IDC Analyst Connection: Risk Management Considerations for Datacenters in 2013 [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- Innovative Canadian IT executives are becoming "service brokers" rather than "service providers" to drive productivity and competitive advantage. Managed hosting is a key part of their sourcing strategy, offering enterprise-class datacentres that can support today's business requirements of performance, security, and resiliency. The following questions were posed to Mark Schrutt, Director of IDC's Service and Enterprise Applications research regarding the role of managed hosting in supporting leading Canadian executives and what to look for in ...
The Top Ten Headaches Caused by Remote Office Storage [ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
IT directors at growing, distributed enterprises face a number of unique challenges, particularly when it comes to storage. Nasuni has worked with hundreds of customers to alleviate the pain that today's enterprise IT departments face in trying to manage storage remotely.
We drew upon the insights and experiences of IT directors at enterprises that range from five to fifty locations and often cross multiple continents. In every case, IT has to ensure that ...
Deploying Flash in the Enterprise [ Source: NetApp ]
May 2013- Flash is quickly emerging as the preferred way to overcome the nagging performance limitations of hard disk drives. However, because flash comes at a significant price premium, outright replacement of HDDs with flash only makes sense in situations in which capacity requirements are relatively small and performance requirements are high. Learn how deployment approaches-including hybrid storage arrays, server flash, and all-flash arrays-that combine the performance of flash with the capacity of HDDs can be cost ...
Storage Switzerland Developing an Enterprise flash strategy [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- This paper provides an analysis on how IBM improves application performance through the optimization of flash storage across both, the server and storage infrastructure.
IBM's System x with eXFlash: Workload Optimized, Pre-Integrated Server/Storage [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- In this Advisory, Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at a class of servers known as pre-integrated servers. These types of servers are usually assembled by information systems vendors that have deep system/subsystem knowledge - giving them the ability to highly integrate a system's central processing unit (CPU) with underlying subsystems (memory, storage, input/output [I/O]). The end result of this deep integration is an extremely high performance system design upon which a ...
IBM x86 Servers in the Cloud: "Serving the Cloud" by TBR [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective means for midmarket to reduce costs and provide flexible computing capacity.
Enable and protect business-ready cloud infrastructures [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013-
Many organizations today, especially small- and medium-sized businesses, are finding that they require enterprise-class data management capabilities in order to remain viable and competitive. However, they cannot afford the costs of acquiring and managing these systems. This has created a new market opportunity for cloud-based backup-as-a-service offerings, delivered to these organizations by managed services providers (MSPs).
In using these services, the customer pays the MSP monthly for usage - typically the amount of ...
Advanced reporting capabilities [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center offers a wide range of functions to effectively manage storage systems and drive business forward. This powerful storage management solution now integrates IBM Cognos Business Intelligence through IBM Tivoli Common Reporting?an integrated reporting solution that offers a strategic platform for Tivoli and other IBM Software Group products. This integration offers advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, enabling users to quickly create custom reports using an intuitive drag-and-drop method, leveraging predefined ...
Meeting Canada's need to support business growth with new data centre capacity [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- To meet a growing need for more data centre capacity, the IBM Canada Leadership Data Centre leverages best practices developed in designing, building and operating data centres around the world.
The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- In this white paper, The Value of Smarter Data Center Services, IDC offers an overview of how IT organizations can optimize their data centers to obtain value now while building the foundation for future IT innovation. Strategies for rationalization, consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing are all discussed.
Your Enterprise Can't Do Without a Proven Information Governance and Optimization Solution [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013-
This IT Manager's Journal takes a close look at information governance and optimization as a requisite element for success in almost any information management project as well as delivering an efficient IT infrastructure, and shows why IBM's System z platform is an ideal hub for information governance solutions.
Readers will learn how IBM System z, which is used by 95 percent of all Fortune 1000 companies to store their data, is designed to offer uptime ...
Build a Highly Affordable and Scalable Private Cloud [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- This white paper describes the journey that an organization can take in setting up a private cloud. It provides insight into the use of the IBM SmartCloud Foundation options for deploying a cloud infrastructure in a highly scalable environment to deliver a manageable, high-performance, highly available, highly scalable cloud that builds tangible value and delivers real business and IT results.
