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June 2009  
EMA Resource Roundup
  > WEBINARS

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Storage Best Practices for High-Def VDI: Crank up Storage Dexterity to Drive down Operational Cost
-Andi Mann, VP, EMA
-Thursday 7/16 @ 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern

The Fast Path to Service Management for Mid-Tier Enterprises: Seeing Beyond the Myths for What Really Works
-Dennis Drogseth, VP, EMA
-Scott Gordon, VP, AccelOps
-Tuesday 7/21 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

Virtualization Best Practices to Drive down Costs, Drive up Utilization and Performance
-Andi Mann, VP, EMA
-Alex Bakman, Founder & CEO, VKernel
-Thursday 7/23 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

What is New in the Not-so-New Area of Event Management: Five Tips to Reduce Incident Resolution Costs
-Dennis Drogseth, VP, EMA
-Peter Spielvogel, Product Marketing Manager, HP
-Tuesday 7/28 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

The Cloud and Your Applications: What is the Impact on Application Management?
-Julie Craig, Research Director, EMA
-Amy Feldman, Product Marketing Manager, HP
-Thursday 7/30 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

  > EMA ARTICLES

EMA analysts and consultants are respected IT management thought leaders. Check out these recent articles:

How to Assign Value to an IT Service
by Dennis Drogseth – CIO Update – May 26, 2009

IP Video Conferencing: No Guts, No Glory
by Jim Frey – Network World – June 5, 2009

Follow the Money: HP Tool Dissects IT Spending
by Dennis Drogseth – Network World – June 16, 2009

  > EMA ANALYSTS SPEAK

Look for EMA analysts speaking at these upcoming events:

IT Security Analyst Forum
-Scott Crawford, Research Director
-July 1 -2, 2009
-London, England

VMworld 2009
-Andi Mann, VP
-August 31-September 3
-San Francisco, CA

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Consolidated Event Management: Why It’s more Interesting than You Think
by Dennis Drogseth, Vice President Dennis Drogseth

It’s funny how much high tech seems to be a slave to fashion, given its reputation for being unfashionable. Like it or not, high tech is full of the equivalents of, well, American Idol or Britney Spears. This year it’s Twitter and Cloud Computing – the latter often being too cloudy a concept, invoked with more magic than meaning. But this article is not about the “fashionable crowd” or even the “fashionable cloud.” Instead, I’d like to revisit something nearly as old as IT, itself: event management.

The truth is that event management has quietly been evolving beyond niche diagnostics towards becoming a foundation for more unified decision making and remediation . . .

> Read the Consolidated Event Management article

Free 7/28 EMA-HP Webinar: What is New in the Not-so-New Area of Event Management: Five Tips to Reduce Incident Resolution Costs

  > EMA IT SOLUTIONS CENTER

Compare 100s of Top Products in the Free: EMA™ IT Management Solutions Center
Narrow down a short list of vendors for your latest IT management initiative in a matter of hours vs. days (or weeks) with the free IT Management Solutions Center.

Our experts have cut through the noise and consolidated the data you need on 100s of IT management offerings – and it’s available in one convenient location. Use this free, online resource to:

  • Learn the fundamentals of key technologies
  • Compare products to find those that fit your needs
  • Analyze objective analyst solution profiles

Topics include: CMDB, QoE/User Experience Management, SLM/BSM, Virtualization, Service Desk, and more!

> Check out the IT Management Solutions Center

  > EMA RESEARCH

Subscribers: New EMA Research in June
Check out the latest research from the EMA team of IT management experts:

Document Name Document Type Analyst
Enterprise Trends in the Service Desk 2009 Advisory Note Lisa Erickson-Harris
McAfee Acquires Change Control as System-level Whitelisting with Solidcore EMA Brief Scott Crawford
SpringSource Unifies Application Lifecycle with Hyperic Acquisition EMA Brief Steve Brasen
CA Acquires Data Center Automation (DCA) Vendor Cassatt EMA Brief Andi Mann
EMC Corp. Acquires Change and Configuration Management Vendor Configuresoft, Inc EMA Brief Andi Mann
HP Releases HP Project and Portfolio Management Center v8.0 - Focuses on Financial Management Needs EMA Brief Lisa Erickson-Harris
Pervasive Metamorphosis 2009: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond EMA Brief Julie Craig
Numara Software Releases Track-It! Version 9 EMA Brief Lisa Erickson-Harris
Citrix NetScaler nCore™ Technology: Totally Re-architected for Parallel Processing EMA Brief Julie Craig
Deliver IT Cost Visibility with Digital Fuel EMA Brief Lisa Erickson-Harris
IBM Rational Software Conference 2009: “As Real as it Gets” EMA Brief Julie Craig
Compuware Vantage 11: Performance-Driven Service Model, Unified Performance Analysis Tie Application Problems to Business Impact White Paper* Julie Craig
Strategies to Mitigate Information Risk: Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management White Paper* Scott Crawford
IT Financial Management: Business Decisions for IT White Paper* Lisa Erickson-Harris

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