Distributed Systems Management Events Performance & Availability Management / Performance Analysis & Capacity Management / Transaction Management / Virtualization / Operations Management / Event Management / Recovery Management

Title	Date	Duration
Performance and Availability Management
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Best Practices for Event Management Amid the overwhelming volume of data that is provided by monitoring tools such as BMC MAINVIEW, customers often ask "what metrics should I be monitoring?". To address that question, this webinar is a companion to the recently published "MAINVIEW Best Practices: Event Management" document. It will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems.	July 9, 2008	59 minutes
Improve Operational Efficiencies with The New BMC Event Manager and BMC Service Impact Manager v7.1 Just what you’ve been asking for. Flexible installation options to suite your needs, simplified administration without sacrificing important information on the overall health of your environment, a software-based high availability solution that provides operational continuity and much more. Join BMC Software and learn how to deploy these new features, as well as many others, in your BMC Event Manager and BMC Service Impact environment, from basic to advanced, physical or virtual, the flexibility and options are yours.	December 11, 2007	1 hour
What’s New with BMC Performance Manager 2.5 BMC Performance Manager (BPM) 2.5 is faster and simpler than ever, with improvements in performance, usability, and configuration. Hear BMC’s Product Management Team discuss the new v2.5 features focused on improved Portal integration with the Atrium CMDB, Service Impact Manager and Crystal Reports along with Self Monitoring and Configuration.	November 15, 2007	1 hour
Trends in IT Operations Management IT Operations has always been under pressure to deliver more business value for each dollar spent, but now it must also wrestle with increasing business globalization and government regulation. Best-in-class IT organizations have overcome these challenges while also improving customer satisfaction and resource utilization. Learn about why the business of IT is changing and the new processes and software transforming the art and science of IT Operations.	June 5, 2007
Availability Management: Building a Strong Foundation for ITIL One of the key components of the ITIL Service Delivery process is availability management, which focuses on optimizing "the capability of the IT infrastructure, services and supporting organizations to deliver a cost-effective and sustained level of availability that enables the business to satisfy its business objectives." Although, many things go into achieving overall availability management as defined by ITIL, the right tools can provide a significant edge by automating the availability of IT components and services. Whether your organization is just starting to think about ITIL or is already ramping up an ITIL implementation, this Webcast featuring Malcolm Fry, ITIL expert and Independent Consultant, will enforce the value of automating the availability management process.	June 7, 2006	60 minutes
Performance Analysis and Capacity Management
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Introducing Capacity Management Essentials – Simplified capacity analysis and planning for enterprise data centers BMC Software has combined 25+ years of experience in capacity management with the latest technology, to develop our newest capacity management solution. Capacity Management Essentials combines agentless data collection and built-in intelligence with a scalable architecture to provide a powerful, yet easy to use, capacity management solution that provides a complete view of how datacenter resources are being used. Join this webinar to learn how the capabilities of Capacity Management Essentials provide intelligent views of resource utilization across thousands of servers to enable effective capacity management and ensure the success of your datacenter consolidation and virtualization projects.	February 19, 2008	50 minutes
Capacity Management for IT Operations – A simplified approach to effective capacity management for today’s complex data center In this age of data center consolidation and virtualization, where IT best-practice frameworks such as ITIL and COBIT are more than just buzz words, capacity management is simply no longer a ‘nice to have’ process, but part of an overarching IT initiative and business imperative. As companies strive to cut costs and provide consistent service in the wake of data center consolidation or virtualization initiatives, they continue to struggle with one of the most fundamental and challenging IT questions…How much IT capacity do I really need today, and in the future? Join this webinar to learn how BMC Software’s capacity management solutions take the rocket science out of this sometimes overlooked IT discipline and enable anyone to practice effective capacity management.	October 9, 2007	45 minutes
More BMC Performance Assurance Success across More Infrastructures with Existing Staff Performance Surveyor from Solution Labs, Inc. accelerates the benefits of ITIL Capacity Management across today’s dynamic physical and virtual server application infrastructure. With Performance Surveyor and your existing BMC Performance Assurance staff, your benefits from BPA are realized more quickly, with lower costs, across more of your servers and applications. View recording and you will learn how BMC Performance Assurance customers are: This webinar will start with a short 10-minute introduction, and then spend 40 minutes on live demonstration of Performance Surveyor. Attend and you will learn how BMC Performance Assurance customers are: Realizing first day return on investment and value from Performance Surveyor Reducing costs and speeding generation of Performance Reports and Recommendations by up to 95 percent Increasing their staff scope and reach with BMC Performance Assurance to double or more of their infrastructure Embedding their expertise into a fully automatable and repeatable reporting and publishing system	September 17, 2007	54 minutes
