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RSS bmcGlobal Challenges of IT Automation
White Paper To automate several operational tasks, the Dell IT group deployed BMC CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems and BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager, and is currently deploying BMC Atrium... [02 Oct 2009]
How Planning With BMC Capacity Trending Advisor Can Reduce Over-Provisioning
White Paper According to recent surveys conducted by BMC Software and feedback from market analysts, the majority of IT organizations still forecast capacity utilization using spreadsheets. This requires a significant amount of... [16 Sep 2009]
Reduce the Overall Costs of Managing Mainframe Storage Using BMC MAINVIEW SRM
White Paper Businesses rely on storage and require quick access to the data, whether it is located on disk or tape. Storage is growing in an explosive manner fueled by compliance regulations, application content requirements, and business growth. [16 Sep 2009]
Service Optimization: How Mainframe Systems Management Can Deliver More Business Value at Less Cost
White Paper In their quest to deliver higher margins and more shareholder value, senior management teams are scrutinizing all areas of operating expense, including the operations portion of the IT department. Every area of IT operations is under... [16 Sep 2009]
Combining ITIL and Six Sigma to Improve Information Technology Service Management at General Electric
White Paper ITIL defines the "what" of service management and Six Sigma defines the "how" of quality improvement. Together, they make a great combination for improving the quality of IT service delivery and support. [11 Sep 2009]
Boston Medical Center Turns to McAfee Network Security Platform and McAfee ToPS for Endpoint to Protect Vital Clinical Services
White Paper Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a private, not-for-profit, medical center with 581 beds, located in Boston's historic South End. BMC allows partner connections into their environment to access a variety... [01 Sep 2009]
BMC Service Desk Express
White Paper BMC Service Desk Express Integration Engine connects the BMC Service Desk Express environment to other IT systems and solutions. The Integration Engine enables scheduled, real-time and Web Service... [30 Aug 2009]
Improve the Performance of BMC Recovery Manager With Multiplexing and Disk Optimization
White Paper This paper describes two methods that can be used to significantly increase the performance of backups taken with the BMC Recovery Manager for Oracle product from BMC Software. The new multiplexing... [30 Aug 2009]
Managing SQL Performance With BMC Software
White Paper DB2 for z/OS is the premier IBM database management system for mainframe processing. DB2 performance is always a hot topic at conferences and user groups. Many software products have been written to address various aspects of DB2 system... [30 Aug 2009]
BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping Explained
White Paper IT organizations need to identify assets and how they are configured. Today's number of IT components, their configurations, relationships among them, and the constant changes introduced by business and technology needs make manual... [30 Aug 2009]
BMC Best Practice Process Flow for Event Management
White Paper The operations manager periodically reviews all high-impact incident requests (i.e.all service outages that affected multiple users). For each of these incident requests, the operations manager first determines whether or not an event... [30 Aug 2009]
IMS Common Services Layer - An Introduction
White Paper The IMS Console, which is included in all BMC IMS products, has an interface to the CSL that simplifies IMS management even more than the CSL itself. The Common Services Layer (CSL) simplifies systems management tasks. [30 Aug 2009]
Automating Problem Analysis and Resolution Across the Application Life Cycle: Enhancing the Efficiency of Offshore Software Development and Support
White Paper BMC's Application Problem Resolution product is an automated problem determination asset that can be leveraged by both development and production support teams to diagnose and communicate application problems very... [30 Aug 2009]
Solutions for Large IMS Databases
White Paper When IMS databases reach their size limit, one can change the database structure or implement compression or both. Choose option based on how one use the data and how much time one have to change it. Start with the simplest methods. [30 Aug 2009]
Exploiting IBM zIIP Processors to Reduce z/OS Monitoring Costs
White Paper The primary reason this is so attractive and cost-effective is not just the cheaper hardware, but also much cheaper software, since typically, processing capacity associated with specialty engines is not "counted" as overall z/OS... [30 Aug 2009]
