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Businesses are looking for a more flexible IT framework that can adapt to today’s rapidly changing and global environment. Business teams striving to move quickly into new markets—and launch new products and services—are demanding more from IT organizations that have traditionally focused on avoiding downtime, ensuring security and compliance, and holding down costs. Two important trends are helping to bridge the gap between IT an...

Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips to learn what you need to know to get started with VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™. From choosing the right service offering to migrating your workloads and administering resources, reference these tips as you extend your data center to the cloud. ...

Organizations of all sizes are creating more information than ever before, and struggling with how best to store it. Continually growing onsite storage capacity requires an unsustainable investment and introduces unnecessary risk. Prominent cloud service providers present an appealing alternative with their vast amounts of storage, pay-for-use pricing , high availability, and built-in redundancy. The Riverbed® Whitewater® family of cloud storage...

The reasons that many companies have no disaster recovery (DR) plan, or one that’s inadequate to their needs, include lack of time or budget and the belief that DR planning is too complex to implement. Riverbed® Whitewater® cloud storage gateways eliminate these concerns. Whitewater streamlines data protection in an IT infrastructure and delivers a cost-effective, fast, and robust DR capability. Whitewater eliminates tape, reduces data pr...

Storing data in the cloud using a Whitewaterâ„¢ cloud storage gateway from Riverbed Technology overcomes what is becoming a serious challenge for IT departments: how to manage the vast, and ever-growing, amount of data that must be protected. Whitewater eliminates concerns about data security, data transmission speeds over the Internet, and data availability, while providing great flexibility and a favorable return on investment. Moving data to th...

IBM® System x® servers, powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, offer the efficiency, simplicity and performance that will fit both your needs and your budget.  Read this solution brief to discover how System x servers, preloaded with Microsoft® Windows Storage Server, offer a complete solution that is easy to manage, reduces risk and gives you better insight into your data, so you can focus valuable IT resources on your core ...

Big data and cloud technologies are converging to offer a cost-effective delivery model for cloud analytics. This paper includes: How cloud computing is an enabler for advanced analytics with big data; How IT can assume leadership for big data analytics to become a broker of cloud services in the enterprise; Service models for cloud-based big data analytics, including analytics as a service (AaaS); and Practical next steps to get started on your big d...

Why are security and the Cloud a perfectly matched pair for your business? Independently, they have lots of benefits. Security protects your key devices, like PCs, and laptops, from cyber-thieves’ malware, viruses and other nasty threats that can compromise, or even destroy, your business’ critical information. Cloud technology, on the other hand, might seem complicated but it’s really a simple way to use sophisticated software, ...

Symantec commissioned ReRez Research to conduct the 2013 Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud Survey in September and October of 2012. They contacted business and IT executives at 3,236 organizations in 29 countries. Respondents came from companies with a range of 5 to more than 5,000 employees. Of the responses, 1,358 came from SMBs and 1,878 came from Enterprises. This report specifically focuses on the 1,358 SMBs. ...

Download this paper to learn how a Global Technology Manufacturer realized a 314% ROI using New Relic's SaaS-based software analytics solution to optimize the performance and availability of its application infrastructure in a cost-effective manner and place a new focus on monitoring the user experience. ...