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Want to free yourself from the spiraling cost and complexity of your current IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by giving you three key strategies for delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance to end users and IT managers alike. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can break the cloud performance barrier and deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.   ...

Bringing Data Center Class Virtualization Ready Blade Servers to the Branch Office What Are Cisco UCS E-Series Servers? Cisco UCS® E-Series Servers bring data center–class virtualization-ready blade servers to the branch office. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are virtualization-ready, high-density, single-socket blade servers designed to balance simplicity, performance, and application density while operating in a energy-efficient environment. ...

WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.   ...

Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.   ...

Increasingly enterprises are adopting cloud services, with more than 50 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2014 according to the 2011 Cisco® Global Cloud Index. However, cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network, especially the enterprise WAN in delivering these services to remote and branch-office users. In order to meet these new requirements, Cisco introduces “cloud connectors” ...

Enterprises, small businesses, and governments are looking to cloud-based solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, reaching new levels of efficiency, and creating innovative business models. Cloud services and applications offer compelling economics by reducing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) through sharing of cloud assets and dynamic, on-demand delivery of services. Cloud...

Cloud computing has been on the horizon of most CIOs for the better part of half a decade. Cloud computing represents the next evolutionary step for computing. Decades ago, the mainframe era kicked off computing. This phase lasted about 20 years, eventually giving way to the client/server era. Organizations began to locate more employees in branch offices, giving rise to Internet computing. Now the industry finds itself in the midst of another transfo...

The private cloud can increase IT agility and efficiency, but in order to ensure a successful transition, you must have a well-planned strategy in place. This white paper offers tips on how to implement the private cloud in your enterprise on a virtualized infrastructure.  (more…)...

How can you deliver the improved performance that the business—and your boss—demand? The smart answer is to virtualize and do more with servers you already own! VMware® proven virtualization solutions are making a real difference in the way growing companies are solving their real-world IT challenges, including budget constraints, demanding users and tight deadlines. Attend this webcast to learn how VMware virtualization solutions...

Corporate tablet use is rising fast - but most tablets are designed for consumer use, not created to meet the increasingly complex security and productivity needs of enterprise employees. In this Yankee Group whitepaper, find out why creating an enterprise-class tablet environment should be at the top of the list for every security-conscious organization.   ...