System Maintenance Reports

Gartner: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.
Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Redefine IT through Infrastructure Automation and Convergence
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the benefits of simplifying, standardizing and automating your management processes. It focuses on how IT departments can improve productivity and competitive advantage with a new solution for their data center.
Posted: 20 Jun 2014 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Virtual Data Center E-Zine Volume 36: Selecting the Right System Management Tools
sponsored by TechTarget Data Center
EZINE: System management is a crucial issue in virtual environments, but selecting the most appropriate tools can be extremely challenging. Find out when it's better to deploy a comprehensive system management framework, when point tools are the right choice, and when an organisation should go with both.
Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

TechTarget Data Center

A Layered Approach to Securing Remote Maintenance Consoles
sponsored by Raritan Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Existing techniques for accessing maintenance consoles are inefficient and leave security holes in the network. Learn how, by deploying a secure console server, maintenance consoles can be secured and the availability of the network improved.
Posted: 18 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

Raritan Inc.

Presentation Transcript: Mission-critical Unix Considerations
sponsored by HP & Intel®
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Unix remains an important platform for critical enterprise applications. This resource explores the staying power of this venerable operating system and details many of the emerging factors that are affecting its use in the data center.
Posted: 20 Jul 2011 | Published: 20 Jul 2011

HP & Intel®

PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

Novell, Inc.

Server Monitoring: Centralize and Win
sponsored by TNT Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: One of the main limitations of native tools in a Windows OS is that it stores all of the event & performance logs information locally in each individual system. For an environment with multiple systems, this makes problem analysis much more challenging. This paper will discuss the importance of effective, centralized management solutions.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

TNT Software, Inc.

Streamlining Systems Management: Red Hat Provides The University of Southern Mississippi With Time-Saving Solution
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
CASE STUDY: Managing close to 80 physical servers with limited technical resources can quickly become a challenge for any organization. learn how USM's IT team turned to Red Hat's 'Satellite' to provide a reliable, advanced, open source systems management solution to ease their systems management challenges.
Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

Red Hat and JBoss

Bridge the SAP Basis Support Gap
sponsored by Symmetry Corporation
WHITE PAPER: View this informative white paper to learn how you can get round-the-clock coverage and proactive monitoring for your SAP environment, all at a reasonable price with the right partner for SAP Basis.
Posted: 20 May 2014 | Published: 20 May 2014

Symmetry Corporation

Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Scheduled Security Update Cycle
sponsored by GFI Software
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Nick Lewis discusses the best ways to efficiently handle vendor security updates, how to prioritize patch deployment on mission-critical and non-mission critical systems, and why testing patches before deployment is such a crucial step.
Posted: 04 May 2011 | Published: 04 May 2011

GFI Software