White Papers

Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy EMC VNX with EMC VPLEX

What if you could build a cost effective, continuously available storage infrastructure? From the ability to access the same information (read or write access) at the exact same time in two separate locations, to extending local VMware functionality beyond a single array. Learn the top reasons users are deploying EMC VNX with EMC VPLEX.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket Businesses

From improved agility and efficiency, to better disaster recovery, midsize businesses are increasingly drawn to the benefits of the cloud. The 10-point checklist included in this expert brief has been developed to help small and midsize businesses select the cloud model and cloud services provider that is right for them.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Perforce Case Study

A slow storage infrastructure was the most pressing challenge for one small software organization. Learn how they cost-effectively transformed their infrastructure and improved storage performance by 60% by unifying storage, deploying virtualization and leveraging Flash to meet IOPS requirements of 20,000 at 8K.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Data Center Transformation: Balancing user demands with IT mandates

There's a flood of user requirements, computing trends, and new technologies driving the need for you to look closely at your IT infrastructure. This white paper examines five goals of data center transformation that you can focus on to help you respond to these challenges. Download this paper learn what they are.

Sponsor: Riverbed

How WAN Optimization Helps Enterprises Reduce Costs

In a recent Gartner survey of IT organizations, respondents cited data growth, system performance, and network congestion as their top three barriers to productivity. Because productivity enhances revenue, businesses are investing in technologies that boost it. But if it all relies on a network that is being deluged with data, how can IT professionals side-step these issues to increase productivity and reduce costs? Learn more.

Sponsor: Riverbed

The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Four Little-Known Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization

You know that WAN optimization has evolved into a complete system that optimizes traffic across the broad range of most popular applications while providing deep visibility into performance. But did you know that it's a great tool to consolidate data centers and branch services? And that WAN optimization providers are evolving solutions that drive greater IT performance for any environment?

Read this white paper to learn how far WAN optimization has come, and how to make this most of your investments by using it to improve mobility, cloud and virtualization, disaster recovery, VDI, branch office consolidation, and more

Sponsor: Riverbed

How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue

A convergence of potentially conflicting trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. So how can IT avoid the strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures - including applications and services- from remote offices or through mobile devices? Learn how boosting application delivery and response time across a global network can improve collaboration and productivity among an increasingly global and mobile workforce.

Sponsor: Riverbed

How Application Aware Networks Make the Impossible Possible

Find out what IDC and Boston College have to say about enhancing user productivity, reducing application downtime by 67%, and a 6 months ROI. Using Riverbed Cascade to manage exponentially growing application complexity while increasing network uptime.

Sponsor: Riverbed Technology

Enabling Ubiquitous Visibility in Virtualized Environments

Enterprises are rapidly adopting virtualization for dynamic service delivery and service management agility. IT challenges already exist in virtual environments and will only be exacerbated with the higher adoption of virtualization. The ability to proactively monitor traffic within these environments is critical for enabling predictable and reliable delivery of applications and for troubleshooting diverse IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more.

Sponsor: Riverbed Technology

The Importance of Performance Management in Software-defined Networking

Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers.

Sponsor: Riverbed Technology

Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies

This eBook "Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies" provides a technology tutorial on managing and analyzing network traffic. Read:
- Fighting outages and performance fires
- Tradeoffs between broad network visibility and detailed packet analysis
- Using the best packet protocol analyzer
- The importance of Wireshark integration
- Network monitoring in a virtualized environment

Sponsor: Riverbed Technology

eBook: Security for a faster world

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and it often surpasses the security capabilities of even large corporations. This eBook presents a maturity model that will help you determine how secure you really are, explores five questions every CIO should be able to answer, and outlines a new approach based on intelligence gathering and research that can keep you ahead of the cybercriminals.

Sponsor: HP

Are You Getting the Most Value from Your Integration Platform?

The role of integration has changed drastically. Once used simply for support, it's now a necessity and considered an enabler - serving as an indispensable foundation helping organizations achieve agility, efficiency, and growth. If architected without a clearly defined strategy, however, integration can fail to deliver on its promise.

Check out this easy-to-read whitepaper and discover six important pitfalls you should avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success. Read on for tips on how to avoid these common mistakes, including:
- Future-proofing your platform
- Enforcing consistency
- Integrating people with tech
- And more

Sponsor: TIBCO

Application Integration in the 21st Century World of Mobile, Social, Cloud and Big Data

For at least two decades, integration has been one of the most powerful approaches to leveraging the value of existing IT assets. By all indications, integration will become even more important in the near future, both for internal and customer-facing processes. Gartner, for example, predicts that spending on integration will increase 33 percent from 2013 to 2016.

But in an IT landscape dominated by big data, mobility, social networking and cloud computing, integration will not only grow in importance, its very nature will change.

Not only will the new integration be expected to handle new and unfamiliar data types - it will be expected to deliver business results in real or near-real time. Conventional approaches to integration such as batch-processed ETL will continue to be important, but they will need to be augmented by new technology that can successfully meet these real-time demands.

This paper will discuss the new IT landscape as it relates to the new integration, and argue that the need for a comprehensive integration strategy has never been more urgent. This strategy must not only take new data types into account, but also address the more fundamental issue of agility - because whatever the integration needs of an enterprise may be at the moment, they are certain to change rapidly.

Sponsor: TIBCO

Manage Virtualized and Cloud Environments and the New Software-defined Data Center

Analyst report by Enterprise Management Associates on the newly announced EMC Service Assurance Suite, and how well it addresses operational challenges and market needs.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

How Storage Resource Management Suite Meets Today's Storage Management Challenges

This white paper outlines the common use cases Storage Resource Management Suite addresses including comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and analysis for heterogeneous block, file, and virtualized storage environments.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

How Apollo Group Evaluated MongoDB

Apollo Group, best known as the parent company of the University of Phoenix, sought to build a cloud-based learning management platform and needed a new data store to support it. After a thorough evaluation, Apollo Group selected MongoDB for its ease of use, performance, availability, and cost effectiveness. This paper describes the process and outcomes of Apollo Group's assessment.

Sponsor: 10gen

Total Cost of Ownership Comparison of MongoDB & Oracle

In this white paper, we compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of MongoDB and Oracle. It can be faster and cheaper to develop and deploy applications on MongoDB than on Oracle Database, yielding both bottom-line benefits - lower developer and administrative costs - and topline advantages - it is easier and faster to evolve applications to meet changing business and market conditions.

Sponsor: 10gen

Big Data: Guidelines for the Enterprise Decision Maker

Despite the hype, Big Data is more than just a buzzword. Big Data is enabling organizations to create new products, to outpace their competitors and to save tens of millions of dollars. In this paper, we begin with a description of Big Data and the data management landscape. Next, we describe examples of customers innovating with Big Data using MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database, which has been a catalyst of the Big Data movement. Finally, given the nascent state of the market, we provide guidance to organizations selecting technologies for their Big Data projects.

Sponsor: 10gen

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