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Flexible Responses to Managing Terminal Server Environments and Beyond

Terminal servers, file servers, print servers, database servers, email servers and application servers. Dr. Bernhard Tritsch explores how to manage servers effectively within the dynamic enterprise.

Optimizing Windows Server 2003

Explore how AppSense Management Suite enables Microsoft Windows 2003 systems to deliver improved overall system security, simplified management and increased capacity and performance.

Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on IPMI

Every company's computing infrastructure is getting larger and more complex, and business demands availability, performance, scalability, and adaptability of that infrastructure. This whitepaper details how IPMI can help you manage a growing infrastructure with fewer resources.

Microsoft Windows Vista: What To Expect

What should you expect from Microsoft Windows Vista? Learn about all of the new features, from the latest Windows interface to Windows Defender and everything in between.

Upgrading or Migrating to Exchange Server 2003

If you are currently running Exchange 5.5 or Exchange 2000 and you are contemplating Exchange Server 2003, this article describes how you can upgrade or migrate from your existing Exchange environment to Exchange 2003 utilizing the tools available from Microsoft.

The All-In-One Data Management Solution for Developing, Executing and Monitoring SAP Data

In today's world, your SAP system has moved to center stage for managing all of your Corporation's mission-critical applications on a global basis. SAP controls the books, manages the inventory, produces the product and oversees the entire the sales process. Recognizing the importance of SAP is central to the success of your overall enterprise.

Managing the Convergence of IT and Business Change: A Case Study of IBM's Deployment of IntelliCorp

This paper will examine 5 key business and IT stress points that can be predicted and prevented with the right use of software and tools when planning your next SAP lifecycle event.

SAP Support Pack: Accurate, Complete Interrogation and Diagnostics

This white paper provides an overview of SAP support packs, associated challenges faced by companies of all sizes and an easy to use application that automates most of the analysis that needs to take place prior to application in the Production environment.

Cluster Class High Availability for the Microsoft Technology Platform

This document introduces Neverfail Heartbeat, a technology that enables the protection of applications against many potential failures, including application failure, operating system failures, and hardware, network or site failures, at a reasonable cost.

Migrating Windows NT 4 Deployments

This white paper examines the problems enterprises currently face with their NT 4 server deployments, outlines the requirements that any effective solution must satisfy, and explains how Solidcore can help enterprises significantly lower the cost of supporting legacy NT 4 deployments.

A Practical Guide to SOA for IT Architects

As a strategy for creating a flexible and agile IT, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has gained considerable momentum in recent years, largely due to the advent of standards-based Web services.

Your IT Guy Has Enough on His Plate Without Being the HIPAA Police

How is HIPAA Security Rule compliance impacting your IT department? This paper explores some solutions.

Got The Enterprise Software Blues? Appliances to the Rescue

This paper explores how Appliance-based Software Delivery (AbSD) provides a better alternative to both software and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Web Application Security: The Overlooked Vulnerabilities

This white paper identifies critical vulnerabilities that most organizations overlook when they secure their web applications. It also introduces host intrusion defense with deep packet inspection as a new, effective approach for shielding these vulnerabilities.

Easy Integration of Excel with SAP Solutions for Financial Data

This paper describes how to easily integrate Excel data with SAP solutions and the resulting benefits from such integration – reduction in financial closing time, reduction in data entry resources, and availability of timely data for reporting.

An Easy Alternative to LSMW to Update Customer Master Records in SAP

This article describes an easy non-technical alternative to LSMW to update customer master records in SAP in fewer steps than LSMW, without technical involvement, and without requiring authorizations in SAP.

Making Mass Changes to SAP Data in Record Time with Minimal Resources

This paper describes some of the best practices that many companies have adopted and are able to make mass changes to SAP data in record time with minimal resources.

Empowering Business Users to Automate Transfer of Spreadsheets to SAP

This white paper describes how many companies are realizing significant productivity gains by empowering the business users with tools to transfer their own data between spreadsheets and SAP.

Upload Excel Data to SAP: 7 Best Practices

This paper describes 7 best practices that many companies have adopted in automating the upload of Excel data into SAP. Adopting these best practices will alleviate many of the pains that business users and IT analysts face in uploading Excel data to SAP.

Software As A Service Overview (SaaS)

This white paper on Software as a Service (SaaS) highlights the application development shifts that software vendors must go through to accommodate SaaS.

Templates for More Efficient Virtualization Management

Using templates, administrators can consolidate OS and application management so that only a single instance of a software package is required and managed on a physical machine regardless of the number of virtual environments that use the software.

Redefining Exchange Server Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers

Read this whitepaper to find out how this latest release of Symantec's Backup Exec can help safeguard critical Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003 data.

Virtual Appliances: Improve Manageability & Automate Provisioning

Virtual appliances have recently been gaining notoriety with IT organizations. These pre-packaged ready to deploy instances of an applicationcreated in a virtual machine or environment can provide significant management savings. While they can be a powerful IT tool, not all virtual appliances are created equally.

ERP End-User Business Productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft

In this white paper, we measure how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity. This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft applications more favorably than SAP users rated their experience with SAP.

Webcast: High Availability for SQL Server 2005 Using Array-Based Replication

This webinar demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52%.

Technical Overview of Exchange Server 2007 with HP Servers and Storage

This interactive session is a technical introduction to several key Exchange 2007 engineering projects the HP Customer Focused Testing (CFT) team has completed, encompassing configuration, backup and recovery, and replication.

IBM Systems Advisor Tool

We're dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses find the right systems hardware while protecting their investments with flexible, scalable products that can grow as business grows. The Systems advisor tool can help you, too. By answering a few quick questions, we'll identify products that can help meet your business needs. Let's get started.

The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers

In this white paper, consulting firm Realtech presents an example of a customer who realized high platform-related cost savings in a business-critical SAP landscape with high-availability requirements by moving to Linux.

TCO Calculator: Migrate from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell

Try this TCO calculator now and see how migrating from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell delivers all the reliability, performance and scalability of Solaris for up to 75% less.

SQL Server Consolidation: Insights from Customers, Analysts and HP

Microsoft SQL Server has enjoyed phenomenal success as a database server. Its relatively low cost, steadily increasing capabilities and ease of deployment have all combined to accelerate its growth. However, that same growth has led to a phenomenon commonly called SQL Server “sprawl”— the rampant, often uncontrolled, proliferation of SQL Server databases.

Leveraging CA IDMS Business Value for Innovation

Business and IT executives should not have to choose between their desire to innovate for future growth and the desire to avoid disrupting current operations. Enterprise innovation that embraces and extends existing infrastructure and applications is possible through modern software architectures such as web services and SOA – as long as those investments perform competitively when measured against alternative platforms and they are able to be modernized to participate in these architectures.

Automized Storage for z/OS

The CA Automated Storage Optimization Mainframe Suite provides a best-practices-based and intelligent approach to SRM, delivering the tools to identify and classify your storage assets. Access this Technology Brief to understand how to maximize use of existing storage resources and ensures protection of business-critical applications and information.