Cloud Computing White Papers

The Total Economic Impact of Mimecast's Unified Email Management (UEM) Solution

For many organizations, email's role is business- or mission- critical, but spiraling costs caused by email requirements are leading these organizations to re-evaluate their IT architectures. A variety of external business and technical pressures are triggering a ripple effect in the costs associated with email back up, archiving, eDiscovery, security, high availability, and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
This research provides a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of unifying your email management in the cloud.

Sponsor: Mimecast North America Inc

The Total Cost of Email

The vital demands for enhanced archiving, security and continuity in your email environment can quickly escalate the costs of your in-house email management strategy. In this white paper, we'll explore the true costs of fragmented email management and uncover how to reduce those costs with a cloud-based solution for email management.

Use this resource to help you calculate the TCO of your email environment and determine the advantages cloud services could provide to you.

Sponsor: Mimecast North America Inc

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

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 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

Cloud Impacts and Outcomes for Business Leaders

Dell sees the need to go beyond infrastructure, or debates over cloud definitions, and get back to the basics of business. Discover ten ways cloud will change your business forever.

Sponsor: Dell Inc.

Wanted: A Trusted Provider for Public Cloud Services

IDG Research surveyed 100 IT executives at companies with more than 1,000 employees to get their take on public cloud services. Learn how Dell's cloud strategy, built on the highest level of VMware integration and security, is enabling enterprises to get out of the data center business by leveraging Dell as a trusted cloud service provider.

Sponsor: Dell Inc.

Getting the Most Out of Your Next-Generation Firewall

Get the most out of your next-generation firewall. Learn how to maintain regulatory compliance, enhance network visibility and control, accelerate business innovation, and proactively protect against new and emerging threats

Sponsor: Cisco Systems

Annual Security Report

Expanding connectivity from any device to many clouds is changing the threat landscape and exposing network vulnerabilities. Delve into the security threats and challenges of 2013 with analysis from Cisco global threat intelligence.

Sponsor: Cisco Systems

Security without Compromise White Paper

Context-aware, adaptive security is essential for guarding against advanced threats in the world of mobility, cloud, and collaboration. Learn how Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls can help protect your organization.

Sponsor: Cisco Systems

Private Cloud with an Efficient Storage Foundation

How can you make sure that your private cloud is agile, responsive, and efficient? NetApp offers private cloud technology that aligns with the following recommendations from Enterprise Strategy Group

Sponsor: NetApp

ESG Whitepaper FlexPod Your Gateway to the Private Cloud

A private cloud needs to be built on a rock-solid data foundation. Learn why FlexPod is the solution of choice to enable an efficient and easily-managed cloud infrastructure.

Sponsor: NetApp

Private Cloud - More than Just Virtualization

What is your plan to move your organization beyond virtualization? Learn more about how developing a cloud strategy can help you achieve the business agility you need to:
* Accelerate time to market
* Manage scalability to meet dynamic workloads
* Manage scalability to meet dynamic workloads

Sponsor: NetApp

The Power of Cloud: Driving Business Model Innovation

Companies worldwide are beginning to recognize cloud's capabilities to generate new business models and promote sustainable competitive advantage. To manage and respond to these market pressures, IBM offers a comprehensive suite of system and software solutions that can help you scale your IT investments as your business grows. Read the white paper to understand all the benefits of IBM SmartCloud™.

Sponsor: IBM

Riverbed vs Silver Peak: WAN Optimization Vendors Put to the Test

Enterprises are relying on WANs to carry more data than ever. With cloud computing, offsite disaster recovery and big data on the rise, it's more important than ever for IT professionals to boost application performance across the WAN. However, times are changing. Instead of deploying a physical WAN optimization appliance to improve application performance, the industry is moving to a better approach - virtual WAN acceleration software. It can be downloaded in minutes, runs almost anywhere, and controlled with the click of a mouse for maximum flexibility. In this report we not only explore the requirements for virtual WAN optimization but compare how Silver Peak's virtual WAN acceleration stacks up against Riverbed's physical Steelhead appliance.

Sponsor: Silver Peak Systems

Rapid Virtualization Deployment for Private Clouds

Effective private cloud deployment requires a virtualized environment that facilitates easy management of workloads, efficient creation and migration of virtual machines, and rapid delivery of services. Dell vStart infrastructure offers a pre-built, pre-integrated, wired, and ready-to-deploy infrastructure designed to be up and running quickly.

Sponsor: Dell Inc.

Optimizing the Storage Infrastructure for the Private Cloud and Beyond

As organizations migrate Tier-1 applications to virtual environments, it becomes essential to implement a storage platform that tightly integrates with virtual servers to deliver the performance, scalability and reliability needed to support virtualization of mission critical applications. Discover how Dell and VMware have teamed to provide the infrastructure required to protect data, streamline management and control costs in a private cloud environment.

Sponsor: Dell Inc.

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