Learn how BMC Transaction Management solutions provide a single, integrated view of your transactional data, the end user experience, and the IT infrastructure. This comprehensive solution enables you to improve customer service, identify and resolve problems faster, and streamline IT workflow. Find out more in this complimentary analyst white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, compliments of BMC Software.

With the current focus on fiscal responsibility and due diligence, CIOs and IT executives have indicated that more than 80% of current IT purchases require financial analysis for justification.

This white paper is designed to provide the initial basis for exploring the financial advantages of HP-UX 11i versus other platform alternatives, and to empower organizations to consider all costs and benefits to help make better investment decisions.

The server landscape is changing. Faced with limited IT budgets in recent years, IT managers have learned how to consolidate workloads onto scalable servers - and how to deploy new workloads on racks of low-cost volume servers.

In the improving economy, system plans that were delayed and deferred are once again being evaluated. IT managers are considering ways to increase current capacity while creating new designs for IT infrastructure that can be assembled from standard building blocks, with the aim of reducing acquisition costs, deployment costs, and operational costs over time. Download this paper to learn more!

Your business is dynamic. Faced with unpredictable market pressures and limited resources, you must be faster, better, and more efficient than your competition in order to remain both competitive and profitable.

Virtualize your IT resources so supply meets demand. Download HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity and HP 9000 Servers to learn more!

Is Offshoring the software industry's salvation?or its downfall? This new study from the Sand Hill Group covers trends, strategies, and best practices for offshoring initiatives in today's leading companies.

Mobile solutions can be built in many different ways, used on many different devices, operate over many different networks, and integrate with many different back-end systems.

This paper explores the differences between smart-client and thin-client mobile architectures, examining the details of common smart-client architectures in use today, including what type of back-end systems they integrate with, the types of devices they support, how data is managed within the architecture, and development languages that can be used to build the application.

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.

Visit TradePub.com at eComXpo for FREE! We will be exhibiting at eComXpo, the online virtual trade show for eCommerce Marketers, April 4-6, 2006. eComXpo features all the benefits of a top traditional tradeshow without the cost, travel or hassle associated with traditional events.

Why should you attend?

• Choose from over 20 panel presentations on affiliate, search, and interactive marketing.
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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.

Health Management Technology covers healthcare IT news, trends, and products for C-level executives, IT directors, and clinical managers in hospitals, clinics, and payor organizations. An annual Resource Guide and integrated website make HMT a comprehensive and authoritative source for information systems solutions.

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.

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.