FactotumNOW IT Management Repository
Downloads The program helps IT departments with change, incident, purchase, asset and dependency management by integrating into existing availability monitoring (HP SIM and GFI NSM) and monitoring availability itself.
[August 15, 2006, 12:23]
Adaptive ServerĀ® Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition: Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost
White Papers To meet the conflicting demands placed on it, enterprise IT departments require a carefully targeted, low-cost solution that can be adapted to the service level needs of individual applications and changed dynamically to meet new demands.
[September 22, 2009, 1:21]
Microsoft's unified communications suite review
Reviews Together, these programs enable IT departments to provide presence, instant messaging (IM) and voice functionality to users located on either side of the corporate firewall. Over the years, one of Microsoft's particular talents has been to identify...
[October 16, 2007, 10:34]
How Cisco IT Virtualizes Data Center Application Servers
White Papers Like many IT departments, Cisco IT historically dedicated a single server to each application or instance. However, this general approach has created an explosion in the number of servers to be purchased, deployed, and managed.
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Forward-Thinking County Government Enhances IT Security and Manageability
White Papers The Fulton County IT department is responsible for thousands of computers across dozens of government departments. Having faced network disruptions in the past due to noncompliant computers, the county needed a new security solution.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Application Virtualization: The Next Frontier
White Papers IT departments nowadays are struggling to cut costs while increasing operational agility, delivering superior service, and maintaining high customer satisfaction. Application virtualization with Microsoft SoftGrid technologies can help with all of...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
Evaluation of ESX Server Under CPU Intensive Workloads
White Papers Virtual machines are used by IT departments to provide better hardware utilization and to isolate users and programs from each other. The paper explores how configuration changes affect the throughput of virtual machines hosted on ESX Server during...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning
White Papers Senior management sets strategic merchandise and financial objectives - and all the other departments aim to meet them. In retail, it all starts with a plan. Independently, merchants, planners, store operations managers, and others create many low...
[October 20, 2005, 3:00]
Public sector wins new volume discounts from Microsoft
Talkback Q Why did it not occur to the government departments to ask for a bulk discount before now? Idiots) A. Because they do not care about wasting the tax payers money. Discounts for buying many licenses are well known to everybody & in all industry...
[August 18, 2004, 12:48]
IPS wants service pilots for ID cards
News James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, told GC News the agency is talking to government departments about how the card may be used to support service delivery. We want people to accept the card as proof of identity from...
[April 9, 2008, 16:57]
Microsoft Webcast: Using Visio 2007 to Plan, Design, and Monitor Your Infrastructure for Enhanced Security (Level 100)
White Papers As business reliance on technology increases, IT departments are responsible for mitigating security risks while also maintaining a seamless business environment. The presenter of this webcast explains how Microsoft Office Visio 2007 can help to...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
SAS Financial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Vision for Compliance and Performance Management in the Finance Department
White Papers Finance departments today face intense pressures, and compliance is only part of the challenge. Increasingly, CFOs view the finance group as responsible for extending beyond their role as financial stewards to drive the focus of their companies.
[October 18, 2005, 3:00]
From Outsourcing to Selective Sourcing: Considerations for Sharing the IT Load Through Flexible Managed Services for Storage
White Papers A significant percentage of the Fortune 500, including GM, Proctor & Gamble, Blue Cross, and Xerox outsource their entire IT departments to a third party. Most cite the same reasons: outsourcing IT allows them to focus with less distraction on...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Automating PC Data Backup and Recovery - A Guided Tour
White Papers As computing becomes more mobile and user autonomy grows, IT departments face greater challenges in protecting critical data spread across vast numbers of PC hard drives. Implementing a "save-to-server" approach for backing up users' PC desktops...
[September 6, 2007, 13:39]
Even tech-savvy telcos can't look after data
Blog Comment I read a rather disturbing artical in a fairly recent issue of micromart, suggesting that many IT departments are being manipulated into a situation which sets them up for the chop! "Data Managment Issues" eh?
[October 29, 2008, 18:27]
Finisar Corporation Uses Unicenter ServicePlus Service Desk to Implement ITIL Best Practices and Address Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliancy Requirements
White Papers One of Finisar's primary IT objectives is to enable their international Information Technology (IT) and Oracle IT departments located in Ipoh, Malaysia, Shanghai, China and the United States to operate as a seamless global organization to support...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
Momentum Webcast: Connecting People and Business: Delivering Responsive Customer Service With the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Level 100)
White Papers Many businesses spend much more to attract new customers than to keep existing ones; successful customer service departments are key to successful businesses. The attendee of this webcast will learn how familiar 2007 Microsoft Office products can...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
IBM launches systems management in a box
News IBM has launched two Tivoli-branded, systems-management appliances aimed at companies with fewer than 1,000 employees and departments of larger enterprises. The company said the launch brings Tivoli's enterprise-level technology to smaller...
[October 19, 2009, 9:07]
A woman? In IT?
Talkback I have been working in IT departments for ten years now, and I have experienced a lot of discrimination. Well, it's not so simple, as Mr. B-L says. The fact is, those, who tried to put me away from IT, were not members of IT community at all!
[September 25, 2007, 14:54]
Schneier on security's 'people problems'
Talkback IT departments have to do a better job in the corporate area. The home user is a different animal. I work with a young man that bought his first computer and it was down within 30 days, unusable due to a virus, spyware and malware.
[May 4, 2006, 14:03]



