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Cloud security has become one of the biggest reasons many IT managers aren't willing to fully embrace the cloud, even with the large potential savings in infrastructure costs and improved flexibility. So with predictions pointing to an acceleration of enterprise cloud computing, how are IT professionals addressing the challenges, especially those around security. Download Cloud Security Insights for IT Strategic Planning, for benchmark data your orga...

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�...

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...

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...

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...

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.   ...

To realize benefits such as increased agility and efficiency, Intel IT is undertaking a major transition to an enterprise private cloud for our Office and Enterprise applications. To create the infrastructure for this cloud, they set a lofty goal of virtualizing 75 percent of their Office and Enterprise computing environment. Download Overcoming Security Challenges to Virtualize Internet-facing Applications, to get an inside look at the technical obs...

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...

Leading cloud computing provider Savvis needed to build an infrastructure for a new cloud computing offering while expanding existing environments to support continued customer growth. By selecting new servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, Savvis is providing customers with improved application performance for all cloud offerings while increasing server density up to 50 percent compared with previous deployments. That density ...

Would you like to begin transforming your data center into a flexible, high-density private cloud that enables far more dynamic and automated control of systems and workloads? Would you like to use public cloud services to add capacity during peak demands? No doubt, the efficiency, flexibility, and financial benefits of these strategies would benefit your business, yet you probably share the concerns of many other IT decision makers: How can the secur...