What’s New with BMC Performance Assurance v7.4 The new capabilities of BMC Performance Assurance v7.4 will accelerate your ability to plan with confidence and optimize your virtual data center resources. Take advantage of these new features and ensure your ability to deliver the right IT Capacity to meet your business demands through: New reporting, analysis, and modeling capabilities for both physical and virtual platforms Expanded support for virtual platforms including VMware, Microsoft Virtual Servers, AIX MicroPartitioning, Sun Containers, and HP v/Pars Enhanced integration with BEM, SIM, and Atrium CMDB	June 20, 2007	59 minutes
Global Warning: Optimization Strategies to Solve the IT Energy Crisis As business demand for server capacity continues to grow, hardware-intensive solutions such as data center migration, server consolidation and virtualization collide with the reality that energy is a finite and costly resource. And with spiraling energy costs running data center power bills into the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars, energy constraints have become a critical factor in IT profitability and agility. Fortunately, new virtualization and dynamic resource provisioning solutions can reduce data center energy costs though consolidation and more efficient server resource utilization. During this webinar, Forrester Research Vice President Jean- Pierre Garbani, explores the scope of the data center energy challenge, along with David Wagner, Director of Solutions Marketing for Capacity Management and Provisioning Solutions at BMC Software. These two expert speakers also discuss the panoply of strategies targeting the problem and offer novel insights to get ahead of it once and for all.	January 11, 2007
Transaction Management
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BMC Transaction Management: An Insight to Your Applications and Services BMC’s Transaction Management solutions help you to measure the performance of the business transaction and its components from the end-user perspective in end-to-end transaction service delivery.	November 13, 2007	46 minutes
BMC Transaction Management Root Cause Analysis This presentation will introduce you to a new innovative solution, BMC Transaction Management Root Cause Analysis (TM RCA). TM RCA empowers IT staff to quickly isolate the cause of problems in distributed applications, thereby eliminating finger- pointing and slashing problem resolution time. Unlike other tools, which require defining the exact tracked components, TM RCA can diagnose and isolate the root cause of application problems immediately out of the box. Therefore, it can isolate and resolve application problems that are unexpected or previously unknown. View this recording to learn more about BMC Transaction Management Root Cause Analysis, so you can quickly see the "big picture" of application performance, and, at a click of a button, drill down to investigate individual problematic transactions, speeding the isolation process.	August 23, 2007	28 minutes
What's New in BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time v3.1 Learn how BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time (BMC TM ART) 3.1 enables you to manage application performance and availability from the end-user perspective. BMC TM ART is a single product which monitors most application types, and is a critical component that supports both the service delivery and service support practices of ITIL. Topics addressed in the Webinar include: How to measure application health, accuracy, and response times from the end-user’s perspective How integration with BMC Performance Manager helps you correlate end-user service metrics with system metrics to speed problem resolution How integration with BMC Event Manager and BMC Service Impact Manager add end-user perspective to business service management How integration with BMC Service Level Management enables you to manage application quality of service	June 26, 2007	48 minutes
Virtualization
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Managing Real Capacity in Virtual Environments Virtualization is the hottest topic in IT today! Attend this session to learn about the virtualization solutions from IBM, Sun, HP, Microsoft, VMware, and Xen, their different architectural characteristics, and the performance concerns for each. During this session you will gain the knowledge required to properly and easily manage the capacity of your virtual environments. Join BMC Software Chief Technology Officer, Tom Bishop, and VMware Chief Data Center Architect, Scott Davis, and learn how BMC and VMware solutions can provide you the management tools to recognize dramatic hardware utilization and cost savings in your virtual data center.	June 5, 2008	58 minutes
