ASG Software Resource Center
Virtualization Sanity Check: Stopping the Sprawl with Complete IT Visibility
Virtualization continues to grow at 20 percent or more per year, but it is not expected to overtake existing physical architectures at least through 2010. This white paper examines the unique challenges of virtualization and offers tips for its successful management alongside IT's physical deployments.
How to Populate Your CMDB in Four Steps
Generally, CMDBs populated by discovery tools alone simply aren't usable. They fail because they contain massive amounts of irrelevant information. You avoid this pitfall by correctly populating your CMDB in four simple steps.
ITIL v3: Making Business Services Serve the Business
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides guidance for the management of IT, and has quickly become the worldwide standard for IT Service Management (ITSM). Explore the issues surrounding the refined definition of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) in ITIL v3, as well as the powerful Configuration Management System (CMS), in this ASG / EMA White Paper.
Increasing ROI and Reducing the Risks of Your Application Portfolio
Application Portfolio Management (APM) is all about minimizing risks and maximizing rewards of an organization's diverse assortment of applications. This white paper examines APM's ability to mitigate escalating risks while generating significant ROI opportunities.
A New Breed of Data Warehouse
Because enterprise data warehouses are evolving along different dimensions, organizations need to effectively manage metadata to ensure successful use of their data warehouse systems. But current data warehouse offerings limit organizations' ability to manage metadata. A new breed of data warehouse technology is emerging that addresses many of the implementation challenges organizations face.
The Critical Role of Content Management in Delivering Business Services
Business runs on content and that content must be managed holistically, across the entire business. However, managing content is, in itself, not enough to drive business. Enterprises must incorporate ECM with other IT management systems to provide complete Business Service Management (BSM).