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Find out how IT pros can save time in managing help desk tickets and support tasks. Learn some easy and effective ways to allow IT pros to simplify the manual and time-consuming process of providing IT support to end-users.

Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall.

Read this research paper by HDI and SolarWinds, and find out how support centers function in the healthcare industry, what metrics they measure, and what channels & technologies are used for tech support.

Are you pressured to produce more with less as budgets go lean in the tight economy? Looking for new ways to approach network operations to meet today’s needs? In this special report Network World and EMA outline network management strategies, tools and approaches that can help you stay ahead of budget crunches and make the most out of technology investments within your organization.

One of the selling points of Exadata is that you just install it, drop all your indexes and it will increase your database performance significantly all within about a week. Although part of this statement is correct, if you only follow these steps, not only do you open the door for specific queries to run slower at the start, but there is a good chance even some of the queries that are running ok now will exponentially get worse.

Oracle’s evolving support and licensing policies for Oracle RAC on VMware means you can realize the benefits of virtualization– reducing IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization, and flexibility of your existing assets—without risk.

There are differences between performance tuning on a RAC database versus a single instance. In this paper, Kathy Gibbs, Sr. Oracle DBA, will explore the RAC-only waits as well as some tuning suggestions for code to help your RAC environment run more smoothly.