Get Real – Embrace the Virtual Data Center with BMC Software and VMware As your business continues to grow, so does your data center cost and complexity. To meet these business demands, IT departments who have turned to virtualization report increased hardware utilization by 50-70% and decreased capital costs by 40%. The age of the virtual data center has arrived and is here to stay. As you embrace virtual technologies to gain data center efficiencies like this, you must manage the entire data center as one – physical and virtual machines side by side – or risk impacting your overall business services, and ultimately your customers. Join BMC Software Chief Technology Officer, Tom Bishop, and VMware Chief Data Center Architect, Scott Davis, and learn how BMC and VMware solutions can provide you the management tools to recognize dramatic hardware utilization and cost savings in your virtual data center.	January 23, 2008	47 minutes
Proactive Optimization of Virtualized Environments To keep pace with the increasing workloads organizations are placing on IT, many shops are leveraging the flexibility of virtualization to seamlessly scale their infrastructure based on varying demands. The introduction of these new technologies present additional challenges however as organizations begin to struggle to maintain the optimal performance and availability of applications running in a virtualized environment. This BMC online seminar has been specifically designed for IT managers who are currently leveraging virtualization technologies, or plan to do so in the future and who are concerned about maintaining their availability and optimizing their performance. In this seminar you will learn how to leverage ITIL processes and best practices in conjunction with BMC Software products and services to do just that. Specific areas of focus will include: How to ensure monitoring and availability management of your virtualized environment integrates with your infrastructure management approach How to proactively diagnose problems within Virtual Machines and identify causes of performance issues How you can determine the availability of resources across the physical server, and how these map to virtual machine How you can leverage a single User Interface to manage across a variety of virtualization platforms and technologies	July 11, 2007	60 minutes
Operations Management
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Do You Have a Failover and/or Disaster Recovery Plan in Place for Your Batch Scheduling with BMC Control-M? Please join us for this 1 hour webinar covering a wide range of BMC CONTROL-M related topics related to Failover and DR. We will discuss several different approaches to Failover, their advantages, and how long it takes to failover in each scenario. Scenarios to include: Rebuilding system if needed (no secondary installs in place) Installing cold system to be activated as needed Installing warmer systems Installing hot systems (clusters, OS failover software)	August 1, 2007	35 minutes
Closing the Gap on Lean Retailing In retail operations the availability and accessibility of in-store applications, data, and systems is critical to business success. Store data backups, file transfers, inventory data collections, transactions, and sales performance information all affect profitability and brand reputation. Comprehensive automation and cost-effective management of these systems are essential. Designed specifically for highly distributed automation environments, BMC CONTROL-M 6.3 is the industry’s first Agentless Scheduling solution. Please join us to learn how Agentless Scheduling can improve automation and increase efficiency for retail environments.	June 6, 2007	35 minutes
Trends in IT Operations Management IT Operations has always been under pressure to deliver more business value for each dollar spent, but now it must also wrestle with increasing business globalization and government regulation. Best-in-class IT organizations have overcome these challenges while also improving customer satisfaction and resource utilization. Learn about why the business of IT is changing and the new processes and software transforming the art and science of IT Operations.	June 5, 2007
Web Enabled Access to Enterprise Information BMC CONTROL-D is a leading Report Management solution providing robust capture, analysis, indexing, and archival of enterprise fixed content. BMC CONTROL-D/WebAccess web-enables reports, images and documents managed by BMC CONTROL-D. Learn how WebAccess enables: Internal knowledge workers, customer service reps, business partners, and customers to gain immediate access to the CONTROL-D repository Information to be presented in paper format, thus facilitating clear communication Documents to be printed on local network printers or emailed, while maintaining the exact document fidelity Reports to be extracted and saved locally in personal document formats such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets Attend this Webinar to learn how BMC CONTROL-D/WebAccess can extend your investment in the entire BMC CONTROL-D solution while increasing productivity and customer satisfaction.	June 5, 2007	53 minutes
Agentless Scheduling with BMC CONTROL-M: What you need to know. Imagine a world where you would not have to install or maintain BMC CONTROL-M code on a machine, but still have full CONTROL -M capabilities. Well you do not have to imagine any more. Join us as we discuss the amazing remote job execution capabilities in the 6.3 release of the BMC CONTROL-M solution. Topics to be covered include: BMC CONTROL-M version requirements Operating System requirements Configuration of remote job execution parameters Agentless versus traditional agents	May 2, 2007	51 minutes
