ANALYST BRIEF - SOA, governance and application development are paramount to the growing application performance validation market. Read this white paper and learn how performance validation solutions evolved from application load testing to currently include enterprise load testing and application performance lifecycle management.
Posted: March 4, 2009 | Published: March 4, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Process Management | Change Management | Load Testing | Performance Testing | Project Management | Software Configuration Management

ANALYST BRIEF - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Encryption Standards | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

ANALYST BRIEF - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: February 29, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

ANALYST REPORT - This Forrester research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market.
Posted: April 25, 2008 | Published: April 15, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Change and Configuration Management | Data Center Management | Fault Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software

ANALYST REPORT - In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared.
Posted: March 4, 2009 | Published: March 4, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Process Management | Change Management | Configuration Management | Performance Testing | Project Management

ANALYST REPORT - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: December 8, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | TCO

ANALYST REPORT - This ESG Lab report documents the results of hands-on testing of HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager (SKM) solutions with a focus on ease of deployment, transparent integration with existing backup operations, clustered fault tolerance and strong security.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: April 30, 2008


Topics:  Encryption Standards | Endpoint Security | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

ANALYST REPORT - This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: May 15, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

BOOK - Read this book for an introduction to the subject so that you can understand its promise and perils — and create an action plan to decide whether virtualization is right for you, as well as how to move forward with implementing it should you decide it is right for you.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Network Management | QOS | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Virtualization Security

CASE STUDY - When the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications mandated that all of its departments find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity, its networking services group was ready for the challenge. Read this case study to see what they did.
Posted: February 17, 2009 | Published: February 17, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Enterprise Systems | Network Management | ROI

CASE STUDY - Download this case study and read how Crest Animation eliminated storage bottlenecks, improved productivity, and gained more than $19 Million in benefits with HP StorageWorks Solution.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2007


Topics:  Clustering | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - Because their previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet their existing and future needs, Snapfish was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability and improve performance, storage management and flexibility. This case study details how they solved this issue.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Blade Servers | Clustering | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - After expanding their business into other markets across the globe, international media company Clear Channel found their current accounting and billing systems needing an upgrade. Read this case study and learn Clear Channel's solution.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2007


Topics:  Accounting | Accounting Software | Billing Software | Billing Systems | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Business Systems

CASE STUDY - When the Brazilian Navy needed to reduce the BRL 6 million (US$3 million) spent annually to keep their mainframe operational, they chose an HP- and Oracle®-based distributed platform as an alternative to the mainframe environment. Costs have been reduced by approximately 80% vs. mainframe database software costs.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: January 22, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Mainframe Computers | Mainframe Networking Hardware | Mainframe Operating Systems

DATA SHEET - HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | QOS | Quality Assurance | Quality Control | Software | Software Testers | Total Quality Management