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To mine raw data and extract crucial insights, business decisionmakers need fast and comprehensive access to all the information stored across their enterprise, regardless of its format or location. Furthermore, that data must be organized, analyzed and visualized in ways that permit easy interpretation of market opportunities growth, shifts and trends and the business process changes required to address them.

Nothing is scarier than the prospect of having to recover an entire site after a disaster.VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is designed to simplify and accelerate disaster recovery.

NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices

NetApp has been providing advanced storage features to VMware ESX solutions since the product began shipping in 2001. During that time, NetApp has developed operational guidelines for the FAS systems and ESX Server.

NetApp® SnapManager® for Oracle (SMO) is designed to significantly simplify all these tasks and more. In this article, we examine how you can deploy SMO to simplify and even automate data protection, recovery, and cloning across both primary and secondary storage.

Deploying agent software on every system to run scheduled jobs is expensive, both to install and maintain. In this white paper, independent analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates highlights the cost-savings, flexibility, and agility of the agentless job scheduling technology built in to BMC CONTROL-M.

Read "A Comprehensive Approach to Practicing ITIL Change Management," a compelling white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, to learn best practices for integrating your batch process automation and change management solutions.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing.

Companies running legacy job scheduling products suffer from higher costs, inefficient use of resources, and greater IT complexity, according to independent analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates.

Read a compelling case study by EMA, Inc. to learn how Dell uses BMC CONTROL-M to cut cost and increase productivity with workload automation.

Complex event processing can significantly reshape your business decision-making process through real-time visibility and insights into business processes, control devices and data sources.

IT cost containment is a fine line to walk - even in down times, business demands 24x7 responsiveness from IT, and anything that compromises that can negatively impact business performance. Technology leaders must look for ways to deliver greater value for less money. This begins with aligning with the business: understand business needs and where technology spending has the maximum impact.

This white paper explains how the seven basic principles for managing enterprise application data can help your organization: Establish effective policies for full-lifecycle enterprise data management to control data growth and lower storage costs;

For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences. This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.

This white paper, intended for a management-level audience, describes why and how any organization can implement secure Internet single sign-on with a federated identity management system.