Cloud
See the latest white papers on how cloud computing and cloud services have transformed the IT industry, from data center services to virtualization, software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a service and more.
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Running a Business in the Cloud: A CFO's/CIO's Journey
The business cloud has arrived, take advantage of it.
Tom Kelly has more than 25 years of strategic and tactical business experience. As a CFO and CIO, he was an early pioneer in using cloud computing technologies beginning in the late 1990s, and has helped spearhead The whitepaper talks...Sponsored By NetSuite
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Leveraging Technology for Innovation and Success: Embracing IaaS to Bridge the Divide between IT and the Lines of Business
This whitepaper presents the many opportunities for C-level management, IT, other services lines and the LOBs to align and unite behind common goals. In our opinion, organizations must embrace Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), making it the focal point of a shared vision of IT delivery. This cloud-based solution has...
Sponsored By Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group
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Five Considerations for Putting Dev/Test in the Cloud
Because of relatively low barriers to entry and short time to value, many enterprises are choosing application development and testing projects as their initial steps into cloud computing. Although the benefits of moving dev/test operations to a cloud model are numerous, it’s important that organizations do their homework up front...
Sponsored By HP
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Whitepaper: Private Cloud - It's More Than Just Virtualization
This white paper from Forrester Consulting reviews the core functionality required to maximize private cloud benefits and provides some best practices for enterprise cloud deployments.
Sponsored By NetApp
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2013 Private Cloud Storage Array Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2013 Private Cloud Storage Array Buyer's Guide assists organizations in making decisions about which storage solution to use as a private cloud platform for some or all of their critical applications. This Buyer's Guide covers private cloud storage arrays with capacities that have maximum capacities in the hundreds...
Sponsored By NetApp
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The Insider's Guide to Evaluating Private Cloud Storage Array
This informative guide represents months of rigorous research that your organization can leverage to kick start its evaluation process. Read on to learn which private cloud array will qualify as best-in-class for your company .
Sponsored By NetApp
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Best of Breed Private Cloud with NetApp and Windows Server 2012
Check out this white paper to learn the benefits of a private cloud and discover how deploying one private cloud solution can provide: consolidated resources, flexible services, easy provisioning of new environments and more.
Sponsored By NetApp
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Optimizing your Virtual Environment with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
For virtual infrastructure administrators, understanding how physical resources are being consumed can seem like an impossible challenge. VMware vCenter Operations changes what’s possible, enabling you to identify and isolate sources of contention and gain deep visibility into how physical resources are being consumed. See how vCenter Operations makes it fast...
Sponsored By VMware
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Reaping the Benefits of Business Agility with Cloud Computing: Real-World Profiles
Forward thinking CIOs are recognizing how cloud computing delivers benefits beyond mere cost reduction by increasing business agility. Three different real-world examples illustrate how leading organizations are adopting and expanding cloud computing to reduce costs, but also grow revenue and improve responsiveness to risk. The benefits realized by companies like...
Sponsored By VMware
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CIO/IDG - IT Looks to Leverage Cloud Computing’s Transformational Powers
Cloud computing is fast becoming a critical technology in the enterprise. In a CIO global survey of IT decision makers at enterprise companies, two-thirds of IT leaders are already adopting or planning to deploy cloud services, and more than nine in ten rated cloud computing as a priority over the...
Sponsored By VMware
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Understanding the value of cloud solutions-maximizing your ROI WP
Cloud computing is a powerful new way of providing and consuming information services—one that enables businesses to access applications and infrastructure resources over the Internet on an as-needed basis via a usage-based business model. With cloud computing, organizations can significantly gain agility while reducing costs and increasing flexibility. End users...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Enabling Private Cloud
Describing data centre trends in broad conceptual statements is one thing, breaking it down into the essential components all CIOs must consider to develop a sustainable cloud infrastructure is quite another. This whitepaper looks at how to move towards "IT as a Service" based on a private cloud, with the...
