The NetApp solution enables companies to optimize their virtual infrastructures by providing advanced storage and data management capabilities. NetApp provides industry -leading storage solutions that simplify virtual machine (VM) provisioning; enable mass VM cloning and redeployment; handle typical input/output (I/O) ...
Cisco's move limiting Application Control Engine development shows that the time for stand-alone load balancers has passed. IT leaders should focus on leveraging more advanced application delivery controller features to improve application deployments.
IT departments today are finding themselves squarely at the epicenter of healthcare compliance scrutiny. One of the many regulations to which they must adhere is “meaningful use,” which ties financial incentives to usage of electronic health records as part of ...
Today, traditional direct mail campaigns often deliver anemic response rates of less than 1 percent, and direct mail campaigns sweetened with discounts don’t fare much better. Add a coupon to the message, and the response rate typically only rises to ...
Mobile strategy has evolved since 2010. Then, a mobile strategy equated to a mobile services road map and technology platform choices. An individual or small team could both create a strategy and manage the delivery of mobile services. As mobile ...
In days gone by, marketing was a polished monologue. You orchestrated the release of your brand value proposition to the world and hoped for the best. You were able to measure the relative success of your efforts only later in ...
Virtualization of compute, storage and infrastructure is enabling the transformation of enterprise datacenters into private clouds. The impact is an unprecedented ability to consolidate infrastructure without compromise: no change to service level agreements (SLAs), no loss of performance or scale, ...
The words “customer service” mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Many — perhaps most — see it as a softer way of referring to those people tasked with solving the problems customers take time to complain ...
Enterprise and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to blade servers as the platform of choice to deliver the next generation of virtualized applications. Blade servers can yield significant cost efficiencies over rack servers — while taking up a smaller footprint, ...
Once thought of as only relevant for enterprises, CRM technology is increasingly being used by small and medium businesses across industries. Even the smallest organizations recognize the value of using a CRM solution to manage interactions with customers, clients and ...
A revolution is underway. It is a consumer revolution that is reshaping the entire landscape, and it is being led by billions of individuals and business consumers everywhere, including both the world’s established and just-emerging purchasing and earning classes. Right ...
For decades, fear has dominated the discussion of cyber security. Every magazine article, presentation or blog about the topic seems to start the same way: trying to scare the living daylights out of you with horror stories, alarming statistics, and ...
When rack-mounted servers first appeared on the scene in the 1990s, they offered considerable advantages over the behemoth boxes they replaced. Their small, standardized footprint went a long way toward making data centers easier to manage. In the ensuing decades, ...
Every data center IT manager must constantly deal with certain practical constraints such as time, complexity, reliability, maintainability, space, compatibility, and money. The challenge is that business application demands on computing technology often don’t cooperate with these constraints.
Enterprise and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to blade servers as the platform of choice to deliver the next generation of virtualized applications. Blade servers can yield significant cost efficiencies over rack servers — while taking up a smaller footprint, ...
Moving to an Efficient IT Infrastructure The demands on IT organizations just keep growing. In today’s competitive climate, enterprises expect IT to support innovation, enhance agility, roll out new services quickly and deliver the resources to meet peak levels of ...
There is no question that Information Technology (IT) and business are inextricably linked. Ever since the internet revolutionized the business world in the 90’s, companies around the world have turned to technology to increase business efficiency while boosting their competitive ...
In some ways, building mobile solutions for enterprises is similar to developing consumer mobile apps. The goals of the end-user are paramount, as are usability and performance. In other ways, however, the two are very different – in particular, the ...
Several years ago, a transformation in IT began to take place; a transformation from an IT-centric view of technology to a business-centric view of technology that Forrester refers to as business technology (BT). There are three major drivers fueling this ...
In this research, we analyze the emerging market for enterprise file synchronization and sharing products, and cloud-based services. These enable better productivity and collaboration for mobile workers, granting IT control with security and compliance capabilities.
