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With enterprises attempting to cope with the increasingly dynamic and real-time demands of job scheduling, the need for workload automation is stronger than ever. As a workload-automation broker, OpsWise Automation Center is a purpose-built solution for this next era of computing that provides the ability to respond to enterprise events, balance workloads, and display business services and IT views of the workload running in the enterprise.
Technology Audits - published 10/08/2010 - Nishant Singh, Roy Illsley
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Napatech is a leading provider of specialist network adapters that offer optimised, high-performance analysis and throughput, along with many other advanced features. Network performance is increasingly a focus of business attention, as many organisations have revenue-generating operations that closely depend on network capabilities. Napatech adapters are mostly marketed to providers of specialist network functionality (e.g. security or optimisation) that use the high-performance foundation to add furthe…
Technology Audits - published 08/12/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Recently an experiment was conducted in South Africa in which 4 GB of data was transferred 80 km in just over two hours.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Terry White
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There’s a big noise going on in the IT world and it’s all coming from the cloud. ‘We’re moving to the cloud’ might seem like a line from the latest children’s movie, but the reality is many companies are doing just that and if they haven’t already, they are seriously considering it.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Dan Joe Barry
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Citrix XenApp is a Microsoft Windows application delivery system that manages applications in the data centre and delivers them as an on-demand service to users anywhere using any device. New solutions to the approach to application deployment, which we believe is better referred to as application delivery, are needed because the cost of managing a traditional thick-client desktop estate is increasing while its flexibility is limited. Citrix XenApp provides a single management solution that can be applie…
Technology Audits - published 03/04/2009 - Roy Illsley
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FireMon is a network change and configuration management tool, which enables network and firewall administrators to manage the complex arrangement of rules and policies that many organisations use to enable their employees and systems to access the Internet securely. Butler Group considers the scalability aspect of FireMon to be a significant differentiator in the market, but currently FireMon does not integrate with any vendor’s CMDB, which we believe would be a benefit to end-user organisations as this…
Technology Audits - published 10/03/2009 - Roy Illsley
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RES PowerFuse is a complete user workspace management solution that focuses on the personal functional needs of an organisation’s end users. To achieve its objectives the solution abstracts the user’s Microsoft desktop facilities from the local machine and Operating System (OS) while retaining central control at the data centre layer and maintaining the flexibility to operate using either existing local or independent directory technology. Each RES PowerFuse-enabled user workspace provides a controlled,…
Technology Audits - published 24/02/2009 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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With a worsening outlook for 2009, Butler Group has identified six key trends for 2009 in the infrastructure management space that are all based on the premise of the increased Return On Investment (ROI) and the associated cost saving initiatives; there will be less focus on the value-add as all organisations are forced to look at getting more from what they already have, and freeing up the funding to be invested in other areas of the business.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/01/2009 - Roy Illsley
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LogLogic 4.6 facilitates the collection, analysis, storage, sharing, and reporting of IT system log data thereby enabling it to be actively managed and secured. The introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) regulations have focused attention on many aspects of IT, especially that relating to audit trails. Offered as a range of ‘black box’ appliances, LogLogic has developed this solution with low cost of ownership and ease of implementation and manage…
Technology Audits - published 05/01/2009 - Richard Edwards
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CA Service Catalog, an integral part of CA Service Level and Catalog Management (CA SLCM), is an enterprise solution which facilitates a better alignment of IT with the business by managing and providing a Web storefront where subscribers and requesters of IT and non-IT Services can go to select required service offerings. CA Service Catalog aligns with the company’s Unified Service Model which aims to provide a complete view into an organisation’s service support function by exposing the tools, assets, …
Technology Audits - published 08/12/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Sue Clarke
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SL Corporation’s RTView is an Application Performance Management (APM) solution that allows organisations to gain an holistic view of performance metrics from a variety of data sources, and present these in a meaningful way via customisable dashboards to the persons tasked with ensuring the well-being of multiple complex systems. RTView does not just take a high-level view of the application infrastructure, but also enables drill-down to the software components that support the applications in order that…
Technology Audits - published 05/12/2008 - Mike Thompson
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CiRBA provides value-enhancing support for data centre consolidation and virtualisation initiatives, and ongoing management of infrastructures incorporating virtualisation (across multiple vendor platforms). In adopting virtualisation, organisations risk failure to overcome the risks of their transformational investment in virtualisation, and other advanced technologies, becoming a new, long-term management problem. CiRBA supports transformational initiatives to initially optimise infrastructure environm…
Technology Audits - published 02/12/2008 - Alan Rodger
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XenServer from Citrix is a server virtualisation platform based on the open source Xen hypervisor. The 64-bit hypervisor offers support for both 32-and 64-bit Linux and Windows as the guest OS. Citrix’s approach to virtualisation is based on the para-virtualisation technique which requires modification of the guest OS before it runs in a virtual environment. The most basic edition of XenServer, the XenServer Express provides organisations with a basic virtualisation platform with a hypervisor and a manag…
Technology Audits - published 25/11/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Rob Hailstone
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Parallels Server and Parallels Server for Mac are two server virtualisation products that provide organisations with a choice of virtualising their IT infrastructure environment based on a Hypervisor architecture. While Parallels Server is currently in the beta testing phase, Parallels Server for Mac was released in July 2008; offering support for the Mac Xserve and Mac OS X Leopard. Both solutions are purpose-built to run on the latest Intel® powered VT-x, while Parallels Server also executes on AMD-V c…
Technology Audits - published 24/10/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Roy Illsley
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Tripwire Enterprise (Tripwire) provides the ability to automatically discover the configuration of IT systems and to continuously monitor the configuration for changes. It is able to determine whether the changes have been made in accordance with established policies or have not been correctly authorised, and to determine the priority that should be associated with investigating unauthorised changes. Tripwire can additionally compare system configurations with regulatory requirements or industry best pra…
Technology Audits - published 24/10/2008 - Rob Hailstone
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Virtual Iron Version 4.4 is a comprehensive virtualisation solution that provides many advanced features such as live migration, power management, high availability, and disaster recovery in a single product. Virtual Iron Software has targeted its solution at the SMB sector, which has similar requirements to larger enterprise organisations, but needs an easy to implement and manage cost-effective solution. Butler Group considers the ‘built-in’ management console, which is policy-driven and manages all th…
Technology Audits - published 23/10/2008 - Roy Illsley
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All across the world, the turmoil in the banking industry continued this week, with the news that the former Bradford & Bingley Building Society (BBBS), now Bradford & Bingley bank (B&B), is to be nationalised. The UK government is taking over the UK£50 billion mortgages and loans side of the business, and the UK£20 billion savings business and branch network is being transferred to Abbey (which itself is owned by Santander of Spain). Considering this, what are the implications from an IT perspective for…
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/10/2008 - Maxine Holt
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DataSynapse’s Dynamic Application Service Management Platform (DASM) incorporates two key solutions: GridServer®, a grid management tool for platforming applications that can readily use parallel processing; and FabricServer, which enables transactional business applications to be provisioned in real time to physical and virtual servers, based on policy. FabricServer™ includes an Eclipse-based Studio that equips applications for virtualisation, and its runtime management assembles application components …
Technology Audits - published 15/09/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Alan Rodger, Somak Roy
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