Download Optimizing Application Management Outsourcing: Best Practices to Reduce TCO and Increase Business Value to learn specific best practices for reducing cost of ownership and improving business performance based on hundreds of successful application management outsourcing engagements among the Global 2000.

Suggestions include:

• Managing support activities by business value
• Consolidating support portfolios
• Measuring "business services management"
• Minimizing support processing costs
• Implementing rigorous security measures

Protecting data has become part of standard business practice. But it's no longer just about data. Emphasis is now being placed on ensuring the productivity of your users and the profitability of your business.

Download Stay Connected, a free eBook from Neverfail, and learn how to keep your users continuously connected to critical business applications whether a failure occurs in the hardware, software, operating system, network or application. Includes a check list for assessing your High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution.

You know the dilemma well -- you want to provide constant uptime for your mission-critical applications but you're having a difficult time convincing management to invest in a SAN and Server Cluster because of complexity and cost concerns.

Learn about the critical issues you should consider when evaluating high availability alternatives:

• Hardware/software requirements
• Operating system requirements
• Installation and ongoing maintenance
• WAN considerations and disaster recovery
• Data Rollback

Read Virtual Media: Optimizing the Efficiency and Security of Data Center Operations to learn how virtual media can improve operational efficiency and security in the data center by allowing you to access storage media, flash memory and external drives anywhere across the enterprise as though you were directly interfacing with the server's USB port.

This white paper, Centralized Management Software: Best Practices to Control Your Data Center, offers valuable insights on how to achieve secure access to any server or network device from a single interface in your data center. Topics covered include centralized access and control, tracking the tools, integrating management tools, Avocent data center management tools, KVM server management, serial over IP, power management over IP, and full remote access.

Published quarterly, InfoStor Europe provides special reports, opinions and real-world solutions for storage professionals in Europe, including enterprise end users and third-party VARs, systems/storage integrators, distributors and OEMs.

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Trial subscriptions aren't normally our thing, but this one was to good to pass up. Sys Admin magazine delivers information for systems and network administrators whose duties include administration of UNIX systems.

Coverage includes: integrating heterogeneous systems-UNIX, NT, W4W, NetWare; security; backup; crash recovery; system analysis and monitoring; and system automation.

The frequent release of patches considered "critical" is ever increasing, impacting more and more servers that host critical business applications. A No Risk Solution for Patching Oracle Servers shows you how to put an end to this cycle.

Change Governance Series: Making Sense of Regulations and Best Practices
To gauge IT's return on investment, an organization needs to have measurements or performance indicators to assess its current situation, as well as to evaluate its progress toward defined objectives. This paper clarifies the difference between a regulation and a best practice, and explains key differences between best practices.

Requirements Management: The Proven Way to Accelerate Development
Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits?lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers?have been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case for requirements management as an integral part of any product lifecycle.

Storage professionals are under pressure to back up and protect a growing mountain of data. At the same time, new compliance legislation has introduced stricter data retention and recoverability requirements.

Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) enable storage administrators to meet these challenges by providing a reliable, transparent and affordable means of backing up data assets. This document introduces VTL technology and explains the benefits in reduced cost and risk it delivers.

The UnAppliance Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving
The "UnAppliance approach," an alternative to traditional NAS solutions for Linux-based file serving, employs industry-standard servers and storage, achieving scalable, highly available file services while retaining the management simplicity of a single server and a single pool of exported file systems. Learn how to deploy shared data clustering software technology and overcome the price/performance limitations of traditional NAS appliances.

The SQL Server Utility: A Highly Available, Flexible, Simple Approach to SQL Server Consolidation
In this paper, you will learn about an approach to deploying SQL Server that allows capacity to be matched appropriately to need, provides high availability without introducing extra complexity and extra cost, and simplifies the life of administrators. Using a SQL Server Utility, multiple servers and associated storage can be consolidated into an easily managed on-demand database cluster that reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much as 50 percent.