Sponsored By Logicalis
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Video: Six Steps to Private Cloud
Logicalis illustrates the six steps to enabling private cloud, which are fundamentally based on simplifying the data centre infrastructure. Logicalis enables private cloud infrastructure with EMC and Cisco, using the VSPEX platform to accelerate the transition to a fully automated and orchestrated data centre environment.
This short and interesting...Sponsored By Logicalis
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A Reality Check: Dispelling the Myths of Cloud Computing
This new Frost & Sullivan white paper discusses why cloud computing is increasingly adopted in the Asia Pacific market and has emerged as the #1 priority for a significant number (38%) of businesses.
Learn why it is essential for organisations to dig deeper beyond the marketing messages and IT jargon...Sponsored By NetSuite
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Overview: Windows Azure Pack or Windows Server
The advent of cloud computing is rewriting many of the long-established rules and assumptions for enterprise IT. Workloads and applications are no longer restricted within the four walls of the corporate datacenter as administrators and developers look to service providers and public clouds for more efficient and agile ways to...
Sponsored By Microsoft
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Transform IT: Transform the Enterprise
During a recent CIO leadership forum, 24 CIOs and other senior IT leaders discussed the role of the IT leader in the modern enterprise. The group shared strategies they used to change IT and assert their organizations as business leaders and innovators. This paper provides CIOs and IT leaders with...
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Video: Editors' Q&A on Infrastructure as a Service (UK)
Cloud computing encompasses a lot of different technologies but the two biggest categories are Software as a Service (apps) and Infrastructure as a Service (servers). The IaaS providers make a very convincing argument for businesses to stop running their own data centers and simply purchase server capacity on-demand and scale...
Sponsored By ZDNet
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IT Asset Management
Historically, IT Asset Management (ITAM) systems have seldom lived up to their potential. However, this has not stopped organizations from pursuing the dream of having one centralised system to house all asset data and support the entire IT asset lifecycle. Find out how a A modern ITAM solution allows organisations...
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Orchestration For Modern IT: Helping IT Accelerate Business
Orchestration makes complex procedures easy to repeat while reducing the possibility of human errors. IT organizations that take advantage of orchestration are able to improve efficiency and service quality while reducing operational costs. Modern IT requires an evolved approach - one that erases the barriers between people, process and technology....
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Boost IT Visibility and Business Value with Service Catalog
An effective service catalog enables IT to deliver business services that are more customer and service focused, which results in higher customer satisfaction, provides standardization and consistency and increases IT visibility across the organization. This whitepaper explains the benefits of a service catalog and the fundamentals to an effective service...
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Research: IaaS impact on data center design and staffing (UK)
The importance of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is evident in the growing number of companies either already implementing, or planning to implement.
Underscoring the strength of IaaS is the responses gathered in each of the last two Tech Pro Research surveys on the topic. The first, in April, detailed...Sponsored By TechRepublic
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EMC VSPEX for Rapid ROI
Many organizations are struggling to embrace new innovative solutions that provide strategic value to the business. These challenges are exacerbated for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) with fewer resources than their midmarket and enterprise counterparts. This analytical report looks into how organizations are looking into new technologies to see greater...
Sponsored By EMC
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Business Agility and the Cloud
In the 1950s almost no organization owned a computer. Computing was consumed as a service rather than owned as a capital asset. Computer companies provided services in those days because the computers themselves were too expensive for most organisations to own. But we also have to think of the risk...
Sponsored By Microsoft
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Introducing Windows Azure
Cloud computing is here. Running applications and storing data on machines in an Internet-accessible data center can offer plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, such as those running inside an organization’s data center, this platform usually includes an...
Sponsored By Microsoft
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Simplify the move to the cloud
This white paper discusses how legacy networks can limit your move to cloud and how by virtualizing your network with HP FlexNetwork architecture, you can simplify the move to cloud.
