Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Weekly Update: Virtualization, Provisioning, Data center and more

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Research: Data Center University - Case Study: Bank of...
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Research: How to Make Your IT Staff Smarter
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Blog Post: Drastic Changes with Oracle acquisition of Sun;...
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Blog Post: Computer Repair Business for Sale? Planning Ahead...
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Networking-career discussion: Which is the right institute for labs in...
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Enterprise-architecture-sp discussion: Reference model of architecture terms and concepts
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Ppm-sp discussion: Provisioning
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Best Practices: Backup and Recovery
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**** RESEARCH ****
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TOP CONSIDERATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING SECURE BACKUP AND RECOVERY
By Zmanda
Best practices for ensuring security of backup data.
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/5968/0/Docs/?mid=

DATA CENTER UNIVERSITY - CASE STUDY: BANK OF AMERICA
By APC
Read about the challenges Bank of America faced and the solution and business value to their power, cooling, airflow,...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/5814/0/Docs/?mid=

GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BUSINESSï¾' BLACKBERRY DEVICES
By Intermedia
The difference between using BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) and BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) can make a big...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/6166/0/Docs/?mid=

VIRTUALIZATION: MANAGING THE COMPLEXITIES OF VIRTUALIZATION AND LEGACY TECHNOLOGIES WITH A UNIFIED ACCESS, POWER CONTROL AND AUDITING PLATFORM
By Raritan
This paper explores ways to consolidate physical servers, virtual servers, networking equipment and power management in...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/19494/0/Docs/?mid=

ADOPT ENDPOINT SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT TO MINIMIZE SECURITY RISKS & LOWER TCO
By Symantec
In any business environment, end users rely on secure, compliant, and well-managed endpoints in IT infrastructure to...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/19173/0/Docs/?mid=

MULTIPLATFORM WORKLOAD PORTABILITY AND MIGRATION
By PlateSpin
PlateSpin Migrate is a powerful workload portability and migration solution from Novell that migrates server workloads...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/19268/0/Docs/?mid=


HOW TO MAKE YOUR IT STAFF SMARTER
By Safari Books Online
On-demand digital libraries support the development of technical knowledge and business acumen. This white paper...
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MONITORING THE COMPUTER ROOM'S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
By Sensaphone
This paper addresses the greatest environmental threats to the functionality of small to medium computer rooms and...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/3/5089/0/Docs/?mid=


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Recent Blog Entries

DRASTIC CHANGES WITH ORACLE ACQUISITION OF SUN; IS IT TIME TO RE-TOOL SYSTEMS?
Posted by James F. Koopmann
The recent announcement that Oracle will be purchasing Sun Microsystems has created quite the...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/31341/3/Blogs

IBM, SUN, AND ORACLE
Posted by iTech-Ed (CEO) Comments(4)
It was only the other week that I was happily predicting what would happen when IBM bought...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/31336/3/Blogs

COMPUTER REPAIR BUSINESS FOR SALE? PLANNING AHEAD IS KEY FOR SELLERS
Posted by Joshua Feinberg (Editorial Director)
Are you thinking about putting up your computer repair business for sale? Or are you on the other...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/31328/3/Blogs

COMPUTER BUSINESS PLAN TIPS FOR GETTING GREAT CLIENTS
Posted by Joshua Feinberg (Editorial Director)
As you are writing your computer business plan, you need to think about a very important question...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/31320/3/Blogs

FUTURE ENTERPRISE- EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
Posted by dhtow01 (Director)
There has been a dramatic recent shift in sentiment in relation to the most appropriate model for...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/31319/3/Blogs


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Recent Threads

WHICH IS THE RIGHT INSTITUTE FOR LABS IN BANGALORE? (Networking-career)
Asked By sarah
I would like to do my CCIE theory and labs,please suggest me whcih is the best institute to join...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/2717943/1/groups

SSADM - 20 YEARS ON (Enterprise-architecture-sp)
Asked By graham berrisford (Mr.) | Replies (1)
John O and John T SSADM was written to assist the analysis and design of OLTP / Database...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/2720616/1/groups

REFERENCE MODEL OF ARCHITECTURE TERMS AND CONCEPTS (Enterprise-architecture-sp)
Asked By graham berrisford (Mr.) | Replies (1)
JT said "Function-process seems to be one of those things that will forever defy universal...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/2719532/1/groups

ON OVERLAPS BETWEEN MODELS/VIEWS, AND LIMITING THEM (Enterprise-architecture-sp)
Asked By graham berrisford (Mr.) | Replies (1)
I've aggregated and edited several contributions into one below - clearer than my first...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/2718609/1/groups

SAP R/3 REQUIREMENTS STRATEGY (Enterprise-architecture-sp)
Asked By cipritl (IT Professional)
When changing a material master in r/3 from a strategy 40 (20 in APO) to 52 or vice versa...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/2716843/1/groups

PROVISIONING (Ppm-sp)
Asked By kevinpm06 (Project Manager)
Has anyone developed a formal set of processes for hardware and identity life cycle management...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/1/2/2716034/1/groups


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