architecture

Enterprise IT is changing. It’s evolving from a rigid, static, manually configured and managed architecture to one where connectivity is dynamic, application services are on demand, and processes are automated. Enterprise networking is evolving along with IT. This has been evident in the past several years in initiatives such as enterprise digitization and as-a-service consumption models, as well as their enablers, including BYOD, IoT and cloud. Add to this, all of the security implications of each initiative. The evolution of IT requires a network that evolves along with IT’s changing requirements – a network that continuously adapts to ever-changing security threats, and evolving digitization, mobility, IoT and cloud requirements.

Over the past several years, the IT industry has seen solid-state (or flash) technology evolve at a record pace. Early on, the high cost and relative newness of flash meant that it was mainly relegated to accelerating niche workloads. More recently, however, flash storage has “gone mainstream” thanks to maturing media technology. Lower media cost has resulted from memory innovations that have enabled greater density and new architectures such as 3D NAND. Simultaneously, flash vendors have refined how to exploit flash storage’s idiosyncrasies—for example, they can extend the flash media lifespan through data reduction and other technique

Today’s data centers are expected to deploy, manage, and report on different tiers of business applications, databases, virtual workloads, home directories, and file sharing simultaneously. They also need to co-locate multiple systems while sharing power and energy. This is true for large as well as small environments. The trend in modern IT is to consolidate as much as possible to minimize cost and maximize efficiency of data centers and branch offices. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is highly efficient, flash-optimized storage engineered for the true convergence of block, file, and object access to help consolidate diverse workloads efficiently. HPE 3PAR OS and converged controllers incorporate multiprotocol support into the heart of the system architecture

A new industrial revolution is barreling ahead, fueled by the Internet of Everything, social media, and cloud computing - bringing about fundamental changes in the way that we live and act. CIOs today are in a unique position to utilize technology to create business value and opportunity. This requires a careful balance of the traditional skills of the CIO, managing the data center infrastructure while driving business strategy and impacting the customer experience. The Dell EMC PowerEdge server systems are the CIO’s key tools in this transformation. They are the bedrock of the modern data center – providing scalable system architectures that ensures control of the IT lifecycle while delivering a cyber-resilient environment. Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

A new industrial revolution is barreling ahead, fueled by the Internet of Everything, social media, and cloud computing - bringing about fundamental changes in the way that we live and act. CIOs today are in a unique position to utilize technology to create business value and opportunity. This requires a careful balance of the traditional skills of the CIO, managing the data center infrastructure while driving business strategy and impacting the customer experience. The Dell EMC PowerEdge server powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor systems are the CIO’s key tools in this transformation. They are the bedrock of the modern data center – providing scalable system architectures that ensures control of the IT lifecycle while delivering a cyber-resilient environment. Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

This architecture comparison examines five essential criteria to consider when evaluating flash arrays. Find out the key design differences between the Dell EMC X2 and NetApp AFF flash storage systems and how they compare in terms of scalability, quality of service, application integration, future-proof architecture and cloud integration.

Not all flash storage architectures are created equal. Read this vendor comparison report and learn about the differences between solutions from NetApp® and Pure and how to find the best all-flash arrays to meet your business needs.

One of the most effective ways to address database performance and cost challenges is to modernize the underlying hardware infrastructure. Innovations such as flash storage, converged infrastructure architectures, and sophisticated data management platforms can have a major impact. Learn more in our free eBook: Optimizing Database Storage Performance For Dummies.

This paper is organized into sections describing the importance of IT infrastructure security and presents essential criteria IT leaders should use to identify end-to-end server security. 1. Trust and the Modern IT Infrastructure Why you should be concerned about server security (or the lack thereof). 2. End-to-end Server Security How Dell EMC defines end-to-end server security. In this section, we also provide crucial characteristics business and IT leaders can use to classify prospective server vendors. 3. Key Security Criteria for the Modern IT Infrastructure The security questions every IT leader should ask of their server vendor before embarking on an IT transformation. 4. Conclusion & Additional Resources The objective of this paper is to highlight the Dell EMC comprehensive approach to server security. PowerEdge servers come with security built-in, not bolted-on. Using a Cyber Resilient Architecture, Dell EMC commits to end-to-end server security on all PowerEdge servers.

The company’s recently unveiled HCI platform leverages SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out architecture and performance management capabilities to support enterprise environments. Will it help NetApp make up ground against its fast-growing rivals?

This Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution brief describes the key benefits of NetApp's next generation HCI solution including enterprise scale, efficient storage architecture, trustworthy data services, and IT operations transformation.

It seems like every day there’s another article about IoT, big data analytics, and cloud architectures—and their unlimited potential for companies trying to gain a competitive edge in this digital world. If your business is in the midst of a digital transformation (and chances are, it is), you’re probably already enjoying some the benefits of the public cloud: economies of scale, preconfigured solutions that can be spun up with a few clicks, utility billing, and more. What you may not have heard, however, is how the shared security model of the public cloud affects your security responsibilities —and how it can be used to your advantage in these multicloud environments.