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Getting a Grip on Data Sprawl Through Enterprise Indexing & Search: The light approach to a heavy problem
Today’s enterprises have never been more fragmented. The data that used to live in structured warehouses and databases is now scattered around in emails, file servers, corporate intranets, SharePoint sites and scanned archives -- not just behind the firewall but out in the cloud as well. And it’s only getting...
Sponsored By VirtualWorks
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BlackBerry In Healthcare
Government mandates and incentives for patient outcomes, affordable care and secure messaging are top-of-mind in healthcare these days and technology will play a key role in the creative streamlining of the healthcare industry. In this webcast, find out how BlackBerry®, with its mobile computing roadmap, is poised to be a...
Sponsored By BlackBerry
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EMC Safe Systems Customer Video
Learn why Safe Systems chose EMC VNX and VNXe unified storage for efficiency, simplicity and performance in 100% virtualized private cloud infrastructure.
Sponsored By EMC
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Planning a Move to the Cloud - Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
Cloud computing can bring many benefits to an organization, with these benefits falling into several distinct categories:
- Virtualization – The ability to increase computing efficiency
- Democratization of Computing – Bringing enterprise scale infrastructure to small and medium businesses
- Scalability and fast provisioning – Bringing web scale IT...Sponsored By Rackspace
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Apache Hadoop: the Swiss Army Knife of IT
While Apache Hadoop originated as a batch process, big data analysis framework, today's uses of the technology have evolved and grown dramatically. From low-cost data storage, to OLAP, NoSQL datastores and now real-time queries, the flexibility and power of Apache Hadoop is evident in the innovation we've seen in its...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Flextronics Case Study
"Simplicity drives execution." According to Mike McNamara, CEO of one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, this sums up the reason Flextronics chose Workday.
Sponsored By Workday
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Learning How To Learn Hadoop
Learning how to program and develop for the Hadoop platform can lead to lucrative new career opportunities in Big Data. But like the problems it solves, the Hadoop framework can be quite complex and challenging. Join Global Knowledge instructor and Technology Consultant Rich Morrow as he leads you through some...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Why It's Time to Retire that Aging HR System and Embrace the Cloud!
It's Time to Retire that Aging HR System and Embrace the Cloud!
Sponsored By Workday
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EMC Customer Profile - Rotary International
Private cloud improves performance and reliability for mission-critical applications supporting humanitarian projects.
Sponsored By EMC
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Service-based software powers ahead
The trend towards software-as-a-service (SaaS) in organisations is now irreversible: the drivers for implementation, including financial savings, scalability, more predictable costs and greater business agility, make the case for SaaS a compelling one. Combine this with an unequally unstoppable trend towards mobile- and home-working, and we can add improved productivity...
Sponsored By Workday
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Big Data and Apache Hadoop Adoption: Key Challenges and Rewards
The demands for management and analysis of big data are driving changes in the data center, along with the need for Apache Hadoop expertise. While open-source Apache Hadoop can be a powerful platform for handling big data, deploying and managing this key technology is not without its challenges. Learn more...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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ITT-SMB Group: Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket
In this paper, the SMB Group examines different cloud computing models, discusses the types of requirements that each can best address, and considers what midmarket businesses should look for in a cloud solutions provider.
Sponsored By EMC
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Ten Common Hadoopable Problems: Real-World Use Cases
Apache Hadoop, the popular data storage and analysis platform, has generated a great deal of interest recently. Large and successful companies are using it to do powerful analyses of the data they collect. Hadoop offers two important services: It can store any kind of data from any source, inexpensively and...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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How does IBM deliver cloud security?
Cloud computing offers new possibilities and new security challenges. These challenges range from governance, through to securing application and infrastructure. Fundamentally it is important to be able to assure the security of these new models in order to build trust and confidence. Some of the growing cloud security concerns include:...
Sponsored By IBM
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EXA Corporation Creates a Secure and Resilient Private Cloud.
EXA Corporation (EXA) is a joint venture company created by JFE Steel Corporation. EXA faced the challenges of how to best secure and manage servers in multiple offices. It also wanted to create a secure hybrid cloud environment that combines external data centers and public cloud services. EXA Corporation chose...
