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Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms
CHALLENGES: Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM).
Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
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Getting Started with Intermapper Flows
This quick 4-minute video and guide walks you through how to install and set up Intermapper Flows for powerful bandwidth monitoring and network traffic analysis.
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6 Ways to Calculate Returns from your Network Monitoring Investment
How do you calculate the return on investment (ROI) of a network monitoring software? Learn the problems a network monitoring solution can solve and how to easily calculate its ROI.
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DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On
Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
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Enterprise Monitoring Success
Thinner profit margins and higher customer expectations mean IT needs to up their game. Learn how enterprise monitoring can help and how to deploy a quality enterprise monitoring system successfully.
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Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)
Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
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10 Steps to Streamline the Deployment of Network Monitoring Software for SMBs
10 tips to help small to medium-sized businesses save time during the installation and configuration of network monitoring software.
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Finding Your Way: Mapping Your Network to Improve Manageability
Mapping your network gives engineers and other IT staff a 360-degree view of the entire network. Find out how to use a network map to monitor your network, help with capacity planning, and minimize time spent resolving issues.
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Top 8 Reasons SMBs Need to Monitor their Networks
Read the top 8 reasons small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should implement network monitoring tools.
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Health and Risk: A New Paradigm for Capacity Management
Capacity management, considered by top analyst firms to be an essential process in any large IT organization, is often so complex that in today’s accelerated business world it cannot be effectively implemented. Changing priorities, increasing complexity and scalable cloud infrastructure have made traditional models for capacity management less relevant. A new paradigm for capacity management is...
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Checklists for Checklists on Checklists... Why Not Automate?
The topic of this white paper is specifically around the advantages of automating one of the last bastions of manual, hands-on management—the operation and maintenance of IT platforms, systems, networks and architectures.
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6 Recommendations for Smarter Spooled File Processing on your IBM i
Learn how to improve the flow of essential information around your organization, save costs, and free up your time.
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Managing Your IBM Enterprise with Halcyon
System administrators need more control and less complexity. This guide helps to identify the tools they need to be more effective at managing their enterprise.