Achieving Proactive Incident and Problem Management using BMC Performance Manager
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(Source: BMC Software) Do you need help managing your IT infrastructure and resources, improving operational efficiency, reducing operating costs, and increasing quality of service? This paper explains how you can take a proactive approach in managing your IT infrastructure and applications enabling you to fix problems before they impact end users.
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Daily progress reports for agile development teams.
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This paper from Parasoft discusses implementing the Parasoft Automated Error Prevention (AEP) Methodology into your development process with the objective of establishing fundamental development practices for a reliable Web service.
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The leading vendors in the data warehousing market are running scared of new entrants to the market that are offering data warehouse appliances (i.e. pre-integrated hardware, software, storage combinations) that can offer greatly superior performance at a significantly lower price.  In this white paper we will dispel the 'fog of war' that currently pervades the data warehousing landscape, dismissing those question marks that are irrelevant and gratuitous, but highlighting any genuine issues that need to be addressed.
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Analysis Over the past few years, CRM implementations have come in for much criticism, especially in the elusive area of ROI. This has caused many companies to re-evaluate their technology implementations
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LIVE WEBCAST(Source: BMC Software) What would you do if you could reclaim up to 40% of your development resources? Find out how by attending this Webinar in which Forrester Research presents the findings of new research on application problem resolution.
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(Source: Symphoniq) Learn why traditional performance tools can't deliver the visibility and control required to manage today's complex architectures as well as requirements an optimal solution should provide.  Listen to this podcast now!
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The ubiquity of consumer-grade, public instant messaging clients and the emergence of enterprise instant messaging servers has challenged IT organization to develop management policies that deal with the corporate IM landscape as it exists today.  Download this white paper as a guide to learn best practices for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with the corporate use of IM.
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(Source: MKS) Are you struggling with too much process - trying to implement several different methodologies? - Or too little process, re-inventing the wheel with each new business development?  This white paper describes how to implement and bridge process methodologies such as CMMI and ITIL, delivering them as one process under one application management framework. It looks at MKS's process management platform, MKS Integrity, as an example of superior technology for integrated IT process management.
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In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".   I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.   His list consists of:  You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan Combat Database Abuse Do You Really Need A Database Anyway? Scale Horizontally Refactor To Scale Vertically  For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.
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From vision to technology to system, the promise and practice of performance management continues to develop. This white paper explores the evolution of performance management, the systems involved, the benefits that can be realized and the next steps you want to consider when formulating your own strategy.
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Today's corporations need to bend without breaking. Agile IT operations can deliver products and services promptly, and then they can update and improve and reconfigure those resources as need be. But only good management practices will keep it all working together. In this Executive Briefing, we'll look at best practices for providing and managing IT in an on-demand world.
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Does the rising number of crashes require a change in strategy?
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Intelligent software is the Holy Grail of application development -- especially in the APM (application performance management) arena, where system administrators are perpetually on the lookout for more efficient ways to sift through mountains of metrics and alert data.
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Performance Management can empower workers, coordinate them with decision making, and connect them to strategy. The ultimate goal: to make better decisions more quickly. This white paper can help you move from vision to implementation with best practices and guidance to align business and IT and create a roadmap for success.
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Organizations face increasing pressures to optimize IT performance while reducing IT costs.  Until now, few organizations had tools to increase Service Level Compliance, adopt ITIL and convince C-level executives that the IT department aligns with business priorities.  Magnum Technologies' Business Service Management whitepaper explores these issues offering client-proven solutions to current problems facing IT organizations.
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com. Open-source company JBoss Inc. on Monday introduced a workflow engine that broadens the company&#39;s middleware stack. JBPM 2.0 was developed with the open-source project of the same name and joins