Sponsored By IBM
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Five Considerations for Putting Dev/Test in the Cloud
Because of relatively low barriers to entry and short time to value, many enterprises are choosing application development and testing projects as their initial steps into cloud computing. Although the benefits of moving dev/test operations to a cloud model are numerous, it’s important that organizations do their homework up front...
Sponsored By HP
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Apache Hadoop: the Swiss Army Knife of IT
While Apache Hadoop originated as a batch process, big data analysis framework, today's uses of the technology have evolved and grown dramatically. From low-cost data storage, to OLAP, NoSQL datastores and now real-time queries, the flexibility and power of Apache Hadoop is evident in the innovation we've seen in its...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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10 Security Concerns for Cloud Computing
The flexibility, reduced cost, and mobility of cloud computing have made the concept a hot topic. Before implementing this method of computing, however, it is important to consider the security of the "cloud." In this white paper, you will learn some of the risks and benefits of cloud computing to...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Understanding the value of cloud solutions-maximizing your ROI WP
Cloud computing is a powerful new way of providing and consuming information services—one that enables businesses to access applications and infrastructure resources over the Internet on an as-needed basis via a usage-based business model. With cloud computing, organizations can significantly gain agility while reducing costs and increasing flexibility. End users...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Video: Six Steps to Private Cloud
Logicalis illustrates the six steps to enabling private cloud, which are fundamentally based on simplifying the data centre infrastructure. Logicalis enables private cloud infrastructure with EMC and Cisco, using the VSPEX platform to accelerate the transition to a fully automated and orchestrated data centre environment.
This short and interesting...Sponsored By Logicalis
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2013 Private Cloud Storage Array Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2013 Private Cloud Storage Array Buyer's Guide assists organizations in making decisions about which storage solution to use as a private cloud platform for some or all of their critical applications. This Buyer's Guide covers private cloud storage arrays with capacities that have maximum capacities in the hundreds...
Sponsored By NetApp
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Ten Common Hadoopable Problems: Real-World Use Cases
Apache Hadoop, the popular data storage and analysis platform, has generated a great deal of interest recently. Large and successful companies are using it to do powerful analyses of the data they collect. Hadoop offers two important services: It can store any kind of data from any source, inexpensively and...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Big Data and Apache Hadoop Adoption: Key Challenges and Rewards
The demands for management and analysis of big data are driving changes in the data center, along with the need for Apache Hadoop expertise. While open-source Apache Hadoop can be a powerful platform for handling big data, deploying and managing this key technology is not without its challenges. Learn more...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Learning How To Learn Hadoop
Learning how to program and develop for the Hadoop platform can lead to lucrative new career opportunities in Big Data. But like the problems it solves, the Hadoop framework can be quite complex and challenging. Join Global Knowledge instructor and Technology Consultant Rich Morrow as he leads you through some...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Cloud Computing: What It Is and What It Can Do for You
The definition of cloud computing depends largely on whether you are a consumer or producer. The public cloud is geared more for the individual consumer or small company, while the private cloud is geared more for a medium-to-large company. In addition, the private cloud is branching out to incorporate the...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Leveraging Microsoft's System Center 2012 Suite in the Private Cloud
Ultimately, all large organizations will require the added flexibility and efficiency of the cloud. Initially, the private cloud will be the most obvious choice for enterprises that will not or cannot have their proprietary data in the public cloud. The System Center 2012 suite has come at the right time,...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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A Reality Check: Dispelling the Myths of Cloud Computing
This new Frost & Sullivan white paper discusses why cloud computing is increasingly adopted in the Asia Pacific market and has emerged as the #1 priority for a significant number (38%) of businesses.
Learn why it is essential for organisations to dig deeper beyond the marketing messages and IT jargon...Sponsored By NetSuite
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Cloud Security Myths and Strategies Uncovered
Forward-thinking CSOs are embracing the right security strategy and exercising appropriate caution without dampening cloud optimism. By overcoming the number one perceived challenge—security—CIOs can move beyond their fears to pursue their IT transformation to cloud computing.
