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Companies positioned to win the Age of Mobile have grasped the following principles: • Apps are different from applications • APIs are the lifeblood of mobility • Analytics eliminate the guesswork in mobile success In this whitepaper, you will learn the tools, technologies and strategies that are necessary for a mobile-ready IT to master the three keys to the new enterprise. Read on to see why 70% of Fortune 100 companies use A...

Organizations expend tremendous amounts of time and money to develop and implement disaster recovery (DR) strategies. After all, the risk of business disruption is great—and costly. One hour of downtime costs the average company $163,674.141. Even a few minutes of downtime could mean substantial loss. Most DR plans only address large events that rarely occur, such as fire, widespread power outage, or natural disaster. Much more common are every...

The world of virtualization is rapidly changing and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) solution for Linux on x86 hardware is playing a key role in this transformation. Compared to other hypervisors, KVM offers the advantages of hardened security, greater affordability, and access to the global open source ecosystem. But while KVM offers a strong long-term option for virtualizing enterprise applications, it doesn’t address the importantâ€...

In our hyper-connected, always-on world, organizations like yours need to ensure that their systems and services are available 24/7/365 to meet the needs of customers, employees and constituents. After all, unplanned downtime and data loss can have serious—and costly—consequences. While most organizations prepare for major disasters, too many still underestimate how well their systems are protected against everyday application outages. D...

To increase agility while lowering costs, IT organizations are using virtualization and cloud-based infrastructure services to consolidate and reduce the number of physical servers and data centers across the enterprise. IDC estimates that, by 2015, more than 20 percent of the information running through servers will do so on virtualized systems. This percentage increases along with the size of the company, with some larger organizations using 100 per...

The recently released family of Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliances offers significant new capabilities and features that eliminate the obstacles to adopting cloud storage. This whitepaper outlines how you can obtain the economics and data durability of cloud storage with immediate data access to your data, even in the case of a disaster.   If you are interested in improving your recovery times, eliminating tape, creating a new low cost ar...

This white paper details how enterprises can gain substantial benefits from the latest enhancements to the Riverbed Whitewater appliance using Amazon Glacier as the cloud storage destination. Policy driven data management allows the Riverbed Whitewater-Amazon Glacier solution to excel at addressing both enterprise backup and archival storage requirements.  With intelligent caching, built in replication and Amazon Glacier’s low prices �...

The explosive growth of enterprise data is posing new storage and data management challenges for enterprises. The advent of advanced storage and networking technologies makes it possible for IT organizations to take advantage of cloud-based IT services without sacrificing data integrity, security or application performance. This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans. The...

Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliances are purposely built for data protection and archiving.  They seamlessly integrate cloud storage into your existing data protection applications without changes to your application, schedules, policies or infrastructure.  Download this whitepaper to learn best practices around how to properly size an appliance, suggestions for securing optimum performance for virtual appliances and specific tips for us...

Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliances support a broad ecosystem of cloud storage services with Amazon’s Glacier quickly becoming one of the most popular due to its extremely low cost.  This whitepaper details best practices for using Whitewater appliances and Amazon Glacier, how to choose between S3 and Glacier, as well as how to create an additional low cost storage tier leveraging this popular new cloud storage service.     Be...