HP Insight Online
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Proactively and efficiently monitor and support your infrastructure from anywhere, anytime.<br><br>
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HP Support Center Overview
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Tour the new HP Support Center, a one-stop access to information, tools & experts needed to keep your technology running, as well as a comprehensive set of support alternatives.<br><br>
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Leveraging the Always On Support Experience for IT Transformation
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
This IDC white paper outlines the importance of support services in IT environments.<br><br>
IT organizations are now required to support everything from legacy systems and storage to virtualized configurations and cloud-based computing in complex, heterogeneous environments.<br><br>
The increasingly critical role of vendor-supplied external support services is discussed and highlighted in addressing these emerging IT environments going forward.<br><br>
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Seeding the Cloud: How Choosing the Right Model Can Be a Business Rainmaker
[ Source: MindSHIFT ]
February 2012-
The business benefits of cloud computing are clear, but for many IT decision makers, the path to cloud implementation is not. Each cloud model offers its own set of strengths and weaknesses and many business and technical factors must be considered. Choosing the right cloud provider with expertise in the cloud model and solutions you need
based on proven technology is key to achieving the increased business agility and flexibility, reduced capital and operating expenses ...
What's the most cost-effective route to a unified IT cloud computing solution? Ask a calculator. Run some ROI.
[ Source: External IT ]
February 2012-
This paper offers a detailed guide to help any company calculate both the initial, transitional hard costs associated with moving to a unified cloud IT solution, and the ongoing management costs. <br><br>
It offers an objective way of assessing whether your financial needs will be best served in building a unified cloud solution in-house, or teaming with a cloud unifying specialty firm.
Why Cloud-Based IT Outsourcing Firms Are So Popular
[ Source: External IT ]
February 2012-
Best-of-Class Resources. Conserving Capital. Reducing Risk. Speed of transformation. These are a few of the most common reasons why companies, in increasingly large numbers, are choosing to team with cloud IT unifying specialty firms. <br><br>
While every company has its own reasons for making this decision, industry surveys have identified ten common reasons that companies cite as driving factors. <br><br>
This paper details the ten. ...
Everything A CEO Needs To Know To Select A Cloud IT Unifying Platform
[ Source: External IT ]
February 2012-
Technology may not be your specialty, or even your interest. But given its critical role in supporting a business, and the rapid transition companies are making to unified cloud solutions (to cut costs, lower risk and otherwise enhance their competitive stance), this five minute read will be time well spent. <br><br>
It explains the fundamental differences between the two cloud unifying platforms (the OS33 Portal Desktop and Hosted Desktop/VDI), ...
The Real World Value of the IBM XIV Storage System European User Experiences
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2011-
Customer feedback shows that the IBM? XIV? storage system delivers absolutely predictable performance across the whole array, even when supporting unpredictable I/O workloads. This paper summarizes the real-life stories of six medium-sized enterprise European XIV users from their choice of the system through installation and into workload migration, live production and daily use.
Five Simple Steps for Transforming Your Application Backup with Online Recovery Services
[ Source: SunGard Availability Services ]
October 2011-
Businesses today operate in an environment where significant application downtime and data loss lead easily to lost productivity, lost revenue and lost customers. A better backup and recovery process is within online reach of your business.
The Transformative Benefits of Cloud
[ Source: SunGard Availability Services ]
October 2011-
The benefits of cloud are transformative because, by replacing in-house infrastructure with a scalable and efficient service, they allow an IT organization to move out of a functional role based on procurement and maintenance and toward a leadership role founded on guiding and participating in core business initiatives.