IT consumption isn't just about showing which applications, physical resources or even individual users increase company's costs (although that can be valuable information). The real goal is to drive efficiencies throughout the whole business. This white paper offers some practical guidance on where to start.
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Tideway Systems
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
Coming to Grips with IT Risk
By : SAP Published Date: Mar 01, 2008
According to the EIU, companies fear IT collapse more than they do terrorism, natural disasters, financial risk or regulatory constraints.  Nonetheless, most companies do not have sound IT risk management processes in place.  This brief summarizes the findings of an online survey conducted with 145 senior executives from a variety of industries on their current and planned strategies for minimizing IT risk.
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SAP
New Enterprise Data Center Ensures More Efficient IT Service Delivery
By : IBM Published Date: Feb 22, 2008
This white paper explains the why's and how's of data center transformation. It reveals the breakthrough IBM approach that supports dynamic, service oriented applications and consolidates systems, servers and networks for decreased operational costs on all fronts—freeing up funds for business innovation. Download white paper on new data center.
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IBM
IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center: A Breakthrough Approach for IT Service Delivery
By : IBM Corp Published Date: Feb 22, 2008
You can't make the world move slower. Or change where markets are headed. Or hold back new technologies while focusing on day-to-day IT operational issues. But there is something you can do, right now. To react faster. To be more efficient. To provide innovation for your business and your customers. A new vision. A better approach. The new enterprise data center-starts now.

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IBM Corp
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
Downtime: Myths and Truths Webcast
By : HP Published Date: Feb 13, 2008
Join Forrester Research and HP in this webinar which explores common myths about IT disasters and analyzes different strategies to protect a company's information assets based on risk and cost. Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester analyzes 5 common myths around IT disasters e.g. disasters and loss of a data centers are rare.
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HP
Learn How to Achieve High Availability While Managing IT Costs
By : IBM Published Date: Jan 31, 2008
This IDC white paper discusses how the current need for server virtualization, infrastructure consolidation and energy efficient technology requires significant changes to IT systems. It describes the steps to take to achieve high availability and reduce operational costs, while still adhering to the requirements of “green IT.”
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IBM
Fighting Fire with Fire: 5 Strategies to Enable Business Change in IT Operations
By : HP Software Published Date: Jan 30, 2008
HP Operations Center software helps IT operations managers enable change in the organization, in processes and in technology.  Download this white paper to view five strategies to enable business change in IT Operations.

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HP Software
Enhance BMC Change Management with Closed-Loop Control
By : Solidcore Published Date: Jan 21, 2008
Are you about to implement change management using BMC Remedy Service Management or BMC IT Service Management for Mid-sized Businesses (a.k.a. Magic or Service Desk Express)? Have you already implemented one of these systems and want to maximize the return on your investment? Get this white paper to see how others have optimized their change management implementation approach to derive the most value from their investment by adding closed-loop control.
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Solidcore
Site and Facilities Services from IBM: Success Stories
By : IBM Published Date: Jan 17, 2008
This reference guide can help you understand IBM’s capabilities in the site and facilities services area through real-world scenarios that demonstrate those services in action. Download this guide now and use it to quickly find stories that illustrate how IBM has delivered high-quality, value-add services for the site and facilities needs of companies of all sizes in a variety of industries around the world.
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IBM
 
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