
Solution Brief – Streamlined Data Protection
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.

5 Steps To Successful IT Consolidation And Virtualization
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.