Wide area network (WAN)-based approaches to data backup are dramatically influenced by WAN bandwidth limitations and network latency. Without significant, costly WAN bandwidth upgrades this can make WAN-based backup impossible for large remote offices with significant data stores. Riverbed makes network-based backup feasible, in many cases through use of existing WAN links, without the need for bandwidth upgrades. Our intelligent, […]

Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]