Server Sprawl And Cost Reduction Bring New Customers To Mainframe/Linux Platform
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2012-
Many organizations that have migrated to distributed platforms over the decades are finding themselves revisiting a centralized approach. Read the Forrester white paper and learn how consolidating and virtualizing your IT operations with an Enterprise Linux Server can reduce the toll of server sprawl by cutting costs and complexity while sustaining performance.
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 ...
Simplifying Programs for Better Performance and Reinvestment Opportunities in the Public Sector
[ Source: Oracle ]
October 2012-
It is clear to everyone in the public sector that obtaining funding increases for anything except the most critical of mission objectives, will be near impossible for the foreseeable future. Yet, agencies must continue to deliver excellent service to citizens despite stagnant or reduced budgets. The federal government leadership is being challenged to cut spending and reinvest in areas with greater opportunity.
Two of the Federal CIO's strategies being implemented to deal with ...
Key Attributes Backup Software Needs to Simplify VM Data Protection
[ Source: Quest Software ]
September 2012-
As a federal IT professional, you see the rapid rate at which applications servers are being virtualized. So how can you keep up with the demand and still ensure that the critical data your agency stores in those virtual machines can be easily recovered in the event of a disaster? The answer: A comprehensive backup software that meets five critical requirements.
See what they are in this white paper, 5 Key Attributes Backup Software ...
Adopting a Service Centric Approach to Backup & Recovery
[ Source: Quest Software ]
September 2012-
This solution brief explores the business challenges driving the need to move beyond traditional backup and recovery practices which are of key importance to the federal government.
Each agency's IT organization must shift from an infrastructure-centric view of backup and recovery to a services-centric view, focusing on protecting mission-critical applications and databases, regardless of whether they reside in physical, virtual or cloud environments.
Quest's data protection solution, NetVault Extended Architecture, delivers ...
Leveraging 20th century technology in 21st century government
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
In these times of rapid innovation, more effective government requires investment to leverage technological advancements that can deliver next-generation services in a more efficient and transparent way. Investing to modernize government runs counter to conventional wisdom in a harsh economic climate that prompts mandates to slash budgets, but the increased need for government services across an expanding portfolio of processes and programs has made it unavoidable.
End-to-End Virtualization: A Holistic Approach for a Dynamic Environment
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Virtualization 3.0 expands virtualization beyond just hypervisors and servers. Server virtualization has been the catalyst for the 3.0 era, and it has driven transformation into every aspect of the datacenter, such as storage, networking, and management. The virtualization of all aspects of the datacenter, not just compute, will create the foundation for the cloud model of computing.
Achieving this requires a holistic approach to virtualization and the ongoing management in order to create a unified, ...
From Virtualization To Cloud: A Worthwhile Journey
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Thirty-six percent of enterprise IT leaders surveyed said that implementing a private cloud is a high or critical priority for 2012, but Forrester research suggests that most of these companies aren't operationally ready to make this transition and need to take key operational improvement steps to get there.
Survey data suggests the main challenges are: 1)understanding the stark differences between traditional virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and 2)overcoming internal resistance to change.
This ...
Federal Government Solution Brief
[ Source: HP ]
June 2012-
As the U.S. economy continues to sputter, the federal government has intensified its focus on using IT to enable innovation and create new avenues for joint operations and operational efficiency.
Government agencies that want to harness the power of cloud computing, data center consolidation, cyber security, and energy efficiency can look to the HP FlexNetwork architecture, the industry’s only unified network architecture. With the HP FlexNetwork architecture, agencies can deploy solutions ...
Unleashing Cloud Performance
[ Source: Riverbed ]
April 2012-
Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.