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IT Operations White Papers

The IT Operations White Papers category in our CIO Reference Library focuses on providing IT executives, decision-makers, and professionals with a comprehensive collection of white papers related to IT operations management, best practices, and emerging trends. This category aims to help you stay informed on the latest advancements, solutions, and strategies in IT operations, enabling you to optimize and streamline your organization’s IT strategy and operations effectively.

Resources in this category will cover a variety of topics, including:

  1. IT Operations Management: Gain insights into best practices, methodologies, and frameworks for managing IT operations effectively, including ITIL, DevOps, and Agile approaches.
  2. IT Infrastructure and Monitoring: Learn about the latest tools, technologies, and techniques for managing and monitoring IT infrastructure, including network, server, storage, and cloud resources.
  3. IT Service Management (ITSM): Discover the principles, processes, and tools for delivering high-quality IT services to your organization, and explore ITSM frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT, and ISO/IEC 20000.
  4. IT Security and Compliance: Familiarize yourself with best practices and strategies for ensuring the security, privacy, and compliance of your IT operations, including data protection, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
  5. IT Automation and Orchestration: Learn about the benefits and challenges of implementing IT automation and orchestration solutions, including tools and platforms for automating IT processes, workflows, and infrastructure management.
  6. Cloud Computing and Virtualization: Explore the latest trends, best practices, and technologies related to cloud computing and virtualization, and understand their impact on IT operations management.
  7. IT Operations Analytics: Gain insights into the role of data analytics in IT operations, including techniques for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing IT operations data to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
  8. IT Cost Optimization: Discover strategies and best practices for optimizing IT costs, including techniques for analyzing IT expenditures, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and implementing cost-effective IT solutions.
  9. IT Service Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Understand the principles and best practices for ensuring IT service continuity and effective disaster recovery planning, including business continuity management and IT resilience strategies.
  10. IT Operations Case Studies and Success Stories: Learn from real-world examples of organizations that have successfully optimized and streamlined their IT operations and gain insights into their strategies, challenges, and lessons learned.

The IT Operations White Papers category is designed to provide IT executives and professionals with the knowledge and resources necessary to stay informed on the latest advancements, best practices, and trends in IT operations management. By offering a comprehensive collection of white papers covering a wide range of IT operations topics, this category seeks to support informed decision-making and strategic planning in IT operations and service delivery.

EMC Documentum Security – A Comprehensive Overview

This whitepaper discusses how the reliance on electronic information increases the need for security and why it is especially important to ensure a secure enterprise content management infrastructure. It details the core security features of EMC documentum content Server, the central component of Documentum Enterprise content management platform, and enhances security available through Documentum Trusted Content Services

Enhancing Data Integrity and Recoverability

This whitepaper discusses that no single mechanism is sufficient to ensure data integrity in a single storage system. It is only through cooperation of a multitude of mechanisms that establish successive lines od defense against all sources of errors that data recoverability can be assured. The paper focuses on four key elements of EMC’s Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture

Understanding Cloud Security Challenges

This paper discusses that providing security for cloud environments that matches the levels found in internal data centers is essential for helping modern organizations compete and for allowing service providers to meet their customers’ needs. However, to match the levels of security that customers experience internally, service providers must make the proper investments in providing, proving and ensuring appropriate levels of security over time.

Accelerate your Cloud Journey

This paper discusses a new way of computing for the enterprise. In light of the the recent move toward mobile applications and smart devices and with cloud computing having become a fixture in the enterprise IT landscape; Enterprise IT needs a new approach to manage processes and applications that are distributed across a mix of environments.

Big Data for the Enterprise

This paper discusses how the analysis of new and diverse digital data can reveal new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into customer behavior and identify market trends. It also discusses the challenges this new data creates and concludes that in order to derive business value from big data,

Defining a Framework for Cloud Adoption

This paper illustrates the key capabilities to consider when developing cloud computing strategies, and identifies key aspects required to successfully execute that strategy. It discusses a cloud computing adoption framework, which establishes common definitions, delivery models and services.

IT as a Service Model: 10 Key Steps

This whitepaper discusses 10 key steps that will help guide an organization's journey in fully leveraging cloud computing and creating a more agile and relevant IT operation

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