6 tools you need to keep apps up & running

Having trouble viewing this email? View in a browser window In this issue: 6 Tools You Need to Keep Apps Up & Running The Silent Killer: Why You Need Defrag Now Why BI is Needed in the Healthcare Industry Shortcuts to High Availability: A Guide Top 4 Tips for Service Management Buyers The Challenges of Remote Data Protection: 8 Solutions 6 Tools You Need to Keep Apps Up & Running IT administrators are facing challenges around high availability requirements, improved efficiency and ever-increasing complexity. There are no easy answers with current architectures. Data center transformation gives IT an approach that is more flexible and allows IT departments to adapt to rapidly changing requirements. The need for data center transformation is driving server virtualization and consolidation, which in turn is increasing server utilization. This Evaluator Group paper outlines important developments in storage for virtual server environments. The Silent Killer: Why You Need Defrag Now As fragmentation accumulates, processing slows to a crawl, server downtime increases, help desk traffic skyrockets and computers need to be refreshed at faster rates. Through a focus on three key areas, this paper is presented to guide you to a best practices way to maintain the lowest levels of fragmentation at the lowest possible cost of ownership. This paper contains three articles covering such topics as why fragmentation is the silent killer; what cost fragmentation extorts from the system; and how to achieve a fully defragmented disk and keep it that way. Why BI is Needed in the Healthcare Industry Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) and analysis tools and applications designed with the healthcare sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information. Download this paper to learn how advances in business intelligence and analytics are enabling improved decision making in the healthcare industry across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration. Shortcuts to High Availability: A Guide Data loss is an all-too-common problem. We lose information on the small scale with damaged laptops and misplaced flash drives. We lose information on the large scale with natural disasters that destroy entire data centers. Regardless of the causes of the initial data loss, the ripple effects can result in redundant work to reproduce the lost data, or in the worse case, to legal liabilities, brand damage and business disruptions. This white paper will provide you with the information you need to understand the business drivers behind recovery management, the technical aspects of recovery management, some of the operational challenges you might face, and best practices for implementing recovery management. Top 4 Tips for Service Management Buyers Many smaller and growing medium-sized organizations do not currently own an effective service desk solution. Read this white paper to learn more about Tivoli Foundations Service Manager, a service desk solution designed and priced specifically for smaller and medium-sized organizations. It provides focused service desk capabilities through ITIL V3.0 aligned service request, incident, and problem management processes. It also encompasses a broad variety of features that enable a single point of contact to automate service request, incident and problem management. The Challenges of Remote Data Protection: 8 Solutions Remote or branch offices are increasingly at the front lines of business -- they have the closest contact with customers and business partners and therefore can have a dramatic impact on the success of the business. As companies expand operations into new markets, the percentage of total corporate data housed in remote offices is increasing. However, many companies may not be adequately protecting these assets. This white paper reviews the factors that can make data protection and recovery in remote offices a complicated problem and describes the range of technology options available, explaining the benefits and shortcomings of each in the context of remote offices. To avoid any problems with your newsletter delivery, please add newsletters@response.webbuyersguide.com to your addressbook. Get the week's most important storage information in your inbox each Monday afternoon. Stay on top of trends and what you need to know to be a success. Subscribe to Storage Product Update today! You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address dwyld.kwu.wyldside@blogger.com. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide White Paper Spotlight, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2011 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy