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    The Art of Organizing & Simplifying IT Support

    Find out how IT pros can save time in managing help desk tickets and support tasks. Learn some easy and effective ways to allow IT pros to simplify the manual and time-consuming process of providing IT support to end-users.

    (394 downloads)
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    Visibility From Your Network Into the Cloud: Today’s New Essentials

    Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall.

    (434 downloads)
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    A Comparison of Oracle Performance on Physical and VMware Servers

    To evaluate the difference in Oracle operation between physical and VMware servers, a direct head-to-head comparison of transaction performance was conducted using both scenarios at separate times on the same physical server. By illustrating how a DBA can visualize the response time, query throughput, and server resources utilized in both scenarios, this paper demonstrates how a DBA team can effectively monitor Oracle on VMware to ensure continued performance.

    (366 downloads)
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    A Guide to Enterprise Network Monitoring

    Find out what all factors enterprises consider for selecting a network management system. This paper will guide you to understand what you need to look for in an enterprise network monitoring solution to support your growing networks.

    (407 downloads)
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    Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment

    Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and manage this dynamic environment.

    (302 downloads)
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    Adventures in Help Desk Management

    Read this engaging eBook to learn the adventures of a help desk technician who tries to bring about a change in his organization’s help desk process. This eBook discusses 4 key challenges faced by IT support teams and how can they overcome them, and deliver exceptional support.

    (502 downloads)
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    An Easy Guide to Network Mapping in Enterprise Network Monitoring

    An Easy Guide to Network Mapping in Enterprise Network Monitoring.

    (442 downloads)