EBOOK - Manual configuration changes are the no. 1 cause of service disruptions. In this article, customers, analysts and IT experts share strategies to help automate your manual processes and ensure that changes are applied according to configurations – every time. Download the ebook.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Business Intelligence | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Change Management | Configuration Management

SCREENCAST - Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and examples.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ITIL

EBOOK - Many IT professionals are looking to IT Service Management (ITSM) to deliver quality IT services that meet the needs of the business under these tough conditions. Regardless of the size of your business, you can deliver superior service quality to your business with the HP approach to ITSM and the HP software and services that support it.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Business IT Alignment | CFOs | Change Management | IT Service Management | IT Spending | ITIL | Software as a Service

PRESENTATION - This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference focuses on change management and keeping change from creating unnecessary risks. The slides offer tips on getting people to accept change, participate in change, and finally manage change. Read on to learn more about managing change to mitigate risks.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Risk Management | Security | Security Management | Security Managers | Security Policies

PODCAST - This podcast educates information security and IT pros on the right tools and technologies to create a solid process that provides the data, insight and metrics you need to meet your compliance and business objectives.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Premiered: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Information Security | Network Security | Patch Management | Security | Security Management | Strategic Planning | Vulnerability Management

VIDEO - Change management: Information security professionals have been known to cringe when they hear these words. But the change management process doesn't have to be as complicated as it might seem.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Premiered: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Information Security | IT Management | Network Management | Network Security | Security | Security Management | Security Managers

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic and tactical alignment of IT with business objectives - enabling IT to do more for the business with less. By implementing all four components of Niel's model, IT can dramatically reduce system downtime and closely align their efforts and investments with business priorities.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Downtime | High Availability | IT Best Practices | IT Spending | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Systems Management Software

EGUIDE - This E-guide addresses configuration and change management in a partially virtual environment. Topics include: reporting on and managing virtual servers, the effects of physical changes on servers, how to extend change management processes like ITIL to cover the SAN, and handling human problems between the networking, datacenter, and storage teams.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Hardware Configuration Management | ITIL | Network Configuration Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | SAN | Server Virtualization

EBOOK - A tsunami of change is riding into the data center on the back of virtualization. In this eBook, you'll learn where it is today, and how to keep up with management, licensing, and much more.
Posted: October 14, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Change Management | CIOs | Desktop Virtualization | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Software Licensing | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Change Management | Construction Industry | Contract Management | Contracts | Project Management

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how Tripwire provided this subscription billing service company achieve broad PCI compliance and helped them become proactive in handling security and compliance issues.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Data Security | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Security Management | Security Policies | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides seven practical steps any information security organization can take to improve information system security and achieve compliance with relevant regulations, standards and internal security and operational policy.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: April 27, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Configuration Management | Cybersecurity | Cyberterrorism | Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 | Information Security | Security Policies

PODCAST - Companies with a flexible IT infrastructure credit their success to an ability to adapt to change. Listen to find new ways to lower IT complexity and improve operating efficiency in your company.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Premiered: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Asset Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ROI | TCO

WEBCAST - Tune into this webcast to discover why Tripwire should be your go-to solution for managing the configurations of your physical and virtual IT infrastructures.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Premiered: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | Regulatory Compliance | Security Management | Security Policies