Private Cloud White Papers

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

Five Myths of Cloud Computing

In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as any topic in IT. Its front-page news status has been accelerated by Amazon, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, and Microsoft®, among other firms, aggressively vying for leadership in providing cloud infrastructure or services. However, this race for mindshare has obscured cloud computing facts. Many admit to the haze surrounding cloud computing.

This white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations? HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing.

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®

Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds

Consolidation can be achieved through server, operating system, and database consolidation, and the higher the consolidation density achieved, the greater the return on investment (ROI). This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models.

Sponsor: Oracle