Data Center Design and Management White Papers
A Farpoint Group Technical Note: 802.11ac: What’s New and Important
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SilverSky's Independent Study Reveals Dramatic Surge in Cloud Confidence and Adoption, but Cloud Security Concerns Continue to Dominate.
Two hundred U.S. chief information officers and senior level security decision-makers were surveyed in the company's new "Silver Lining Report." Nearly all (97 percent) of survey respondents indicate their confidence level in the cloud has either increased or stayed the same in the past 12 months. Download the Silver Lining Report now and see how your peers are feeling about moving to the cloud.
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If you find yourself in need of a WAN optimization solution you’ll want to download this report to understand what’s new in the WAN optimization market, what vendors are the key players, and which products are most appropriate for your needs.
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Organizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Register to read the full report from The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
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By: Cisco
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data center into an innovation center.
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By: Cisco
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
The rise of cloud models brings with it new infrastructure, applications, access policies, and traffic patterns. Learn how networks must adapt to keep up with the demands of the cloud, and find out how Cisco is leading the charge.
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By: Cisco
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
Break free of data center constraints. Provide IT service and cloud computing that’s more agile and efficient. Learn why Cisco’s unified architecture and cost-efficient design uniquely positions you to deliver the advantages of a private cloud.
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Learn best practices for guarding your endpoint corporate data so you can mitigate the risk of regulatory and financial exposure, and more.
This white paper explores:
. Defining security policies for endpoint backup and recovery
. Enforcing endpoint controls
. Ensuring employee adoption
. Keeping IT costs in check
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By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 14, 2012
CHALLENGE:
Florida Hospital performs recovery tests twice a year, recovering more than 100 applications. The healthcare organization needed a recovery strategy that improved communication and efficiency, managed a complex change control process, and that would keep staff at home during a disaster.
SunGard Solution:
With the Managed Recovery Program, SunGard is Florida Hospital's recovery team, ensuring recovery configurations keep pace with production changes, managing recovery test execution, and providing a single point of contact for the complete recovery program.
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By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 13, 2012
Unicous marketing improves reliability and flexibility, reduces costs, and increases performance with SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services.
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This document provides a high level overview of how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This document will also put that solution into context with the rest of a typical IT environment.
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Virtualization reduces the number of physical servers IT needs to provision and maintain, but it also transforms the data protection paradigm. Now businesses can recover from failures in minutes, not hours, with unprecedented affordability. The key to achieving the best business uptime and cost savings is the effective design of storage management and data protection. This white paper outlines an end-to-end storage and data protection architecture optimized for VMware vSphere and Microsoft® Hyper-V environments.
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This report describes how improving the efficiency of data storage, deduplication solutions has enabled organizations to cost-justify the increased use of disk for backup and recovery. However, the changing demands on IT storage infrastructures have begun to strain the capabilities of initial deduplication products. To meet these demands, a new generation of deduplication solutions is emerging which scale easily, offer improved performance and availability and simplify management and integration within the IT storage infrastructure. HP refers to this new generation as "Deduplication 2.0.
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In today's competitive business landscape, users' needs are continuously changing. Employees want access to their data and applications anytime, anywhere, from any device. The journey to seamlessly integrate data and applications across all devices begins with desktop modernization.
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There are a wide variety of video platforms available, each offering a plethora of features. How do you decide which features you need and the features you don't need? In this paper you will receive ten tips and suggestions on how to make the correct choice for all of your online video platform needs.
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Quest Workspacetm Help Desk is a robust help desk solution for small to medium-sized businesses with complex network environments. It provides a powerful combination of management features integrated with a best-of-breed IT help desk platform. Use the help desk software to manage the ticket system workflows, dashboards, reporting and end-user self-service portals. Use the embedded management features within the help desk platform to proactively manage network events, desktops, servers and applications as well as resolve issues faster and more effectively.
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IT teams are under big pressure to improve the performance and security of corporate networks. Monitoring for security, compliance, and performance requires getting the right data to the right monitoring tool for analysis.
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By: IBM
Published Date: Jul 13, 2012
Business continuity planning and IT security management are increasingly becoming a critical part of enterprise-wide risk management and business resilience frameworks. But this has introduced new challenges and opportunities. This report explores how the shift towards more holistic risk management is affecting the day-to-day work for business continuity planners, IT risk managers and security executives.
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By: Actiance
Published Date: Jul 11, 2012
Information security for federal agencies is of high importance, due to the vast amount of sensitive personal data held by the US government.
This Osterman Research whitepaper provides an overview of the regulations to which federal agencies have to adhere as well as tips on mitigating the risks created by the use of new communications technologies like social media and Unified Communications.
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By: Actiance
Published Date: Jul 11, 2012
The proliferation of social media tools has heightened interest in compliance issues, especially for financial services firms. FINRA, SEC, and industry regulations have been issued with specific guidance for social media sites.
This Osterman Research whitepaper discusses the trend of using social media at work, the communication technologies in use by the financial services industry, and techniques for securing and controlling social media within your organization.
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By: Eaton
Published Date: Jun 01, 2012
This white paper aims to fill that knowledge gap byproviding introductory-level information about what arc flashes are, why they're so hazardous and what steps data center managers should take to safeguard their employees and infrastructure.
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By: Eaton
Published Date: Jun 01, 2012
Server virtualization empowers businesses to lower hardware spending, simplify administration and boost availability. For IT and facilities managers, however, it introduces challenges and opportunities.
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By: Eaton
Published Date: Jun 01, 2012
Though power protection solutions vary in numerous ways, all but the largest data centers use basic approaches when deploying uninterruptible power systems (UPSs): Either they distribute many smaller UPSs among their server racks or they install one or two large UPSs centrally within or near their server room. This white paper outlines each architecure's pros and cons.
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By: Datalink
Published Date: Jun 01, 2012
Assembling an internal private cloud or migrating to an external one is a challenge - both technically and organizationally. Datalink has answers - and a unified solution with the Datalink V-Scape Reference Architecture.
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By: Colt
Published Date: May 31, 2012
The majority of data centre projects today are customised builds. They certainly deliver exactly what you want - but the result is extremely expensive, time-consuming and difficult to scale.
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