A cloud contact center can offer many advantages in performance, scalability and security, compared to an on-premise contact center infrastructure. To maximize these advantages, it’s important to determine how best to leverage the cloud to meet your business’s specific needs.

Everyone says they’re “in the cloud,” but most technology leaders would agree that not all clouds are created equal. When evaluating a cloud contact center solution for your business, it’s important to understand the difference between a true Cloud 2.0 application and traditional software, including which features to look for and why those features are important. Download this eBook and learn: • How a true Cloud 2.0 model is built to provide levels of reliability, scalability, flexibility and security that far exceed those of previous generations • The benefits of utilizing a platform built on microservices architecture • How to take your business to the next level with a built to scale cloud contact center platform

LogMeIn offers consistently reliable service to its Bold360 customers and is vigilant in efforts to provide services that are not only robust and scalable, but also secure. This document describes how we achieve reliable scalability and the measures taken by LogMeIn to protect Bold360 customer data.

Most enterprise software systems rely on legacy architectures that can’t keep pace with the transactional and analytical demands of modern organizations. Workday applications, by contrast, are built using modern techniques and technologies that deliver a fast, highly insightful, contextual, and actionable experience. In this video, Petros Dermetzis, Workday executive vice president of development, provides a comprehensive overview of Workday’s innovative technologies. With a little history about the evolution of enterprise architectures thrown in, Dermetzis explains how Workday, by using object technology and in-memory technology, delivers applications that help organizations make smarter decisions based on real-time data.

This paper discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System's revolutionary built-in virtualization architecture provides a way to drastically reduce the costs of managing storage systems.

In this white paper, we describe the XIV snapshot architecture and explain its underlying advantages in terms of performance, ease of use, flexibility and reliability.

Speed and agility matter. Businesses are being disrupted every day by digital upstarts that find ways to address new market requirements before the more established companies can respond. Despite talented IT teams and years of head start in both architectural and development work, it is still difficult to respond to these challenges using traditional development patterns centered around monolithic software applications. It’s simply impossible to get to market quickly when applications need to be maintained, modified and scaled as a single entity by a large, heavily inter-dependent team. From this need has arisen the microservices paradigm: a set of patterns for software architecture, development, deployment and culture that focus on speed and agility. From small, independent services and teams to automated deployment to fault tolerance and resiliency, these patterns help accelerate time to market.

The rise of the application programming interface (API) represents a business opportunity and a technical challenge. For business leaders, APIs present the opportunity to open new revenue streams and maximize customer value. But enterprise architects are the ones charged with creating the APIs that make backend systems available for reuse in new Web and mobile apps. It is vital that all stakeholders understand that the business goals and technical challenges of an API program are intimately related. Program managers must take responsibility for clearly communicating the key business goals of a proposed API to the architects who will actually build the interface. This eBook outlines best practices for designing results-focused APIs that will form the cornerstone of your API program’s success.

CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) is the only solution that provides unified analytics to proactively resolve issues. The solution’s single platform architecture delivers comprehensive infrastructure coverage so you can optimally manage hybrid IT environments and meet the needs of agile IT operations.

CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) est la seule solution du marché capable de fournir des fonctions analytiques unifiées pour une résolution proactive des problèmes. Son architecture sous forme de plate-forme unique offre une couverture complète des infrastructures, afin que vous puissiez gérer de façon optimale les environnements IT hybrides et répondre aux besoins des équipes IT agiles.

La vitesse et l’agilité comptent. Les entreprises sont tous les jours concurrencées par de jeunes start-up numériques qui réussissent à répondre aux nouvelles demandes du marché avant les sociétés bien établies. Malgré des équipes informatiques talentueuses et plusieurs années d’avance dans les domaines de l’architecture et du développement, les approches traditionnelles de développement centrées sur des applications monolithiques ne permettent pas toujours de relever facilement ces défis. Il est tout simplement impossible de mettre rapidement sur le marché des applications qui doivent être maintenues, modifiées et mises à l’échelle sous la forme d’une entité unique par une équipe nombreuse et fortement interdépendante.

L’essor des interfaces de programmation d’applications (API) représente à la fois une opportunité commerciale et un défi technique. Pour les dirigeants d’entreprise, les API sont synonymes de nouvelles sources de revenu et d’optimisation de la valeur pour le client. Ce sont toutefois les architectes d’entreprise qui sont chargés de créer ces API permettant de réutiliser les systèmes back-end dans les nouvelles applications Web et mobiles. Il est crucial que tous les intervenants comprennent que les objectifs métier et les défis techniques d’un programme d’API sont intimement liés. Les responsables de programmes ont pour rôle de présenter clairement les objectifs commerciaux clés d’une API proposée aux architectes qui seront en charge de la conception de l’interface.

To support these principles, Anaplan was deliberately crafted as a highly distributed global company that allows for significant resiliency against threats and disasters. All functions within Anaplan are geographically distributed across the globe, reducing risks associated with regional events. The U.S. offices host most of the sales, marketing, and support activities. Staff in the U.K. and Singapore offices provide regional coverage, in addition to backup support.