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A study conducted by Forrester Consulting finds that university IT leaders need to focus their efforts on strengthening ties to academic departments, transitioning the internal infrastructure to a private cloud and learning to embrace a hybrid cloud future. Read more.   ...

IT decision-makers report greatest interest in using IaaS in a hybrid cloud approach to complement on premises capacity, rather than replace it, and are planning for the impact that will have on network operations and spending. This profile highlights cloud adoption trends as well as the key benefits and challenges that US and European enterprises see when considering and adopting hybrid IaaS strategies. Read more.   ...

Shared services are becoming more important than ever for state, local and federal agencies. The reason: In the midst of policy and financial uncertainties, shared services offer money-saving economies of scale and opportunities for rolling out new services more quickly to clients. This paper provides details about each of the key components of a shared services transition, with critical guidance in each area. Read more.   ...

This report from Forrester Research examines how the new world of cloud services combines powerful computing, networking, storage, management tools, and applications to make it easier than ever to bridge the on-campus and online worlds with secure, on-demand services. Read more.   ...

Migrating to a new cloud model is much more complex than implementing a single technology — it requires a shift to a new operational model. For the first time, new data center technologies such as virtualization, consolidation, and automated provisioning have combined with solutions such as the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™), which unifies network, computing, storage access, and virtualization resources in a cohesive s...

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications offer great promise and are growing in popularity. But cloud-based infrastructure and services complicate network architecture considerations, which not long ago were limited to a decision between local or centralized. Download this 7-page survey-driven analysis by Forrester to learn how to overcome cloud-related performance issues by extending optimization to SaaS applications.     ...

Security practitioners are often challenged with finding an unknown security issue as soon as it occurs. While various types of solutions are available to read application and system log files; they rely on a pattern of events and take valuable time to decipher. Download this paper to learn how to quickly determine when an attack occurs, the face of the attack and the solution by using APM.   Provided by    ...

Your legacy load balancer may be keeping a dirty hidden secret from you. Download this concise white paper now and learn the five ways your legacy load balancer is failing you. Plus, find out how application delivery controllers (ADCs) can now leverage deep application intelligence to do much more for your business than a load balancer ever could.     ...

This paper examines how organizations can redefine the way they develop applications to be more responsive to customers and the market. Download this ESG brief now to find out how tools such as software, cloud-ready ADCs like Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager can help DevOps teams develop applications faster, test them in a production-identical environment, and bring them to market quicker.     ...

This paper examines the trends driving the shift towards highly virtualized software based cloud environments and how new software-defined architectures are required for organizations to make this shift. Download this ESG brief now to find out how Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager can help organizations keep up with demands in a highly virtualized and dynamic software-defined data center environment.     ...