As the technology around data collection, storage and reporting continues to get cheaper and more efficient, the value in your business data grows. When analytics are applied to an organization’s decision making process, it has the potential to unlock massive value and improve both the top and bottom lines. How can modern businesses take advantage ...

Let’s be honest – information governance is probably not your favourite thing. Which is exactly why it should be done efficiently and seamlessly, so that employees can focus on more exciting goals — innovative, business-growing goals. Modern, centralised, cloud-based content-management solutions — with self-governing documents — can make compliance more intuitive for employees, and allow ...

This e-book examines the stages of “Digital Darwinism” and helps you determine how your organization should evolve to effectively control your digital transformation taking your technology “elephant” and design it to be agile, process-driven, and adaptive. Digital transformation Digital transformation is a strategic change for businesses. It allows companies to pivot their core services as ...

Real-time based applications such as SAP HANA place very high demands on a company’s IT infrastructure. They need high levels of memory bandwidth, resilience and ability to integrate in an organization’s system landscape. This paper will demonstrate why IBM Power Systems is the optimal platform to meet the unique requirements of SAP HANA, now and ...

For many organizations, the route to digital transformation is to migrate a set of applications or workloads to an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, aka “Lift and Shift”. Industry analysts estimate “Lift and Shift” will comprise a significant percentage of the initial migrations, with the remainder of the migrations focused on re-engineering applications to ...

IT organizations, instead of spending time on modernization efforts is drowning in a sea of day-to-day task and interrupt driven fire-fighting drills. To help they have enlisted the aid of multiple management tools to provide them with the insight into the performance problems they are encountering. The problem is most of these solutions are silo’ed. ...

Infrastructure Managers (looking after mission-critical applications) responsible for monitoring SLAs for virtualized infrastructure; their staff; and associated business managers will gain important insights and recognize that many organizations are still using on-premises legacy infrastructure; The trend is firmly towards virtualized infrastructure and Cloud-enabled interfaces. The availability of robust performance metrics is important for any environment. ...

This document provides a summary and details for characterizing network storage workloads and determining the level of data required for a good, better, or best outcome. Virtual Instruments combines a storage workload modeling application – WorkloadWisdom, with purpose-built load generation appliances and data capture probes, to help storage architects and engineers to accurately characterize storage ...

Plex was looking for a solution that would provide real-time monitoring, data collection and analysis of infrastructure performance—including availability, throughput, response time and resource utilization, as well as workload and storage I/O performance. Because Plex’s cloud based solution is hybrid, it was important that the solution work seamlessly across physical and virtual environments. Read this ...

The all-flash array (AFA) market has undergone significant maturation over the past two years. A high percentage of customers have already committed to an “all flash for primary storage” strategy, and every customer interviewed for this study was among those. This IDC study provides an evaluation of 10 vendors that sell all-flash arrays (AFAs) for ...

An IOA is a proven architectural framework that businesses can use to build an interconnected enterprise — directly and securely connecting people, locations, clouds and data. By shifting your fundamental IT delivery architecture from siloed and centralized to interconnected and distributed, an IOA framework enables the following business benefits: Speed: Cut establishment of connections from ...

This white paper delivers insights that drive digital business advantages by tracking, measuring and forecasting growth in Interconnection Bandwidth. The total capacity provisioned to privately and directly exchange traffic with a diverse set of counterparties and providers at distributed IT exchange points inside carrier-neutral colocation data centres. The Index predicts Interconnection Bandwidth to grow to ...

Digital transformation is forcing businesses to rethink how collaboration and process occur across their extended enterprise, blurring the definitions of “back office” and “front office.” It’s also making it increasingly important to get more value out of their content, while also addressing modern security and regulatory requirements. Although legacy enterprise content management systems helped manage ...

In our hands-on evaluations, the all-flash Dell EMC SC5020 array handled two simultaneous workloads better than the HPE Nimble Storage AF5000 All Flash Array. The Dell EMC solution processed 3.4 times the orders per minute of the HPE solution while also saving 20 minutes on a data mart import. With the ability to process multiple ...

With VMware Cloud on AWS, you can add value to your business without adding hardware costs. Scale your business up or down without friction. Make a tactical play to the cloud to streamline operations. All while optimising any existing VMware investments and the skill sets of your IT teams. Find out more Subscribe to the ...