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Companies embrace SaaS products like Microsoft® Office 365, Google Apps, and Salesforce.com®, for their flexibility and potential savings. However, companies must recognize the limitations of operating outside the branch and handle the challenges resulting from the public Internet acting as an extension of their corporate infrastructure. Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option.   ...

Extending the enterprise network to remote branch offices has long been one of the more difficult challenges of the IT organization. The Cisco® Regional WAN (RWAN) Solution architecture provides a set of pretested deployment recommendations for addressing some of the challenges with remote branch-office environments. The RWAN includes the network services for the remote branch office as well as the wide-area connections and aggregation necessary to...

Through a series of case studies, Inc. and Carbonite explore the all-too-common small business ‘nightmare’, data loss – and, examine the consequences suffered as a result of being ill-prepared. Experts Pete Lamson, senior vice president for small business at Carbonite, and Philip Jan Rothstein, president of Rothstein Associates Inc., weigh-in on the importance of making data protection a business priority. With proper – and ...

Research from the Insurance Institute states that up to 40 percent of small businesses affected by disaster will never reopen. Carbonite provides 10 easy tips to help small businesses develop a solid disaster preparedness plan. Having such a plan in place, helps businesses minimize loss and disruption and return to normal business operations as quickly as possible in the event of a disaster. Through this checklist, small business owners will receive i...

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 o...

Now that cloud computing’s efficacy as a viable and often necessary method for the delivery of IT services has been well established, organizations are now focusing heavily on ways to implement cloud strategies in the most efficient manner possible. At the same time, many early adopters of cloud computing are plotting strategies to derive the greatest value from the technology, particularly as it relates to business outcomes. Read this whitepap...

Organizations see great possibilities in cloud technology and are turning to it to better manage their IT environments and increase flexibility and agility. They see value in hosting applications outside of the corporate data center, as external providers may be able to host them better and less expensively. Read this whitepaper to learn how Dell addresses this.     ...

Common cloud infrastructures lack the inherent security required by enterprises, leaving them vulnerable. Dellâ„¢ vCloud offers a complete framework with multiple layers of virtual and physical security. It also includes a comprehensive framework for securing networks, applications, data and endpoints in highly secured Dell data centers. In addition, Dell SecureWorksâ„¢ active monitoring delivers information security services powered by propri...

The cloud promises flexibility, agile development, rapid innovation, reductions in capital costs and infrastructure complexity, and much more. Before you can realize the cloud’s true potential, though, you need to clearly understand what you can do with it. That's why IT professionals from all industries and company sizes turn to an HP Cloud Discovery Workshop for help. Read this white paper for an overview of the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop an...

Cisco® Hosted Collaborations Services (HCS) is an example of widely accepted cloud services that enterprise customers are adopting. The Survivable Remote Site Telephone (SRST) for Cisco HCS is a software and hardware solution that allows customers to maintain business connectivity during a time of loss connectivity between their premise and the cloud service. Customers are adopting Cisco HCS since it allows them to gain all the functions of a Cisco...