Everyone knows that it’s important to have a disaster recovery plan, but the perfect solution is not always in the budget. Many organizations have attempted to provide for their own disaster recovery and business continuity needs by purchasing additional hardware ...
The true promise of email marketing has always been increasing your marketing ROI. Today that promise is achievable only through relevance – sending the right person, the right email message, at just the right time. A recent study on the ...
Intel IT conducted a proof of concept (PoC) that demonstrates the potential productivity and efficiency gains associated with providing facility technicians with Intel® architecture-based tablets. This PoC is one part of our multi-year effort to adopt lean manufacturing processes—maintaining support ...
Intel IT is proactively gathering data about Ultrabook™ devices and how they fit into the enterprise, in anticipation of a wave of new devices and form factors, and the associated expectations from employees who want to buy and use these ...
Consumerization is driving increased technology choice, and users are in the driver’s seat. IT organizations must find a way to provide the mobility and flexibility that users want with the security that business requires. As a strategic partner in the ...
Like many private sector organizations, a lot of government entities are making big moves to cloud computing, or at least planning to deploy cloud initiatives soon. Federal, state and local agencies are discovering that cloud services such as software as ...
The deduplication is one of the fastest growing segments in storage. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing ...
This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing and validation of the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 storage array, with a focus on autonomic simplicity, efficient unified storage, application performance, and resilience for mid-range enterprises.
Companies of all sizes are either implementing server virtualization, expanding earlier pilot efforts, or exploring how to begin these projects. The widespread success results from the ability to improve efficiency while lowering capital expenditures. However, limitations with current generation infrastructure ...
Workers tap into their network of friends on LinkedIn or Facebook for business advice. Someone might upload a marketing video onto YouTube, using a non-company-issued smart phone, while waiting for a dentist appointment. The modern worker blends personal and work ...
A lot of people consider public speaking to be one of life’s most stressful events. And for geeks, presenting to business people is especially terrifying. Business people —the phrase we geeks use to refer to everyone who isn’t technical —often ...
With maturity comes clarity, and the choice between public, private or hybrid cloud deployments is a prime example. According to a recent IDG Research Survey, private and hybrid cloud adoption is gaining strength at organizations of all sizes, and has ...
When organizations talk about improving their technology return on investment (ROI), they typically are referring to their investments in hardware or software but in fact, the grea test opportunity to increase your technology return may come from improving the productivity ...
Not so long ago, end-user IT infrastructure was fairly homogenous and predictable. Employees came into the office and booted up their desktops or workstations to begin their day. In this environment, enterprises that evaluated bringing virtualization to end users had ...
Today’s workers are mobile. They need to be connected to their corporate network or cloudbased applications around the clock and around the world—anytime, anywhere. Lack of fast network, cloud, and application connectivity and access impacts productivity, which impacts revenues and ...
In today’s digital world, with its mobile devices and ubiquitous Internet access, citizens expect increasingly fast, convenient and accessible government services. And you as a state or local government are expected to meet these expectations. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles ...
IT is a critical tool in helping colleges and universities do more with less. And yet technology at higher education institutions is sometimes neglected. Old, nonstandard equipment and legacy infrastructures often impede teaching and learning with slow, unreliable access to ...
Aberdeen has been following the adoption of virtualization technologies for many years and as the adoption rate has grown, IT has been able to transform itself from an old "cost center" model to one of being more of a "business ...
For most of their history, IT organizations have been plagued by server sprawl, poor resource utilization, and high capital and operating expenditures brought about by continuous data growth and new application requirements. Historically, as organizations added more and more infrastructure ...
A new business reality is emerging across all segments of the business spectrum, and it is creating opportunity and challenges that must be considered and planned for today. The new reality is the product of the convergence of mobility, video, ...
The adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions across the world and within Canada continues to rise. According to a recent study from Reportstack, the VoIP market is expected to experience a compound annual growth rate of 6.46 per ...
