Infrastructure Management White Papers

Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Data Deduplication

This IDC Buyer Case Study explores the benefits EMC realized from the use of a range of EMC's own backup and recovery solutions that leverage deduplication technology.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

IDC: Generating Proven Business Value with EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery

Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including:
- Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years
- Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours
- Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

EMC Best Practices in Data Protection Monitoring

Regardless of whether you consider your domain to be a private cloud, a hybrid cloud, or a public cloud, you are providing data protection as a service. It should not come as a surprise that, according to ESG's 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey, improving data backup and recovery was the number two-most important IT priority selected by respondents (27%), just two percentage points behind the top priority, information security initiatives. Find out more in this ESG white paper.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Backup and Recovery Changes Drive IT Infrastructure and Business Transformation

This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Taking a Single-System Approach to Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving

EMC Data Domain Systems respond to many of the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support the most common method of long-term retention used today (long-term backup retention) and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Read the IDC report on how EMC is well positioned to help organizations that want to consider alternatives to tape for long-term backup retention and archiving needs.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Information Security eGuide

As the reliability, availability and integrity of corporate data becomes more and more essential to the viability of the enterprise, executives are turning an interested eye to the topic of information security. While this increased interest can mean information security projects get more attention - and hopefully more funding - it also means that security professionals need to be prepared. Successful security strategies today require not only the right planning, talent and solutions, but also the ability to inform, educate and demonstrate to executives how valuable corporate data is being protected.

In this eGuide, CIO along with sister publications Network World, InfoWorld and CSO, cover the pertinent information security topics of today. Read on to learn how to deal with threats, build effective security strategies and prepare for increased scrutiny.

Sponsor: HP

HP Converged Storage: Storage for the next era of IT

It is becoming increasingly difficult for IT professionals to manage the substantial amount of information their enterprises are generating today. This white paper discusses how to combat this challenge with a converged infrastructure. Discover a system that can help you leverage this strategy and review the benefits it offers.

Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP and Intel®

Seven Priorities for Integrated Network Management - How HP Intelligent Management Center Delivers an Enterprise-class Solution

Given the constant pace of change in infrastructures, IT Operations must be forever on their toes when it comes to ensuring that the best management tools, technologies, and practices are being followed. Nowhere is this more true than in the network layer, given that networks are becoming increasingly critical as the means of delivering the applications and services upon which IT end users, and the businesses and organizations they drive, so heavily depend. The time has never been better for evaluating current management strategies and considering the efficiency and effectiveness improvements possible through integrated, multi-function, multi-vendor network management solutions. This whitepaper examines seven core network management requirements deserving of special attention in today's operating environments, and evaluates how one multi-vendor, multi-function integrated management solution, HP's Intelligent Management Center, measures up.

Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP and Intel®

Bursting with HP CloudSystem

IT departments must be able to support the needs of business and deliver capacity as needed. A big part of that need is leveraging public clouds. But public cloud usage within most enterprises today is a far cry from what's needed, or wanted, by the enterprise CIO.

HP CloudSystem offers an answer. With HP CloudSystem, you can safely burst workloads to cloud resources when you need additional computational headroom or you want to take advantage of additional capabilities. Read this white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® to learn how bursting can bring your business users and IT back into strategic alignment, as you jointly exploit new business opportunities enabled by private, public, and hybrid clouds.

Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP and Intel®

Federal IT Innovation Caught in a Catch-22

Fed resources shoring up old infrastructure, holding back new technologies.

Federal agencies need to adopt new technologies like Big Data and cloud computing to remain competitive and efficient. But budget constraints hold agencies back. New IDG-Brocade survey shows how U.S. IT leaders can change the way they outfit their agencies' infrastructure.

Sponsor: Brocade

Data Visualization Made Easy

Visualizing analytics is critical to gaining fast insight from data. When sophisticated analyses can be performed quickly, even immediately, and results are presented in ways that showcase patterns and trends, even nontechnical users can begin to derive value from massive amounts of data.

Sponsor: SAS

Getting Ahead Managing VoIP and Videoconferencing

Can the move to UC be just another simple technology transition? End users expect these technologies to look, act and behave just as their non-IP predecessors. But for IT teams it brings very real, new requirements. Learn VoIP and video success strategies from Jim Frey, an Enterprise Management Associates analyst.

Sponsor: Network Instruments

What's Needed for Cloud Computing

Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

Sponsor: Riverbed

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

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

Software Management: Turning Chaos into Control

Managing software may seem more challenging than ever, but discipline and good tools can ease the burden. This paper will help you understand what types of software licensing options exist and how to use software assessment management to prepare for an audit.

Sponsor: CDW

Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics

Predictive analytics has the power to significantly improve the bottom line. From better targeting and risk assessment to streamlining operations and optimizing business decisions in all areas, predictive analytics is the next big step toward gaining a competitive edge.

Sponsor: SAS

Insights: Big Data, Bigger Opportunities - High-Performance Analytics at the Speed of Right

Whether your revenues are $1 million or $100 billion, knowing how to manage and analyze data is critical to success. This expert guide examines how organizations of all sizes have transformed their businesses with high-performance analytics (HPA); it quantifies HPA results, and makes the case for why 2012 is the year to leverage the power of HPA.

Sponsor: SAS

Bringing the Power to SAS to Hadoop

Hadoop handles big data - fast. As part of a big data strategy, it redefines what's possible when it comes to analyzing large volumes of both structured and unstructured data. Discover how SAS both simplifies and augments Hadoop to enable customers to combine world-class analytics with a strong distributed processing and commodity-based storage infrastructure.

Sponsor: SAS

Data Visualization: Making Big Data Approachable and Valuable

Big Data is here. Do you have an efficient way of quickly extracting valuable business data? Data must be approachable. A robust data visualization strategy can increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and foster better collaboration in the workforce. Boost business with Data Visualization and get faster ROI - and results.

Sponsor: SAS

A Unified Approach to Data Management

Information and data analytics are no longer just for forecasting. Learn how a unified data management strategy can help your business understand which issues are most important, what the drivers and objectives are, and which data is required for real-time decision-making that provides value and returns.

Sponsor: SAS

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