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Other Resources
Continually Compliant Data Centers
The 5 Steps Best Practice
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Presented by: Vick Viren Vaishnavi, VP Marketing, Bladelogic
Keeping Data Centers continuously in compliance with security, operational and regulatory compliance policies is one of IT's most daunting challenges today. This session outlines a 5-step approach based on industry 'best practices' that can help IT organizations achieve continuous data center compliance.
Key Takeaways:
Key Concepts in Compliance Policy, Defined
Guidelines for establishing Standards, Accountability and Audit Trails
Managing by Metrics - An Approach for Measuring Efficacy
Life Cycle Management - Establishing Audit and Remediation Processes
IT Controls - How to Create and Institutionalize Compliance Processes
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Orchestrating the Data Center
Implementing Controls to Reduce Chaos, Costs and Compliance Headaches
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Presented by: Vick Viren Vaishnavi, VP Marketing & Vijay Manwani, CTO
at Empowered's IT Management Solutions Showcase 2007
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Information Technology Infrastructure Library & Configuration Management Database
A BladeLogic Perspective
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ITIL, through its best practices, assists in developing a process-driven approach to IT Service Management. A typical IT organization is comprised of people, processes and tools. The best practices of ITIL focus on integrating these three aspects of an organization. It provides guidance on linking specific management processes across various organizations through a business oriented approach.
Its broad objectives are:
Aligning IT Services with their business requirements
Providing a holistic approach to managing services
Providing means to deliver and support services at a justifiable cost
Allowing IT organizations to implement their interpretation of ITIL best practice guidelines, tailoring them to their specific business needs
Implementing ITIL best practices provides a strong foundation for implementing and expediting compliance controls for regulatory policies (SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, SAS 70 etc.) and security policies (CIS, NSA, NIST, SANS etc.).
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Data Center Consolidation
The Complexity of Data Center Consolidation
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Consolidation is less of a choice than a requirement for most large IT environments today. The proliferation of internet technologies and the increasing dependence of private and public sector organizations on the back-office IT Services mean that IT chaos and inefficiency directly affect the bottom line. The move from large, expensive mainframes to huge numbers of cheap servers has changed many IT environments from bastions of cleanliness and order to barely contained chaos. Since the majority of organizations have built their IT infrastructures organically, with each department or office controlling their own servers, it is very difficult to impose order on the chaotic sprawl. This sprawl leads to inevitable duplication of services and wasted resources, with multiple servers performing almost the same function, but without centralized control.
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Managing Change in the Data Center
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This paper outlines how BladeLogic’s data center automation platform enables Change Management and Automation within the data center through the ability to detect, execute, and govern complex changes to the server and application infrastructure.
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Integrating Change and Compliance
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In today’s rapidly evolving and highly competitive business environment, there has been a huge increase in the rate of configuration changes to IT assets (such as servers and applications) in order to properly service the business. Paradoxically, there also has been growing emphasis on assuring the integrity of those same configurations by controlling the scope and frequency of changes. This trend has been accelerated not only by internal (i.e., security, operational processes, etc.) , but also external (e.g., SOX, HIPPA, etc.) requirements.
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Selecting a Data Center Automation Vendor
by Galen Schreck
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Data center automation (DCA) products have grown from simple provisioning tools to generalpurpose
platforms for configuration management and automation of IT operations. Increasing product
complexity has made finding a good fit for your specific environment more difficult. This report
provides criteria for evaluating data center automation products as well as numerical scores for each
vendor’s product suite.
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IT Security - Is Server Management Your Weakest Link?
Key security requirements in keeping all your servers secure.
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While companies spent $ 4.3 billion on network security products last year, the weakest link may be your servers. This presentation examines the continuous stream of patches, hot-fixes, and service packs, and the business challenges of keeping all of your servers secure.
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Automating Data Center Operations
IT Management Solutions Showcase 2003
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Presented by: Patrick Brogan, Business Development Manager, BladeLogic
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Server Management Made Simple
A New Class of Server Management Tools
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The BladeLogic White Paper, "Server Management Made Simple" examines the key sources of system downtime and why systems administrators are stuck managing servers manually, one at a time. Learn about key business challenges in managing server networks, and how escalating workload, scale, and complexity in your data centre highlight the value of BladeLogic solutions.
By registering for this white paper, you will also be entitled to receive valuable information on Server Management and other Network Management solutions from Empowered Networks.
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