To effectively deliver IT services within today’s highly virtualized and cloud environments, businesses must transform classic disciplines of operations management. What’s needed is an approach that simplifies management by embedding and integrating management capabilities into the virtualization and cloud platforms ...
Convergence – the merging of voice and data traffic onto a single network infrastructure – commenced in earnest during the 1990s, when corporations began investing in cost-effective network backbones to serve all of their communications requirements. Unified communications (UC) solutions, ...
Never before have digital marketers been blessed with such immense quantities of online customer data at our disposal, yet been so incapacitated by how to use it. From personal information collected at registration to transaction history, clickstream data, social network ...
This whitepaper is designed to get you started quickly with Hyper-V 3.0. It starts with a discussion of the hardware requirements for Hyper-V 3.0 and then explains a basic Hyper-V–deployment followed by an upgrade from Hyper-V 2.0 to Hyper-V 3.0. ...
Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the Internet — and hopefully your mobile app as well — ...
One of the hardest challenges for an IT provider today is to guarantee a specific level of "response-time" performance to applications. Performance is absolutely mission-critical for many business applications, which has often led to expensively over-provisioned and dedicated infrastructures. Unfortunately ...
Creating a web strategy to deal with the rise of mobile devices boils down to three primary options: Developing a Native App, designing a separate Mobile Site, or recalibrating your primary website with Responsive Design. There is no magic bullet; ...
The 2013 Key Trends Analysis provides a macro view of how the 1,200+ sales organizations that took part in this year’s study performed in 2012. We identify some of the major trends that positively and negatively impacted sales behavior in ...
Virtualization continues to be one of the most effective ways to consolidate, reduce cost, and make data centers more efficient. Gartner research outlines how to get the most from your virtualization efforts in their paper titled "Best Practice: Virtualize Your ...
The cloud is more than a buzzword these days. Companies large and small are looking skyward for critical business functions that were once seen as untouchable—and they’re doing it for the time- honored reasons of reducing cost and complexity. The ...
How well are you utilizing customer relationship management (CRM) processes and technology to run a more efficient organization? That's what the team at GoldMine wanted to find out. So we designed an online self-assessment comprised of fifteen questions across five ...
As I’ve met with national leaders and customers around the world, I’ve found that there’s a great divide between the level of security they need for their networks and the level of security available to them using traditional security tools. ...
Worldwide tablet sales continue to soar, but it's not just consumers who are buying iPads in record numbers. With its sleek look, lightweight design and ever-growing collection of apps, the iPad is quickly becoming the preferred device for mobile professionals ...
It’s an age old question, where do I start? But with all the hype surrounding the cloud, that’s not the only question we’re hearing. Where will it be the most helpful? How can it help drive efficiencies? Where does it ...
For security teams looking to secure file data in storage, there are a plethora of choices available, and each has its specific set of strengths and limitations. This paper offers a comprehensive look at the choices available, outlines the key ...
Procuring enterprise software can be a difficult exercise. It is lengthy and fraught with pitfalls that unknowing buyers may fall into. Unfortunately, Contract Management Software is no exception. In fact, it may be even more challenging due to some key ...
Today’s marketing departments can ill afford to waste time chasing after the wrong prospects. Budgets are tight, marketing staffers are overworked, and marketing managers have their hands full running the show. But, by taking the time to set up a ...
Your IT organization set a course for adopting Converged Infrastructure for some well-known business reasons. You’ll be faster & more flexible. You’ll optimize utilization. If you chose a FlexPod or Vblock, you can stand on the shoulders of giants and ...
VDI has unique performance characteristics that legacy storage architectures were never designed to support. This paper explains how Nimble Storage flash-enabled storage solutions provide a solid platform for VDI environments that eliminates extensive management of tiered legacy storage architectures to ...
While marketing has changed a lot in recent decades, one thing hasn’t: A huge part of the job revolves around the creation of new content, from sales collateral and customer presentations to product demos, white papers, websites and advertising. But ...
Are you struggling to deliver maximum data availability to end users, serve diverse workloads quickly and efficiently, and control costs in your Windows Server environment? Has past growth led to over-provisioned and underutilized hardware, and increased management overhead? If so, ...
