You Are Browsing ‘Cloud ’ Category

Enterprises can’t afford to be left behind as mobility surges to the forefront of IT and business strategies. Nor can they afford to churn out poorly performing mobile apps that alienate users and sap valuable IT assets. This white paper examines current trends in enterprise mobile app use. It explores why businesses are jumping into the mobile arms race and the risks of implementing poorly disciplined software development practices. ...

'Flash Storage for Virtualization For Dummies', introduces you to the options flash technology offers to meet the increasing demands on storage created by virtualization. This book is about solving your organization’s storage needs without putting up with poorer performance and greatly increased operational costs induced by legacy hard drive–based systems. In these pages, you discover how to get more bang for your buck by applying flash...

Despite the many security risks, organizations are lining up to adopt the bring your own device (BYOD) trend and consumerization. This resource explores the potential security risks of allowing the use of personally-owned devices in the workplace and offers advice on how to mitigate them. View now to learn how you can enjoy the benefits of BYOD and stay safe at the same time! ...

Everyone is talking about how cloud computing may bring considerable benefits to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It allows even organizations with limited resources to store critical data or leverage considerable computing power without purchasing additional software and hardware. Cloud computing not only reduces overhead costs but also allows SMBs to focus their resources on areas that need them most. But what do SMB owners and decision ma...

In this must read white paper, "Choosing a Cloud Hosting Provider with Confidence: VeriSign SSL Certificates Provide a Secure Bridge to Trusted Cloud Hosting Providers", you will learn about cloud computing, the new opportunities, the new security challenges and how to ensure your data is safe. ...

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (also known as VDI) is a growing trend among companies in an effort to reduce costs and administrative overhead while improving reliability and security of users desktops. The three primary vendors with desktop virtualization software are Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Successful implementations require several factors, including reasonable costs and good performance from desktop users’ perspective. Bringing the d...

Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Shared Databases and File Services not only demand high capacity storage, they also demand high performance storage that can handle high volume transitions and a larger number of concurrent users. Advances in data reliability, protection and efficiency, such as RAID, compressions and de-duplication, also demand better performance. As a result, IT managers need to rebalance the seven key requirements for ...

Your virtual infrastructure needs shared storage. You must have it to be able to use advanced virtualization features like high availability and distributed resource scheduling. Up until now, the only storage available was shared storage that knew nothing about virtualization. Similarly, the virtual infrastructure knows little about the storage, other than the basics (LUN, filesystem, space available, space used). Since the storage and virtual infrast...

In this whitepaper, analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), presents an economic value validation study of Riverbed Performance Management solution, Cascade application-aware NPM. ESG interviewed current Riverbed Cascade customers and based on these interviews, developed an economic model that predicts the benefits of deploying a Riverbed Cascade solution. ...

Midmarket organizations are transforming their IT infrastructure to better accommodate the needs of the business. Two major pieces of this transformation are virtualization and cloud computing, which rely heavily on network performance to ensure success. However, in many cases, these organizations lack the tools to properly monitor virtualized environments in order to meet SLAs. Riverbed has recognized this gap and is delivering a full featured, scala...