IT professionals know the word kludge all too well, having experienced the painful inefficiencies that occur when multiple point products are cobbled together to try to accomplish tasks and to function as one unit. It rarely works and the TCO (total cost of ownership) analysis of such inefficiencies will show a pretty...
Published: Jun 16, 2015
Federal, state and local agencies can now collect terabytes or more of data from various sources. The challenge comes in managing this data to discover new ways of doing things. Learn how to proactively plan for big data with our white paper.
Published: Jul 11, 2013
Technology factors heavily at every stage of this quest and can play a critical role in achieving student, operational, and research excellence. The choices can be daunting and complex as organizations seek to invest for the long-term by seeking solutions that are robust and flexible to meet today’s requirements...
Published: Jan 15, 2014
Organizations compete for talent – and the knowledge, skills, and abilities new employees bring to an organization. Those organizations that can harness the power of their new talent faster can create a significant competitive advantage.
That competitive advantage can be measured in real business results. ...
Published: Aug 12, 2014
Information resources, like folders on file servers, are protected by access control lists containing security groups. Users are gathered into these groups according to department, role, function or organizational need.
If users are put into only the appropriate groups, and these groups are inserted into only the...
Published: Feb 05, 2014
There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics.
In this whitepaper each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed. With this information, an educated decision can be made...
Published: May 07, 2015
In this Industry Insight, BMC discusses how utilizing a SaaS approach to IT Service Management can position your IT organization to best manage the growing number of cloud-based services along with your enterprise's internal systems.
Published: Oct 21, 2013
This paper will show that high-end server systems such as mainframes and non-x86 Unix servers provide technical features and capabilities that continue to be well suited for running the most demanding mission-critical workloads, which require the highest levels of scalability, reliability and security (RAS) features. ...
Published: Aug 06, 2014
Tasked with reporting quarterly, annual revenue results, CFO’s responsibilities to provide “numbers” just doesn’t cut it anymore. This report contains some key insights taken from the CFO Research for a 2012 study done in collaboration with IBM Business Analytics on narrative analysis.
Published: Oct 24, 2013
Building the platform under the largest eCommerce websites in the world requires special up-front design and robust scalable technology. Large-scale eCommerce websites today require hundreds or even thousands of CPU cores, which presents unique challenges.
As a provider of technology to 941 of the top 100 e-Retailers...
Published: Apr 30, 2013
This infographic touches on five critical steps that will help customers streamline their application infrastructure, reduce infrastructure costs and transform enterprise data into a trusted, high-value resource by successfully consolidating and retiring their applications.
Published: Oct 06, 2014
Today’s mature cloud-based ITSM solutions can give you the flexibility and agility you need—without sacrificing security, stability or performance.
In “Making the Move to a Cloud-Based IT Service Management (ITSM) Platform,” a THINKstrategies, Inc. white paper, you’ll learn why more and...
Published: Aug 18, 2014
Virtualisation has without doubt enabled IT organizations to obtain maximum efficiency from their physical hardware, but virtualisation has also increased the complexity these organisations have to manage, and that includes data protection…
Published: Jan 29, 2014
IBM has identified seven outdated assumptions on which many organisations base their disaster recovery plans. This white paper lists them and discusses how to modernise disaster recovery operations.
Published: Feb 27, 2014