All Research Sponsored By:CA Technologies.
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Business Applications Digest: Licensing's Labyrinth
Read this expert e-zine to discover three ways to cut business applications costs. Inside, learn how to: identify unnecessary licenses;move applications to the cloud- and get the most from cloud provider service agreements; and select the right size integrator for your company.
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How Can I Virtualize My Mission-critical Servers While Maintaining or Improving Security?
Organizations often struggle to fully realize the benefits of virtualization due to the complexity of controlling identities, access and information. In this resource, uncover how to successfully deploy virtualization projects, while providing the right security controls over privileged user access across virtual and physical environments.
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The Role of Identity & Access Management in Achieving Continuous Compliance
A common requirement in many of today’s compliance mandates relate to the concept of knowing who users are, what applications and resource they have access to, and when they access them. In this paper, uncover how to maintain continuous compliance though a centralized and integrated identity and access management (IAM) platform.
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Application Performance Management: A Prerequisite for Successful Cloud Computing
This research report clarifies a common misunderstanding concerning the relationship between virtualization and cloud computing. Discover how application performance management fits into your cloud project and obtain advice to help you avoid pitfalls throughout the execution process.
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Next Generation Mainframe Computing
The mainframe can enable substantial cost savings and efficiency gains, but only if effective management tactics are in place. This white paper examines the key advantages of the mainframe and offers exclusive advice for incorporating it into your overarching IT strategy.
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Rising Above the Competition as a Cloud Services Provider: Five Effective Steps for Claiming Your Share of the Pie
Learn how you can rise above the competition as a cloud provider, especially by using the five key steps outlined in this resource.
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Service Providers Put Their Heads in the Cloud
This whitepaper explores the optimism IT services companies have about growth potential in the cloud, and why they are so eager to buy into the hype and invest in the technology.
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Taking the risk out of server consolidation and virt
If you’re looking to take the risk out of server consolidation and virtualization, you’re in luck. A new platform allows you to evaluate where you should place each workload in your virtualized environment by comparing various consolidation scenarios. Read this resource to learn how this solution helps you make informed virtualization decisions.
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E-Guide: Managing Application Performance Performance in the Cloud
Read this expert e-guide to learn why today's complex applications require organizations to place an even greater emphasis on application performance management (APM), and find out what to be aware of—particularly, in the cloud— to ensure a positive user experience.
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Reshaping IT in a Consumer Driven Era
Mobile applications, smartphones, tablets, public cloud services, and social networking represent a new wave of technology adoption — one that significantly blurs the lines between business and personal domains. By unifying APM, IM, and SOM technologies, a successful service assurance implementation can focus an IT staff on business services.
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Ensuring Service Assurance in the New Normal
Access this white paper to learn about service assurance, the modern IT management solution designed to meet the requirements of a cloud-connected enterprise, whether it is leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), or a combination of the three.
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E-Guide: Achieving compliance through IAM
Read this expert E-Guide to learn the best practices for using role management as a tool to meet compliance regulations.
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E-Guide: IAM in the cloud
When bringing your organization into the cloud, there are a few steps that need to be taken in order to ensure security. One of the main areas that needs to be appropriately integrated is identity management. Read this expert E-Guide and discover how to manage identity in the cloud, along with whom and what you can trust in the cloud.
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E-Guide: Securing the cloud
The cloud has become a very popular way to cut costs and get ahead but the need for security standards is increasing at a rapid pace. Individuals all over, in diverse areas of business want to know that their information will/can be safe in the cloud. Read this expert E-Guide to gain an understanding for a necessary security standard in the cloud.
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Driving the SLM process in ITIL: Why it should be your priority
The notion of service level management is fundamental to business success. Why? Because service level management drives customer satisfaction and retention. In this webcast, learn how to meet SLAs through different strategies such as testing, quality control and capacity management.
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The Total Economic Impact of CA Technologies’ Business Service Insight Solution
Read this study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CA Technologies, you learn about the ROI impact of a SLA management platform that offers features for data metrics, automation, performance monitoring, and more.
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PGI halves the time-to-market for new products with cloud infrastructure solutions from CA Technologies
Keeping up to date with the latest technology is crucial to maintain a competitive edge but with lengthly IT provisioning processes can delay the time-to-market for customer products. Read this white paper to learn how one company created a cloud-based approach that facilitated business growth by cutting costs and increasing services quality.
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Can You Accelerate Your Path to Cloud? You Can
Although the cloud is bound to deliver many benefits, the journey itself can come with its fair share of challenges. Read this white paper to learn how one cloud-hosting company used a revolutionary cloud platform to eliminate the need for a data center, reducing hardware expenses and simplifying IT management.
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Can You Have Your Cloud and Be Secure Too? You Can
Can you have your cloud and be secure too? Yes, you can! Read this white paper to learn about the latest cloud security services that allow you to effectively address concerns regarding identity, access control, and auditing while providing elasticity and agility.
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Social Media Moves into Mainstream IT Service Management
This white paper focuses on the evolving role of social media in service desk management. Read on to learn more about social media trends in ITSM, the new culture for service desk management, the benefits of improved self-service access via social media and how social media applies to Service Desk in terms of collaboration, community, etc.
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Transition your existing service offerings into a private or hybrid cloud-based environment with Service Catalog
It seems as if every company is looking to gain cost advantages and efficiencies by moving toward a cloud environment. In this webcast, learn how CA Service Catalog can define your services in business terms, and automatically provision them in a private or hybrid cloud environment provided by cloud suppliers and delivered to cloud consumers.
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Transforming IT into a Managed Service Provider
Relentless competition drives the need to innovate. This white paper discusses how project and portfolio management brings greater control and insight into IT transformation initiatives, enabling CIOs to better determine how best to leverage new and existing technology platforms to deliver maximum business value.
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Expert e-guide: Traditional mainframes and the future of this technology
This expert e-guide discusses the benefits and weaknesses of both the mainframe and x86 architectures. Determine whether one of these platforms is better suited for virtualization and cloud computing than the other and get predictions for the future of each.
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Expert insight: What you should know about mainframe systems
Whether you are considering the mainframe or have already made an investment, there are several key points you should keep in mind. This expert e-guide takes a closer look at the mainframe and the common misconceptions surrounding it. Discover how mainframes compare to x86 platforms and get expert answers to your peers' frequently asked questions.
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Web-Servicing Mainframe Apps
This expert e-book explains how converting mainframe applications into Web services can help organizations better meet their business needs. Gain insight into the types of Web service development uses and get detailed information on workload balancing, cloud computing, software evolution, and more.