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Partner Content

CDW Corporation

Founded in 1984, CDW is a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education.

www.cdw.com

5 Ways to Cut Energy Costs

5 Ways to Cut Energy Costs

Considering the current economy, it's imperative to consider the obvious and not so obvious ways to minimize IT energy bills.

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CDW Outsourcing Case Study

CDW Outsourcing
Case Study

Allied Solutions needed to strengthen their existing network infrastructure to comply with industry regulations. CDW made it happen.

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Cutting the Cord

Cutting the Cord

Offering a central point of control, KVM switches can play a key role in helping IT administrators manage hardware and software.

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Western Digital enters the enterprise-class hard drive market
Western Digital announced its entry into the enterprise-class, hard-disk drive market with a 10,000 rpm, 300GB SAS drive.
Inside One Firm's Private Cloud Journey
Travel booking and expense firm Concur Technologies uses virtualization and an infrastructure-as-a-service model to slash costs and deployment times...
IPhone, Wii game builder gets investment from VMware co-founder
VMware co-founder and former CEO Diane Greene has invested in a start-up in the video game industry and joined its board of directors.
Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager WHITE PAPER
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Oracle. Leveraging existing investment and cutting costs have become key IT...
Your First Cloud App: Dev/Test a Smart Choice
A cloud environment can serve a company's dev/test needs better than the traditional, internal option, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's a...
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Report: Microsoft buys systems management startup for $60 million
Microsoft Corp. has acquired systems management vendor Opalis Software Inc. for about $60 million, according to an analyst report.
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Five Problems Keeping Legacy Apps Out of the Cloud
Did you think all those legacy apps would just float up into someone else's cloud infrastructure? Management, licensing and migration concerns...
SIP Trunking is Key to Accelerating Unified Communications Deployments WHITE PAPER
Overcome common unified communications (UC) deployment challenges by better understanding the cost and networking benefits of embracing UC as well as...
Five Lessons from a Data Center's Crisis of Capacity
When the data center neared its failure point, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory embarked on a project to revamp facilities without breaking the...
Zimory adds database oomph using virtualization
German enterprise cloud vendor Zimory has set its sights on databases. Using so-called "satellites," more capacity can be added to existing...
No One Home Nights or Weekends at Vermont Data Center
The IT manager for the State of Vermont saved money and improved security by moving to a "lights out" data center, where doors are locked for the...
Effectively Integrating Wireline and Wireless Services for Seamless Communication WHITE PAPER
Reduce costs, minimize complexity and improve worker productivity by integrating your wireline and wireless services. Respected consulting firm IDC...
Compuware buys Gomez for $295 million
Compuware said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Web application management vendor Gomez for US$295 million. The transaction is expected to close in...
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Microsoft turning configuration management “on its side”
Microsoft is changing up the next version of its System Center Configuration Manager so instead of managing devices it will manage users and their...
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Windows 7 May Spur Virtual Desktops, On and Off the iPhone
VMware, Citrix and smaller rivals are putting clients on smartphones and minimalist thin-client hardware to build excitement for Virtual Desktop...
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Blue Stripe Software

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Improving Application Performance Troubleshooting

Diagnosing why an application is slow is hard, at times taking days or weeks to isolate and resolve. This paper explains the challenges involved using current management tools, provides a 'wish list' for application management and analysis, and explains the need for an application system-wide approach that monitors entire applications, not components.

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Virtual Vigilance: Managing Application Performance in Virtual Environments

This paper highlights the impact of virtualization on application performance.  "Managing Application Performance in Virtual Environments" states: "Best-in-Class organizations are predominately taking actions around improving visibility across both physical and virtual systems, assessing the business impact of application performance and understanding interdependencies of applications in virtualized environments."

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Application Service Requests: The Missing Link for Pragmatic ITSM

Forrester Research analyst Glenn O'Donnell and BlueStripe co-founder Vic Nyman discuss a breakthrough approach to application problem management. Learn the new approach for ITSM problem management, which provides: Rapid isolation of application slow-downs to specific components for quick problem resolution, 24/7 monitoring for proactive notification of potential issues before end users are impacted and much more.

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