Vendor Research

This report helps vendors and solution providers in understanding the market dynamics surrounding cloud adoption decision making. The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing cloud-related offerings.

Solution Set

This solution set will help you assess your current systems management environment, business needs, and create a plan to move to service-centric systems management.

Tool

This tool is designed to help organizations determine top tactics for cost reduction within the server and storage service area. After the questions have been completed, the tool will generate guidance on which cost-saving actions to take, the...

Note

Servers and storage infrastructure make up a significant portion of the budget for most IT organizations. When faced with a mandate to control costs, IT managers must take steps to manage these expenses. Start with these techniques to optimize...

Any small enterprise that wishes to create an agile, highly optimized server infrastructure can do so using the hardware and tools currently available. The utility infrastructure will continue to evolve and improve as more server rooms migrate...

As the number of servers grows within an enterprise, the time and effort needed to manage those servers grows even more rapidly. Server management tools provide automated capabilities to ease the pain of day-to-day provisioning, patching, and...

IT staff at many small enterprises continue to manage servers one-on-one. Even if the enterprise has only a few or a few dozen servers, server management tools provide automated capabilities to reduce the time needed for day-to-day provisioning,...

Ad hoc system management is an outdated and inefficient approach that does not reflect the new demands on IT service delivery. Successfully addressing current and future demands for services requires IT leaders to plan for formal system...

Without ongoing server resource monitoring, the first indication of a performance issue may be when application response jumps from one or two seconds to 10 or 20 seconds. By proactively monitoring servers, potential problems may be identified...