IDC: Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployments [ Source: NetApp ]
March 2013- When it comes to flash, "one size does not fit all." IDC examines recent flash trends in enterprise storage deployments, highlighting how SSDs are filling in gaps of existing storage systems when coupled with intelligent archiving and automated tiering, the pros and cons of different SSD approaches, and tips to overcome concerns of reliability, manageability and scalability.
Effective Data Protection and Storage Management for Media and Entertainment [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- IBM Storage Management, Backup and Recovery solutions help media and entertainment companies meet the challenges of new data sources - driven by new content formats, evolving delivery models and increasing customer expectations - and manage these growing volumes of data more effectively.
Communications Service Providers Can Ease Data Storage Management [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product family can help communications service providers (CSPs) manage, store and protect ever-increasing amounts of data to achieve business and service excellence, while lowering costs and simplifying administration.
Consolidate Your Backup Systems to Save Money and Reduce Risks [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- With data continuing to grow at alarming rates and IT environments continuing to become more distributed and complex, the strains and costs of providing data protection and recovery capabilities are getting the attention of many executives. Gartner estimates that by 2014, at least 30 percent of organizations will have changed backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity or capability.
IDC Business Resiliency Report: IBM Power Systems and Their Support for Business Resiliency in Challenging IT Environments [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013-
The increasing competitiveness of the global business environment puts direct pressure on IT organizations - and the businesses they support. As never before, IT must deliver consistent, secure, and fast services that "don't go offline."
These real-time businesses require what IDC refers to as business resilience, which is the ability to deliver high levels of availability to protect the business against outages. Business resilience keeps business services flowing to end users and end ...
Cloud enabled business model innovation [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- Companies worldwide are beginning to recognize cloud's capabilities to generate new business models and promote sustainable competitive advantage. To manage and respond to these market pressures, IBM offers a comprehensive suite of system and software solutions that can help you scale your IT investments as your business grows. Read the white paper to understand all the benefits of IBM SmartCloud.
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions [ Source: NetApp ]
March 2013- Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise's changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN, as an Enterprise OLTP "Champion of Champions." Read the results of their benchmark testing and the features that impressed them the most.
Achieve up to 40% Reduction in Cost Per TB [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- When you go into the supermarket do you ever wonder how many different products are on the shelves? Do you wonder how they determine what goes on each shelf? All of the shelves are shared among many products. What gets placed on the bottom shelf? What goes on the top? One week your favorite item might be at eye level, and the next time there may be a sale item in that same spot. How ...
In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution-Tape Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk [ Source: Ultrium LTO ]
February 2013-
The Clipper Group examines what to do now to prepare for the ensuing decades of continuing data growth, technology change, and increasing long-term preservation requirements. For long-term archiving of digital data:
• The average disk-based solution costs 15 times the average tape-based solution
• The cost of energy alone for the average disk-based solution exceeds the entire TCO for the average tape-based solution
GET THE FACTS: LTO Tape Reliability $aves [ Source: Ultrium LTO ]
February 2013- Don't listen to the hype. Tape remains the most reliable storage solution available. Find out the truth about backups and why disk and tape play key roles in the storage hierarchy.
LTFS Hits the Mark in Media & Entertainment: An In-Depth Introduction to LTFS for Digital Media [ Source: Ultrium LTO ]
February 2013-
In the media and entertainment industry, content is king. The majority of this content is now produced in digital form and virtually all of this content has digital distribution; that content is not digital data. Protecting that content, the lifeblood of this industry, with the right data storage solution is more important than ever.
This whitepaper offers deeper insight into how LTFS provides significant advantages for media and entertainment applications. It includes an ...
Virtualizing Disaster Recovery Using Cloud Computing [ Source: IBM ]
February 2013- Nobody likes to think about disaster recovery. But even with a flat IT budget, you need to have seamless failover and failback of critical business applications. Read this white paper to learn how cloud-based business resilience can provide cost-effective alternatives to traditional disaster recovery.
Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud [ Source: IBM ]
February 2013- In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges facing organizations today and how you can transition to cloud-based resiliency.
Success in the Cloud: Why Workload Matters [ Source: IBM ]
February 2013- Cloud computing is creating a sea change, not just in how IT resources and services are delivered, but in how the business does business. Read this white paper to discover how cloud computing has altered the IT landscape at IBM, improving productivity and performance, and far exceeding initial expectations for usage.