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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.

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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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Riverbed boosts mobile WAN acceleration
IT departments are trying to enable employees to work productively wherever they need to. But being productive requires access to more than just...
Zeus takes traffic management to the cloud
Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 software can be deployed on industry standard hardware, virtual machines and commercial cloud platforms.
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IE, GDI flaws good place for IT to start Patch Tuesday cleanup, experts say
With 13 patches released on Patch Tuesday, IT administrators have a daunting task of just deciding where to get started. Experts advise that the best...
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...
Compuware’s Gomez buy nets Web performance expertise
As a combined company, Compuware and Gomez aim to deliver a unified view of application performance across the enterprise and Internet, along with...
Compuware to acquire Gomez for $295 million
Compuware plans to boost its application performance management technology with Gomez’s Web application expertise.
Getting a handle on Web site performance
Upgrades to Keynote’s Web site monitoring service add greater support for interactive Flash and Silverlight apps, composite Web transactions and...
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...
Mobile employees want speedy apps
Anticipating greater numbers of employees working on the road? Better pay close attention to application performance.
Akamai looks to speed virtual desktop delivery
The desktop is the next frontier for many virtualization adopters. But deploying a desktop virtualization environment raises performance issues for...
Keynote consolidates IT’s view of online business performance
Performance monitoring gets trickier as Web sites add rich content such as Adobe Flash and Silverlight, link to third-party content providers, and...
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...
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On excellence and best practices
Gibbs ponders excellence and with the help of a friend debunks best practices.
Cloud adoption draw F5’s attention
There’s no shortage of chatter about cloud computing. Everyone is talking about it, including application delivery vendors that have ideas about how...
Twitter visibility from Blue Coat
It’s clear an application is reaching significant adoption when enterprises think about monitoring – and potentially blocking – its use. One of the...
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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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