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 ...
Extend Your Enterprise: Become the Cloud How An Easily-Expanded, Cloud-optimized Path for your Trading Partners Minimizes Costs and Maximizes Business Growth
[ Source: Liaison ]
December 2012-
This white paper explains the drawbacks of a network with limited extensibility and how you can automate business by provisioning it into a virtual extension of your trading partners, customers and clients.
The Total Economic Impact of IBM System Z
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2012-
This Forrester Total Economic Impact analysis is based on interviews with and data provided by 5 System z customers. The analysis shows a composite ROI of 199% and a pay back of 4.67 months when compared to distributed system alternatives. The sources of customer savings identified were related to less administrative staff required, reduced infrastructure maintenance, reduced storage costs and reduced down time expenses.
Additionally the analysis found that these firms had more flexible and responsive ...
Audio and Web Conferencing Services: Give Workers Powerful Collaboration Tools While Reducing Demands on IT
[ Source: ReadyTalk Audio and Web Conferencing ]
November 2012-
Collaboration and web conferencing are among the hottest technologies in today's marketplace. Nearly 40 percent of executives in the 2012 InformationWeek Global CIO Survey said they were planning a major implementation to support collaboration this year, and they indicated that it's the most important project among 14 other types of initiatives.
Not surprisingly, there is a plethora of SaaS vendors competing for your business. ReadyTalk is a right-sized company that is large enough to deliver a ...
Cloud-based email archiving: A practical guide
[ Source: mimecast ]
November 2012-
In this whitepaper, we detail the issues involved in email archiving, consider best practices,and present a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-based storage, secure access to assets, and high availability.
Recognize the Many Faces of Fraud
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
IBM SPSS predictive analytics solutions have proved to be very effective at helping tax collection agencies to maximize revenues by detecting non-compliance more efficiently and by focusing investigations on cases that are likely to yield the biggest tax adjustments.
IT Influencer Brief: Automating Producer Lifecycle Management, A Roadmap for IT Success
[ Source: Vertafore ]
November 2012-
This brief helps IT influencers quickly identify how they can best support their business users, and remove typical IT pushback hot buttons like “we can build it ourselves” and “this is yet another add-on system that’s going to take way too much of our time and money to support”, by making the case for SaaS-based, automated PLM application that seamlessly integrates with and breathes new life and up-to-date producer data into entrenched legacy systems