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Virtualization: The HP Perspective
Through active participation, HP and its alliance partners are influencing the direction of virtualization to the benefit of enterprises worldwide.
Agile Airline Enterprise
Today’s airline industry is undergoing more transformation than ever before. The combination of ongoing global economic events, “wired” passengers, and growth of lowcost carriers makes this market ever more competitive on price, cost, and yield. As you assess new and emerging trends such as business process outsourcing and utility computing, you should also explore how your airline’s information environment can be designed to make your enterprise more responsive, more flexible, and, above all, more agile.
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Business Dynamics and Application Platforms
In this paper, Datamonitor outlines a starkly different approach to AMS i.e. a virtuous cycle of “adaptive innovation” based on an agile application platform that exploits the opportunity cost of maintenance.
Building a Business Case for Service Integration and Management PDF, 226K
As companies tackle the challenges of globalization, greater competition, increased regulatory scrutiny, and introduction of new products and services, they are also grappling with information technology (IT) challenges - rigid, inefficient IT structures that constrain growth and flexibility. The effective IT organization of the future must be able to apply new capability to business problems quickly, scale or contract IT operations rapidly to meet changing demand, and be able to set and monitor consumption practices in real time.
For the Record – Enterprise Records Management Is Crucial To Keeping Enterprises In Check PDF, 278K
Enterprise records management has always been a party to risk mitigation, but its stature is now gaining prominence across enterprises everywhere. This is an article from synnovation Magazine.
Orchestration For The Business-Driven Data Center
IT organizations are increasingly under pressure to do more with less and to extract as much value as possible from their IT investment. The focus today is on the quality of service – not only the technology – causing IT organizations to perform more as service providers than support teams and contribute to the business. HP shares insights on how orchestration services and technologies can tie an organization’s IT services and systems to its business goals.
Reducing Complexity Through Application Rationalization
Rationalizing applications and the underlying IT infrastructure is a crucial business strategy for today’s communications service providers (CSPs). The approach detailed here not only helps CSPs reduce costs but also gain the speed and flexibility they need to compete more effectively in a rapidly changing market.
Securing the Enterprise Wireless LAN
The depth and breadth of wireless devices continues to grow, and it's a boon for businesses as workers are more mobile than at any time in the past. But that freedom comes with a very real threat of significant security breaches. Companies must protect themselves by employing solutions that secure the enterprise wireless local-area network.
SOA in Transportation Industry
Companies in the transportation industry face a number of challenges, from globalization and lower-cost competitors to the need to be more nimble and responsive to market changes. To survive and succeed in this dynamic marketplace, hotels, cruise lines, air services firms, and transport providers must address a range of legacy business and applications issues. By adopting an enterprise-class, service-oriented architecture (SOA), transportation providers can lay the foundation needed to modernize existing software systems and introduce efficient new applications.
The Workplace of the Future
As a new array of communications tools floods the marketplace, communications service providers (CSPs) are preparing to support these more mobile, data-centric edge devices. To deliver these new entertainment, communications and converged computing services, CSPs must expand their competencies and become more agile, customer-focused enterprises.
Unwelcome Surprises – A Primer On What Organizations Can Do to Manage the Unexpected PDF, 261K
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a relatively new business phrase being used in an increasingly widespread manner. It’s a broad term used by regulators, policy makers, industry groups, and enterprises to describe a range of activities that’s both similar and unique depending upon the context.
World-Class Data Center
A CEO's top area of focus is innovation and breakthroughs that open up new markets. According to a study, between 75 and 90 percent of IT budgets are allocated to the ongoing operations of the infrastructure. To achieve new market breakthrough, the implication is that funding must come from the remaining 10 to 25 percent of the IT budget. The ability to provide this type of funding comes from operational excellence resulting from deployment of world-class tools, processes, and procedures. The data center is a key area. It plays an ever-increasing role in rapidly implementing and exploiting business functions that can increase market opportunities.

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