New Features in BMC CONTROL-M for z/OS Version 6.2 All too often new product releases are installed, but new functions are not noticed and therefore unused. In this Webinar, we will share some of the new features that may be less obvious, but are highly useful. Also highlighted will be installations of changes needed to take advantage of these new features and infrastructure changes that make future upgrades much easier. During the presentation we will learn how: New fields have been added since Version 5.1.4. New default settings that change the way CONTROL-M and CONTROL-M/Restart operate New Operator Commands work Batch Impact Manager runs on Z/os	March 7, 2007	1 hour
Learn How Batch Impact Management and BMC CONTROL-M/Forecast Achieves Business Service Management and Service Level Agreements This presentation covers how BMC CONTROL-M/Batch Impact Manager and BMC CONTROL-M Forecast helps companies ensure that Batch Services complete within specified deadlines to meet existing and future Service Levels. At this Webinar you will learn how to: Locate the most critical batch processes that keep your business running Meet your service levels and reduce unnecessary “fire - fighting” Integrate batch flow into your business processes Provide instant notification of possible important service interruptions using BMC CONTROL-M/Batch Impact Manager and BMC Service Impact Manager	February 7, 2007	49 minutes
Event Management
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Avoid Potholes on the Road to Business Service Management (BSM) Just like operating a highly-tuned Formula One racecar on a washed-out dirt road, you'll never reach top speed and efficiency without a smooth track. BMC Event Manager delivers a high performance vehicle for reaching your BSM goals by integrating and automating event resolution. But - your performance may vary - if you don't have smooth roads in the form of a properly operating network infrastructure. Join this Webinar and understand how real-time network operational and performance events from Entuity's Eye of the Storm helps BMC Event Manager automate its own Grand Prix information super-highway. Create a high-performance way to optimize your BSM strategies by: Integrating network forensics into your event management solution Incorporating a broad range of detailed network device performance and operational thresholds to improve event resolution Improving proactive incident and problem management with real-time dashboards and historical trend reports, identifying network issues before impacting end-users Consolidating your IT Management by incorporating real-time network data processing through BMC Event Manager.	June 26, 2008	48 minutes
Implement an IT Early Warning System and Improve your Business Service Performance In today’s complex IT environments, determining which IT events are causing the greatest impact on your business is a common challenge. In an effort to accommodate different technologies and applications, your IT organization, like many others, has accumulated a patchwork quilt of different event monitoring and management tools. In addition, your IT staff is trying to manage an overwhelming volume of data that causes “data overload” and “event storms” — both of which require event management systems to collect, retain, and process incredible amounts of performance data to determine the cause of performance degradation.	February 20, 2008	58 minutes
What's New with BMC ProactiveNet Analytics v7.5? A New Name and Much More. Learn how our new BMC ProactiveNet Analytics v7.5 release improves the performance and availability of your infrastructure, operating system, middleware, application and database systems. In this release, we increase the precision of our probable cause identification, add a number of usability and scalability enhancements, and provide new Detailed Diagnostics capabilities to make problem identification and resolution even faster.	December 6, 2007	54 minutes
Enhance IT Operational Responsiveness with Performance Analytics Today, many IT organizations continue to struggle with a patchwork of different event management tools built on different technologies designed to provide a specific application view of infrastructure availability. This siloed approach prevents IT from properly isolating and pin-pointing the actual cause of problems and creates an 'all-hands-on-deck' approach, which is time consuming and costly. BMC ProactiveNet compliments your existing BMC Performance Manager investment and event management solution by providing real-time views into the source of hard-to-diagnose performance problems, such as brownouts or intermittent performance problems that plague today’s complex, multi-tier infrastructures. Join this session and learn how you can reduce the volume of events to a manageable few, and avoid spending time on non- problems, while you reduce problem resolution time an increase your ability to quickly isolate, correlate and resolve problems before they impact your business services.	September 27, 2007	40 minutes
Recovery Management
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Rethinking Database Backup and Recovery Don’t let downtime affect your bottom-line. A study by Gartner revealed that 70 percent of database recovery is think time. Our customer tells us that 50 percent of all recoveries fail. Are you confident in your ability to recover your critical databases with minimum down time? Are you dealing with shorter backup windows and increasing data volumes? Are you spending too much money on your backup storage? Are you monitoring your database backup and recovery activities across the enterprise? Do you have a need to manage database backup and recovery Service Level Agreements? Are you being challenged to do more with less? Please attend this event to learn more about how BMC Recovery Manager, an evolution of BMC SQL-BackTrack, addresses the challenges outlined above.	September 18, 2007	53 minutes