Clearing the clouds - Shining a light on successful Enterprise Risk Management [ Source: IBM ]

February 2013- Adverse events can dramatically impact your enterprise's ability to achieve its business objectives. A new view of enterprise risk management (ERM) is required to for organizations to see risk in a new light, have better long-term vision and, ultimately, be ready to act when risks become a reality. Read this executive report to better understand how to implement an ERM program, instill a culture prepared to deal with risk events, and learn from inevitable mistakes.

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.

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.

Five Ways Online Backup Keeps Your Data Safe [ Source: Carbonite ]

November 2012- Carbonite discusses the various steps taken to ensure the continual security and protection of customer data. Specifically, there are five areas of critical importance Carbonite focuses on – highly redundant disk drives, hardened data center facilities and best-in-class operations, specialized system monitoring software, world-class network security and encryption, and transparent access to your backup status. In this article, we explore each of these areas in-depth and the measures taken to uphold Carbonite’s commitment to data ...

Helping optimize storage performance availability and utilization [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- Now more than ever, IT organizations need the highest levels ofvisibility, control and automation if they are to meet demandingstorage service levels across the organization, as well as to opti-mize utilization of existing storage infrastructure.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can help, by providing the compre-hensive performance monitoring, reporting and managementtools that today's IT organizations need, all on a single platform. This white paper describes four key capabilities of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.

Consolidate and unify your recovery infrastructure [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- 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.

IBM solutions for cloud and virtualization in enterprise environments [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- The benefits of virtualization, from accelerated service delivery and resource optimization to reduced costs for IT resources, have spurred many organizations to move toward a virtual infrastructure. However, the nature of the virtual environment, which calls for a vast network of shared resources, has created a new set of management complexities that can impede business service delivery?and that are best handled by adding cloud-computing capabilities to the virtualized infrastructure.

This white paper ...

Bronto Software Buys Splunk versus Extending their Hadoop Deployment [ Source: Splunk ]

December 2012- Like most companies, Bronto Software manages a growing and complex IT environment. Open source software is foundational at Bronto and has become the company standard within its IT environment. When seeking to augment existing open source technologies, Bronto was faced with an immature market that often failed to provide the analytic capabilities needed to respond to critical processes and services.

Bronto needed a solution that would allow engineers to deep dive into system ...

File Storage Costs Less in the Cloud than In-House [ Source: Amazon Web Services ]

August 2012- "This document will break down the cost differences by modeling a common workload - file storage - built and deployed traditionally versus consumed through the public cloud." - Forrester Research

BYOD and Virtualization – Insights from the Cisco IBSG Horizons Study [ Source: Cisco ]

August 2012- How does your mobility strategy compare to your peers? Find out in a survey of over 600 IT leaders. Read and learn:
• Why BYOD is merely the “tip of the iceberg”
• What are the initial benefits of a well-developed mobility strategy
• How to meet security and device management challenges
• The valuable role of desktop virtualization

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 ...

2012 Essential Checklist for Backup and Recovery [ Source: appAssure Software ]

July 2012- In this new eBook, Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert, reveals the essential checklist of 10 capabilities any company's backup and recovery approach needs to include. Find out if your recovery solution can deliver all ten of these key capabilities and when to consider an upgrade to your backup and recovery approach.

Download the eBook now.

Best Practices for Business Class File Sharing Solutions [ Source: Ipswitch File Transfer ]

July 2012- What happens when employees go around IT and use their own Dropbox-like services, webmail or USB drives to send company information? This behavior presents significant security and compliance risks including: Loss of control over who has access to files and data, lack of visibility and audit trails, risk of data breaches and compliance violations.

This Osterman Research white paper sponsored by Ipswitch File Transfer provides an in depth discussion of the issues and ...