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Other Resources
Achieving Compliance through Network Governance
Applying the 5 Step Approach to the Network
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Presented by Eric Gilbreath, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing
The high-level drivers and results required from your Compliance Strategy are the same for the Network as for the rest of your IT environment. Yet for many organizations, the network is considered 'different' from other parts of your IT environment... It doesn't need to be. A sound approach for Network Compliance can unify your team, despite having different groups managing different devices from different vendors, with different OS's, interfaces, and configuration items... and bring new discipline to your Network. This session applies the 5-step approach based on industry 'best practices' to the Network domain, to achieve continuous data center compliance across your IT environment.
Key Takeaways:
Why Network Governance goes beyond Compliance and Security
Standards, Accountability and Audit Trails - Applied to the Network
Metrics and Analytics for Network Compliance - An Approach for Measuring Efficacy
Life Cycle Management - Establishing Audit and Remediation Processes
Network Controls - How to Create and Institutionalize Compliance Processes
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Getting the Answers you need to Optimize Network Spend
By Roger Castillo, Chief Technical Officer - Alterpoint
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AlterPoint meets the need with a solution that evolves the reactive break/fix approach to a proactive network governance approach to aligning network management with business objectives. In developing this solution, AlterPoint has leveraged the models that have been developed for IT service management. The institutionalization of best practice process frameworks — such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) — on which many of these models are based, has fostered profound advancements in the culture, training, and processes of IT teams.
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Network CMDB Requirements
Essential Capabilities and Process for the Network Domain
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Presented by: Rogers Castillo, CTO , and Patrick Ancipink, Product Marketing, AlterPoint
at Empowered's IT Management Solutions Showcase 2007.
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EMC Smarts Integration
Technology Note
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AlterPoint and EMC Smarts are jointly committed to simplifying and automating network management across complex, multivendor networks. By combining AlterPoint’s DeviceAuthority with Smarts, enterprises can proactively monitor, manage and enforce compliance, security, change and inventory to maximize IT performance and reduce risk.
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AlterPoint's Open Network Initiative
Open Management Architecture for Internet-Era Networks
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Managing the convergence of separate networks, each with a separate technology stack, substantial bandwidth requirements and the increasingly inflexible need for sustained, reliable quality presents significant challenges. Current network management architecture and capabilities are being outpaced by the huge and growing demand for network services and the attendant growth in infrastructure, security and regulatory requirements.
If traditional management tools and practices continue to be applied to a converged service network, networks will continue to operate in a “best effort” manner, mirroring their underlying IP architecture, and fail to meet business requirements for compliance, security and performance.
A new strategy that eliminates the minutiae of element level scripts and arcane low-level configuration parameters is required to provide the proper context for managing entire networks and the services they deliver.
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Managing Configurations
Test and Management Solutions Showcase 2005
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Compliance requires Visibility and Automation
Presented by: Ryan Shopp, AlterPoint
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eBook: The Shortest Guide to Network Compliance and Security
Four-chapter series defines, educates and guides readers on how to approach IT infrastructure compliance and security
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Authored by industry expert Don Jones, the new publication explores both the underlying meaning of IT compliance and security, as well as how to accomplish both of these goals in the 21st century by using new technologies and techniques that can be leveraged across the entire IT infrastructure. META Group's Glenn O'Donnell delivers a compelling foreword on the evolution of NCCM and the critical role it plays with compliance and network security management, a model introduction to topics that include best practice guidelines, compliance methodologies, criteria for purchasing, real-world scenarios, and much more.
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Top Ten Reports from DeviceAuthority Suite
Reporting capabilities in DeviceAuthority Suite
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DeviceAuthority Suite, the leading Network Change and Configuration Management solution, provides centralized reporting capabilities that significantly enhance an IT organization’s ability to deliver timely information on the status of the entire network. DeviceAuthority Suite’s reporting capabilities support availability, performance, service delivery, security, compliance and change management. Additionally, DeviceAuthority Suite’s support for a broad range of device vendors provides IT organizations with the most extensive reporting capabilities for network device details.
This document will provide you with a detailed understanding of the overall reporting capabilities in DeviceAuthority Suite, as well as, provide you with detailed information on the 10 most frequently used reports by IT organizations world-wide for managing their complex multi-vendor networking environments.
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Selecting a Network Configuration Management Solution
By Don Jones
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As a crucial tool in daily operations, a network configuration management solution will centralize management as well as improve network security. Thus, the task of selecting an effective network configuration management solution requires an understanding of the features available as well as how the solution will intergrate into the existing environment. This white paper explores the range of capabilities that a useful solution can provide, enabling you to determine the business impact of these features and to select which network configuration management solution is ideal for your environment.
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DeviceAuthority Suite -- ITIL Compliance
A Technical White Paper
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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) books describe an integrated, process-based, best practice framework for managing IT services. Many ITIL experts agree that configuration management is the core ITIL process that the others revolve around. This technical white paper discusses how DeviceAuthority Suite fully adheres to ITIL’s Configuration Management process definition.
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