Hybrid IT Service Delivery: A Strategic Thinking Model For Optimizing IT Resources

With the introduction of cloud computing, the IT industry has a new path for applying Shared Services business models to better utilize a company’s financial and operational resources. At the same time, it creates the need to understand how these new business models can be integrated with existing IT organizations and business, and understanding that it is sub-optimal to organize […]

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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Hot Or Not?

Has BYOD really arrived? How are organizations responding to this latest challenge to IT? Get the answers to these pressing questions and more in this just-released research from HDI. So whether or not you’re currently running a BYOD program, planning to roll one out or just curious how a BYOD program might impact your organization – this research brief is […]

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ESG Lab Review: Defining Tier 1 Storage In The Modern Data Center

HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software – Tier 1, federated storage engineered in support of private and public cloud delivery of storage services. See test results demonstrating server configuration and storage provisioning in less than 20 minutes. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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HP CloudSystem Matrix: Managing At A Higher Level

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 “cloud computing” as […]

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HP CLOUDSYSTEM: An Integrated Platform For Private, Public, And Hybrid Clouds

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 […]

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Understanding The HP CloudSystem Reference Architecture

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 […]

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Using Steelhead Appliances And Stingray Aptimizer To Accelerate Microsoft SharePoint

Faster page load times for Microsoft SharePoint provides user with a more satisfactory experience. The combination of Riverbed WAN optimization and web content optimization solutions ultimately have the same end goal of improving user performance, the techniques employed serve different use cases. This white paper examines how each of these two techniques optimizes delivery of web content both separately and […]

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Case Study – Einstein Noah Restaurant Group

Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (ENRG) wanted to find ways for its retail locations to more effectively leverage its new SharePoint portal and its wide-area network (WAN) for general communications, training, and op­erational changes. Learn how with Riverbed WAN optimization they decreased their SharePoint document download time from 20 minutes to 16 seconds.

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