November 2009  
EMA Resource Roundup
  > WEBINARS

The Cloud & Your Applications: What is the Impact on Application Management?
-Julie Craig, Research Director, EMA
-Amy Feldman, Product Marketing Manager, HP
-Wednesday 11/25 @ 2 pm UK / 9 am Eastern / 6 am Pacific

Five Trends Shaping the Future of End-to-End Application Management in 2010
-Julie Craig, Research Director, EMA
-Tuesday 12/1 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

The Real-World Experiences of Endpoint Virtualization
-Andi Mann, VP, EMA
-Thursday 12/3 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

Empowering a Mobile Workforce: A Holistic Approach to Enterprise BlackBerry Management
-Dennis Drogseth, VP, EMA
-Pierluigi Buonicore, Product Manager, Research in Motion (RIM)
-Jonathan Evans, Product Marketing, Research in Motion (RIM)
-Jon Haworth, Product Marketing Manager, HP
-Tuesday 12/8 @ 6 am Pacific / 9 am Eastern / 2 pm UK

Enterprise Automation: Removing Risk and Improving Business Processes Across Departments, Geographies, and the Cloud
-Julie Craig, Research Director, EMA
-Matthew Busch, Product Marketing Executive, UC4
-Thursday 12/10 @ 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern / 4 pm UK

How to Take Control of Your Physical and Virtual Data Center
A Holistic Approach to Data Center Automation and Management

-Andi Mann, VP, EMA
-Blake Carlson, VP of Strategy, Avocent
-Thursday 12/17 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern

  > EMA ARTICLES

Four Emerging (And Still Misunderstood) "Centers" Within IT and Why They are Critical to Your Future
by Dennis Drogseth – DITY Weekly Reader – October 29, 2009

Proactive Strategies for Pandemia
by Jim Frey – Network World – November 3, 200

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Network Management: A Priority for the Responsible Cloud
by Jim Frey, Research Director, EMAJim Frey

EMA has just recently completed the data gathering phase of our Responsible Cloud research initiative, and there are some interesting results around the roles being played by network management and networking teams in terms of cloud management and operations.

While much of the focus on the cloud is on the application platforms, virtualized systems, and storage, accessible remotely as a packaged service, there are also big questions about the role that networking will play: How do you visualize the managed environment when some of your infrastructure is yours and some of it isn’t? Where are the hand-offs? Where are the connection points? And how do you troubleshoot the inevitable calls that the network team will get when responsiveness is not meeting expectations?

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  > EMA NEWS

EMA Announces Launch of the EMA Radar Report™

EMA is pleased to announce the introduction of a new report series – the EMA Radar Report™, which will provide end users with a qualitative review of vendor products in key IT Management markets.

Vendors are assessed on two key dimensions – Product Strength and Cost Efficiency. Each vendor is then mapped against these dimensions, mak¬ing it simple to see how vendors measure up against others in the market. The EMA Radar Report also provides a high-level market segment overview, a detailed discussion of methodology and criteria, , a comprehensive analyst write-up on each vendor, as well as an evaluation of software products.

The inaugural EMA Radar Report on Website Vulnerability is now available online for $795. Purchase the Radar Report now.

The Website Vulnerability summary is available for free online. Download the Summary now.

  > FREE EMA RESEARCH

Limited-Time Offer: Free EMA Research
Download the Following EMA Research by 11/30/09 for Free (Regularly $99 each)

Enterprise Trends in the Service Desk 2009
This EMA Advisory Note provides user insight into the findings of EMA research called The Aging Help Desk: Migrating to a Modern Service Desk. Download now.

Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions
This EMA white paper explores the current WLA landscape and an innovative solution that addresses historical obstacles to implementation. Download now.

OpTier Experience Manager: “Closing the Loop” on Transaction Management Across the Data Center-End User Experience Gap
This EMA Brief provides an overview of OpTier Experience Manager, an innovative approach to End User Experience Management (EUEM). Download now.

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Free White Paper from CA

Making Every Asset Count: A Lean IT Best Practice

IT organizations today are challenged to achieve results with increasingly limited resources. This presents a paradox when considering the volume of change that must be supported to preserve business advantages. This CA white paper will help you understand how your organization can take advantage of Lean IT.

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  > EMA RESEARCH

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

Document Name Document Type Analyst
Website Vulnerability Assessment Q4 2009
Radar Report™* Michael Montecillo
Website Vulnerability Assessment – Summary
White Paper Michael Montecillo
The Arrival of the Extended Data Center: Cloud and On-Premise as an Integrated Execution Fabric EMA Brief Steve Brasen
HP and RIM Join Forces to Enable Holistic Enterprise BlackBerry Management
EMA Brief Steve Brasen
Fluke Notches Enterprise Features with VPM6.0
EMA Brief Jim Frey
Reducing Operational Expense (OpEx) with Virtualization and Virtual Systems Management
White Paper* Andi Mann
Maximizing Resource Use by Reining in Virtualization Sprawl: How Real Users Optimize Virtual Environments with the VKernel Optimization Pack White Paper* Andi Mann
Combating Today’s Complex Malware with Dynamic Defenses White Paper* Scott Crawford
Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions White Paper* Andi Mann
Bringing Enterprise-class Network Performance and Security Management Together using NetFlow – the Lancope StealthWatch Solution White Paper* Jim Frey
CA Introduces "Cross Enterprise Application Performance Management", Bridging the Distributed and Mainframe Silos for APM White Paper* Julie Craig
BMC’s Value Realization: How Metrics can Accelearate Real-World Initiatives in Service Management and Automation White Paper* Dennis Drogseth
Compuware, Gomez and the New Application Dynamic: Managing Application Performance in the Internet Era White Paper* Dennis Drogseth

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