Test And Measurement

Convert your databases into useful geospatial information in a snap! Interactive area maps of the world, USA, Canada, states, counties and more!

See the integrated reporting, analysis and planning capabilities that can help your midsize business to drive greater efficiencies, manage costs and identify growth opportunities.

This white paper, the first in a sequence, addresses the question, "who, specifically, are those right groups and right people?" on several different levels. It also highlights underlying principles that, properly applied, lead to solid answers to the "who" questions for a wide variety of scenarios.

This report provides insights into Best-in-Class practices for assessing vulnerabilities and threats to IT infrastructure, prioritizing fixes based on the business value of resources and acceptable levels of risk, and remediating through the efficient deployment of patches, configuration changes, and other compensating controls.

Take the FireScope Challenge - download a free 28-day trial of FireScope Dash and compare the speed, breadth of monitoring and ease of use against your current monitoring tools.

The cloud services market is now directly addressing the needs of application developers, with an emerging class of services that provides fast, on-demand provisioning; instant scale up and down capabilities, and support for multi-tier application architectures, as well as workload migration capabilities and a pay-as-you go model.

Operational challenges have long been used as a reason not to introduce a second vendor into the network infrastructure. However, by taking an organized approach and using well-established multivendor network management tools and disciplines, enterprises can reduce operational challenges to a minimum, while reaping the benefits of a lower-cost, better-performing infrastructure.

The proliferation of new, extended application development in software as a service, as well as new virtualization technologies, have created in most data centers a conflict between today's outdated capabilities versus tomorrow's growing needs.

The first is a step-by-step guide to M2M deployment. Provided by Connected World Magazine, it helps define the current state of best practices on the part of the M2M industry to help potential adopters to get their applications off the ground and take some of the complexity out of M2M.

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.

The strategic business importance of today's data center requires a more complex and thoughtful approach to environmental control planning than ever before.

This chapter describes some of the scalability challenges that exist in today's dynamic business and IT environments and how WebSphere eXtreme Scale addresses these challenges. An introduction of WebSphere eXtreme Scale and the key features of the product is also provided.

Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off.

This series takes you through the many issues that plague the modern help desk, and states the case for implementing user-centric remote support.

This new SPI white paper provides guidance on developing an effective strategy for monitoring, measuring and managing your professional services organization.

This new ServiceXRG white paper explores the importance of quantifying the impact of support on your business.

This new white paper explores the strategic role first-contact resolution plays in support environments, provides best practices for optimising performance and outlines steps for achieving consistent FCR.

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.

Virtualization can deliver dramatic benefits for data centers, but it can also stress the underlying support infrastructure.  Power and cooling systems—which may have been quite sufficient for pre-virtualization needs—could easily become inadequate when data center performance patterns are radically altered.  This paper describes some of power challenges related to virtualization—and the readily available technologies to address them.

If IT and Facilities could work collaboratively, organizations can operate more efficiently and effectively while still meeting their business objectives.  That’s why Eaton® is partnering with organizations that develop IT management systems to create an integrated approach to energy management.  This white paper describes how a joint monitoring and management solution links IT assets, the data center infrastructure and Facilities assets into a holistic perspective aligned with business processes.

Previously known as Watchfire AppScan, Rational® AppScan® Standard Edition V7.8 is a leading testing tool that scans and tests your Web applications for all common vulnerabilities. Download the trial to see how it automates the testing process so you can address problems early.

Virtualization can deliver dramatic benefits for data centers, but it can also stress the underlying support infrastructure.  Power and cooling systems—which may have been quite sufficient for pre-virtualization needs—could easily become inadequate when data center performance patterns are radically altered.  This paper describes some of power challenges related to virtualization—and the readily available technologies to address them.

If IT and Facilities could work collaboratively, organizations can operate more efficiently and effectively while still meeting their business objectives.  That's why Eaton® is partnering with organizations that develop IT management systems to create an integrated approach to energy management.  This white paper describes how a joint monitoring and management solution links IT assets, the data center infrastructure and Facilities assets into a holistic perspective aligned with business processes.