For many companies, total cost of ownership (TCO) is out of control. And the problem is growing, fueled by ever-increasing demands from the user community, massive new sources for data, new capabilities, shadow IT landscapes, and the cost of keeping ...
Information technology is evolving at a blistering rate. Skills IT professionals learned in college, certificate programs, and on the job even 18 months ago are often barely relevant today. Trends like IT consumerization, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), globalization, mobility, ...
The NetApp solution enables companies to optimize their virtual infrastructures by providing advanced storage and data management capabilities. NetApp provides industry-leading storage solutions that simplify virtual machine (VM) provisioning; enable mass VM cloning and redeployment; handle typical input/output (I/O) bursts ...
There’s lots of hype about the cloud. It will change IT forever; it will replace the way we currently compute; it will change the way we work, the way we interact, and the way we live. The hype is definitely ...
Riverbed understands packet capture and analysis better than any other company. Three leading innovators in this field – Steve McCanne, co-creator of TCPDUMP, Loris Degioanni, creator of WinPcap, and Gerald Combs, creator of Wireshark® software – continue the advancement of ...
CloudBolt Command and Control (C2) is a next-generation Cloud Manager that automates the request, provisioning, management, and delivery of compute resources to users. C2 spans not just virtualization, but also public and private cloud-based compute technologies. As a next-generation Cloud ...
AccelOps, the leader in integrated Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), performance and availability monitoring software for on-premise and cloud-based data centers, conducted a survey in February 2013 to better understand how IT professionals are deploying cloud services, what issues ...
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) need to keep their businesses up and running just as much as larger companies. Yet they are challenged by several limitations when seeking out a solution that meets their mission-critical data recovery, application uptime, and ...
If you operate an online business that accepts credit or debit card payments, you are probably well acquainted with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). But perhaps you still have trouble keeping up with its recurring requirements: ...
Current IT security tools and mindsets are no longer adequate to meet the scope and complexity of today’s threats. Internet security has evolved over the last ten years but advanced persistent threats and the sophistication of the malware have fundamentally ...
Imagine sharing information at a level of quality that makes everyone feel like they are in the same room—and with a level of simplicity that allows everyone to join in. Whether your goal is to go to market faster, respond ...
Information technology is evolving at a blistering rate. Skills IT professionals learned in college, certificate programs, and on the job even 18 months ago are often barely relevant today. Trends like IT consumerization, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), globalization, mobility, ...
With the growing number of IP telephony service and equipment options, there has never been a better time for enterprises to find a communications solution that fits their business needs. Top requirements of all businesses today in evaluating new communication ...
Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. In mobile, this translates to services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. The ability to deliver highly contextual experiences will evolve in sophistication with technology in the ...
Extending chat to mobile customers is one of the hottest topics in mobile engagement. With mobile devices playing an increasingly important role in both e-commerce and in-store spending, connecting with customers wherever they are has become more important than ever. ...
Network traffic patterns have dramatically changed in the past decade from predictable and point-to-point transaction-oriented activities to bandwidth-hungry, always-on, many-to-many interactions. Virtualization, cloud services, new Webcentric application architectures, video and unstructured data, and big data are the newest entrants to the corporate network. For many organizations, the ...
As your business applications recede from desktops into data centers and from there into the great beyond that is the public cloud, your view into the performance of important applications becomes increasingly shrouded in mist. The network interface becomes the best point at ...
Effective IT planning and decision making are dependent upon having a complete asset inventory and an accurate understanding about dependencies available before, during and after IT change activities. Application discovery and dependency mapping (ADDM) solutions automate the process of discovering and mapping ...
As an IT or network manager, you know that what matters is the productivity that users get from your IT systems, and that this in turn depends on your entire infrastructure performing well. You may have various statistics and metrics available for ...
While marketing has changed a lot in recent decades, one thing hasn’t: A huge part of the job revolves around the creation of new content, from sales collateral and customer presentations to product demos, white papers, websites and advertising.
