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Five Ways to Maximize Value of Future IT Investments

Overview This white paper discusses several key issues that will impact your company as it moves toward a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services technologies. The paper drills down on five critical strategies that can help you transform your existing infrastructure to a next-generation model, including the need to:

Recognize that it's not enough to have the fastest, most
robust hardware
Make a distinction between revenue-generating and
administrative-support applications
Set a plan for critical path monitoring
Align system and application performance metrics with
business metrics
Establish a plan to guard against security threats and generate audit trails to meet regulatory requirements

Download the white paper, compliments of RTO Software, to learn more about moving to a next-generation infrastructure and how you can gain the maximum value and business success from those investments.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	RTO Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2006	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation, Infrastructure Management, Service Level Management, Internationalization - Expansion, Resources Mgmt., Strategic Planning, ROI - TCO, IT Reliability, SLA, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.

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