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Comments Off on Hybrid IT Service Delivery: A Strategic Thinking Model For Optimizing IT Resources
With the introduction of cloud computing, the IT industry has a new path for applying Shared Services business models to better utilize a company’s financial and operational resources. At the same time, it creates the need to understand how these new business models can be integrated with existing IT organizations and business, and understanding that it is sub-optimal to organize the management of IT resources into a “one size fits allâ...
Comments Off on ESG Lab Review: Defining Tier 1 Storage In The Modern Data Center

HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software – Tier 1, federated storage engineered in support of private and public cloud delivery of storage services. See test results demonstrating server configuration and storage provisioning in less than 20 minutes.   Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.   Complete The Form To Get Your Free White PaperEmail* First Name*Last Name*Job Title*please...

Comments Off on The Hot New Storage Technology For 2011 Is . . . Tape?
Tape-based storage is more relevant today than ever before. Depending on the environment, tape can be an optimal choice for backup, disaster recovery, archiving, or even primary storage. Tape especially shines for large-scale, long-term archiving. When implementing an active archive strategy, tape has significant advantages over disk, both in cost and functionality. Download this Data Mobility Group Research Note sponsored by HP & Intel to learn ...
Comments Off on HP CloudSystem Matrix: Building A Private Cloud
Everyone wants to move their IT toward a more flexible, efficient future state. This has driven recent years’ data center modernization projects. Organizations are modularizing with blade servers, consolidating workloads onto virtualized environments, moving to scale-out storage, and adopting service-oriented management and delivery strategies—all part of forward-looking IT convergence and evolution.  Many now look to the idea of â...
Comments Off on HP CLOUDSYSTEM: An Integrated Platform For Private, Public, And Hybrid Clouds
It’s a fact of life: cloud computing is shot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. Business users have been quick to recognize the cloud’s advantages in speeding innovation, accelerating business process and reducing time to revenue. They’re clamoring for greater cloud access and in some cases even bypassing IT and singing up for public cloud services like those from Amazon and M...
Comments Off on HP CloudSystem Matrix: Managing At A Higher Level
Everyone wants to move their IT toward a more flexible, efficient future state. This has driven recent years’ datacenter modernization projects. Organizations are modularizing with blade servers, consolidating workloads onto virtualized environments, moving to scale-out storage, and adopting service-oriented management and delivery strategies—all part of forward-looking IT convergence and evolution. Many now look to the idea of “cl...
Comments Off on Understanding The HP CloudSystem Reference Architecture
In order to survive in today's "instant gratification" world, even the largest organization needs to respond quickly to a challenging and capricious marketplace, while at the same time delivering value to its customers. Because of its potential for improving agility, cutting costs, and reacting rapidly to change, cloud computing is being eagerly embraced by enterprises and small businesses alike. This white paper discusses the architecture behind a re...
Comments Off on ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software
This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning.   Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.   ...
Comments Off on Case Study Scripps Networks Finds A Fit
HP storage solution meets growing need for media asset management Scripps Networks needed to store, manage, and process graphics, video, and still imagery in multiple file formats and found the right solution in HP X9000 File Serving Software, formerly called IBRIX Fusion Software.   Approach: Deploy HP X9000 File Serving Software in concert with the company’s service oriented architecture (SOA) to achieve a scale-out network-attached stor...
Comments Off on Blade Servers: Cost Effective, Change-Ready Solution
Blade servers significantly ease the management burden, via unified system management controls for groups of servers, storage and networking. According to IDC, companies that moved to HP BladeSystem spent 50 percent less money on hardware, and found that it reduced set-up and configuration time by 46 percent.   Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.    ...