Enterprises have been using Cascade® products from Riverbed Technology for many years to discover, monitor and troubleshoot their physical network and application infrastructure. Cascade network performance management (NPM) solution offers a rich set of functionality to understand network and application performance in the ...
Riverbed offers the Cascade solution for Application-Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) for use in both enterprise and communications services settings. The Cascade product technology was obtained by Riverbed when they acquired Mazu Networks in early 2009. Until that time, Riverbed was focused on ...
In January 2012, Riverbed® Technology announced version 9.5 of its Cascade® network performance management solution, which included a number of major enhancements. Collectively, the new capabilities are designed to improve visibility into the health and activity of applications and services traversing networks from ...
While there are many components and technologies that IT must bring together to deliver value to their host organization, two things are clear – first, IT’s core value is in providing applications and services, and second, all of them are delivered to ...
Organizations have gained significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Software‐defined networking holds significant promise to deliver a new network architecture that is abstracted and virtualized; however, organizations would be well served to learn from previous efforts to virtualize other domains in order to avoid making the same mistakes. Riverbed and VMware joined forces to help eliminate those problems and make it easier to deploy VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers by integrating application-‐aware network performance management software and vSphere 5.1.
Much of a network professional’s time is spent in the weeds—fixing what breaks—and trying to keep infrastructure humming so users don’t call the help desk. It’s a reactive existence that leaves little time for strategizing and planning. Climbing out of the weeds to ...
Midmarket organizations are transforming their IT infrastructure to better accommodate the needs of the business. Two major pieces of this transformation are virtualization and cloud computing, which rely heavily on network performance to ensure success. However, in many cases, these ...
While most companies don’t realize it, machine data is the fastest growing, most complex and yet most valuable segment of big data. All websites, communications, networking and complex IT infrastructures generate massive streams of data every second of every day, in an array of ...
Current IT security tools and mindsets are no longer adequate to meet the scope and complexity of today’s threats. Internet security has evolved over the last ten years but advanced persistent threats and the sophistication of the malware have fundamentally ...
Service Performance Insight’s (SPI Research) 2012 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark shows the professional services market has recovered after a rollercoaster ride of highs (2007) and lows (2009). Since the benchmark's inception in 2007, SPI Research has surveyed and analyzed performance ...
Innovation is the lifeblood of growth-oriented companies. In a fast-paced global marketplace that’s more competitive than ever, a company’s ability to develop better products and services and improve internal processes and practices can be the difference between leaping ahead and falling behind.
The moment a user’s browser loads a web page or video, ads also begin to load. Some of those ad placements were reserved months ago. Others were reserved 10 milliseconds ago, purchased in a split-second auction called real-time bidding.
The predictions that many industry pundits have been making about the rise of BYOD (bring your own device) are coming to fruition. The surprise is that it is happening at a much-accelerated rate at businesses of all sizes, around the ...
Enterprise and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to blade servers as the platform of choice to deliver the next generation of virtualized applications. Blade servers can yield significant cost efficiencies over rack servers — while taking up a smaller footprint, consuming less power ...
With an unprecedented set of smart innovations, HP BladeSystem—including the new HP ProLiant Gen8 server family—provides the foundation of a self-aware and intelligent converged infrastructure. We’re talking about a cloud-ready infrastructure that can support all your applications on a single platform, with both ...
Frost & Sullivan has over fifty years of experience as a global research organization. Today, its 1,800 analysts and consultants monitor more than 300 industries and 250,000 companies. The company’s research philosophy originates with the CEO’s 360-Degree Perspective™, which serves as the foundation ...
After more than a decade of increases in the size of IT environments due to the proliferation of systems, devices, storage, and management tools, IT complexity has reached an all-time high. Today, day-to-day business operations are integrated with IT and datacenters. IT ...
In today’s educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school’s network. This presents a unique challenge to the IT administrator. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how HP is addressing ...
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