Closing the Loop: Using the Voice of the Customer to Improve Branch Operations
[ Source: Verint ]
December 2012-
For retail financial institutions, branches offer a convenient walk-in location for customers to meet with bank or credit union employees to perform transactions, get financial advice, complete their customer service needs and open new accounts.
To sustain this physical presence, branch networks must tightly manage their expenses on an ongoing basis by accurately scheduling the right personnel for each functional area of the branch.
Download this informative eBook, Closing the Loop: ...
Drivers for Enterprise Virtualization Diversification Quick Pulse
[ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2012-
This CIO paper explores the current landscape shifts to use of a multi-vendor strategy in virtuallzation and the drivers for these shifts. In it we find that open virtualization offers compelling business advantages and shows even greater potential as companies choose diversification to address proprietary vendor lock-in.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization White paper
[ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2012-
With virtual machine deployments already exceeding physical server shipments and virtualized workloads exceeding nonvirtualized workloads in the installed base, virtual is clearly the new normal in IT. As mature as the virtualization market is, the competition is actually just about to heat up. IDC data shows that a significant portion of the market is open to using a combination of hypervisors for various factors of cost and diversity.
IDC expects that over the ...
Why Linux Virtualization Is Ready For Prime Time
[ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2012-
Enterprise IT leaders are starting to take a closer look at Linux virtualization. They are spurred by the growing number of Linux workloads in the data center and the need to optimize their increasingly complex IT environments. In this paper, Frost & Sullivan examines historical concerns about Linux virtualization, and assess why, when, and how enterprises can safely virtualize their critical Linux workloads. They also review a Linux virtualization solution that meets enterprise needs: the powerful ...
Pushing On For A Successful Virtualization Journey
[ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2012-
Selecting a suitable platform for server virtualization is critical to the overall success of any virtualization or private cloud project. In the past few years, new technologies and approaches to virtualization have matured and we are seeing many enterprises take a "dual vendor" strategy as part of their goal to "de-risk" their investment should one of their virtualization vendors get acquired. Concerns and challenges still persist in some virtualization environments, and this paper discusses what ...
Deliver the Cloud Network: Take a walk in the CLOUD with scalable network
[ Source: HP ]
December 2012-
Successful cloud computing depends on an agile and scalable network that's built on open standards and orchestrated to handle the demands of virtualization, with its intensive traffic among servers. Today's networks must be fast and flexible to meet the needs of diverse mobile users, host a constantly changing array of applications, and maintain a security perimeter.
Don't miss this overview of why a cloud-optimized network is necessary and how your organization can deploy ...
Realizing the Power of SDN
[ Source: HP ]
December 2012-
Is your company's aging network stifling business innovation? A software-defined network (SDN) enables IT to orchestrate and automatically control the network according to high-level policies, thereby simplifying managing and provisioning the network. SDN enables business systems to request services from the network directly, rather than trusting the network to guesswork.
This white paper explains how IT agility is achieved via SDN's ability to dynamically apply business logic to network behavior. Extra bonus: a ...
IDC Technology Spotlight: Optimizing Application Delivery to the Network Edge
[ Source: HP ]
December 2012-
Networks are becoming more important than ever to enterprise IT-- they are critical to business enablement, collaboration and exploiting the benefits of cloud computing. The exploding use of mobile devices and the applications they use is focusing attention at the network's edge, which must be optimized to support new traffic, federated applications and virtual machine mobility.
Check out this IDC white paper to learn how IT organizations can help remote branches improve access ...
Demo Video: HP Virtual Application Networks
[ Source: HP ]
December 2012-
Today's networks are under stress, pressed to meet the new demands created by server virtualization, IT consumerization, web applications and multi-tenant data centers. IT organizations need to deploy massively scalable and responsive networks while keeping a lid on cost and complexity.
This ESG white paper outlines how to transition from a legacy network to a next-generation network that is cloud-friendly, virtualized, and tightly integrated for automation. Learn how scalable and secure HP Virtual ...
Tablets on the Rise in the Workplace
[ Source: Lenovo ]
December 2012-
Did you know 74 percent of IT Decision Makers say tablet usage leads to an increase in productivity in their organization? Or that tablet adoption is expected to rise 700 percent by 2016?
These are trends you cannot ignore. It is essential to consider a tablet that will integrate with existing applications and software in your work environment.
Enter the ThinkPad Tablet 2. Designed with the IT Manager and end-user in mind, the ThinkPad Tablet 2 ...