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The foundation for any good application performance management strategy is an understanding of the current environment. With network and application usage increasing, IT organizations face serious challenges in meeting corporate and business unit demands. Read this expert E-Guide–a series of previously published Expert Tips from SearchNetworking.com–and see how organizations are keeping application traffic moving smoothly and efficiently, while introducing new applications seamlessly into the mix.

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Posted on: April 29 2009
Published on: April 29 2009
Source: Orange Business Services
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 11 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: Orange Business Services
Author: Orange Business Services
Price: FREE
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Technorati : Application Availability, Application Monitoring, Application Performance Management
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Batch processing is a critical part of most enterprises. It is a foundation technology for applications including e-commerce, accounting, stock and inventory control, enterprise resource planning, customer service, and many more. Any disruption to batch processing can have a huge impact to the business through downtime, lost revenue, contract penalties and more.
Batch processing is a foundation technology in the modern enterprise.

ITIL, IT Infrastructure Library, is a set of best practices for IT organizations to make sure that IT is able to deliver consistent business service.
Three key areas of ITIL apply to address the problem of effectively managing change:

• Service Desk
• Configuration Management
• Change Management

Central to these ITIL best practices is the implementation of a Configuration Management Database (or CMDB) – a central database used to record the status of all relevant configuration items throughout the enterprise.

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Posted on: 17 Apr 2009
Published on: 17 Apr 2009
Source: BMC Software, Inc
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 7 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: BMC Software, Inc
Author: BMC Software, Inc
Price: FREE
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Technorati : CMDB, Change Management, Configuration Management, Database Management Software, Enterprise Systems, IT Best Practices, IT Services, ITIL
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The 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey helps us to better understand if certain publicized IT risks to personal and confidential data are, or should be, more or less of a concern for organizations. The results of the study are helpful to organizations struggling to understand how they should allocate resources to help ensure their information assets are safeguarded.

Based on interviews with IT experts in operations and information security, following eight Mega Trends for this study were selected: cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and mobile devices, cyber crime, outsourcing to third parties, data breaches and the risk of identity theft, peer-to-peer file sharing and Web 2.0.

Posted on: 02 Feb 2009
Published on: 02 Feb 2009
Source:Lumension
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 30 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: Lumension
Author:Larry Ponemon
Price: FREE
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Technorati : Data Security, Security Best Practices, Security Policies, Security Threats
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Today’s current economic situation underscores the importance of scrutinizing all business expenses, particularly within IT. As organizations look to keep operating expenses down, “free” technology solutions start to look more attractive. However, when choosing a solution for patching your systems and servers, it is important to consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the difference in key capabilities between point patching products and comprehensive patch management solutions. Although point patching products, such as Microsoft’s Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) may look more attractive on the surface, closer inspection often reveals hidden costs and missing capabilities. These solutions ultimately could end up costing organizations more money in the end to fully protect their IT environments. Microsoft’s WSUS lack of scalability, coverage and flexibility could leave organizations with fragmented patch management and weaker security posture while also being a more costly and cumbersome option for organizations to maintain.

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Posted on: January 2009
Published on: January 2009
Source: KACE & Lumension
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 11 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: by KACE & Lumension
Price: FREE
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Technorati : TCO, patch management, system management, total cost of ownership
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This white paper is written for CIOs and IT executives tasked with providing a strategic vision for delivering high-quality business applications at a reasonable price. It addresses high-level objectives, such as aligning IT with the business, improving IT service quality, and reducing IT costs, and also provides a structure for addressing tactically-oriented challenges, such as superior end-to-end application performance management. The paper discusses end-to-end application performance management in the context of the impact to the business.

It then highlights CA’s application quality and performance management solutions for both Web and mainframe applications, with particular focus on the integration of CA Wily with AQM Solutions’ TRILOGexpert APC for TriTune with Performance Desktop. This combination opens up the “black box” of Web-to-mainframe transactions, providing visibility essential to the process of effectively addressing end-to-end application performance management. It concludes with the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) perspective on the market in general, and on the CA solution in particular.

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Posted on: April 2008
Published on: April 2008
Source: CA
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 12 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: CA
Price: FREE
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Technorati : Application Availability, Application Monitoring, Application Performance Management, CA
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A majority of applications fail at some point due to both expected and unexpected quality errors. Without an effective monitoring system, organizations are unable to identify and provide actionable alerts in real-time when errors are detected. They are then unable to ensure optimal application availability and reliability.

This white paper explores approaches for effectively monitoring business applications to ensure they achieve optimal performance and uptime. Discover the various expected and unexpected application errors that can arise during software development. Learn why an effective monitoring solution for line of business applications should be based on an always-on approach that combines reactive and proactive techniques to detect both expected and unexpected errors. Explore a practical example of how an actual organization implemented en effective monitoring solution to achieve enhanced application performance.

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Posted on: 19 Nov 2008
Published on: 01 Jan 2007
Source: AVIcode,Inc.
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 6 page(s)
Language: English
Copyright: AVIcode,Inc.
Price: FREE
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Technorati : Application Availability, Application Monitoring, Application Performance Management, Software Quality Assurance
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White Paper Description:
The goal of functional testing is simply to ensure that an application works as it should from the end user’s perspective. Manual functional testing calls upon business analysts and testers to capture user requirements, prepare test plans, and document their interactions with the application in order to validate the software’s operations. Through test automation, functional test scripts that have already been validated can be quickly applied to every application that uses that particular component of software, so more tests can be done in less time.

There are many myths about both manual and automated functional testing. Many people believe that test automation is too expensive relative to its value; therefore it should be used rarely if at all. Others (such as agile developers) insist that automation of 100 percent of all tests is the ultimate objective.
This paper is not intended as a primer on implementation best practices, but here are a few “lessons learned” and considerations for the companies considering the move to Mercury Business Process Testing.

• Start with Mercury Business Process Testing for Manual Testing
• Don’t jump to the keyword-driven model prematurely
• Don’t scrimp on training
• Give Mercury your feedback

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Posted on: 29 Apr 2008
Published on: 01 Jan 2006
Source: Hewlett-Packard Company
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 8 page(s)
Language: English
Type: White Paper
Copyright: Hewlett-Packard Company
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Technorati : Business Processes, Customers, Functional Testing, Mercury, Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing
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