Governance

A number of associations, consultants and vendors have promoted best practices for enhancing data center energy efficiency. These practices cover everything from facility lighting to cooling system design, and have proven useful in helping some companies slow or reverse the trend of rising data center energy consumption. However, most organizations still lack a cohesive, holistic approach for reducing data center energy use.

Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, countless new technologies, unprecedented business demands, and expanding IT budgets created the modern data center.

For organizations looking to be greener, the data center is the most obvious place to start.

For anyone involved in IT, virtualization has ushered in an entirely new world, one where a lot of traditional rules, strategies, and approaches no longer apply. In the rush to adopt virtualization, many organizations have entered this world ill-equipped to deal with the new realities. This is especially true when it comes to capacity management.

Cloud computing is getting a lot of coverage in the media and a lot of space in the slide decks presented in analyst briefings.

The paper discusses the agility enabled by virtualization, the resulting control challenges, and a way to meet those challenges. It describes seven major requirements for success and reviews how the BMC/VMware approach helps IT ensure control over the virtualized data center and maintain compliance with corporate policies and government regulations.

How do you know what to do to protect your current business and identify areas of future growth? How do you balance opportunity with risk? This paper helps answer those essential questions.

This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.

This document provides an overview of data center consolidation methodologies, the general impact of each method, and how Stratavia’s Data Palette helps data center consolidation initiatives.

Challenges like competitive pressures, compliance activities and higher operational costs make service management more critical than ever. To keep up, IT operations must constantly improve visibility, control and automation while bridging the gaps among business, development and daily operations.

Most large enterprises have launched an initiative to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), but SOA is not a solution that comes in a tidy little box. SOA is a new way to design systems, and it is more about culture than it is about technology. SOA will impact many aspects of an organization—from software development and operations to accounting and incentive systems. Governance is critical.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that offers business agility, speed to market, improved profitability and reduced costs. An SOA is also widely recognized as an enabler of innovation and new business operating models.

For service-oriented architecture (SOA) to succeed, it needs to begin before run-time, with a strong SOA-based development and delivery environment. This paper discusses some of the challenges around SOA governance in the context of a lifecycle of services, and introduces IBM Rational Asset Manager software as a solution to those challenges.

Implementing an SOA includes implementing a governance model that supports SOA. In fact, without a robust SOA governance model, an SOA implementation will not realize the benefits that the architecture has to offer. Without effective governance, an SOA project — no matter how big or small — will fail.

User access-related business risk comprises a broad array of potentially damaging events that may be caused or made possible by inadequate governance of access to an enterprise’s information assets. Such events range from relatively minor policy and compliance violations to disastrous business losses.  The stakes involved in access-related risk have risen dramatically in recent years as organizations have become thoroughly operationalized by technology.

This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that's focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB – as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners – read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.

Although roles-based access control (RBAC) has been the subject of much interest in the past, experience with it has been mostly disappointing. The challenge of discovering established roles, defining new roles according to business need, connecting roles properly to the IT infrastructure, ensuring that they meet all compliance requirements, and managing roles through their natural lifecycles has, until now, proved to be too complicated and cumbersome to be practical.

Read how demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; and better understand their markets and customers.

For most  organizations email compliance management is synonymous with outbound email control. This white paper describes how internal email control is crucial to an organization's compliance mandate and the underlying technical architecture required to do it effectively.

HP CloudSystem Matrix enables organizations to realign traditional technology silos into virtual pools sharable by different applications and flexible enough to change as business needs evolve.

This white paper looks at what really needs to be done and how to enable your organization to be license efficient.

In this white paper learn how to have a fluid help desk to work flow and how to resolve quickly and correctly, users IT issues. Read on.

Examines IPv6 issues specific to file transfer applications, then tests 14 applications for readiness.

The second Web seminar in the series is titled "Data Governance". Learn how Digital River successfully implemented Data Governance across their organization.

Read this article to learn how the government is starting to embrace cloud computing in order to help free up money and manpower, and pave way for government clearance despite putting lead software firms at risk.