Solutions for 21st Century Healthcare
[ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009-
To significantly improve the delivery of healthcare, an impressive arrange of new technology solutions are being introduced daily. 3Com designs solutions that deliver unique price/performance value, reduce complexity to facilitate healthcare delivery and ensure security to protect investments, resources and information.
In this case study, learn how 3Com can help you enhance patient care by maximizing business continuity, security, and productivity.
A Board Room View: Understanding Your CMDB Project’s ROI
[ Source: ASG ]
July 2008-
Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise CMDB initiative, this white paper level-sets expectations for ROI calculations for CMDB initiatives, provides basic ROI best practices, and gives readers sufficient insight to move forward with their CMDB project. The paper discusses real-world ROI experiences in the larger context of the CMDB value proposition focusing on the pragmatic choices that must be made. A brief EMA viewpoint discusses ....
The Future of IT in a Flat World: CMDBs, Automation, and the IT Value Chain
[ Source: ASG ]
October 2008-
Using automation, IT operations can emulate the domestic supply chain’s cost containment successes. At the same time, by recognizing that its own struggles are mirrored in the global supply chain, IT can grasp—from a business perspective—the technological capabilities it must have now to strategically move into the next generation of automation.
A CMDB empowers IT executives to be proactive: it lends complete visibility to a flat world, introducing a new way of ....
Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) In Healthcare: Wi-Not Wi-Fi?
[ Source: Awarepoint Corporation ]
August 2009-
CIOs must ask some very important questions to appraise the cost and value of Wi-Fi-based RTLS: Are you really using existing infrastructure? What is the cost (in time and expertise) for on-going maintenance of Wi-Fi RTLS? How will Wi-Fi RTLStraffic affect your network? The “just add water” story Wi-Fi marketers publicize loses steam in real-world applications. Once you’ve optimized your Wi-Fi infrastructure for RTLS, you will need extensive location planning of highly trained individuals to ....
Bloxx Internet Filtering Proves Best Fit for Easton-Bell Sports
[ Source: Bloxx, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Easton-Bell Sports was growing increasingly concerned about its bandwidth consumption, as well as the time IT staff members were spending removing malware from employees' computers. In addition, upper management was eager to assess employee Internet use and its affect on productivity. The rising importance of these issues caused the company to seek out a cost-effective Internet filtering solution.
After extensively evaluating a number of different web filtering solutions, Easton-Bell Sports' ....
Effectiveness of Loss Labeling in Improving TCP Performance in Wired/Wireless Networks
[ Source: Boston University ]
January 2008-
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been the dominant transport mechanism for reliable data transfer over the Internet. In this paper the researchers study the fundamental gains and limits of explicit loss labeling techniques employed to empower TCP in hybrid wired/wireless networks. The filter is re-instantiated to measure RTT and augment it with history information so as to distinguish between congestion and wireless losses, specifically to empower TCP NewReno in wired/wireless networks.
Deploying CMDB Technology
[ Source: CA ]
July 2008-
Learn about the real-world practicalities of configuration management database (CMDB) deployment and identify where early adopters have focused to achieve success.
ITIL v3 Overview of Service Design
[ Source: CA ]
July 2008-
Download this eBook from the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) to find out why good preparation and an effective array of people, processes, products and partners are the keys to success when designing and developing new services and their related processes.
Are NSM Mega-suites Right for You?
[ Source: CITTIO ]
September 2008-
Network and systems management (NSM) solutions are part of the regular repertoire of enterprise IT operations staff that enables them to keep business critical applications and infrastructure up and running. While Big 4 NSM mega-suites (namely HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol) have dominated the high end of the market – they may not be the right choice for many mid to large size enterprise organizations. While mega-suite functionality can be powerful ....
The Power of Intelligent Automation - Why Automated Network and Systems Monitoring Is Critical to IT and Business Performance
[ Source: CITTIO ]
April 2008-
Despite the ever increasing complexity in the underlying infrastructure, IT is increasingly being called upon to do more with less. New network, systems, applications and multiple types of edge devices are being added daily. This infrastructure is essential to business operations making outages and slowdowns unacceptable during or after deployment. Also, the explosive growth and dynamic nature of many of the new infrastructure components makes traditional manual intervention inadequate.
Take a ....