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	Root-cause analysis made easier Within highly siloed organizations, the root cause-analysis process often degenerates into one involving more finger-pointing than problem-solving. Even within IT organizations that have good cross-discipline teamwork for troubleshooting, getting to the root cause of a problem can be a troublesome and time-consuming exercise. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AccelOps Virtualization & Cloud Blindspots? Having VM triage and optimization issues? Exploring private/hybrid clouds? How can you assure service quality and performance reliability? AccelOps integrated monitoring delivers end-to-end visibility, proactive control, reduced MTTR and service intelligence. 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Happy SysAdmin Day (despite the pay) July 30 was System Administrator Appreciation Day, but the IT workers who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running didn't have much to celebrate. Read More How business is putting the iPad to work When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in January, he pitched it mostly as a consumer device -- a relaxation tool people would use to read books, play games, watch video and peruse family photos. But Michael Kanzleiter and his colleagues at Mercedes-Benz Financial saw something else: A better way to sell cars. Read More Virtualization management: Rush in too fast and you'll crash You wouldn't race down the motorway the day after you've passed your driving exam. You need to mature: learn the basics, build up your experience, and plan ahead. Virtualization is no different. Almost every organization is rushing headlong to deploy the technology, create the building blocks for cloud computing, and capitalize on the advantages of agility, cost, quality, and risk. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now CA Technologies secures Google Docs, eyes more of the cloud CA Technologies outlined plans to expand its cloud-computing security strategy, including immediate support for Google Docs by its CA Identity Manager product. Read More It's time to virtualize Microsoft Exchange (but not with Hyper-V) Microsoft isn't accustomed to being in second place in any market, but that's the situation it has had to accept as it challenges VMware for supremacy in the x86 virtualization world. Read More Bare-metal desktop hypervisors: A primer The bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is desktop virtualization software that is installed directly onto the PC's hardware. But the technology is in its infancy -- even big players like Citrix and VMware are struggling to get bare-metal hypervisors out of the conceptual phase and into production. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ROI of Switched Ethernet Networking Solutions IDC interviewed several organizations to determine their future networking strategies. Learn how they built a foundation to meet network switch demands with an average 5.7 month payback and zero annual maintenance fees. Read Now VA set to spend billions on IT The U.S. Veterans Administration is making upward of $12 billion in IT contracts available to businesses over the next five years, as part of an effort to modernize its operations. Read More Best practices for cleaning up your firewall rule base After years of use, the rule bases that drive your network firewalls get unwieldy -- clogged with expired, obsolete, duplicative and conflicting policies. For better performance, stronger security and compliance with regulations, you'll want to clean up those rule bases, either manually or with tools that automate the process. Read More Data deduplication: Reducing storage bloat Enterprise data explosion threatens to overwhelm storage systems, particularly the backup tier. Here's how data deduplication can help. Read More Open source web apps often insecure, new tool discovers Security company Qualys has released a new open source tool, BlindElephant, which can accurately fingerprint web applications down to version level in order to better manage the security issues which now plague such software. Read More How are large-scale, dense Wi-Fi networks affecting radio management issues? One emerging issue for some enterprise Wi-Fi networks is radio management challenges as the number of access points and wireless clients grow. Read More
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