Sponsored By VMware
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Aligning CFO and CIO Priorities
Forward-thinking organizations are viewing cloud computing as an investment in business transformation, not just a way to cut costs for IT. Thanks to the cloud, CFOs and CIOs are moving beyond the “either/or” discussions that once forced themto make tradeoffs between IT cost cutting and the creation of new business...
Sponsored By VMware
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Simplify the move to the cloud
This white paper discusses how legacy networks can limit your move to cloud and how by virtualizing your network with HP FlexNetwork architecture, you can simplify the move to cloud.
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
Business Agility and the Cloud
In the 1950s almost no organization owned a computer. Computing was consumed as a service rather than owned as a capital asset. Computer companies provided services in those days because the computers themselves were too expensive for most organisations to own. But we also have to think of the risk...
Sponsored By Microsoft
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Introducing Windows Azure
Cloud computing is here. Running applications and storing data on machines in an Internet-accessible data center can offer plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, such as those running inside an organization’s data center, this platform usually includes an...
Sponsored By Microsoft
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Overview: Windows Azure Pack or Windows Server
The advent of cloud computing is rewriting many of the long-established rules and assumptions for enterprise IT. Workloads and applications are no longer restricted within the four walls of the corporate datacenter as administrators and developers look to service providers and public clouds for more efficient and agile ways to...
Sponsored By Microsoft
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Video: Editors' Q&A on Infrastructure as a Service (UK)
Cloud computing encompasses a lot of different technologies but the two biggest categories are Software as a Service (apps) and Infrastructure as a Service (servers). The IaaS providers make a very convincing argument for businesses to stop running their own data centers and simply purchase server capacity on-demand and scale...
Sponsored By ZDNet
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Research: IaaS impact on data center design and staffing (UK)
The importance of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is evident in the growing number of companies either already implementing, or planning to implement.
Underscoring the strength of IaaS is the responses gathered in each of the last two Tech Pro Research surveys on the topic. The first, in April, detailed...Sponsored By TechRepublic
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Service-based software powers ahead
The trend towards software-as-a-service (SaaS) in organisations is now irreversible: the drivers for implementation, including financial savings, scalability, more predictable costs and greater business agility, make the case for SaaS a compelling one. Combine this with an unequally unstoppable trend towards mobile- and home-working, and we can add improved productivity...
Sponsored By Workday
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10 Critical Requirements for Cloud Applications
Growing interest in cloud computing has prompted almost every enterprise software vendor to claim it's "in the cloud." However, in the industry's rush to fulfill demand, some vendors may skip requirements that are critical to delivering the true benefits of cloud applications.
Sponsored By Workday
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ITT-SMB Group: Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket
In this paper, the SMB Group examines different cloud computing models, discusses the types of requirements that each can best address, and considers what midmarket businesses should look for in a cloud solutions provider.
Sponsored By EMC
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EMC Customer Profile - Rotary International
Private cloud improves performance and reliability for mission-critical applications supporting humanitarian projects.
Sponsored By EMC
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EMC Safe Systems Customer Video
Learn why Safe Systems chose EMC VNX and VNXe unified storage for efficiency, simplicity and performance in 100% virtualized private cloud infrastructure.
Sponsored By EMC
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Optimizing your Virtual Environment with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
For virtual infrastructure administrators, understanding how physical resources are being consumed can seem like an impossible challenge. VMware vCenter Operations changes what’s possible, enabling you to identify and isolate sources of contention and gain deep visibility into how physical resources are being consumed. See how vCenter Operations makes it fast...
Sponsored By VMware
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Reaping the Benefits of Business Agility with Cloud Computing: Real-World Profiles
Forward thinking CIOs are recognizing how cloud computing delivers benefits beyond mere cost reduction by increasing business agility. Three different real-world examples illustrate how leading organizations are adopting and expanding cloud computing to reduce costs, but also grow revenue and improve responsiveness to risk. The benefits realized by companies like...
Sponsored By VMware
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CIO/IDG - IT Looks to Leverage Cloud Computing’s Transformational Powers
Cloud computing is fast becoming a critical technology in the enterprise. In a CIO global survey of IT decision makers at enterprise companies, two-thirds of IT leaders are already adopting or planning to deploy cloud services, and more than nine in ten rated cloud computing as a priority over the...
Sponsored By VMware
-
Leveraging Technology for Innovation and Success: Embracing IaaS to Bridge the Divide between IT and the Lines of Business
This whitepaper presents the many opportunities for C-level management, IT, other services lines and the LOBs to align and unite behind common goals. In our opinion, organizations must embrace Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), making it the focal point of a shared vision of IT delivery. This cloud-based solution has...
Sponsored By Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group
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Running a Business in the Cloud: A CFO's/CIO's Journey
The business cloud has arrived, take advantage of it.
Tom Kelly has more than 25 years of strategic and tactical business experience. As a CFO and CIO, he was an early pioneer in using cloud computing technologies beginning in the late 1990s, and has helped spearhead The whitepaper talks...Sponsored By NetSuite
-
Flextronics Case Study
"Simplicity drives execution." According to Mike McNamara, CEO of one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, this sums up the reason Flextronics chose Workday.
Sponsored By Workday
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Why It's Time to Retire that Aging HR System and Embrace the Cloud!
It's Time to Retire that Aging HR System and Embrace the Cloud!
Sponsored By Workday
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IT Asset Management
Historically, IT Asset Management (ITAM) systems have seldom lived up to their potential. However, this has not stopped organizations from pursuing the dream of having one centralised system to house all asset data and support the entire IT asset lifecycle. Find out how a A modern ITAM solution allows organisations...
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Orchestration For Modern IT: Helping IT Accelerate Business
Orchestration makes complex procedures easy to repeat while reducing the possibility of human errors. IT organizations that take advantage of orchestration are able to improve efficiency and service quality while reducing operational costs. Modern IT requires an evolved approach - one that erases the barriers between people, process and technology....
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Boost IT Visibility and Business Value with Service Catalog
An effective service catalog enables IT to deliver business services that are more customer and service focused, which results in higher customer satisfaction, provides standardization and consistency and increases IT visibility across the organization. This whitepaper explains the benefits of a service catalog and the fundamentals to an effective service...
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Transform IT: Transform the Enterprise
During a recent CIO leadership forum, 24 CIOs and other senior IT leaders discussed the role of the IT leader in the modern enterprise. The group shared strategies they used to change IT and assert their organizations as business leaders and innovators. This paper provides CIOs and IT leaders with...
Sponsored By ServiceNow
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Getting a Grip on Data Sprawl Through Enterprise Indexing & Search: The light approach to a heavy problem
Today’s enterprises have never been more fragmented. The data that used to live in structured warehouses and databases is now scattered around in emails, file servers, corporate intranets, SharePoint sites and scanned archives -- not just behind the firewall but out in the cloud as well. And it’s only getting...
Sponsored By VirtualWorks
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EMC Customer Profile: Safe Systems
Learn why Safe Systems chose EMC VNX and VNXe unified storage for efficiency, simplicity and performance in 100% virtualized private cloud infrastructure.
Sponsored By EMC
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Enabling Private Cloud
Describing data centre trends in broad conceptual statements is one thing, breaking it down into the essential components all CIOs must consider to develop a sustainable cloud infrastructure is quite another. This whitepaper looks at how to move towards "IT as a Service" based on a private cloud, with the...
Sponsored By Logicalis
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How does IBM deliver cloud security?
Cloud computing offers new possibilities and new security challenges. These challenges range from governance, through to securing application and infrastructure. Fundamentally it is important to be able to assure the security of these new models in order to build trust and confidence. Some of the growing cloud security concerns include:...
Sponsored By IBM