cloud strategy

Don't miss this definitive reading for a better understanding of how cloud computing is changing the way Intel and its IT managers handle their own data centers.

In this video, experts from Gartner, Microsoft and Hostway provide trends, information and advice for evolving your cloud strategy beyond testing and development to database-intensive and mission-critical application storage.

Identity is a fundamental requirement to digital growth. Businesses and organizations cannot properly take advantage of mobile, cloud, or Internet of Things (IoT) technologies without a scalable and repeatable identity strategy. Without it, they have no way to identify and engage with their customers in a meaningful way — whether it be through a laptop, mobile phone, tablet, connected car, healthcare wearable, connected home device or the next great connected innovation. This guide is designed to help you understand the essentials of customer-focused identity and how it helps you engage with your customers.

Identity is a fundamental requirement to digital growth. Businesses and organizations cannot properly take advantage of mobile, cloud, or Internet of Things (IoT) technologies without a scalable and epeatable identity strategy. Without it, they have no way to identify and engage with their customers in a meaningful way — whether it be through a laptop, mobile phone, tablet, connected car, healthcare wearable, connected home device or the next great connected innovation. This guide is designed to help you understand the essentials of customer-focused identity and how it helps you engage with your customers.

This report will help CIOs, application architects, and IT decision-makers identify common patterns of implementation failures and successes and provide a framework for evaluating multi-cloud environments.

As cloud computing gains more traction, more businesses are beginning to align their security strategy to better manage the privacy and compliance challenges of this new deployment model. Indeed, cloud models are being used not only to add compute and storage resources, they are also becoming an imperative for data analytics and mobility. In this paper, we will look at how the growing adoption of cloud computing is changing the way organizations are implementing security.

Hybrid cloud infrastructures and mobility are changing the rules of the game for IT security professionals. Read this paper to understand the requirements to adopting a new monitoring strategy to quickly detect attacks across the infrastructure you control in your data center, as well as what you don't control in the dynamic cloud.

How do you successfully transition business continuity to the cloud? Read the white paper to learn how an end-to-end, scalable solution can help you plan and execute an enterprise-wide continuity and resiliency strategy. As a result, you will be able to help improve risk management, reduce costs, facilitate resilient service delivery and respond to changes more quickly..

Read this paper to gain valuable insight into prospective providers of online collaboration services.

"Is ‘Integration’ becoming a barrier to cloud adoption and preventing you from getting there fast? With Cloud adoption gaining momentum, the diversity as well as complexity of cloud integration use cases is on the rise. The right integration strategy is the single most important determinant of success. IBM’s leading cloud integration offering—IBM Cast Iron—is constantly evolving to address the changing cloud landscape. Cast Iron has been an integration platform of choice for enterprises of all sizes, across different industry verticals. Its simple configuration-based ‘no coding’ approach and extensive pre-built connectors and templates make it suitable for emerging bi-modal IT teams. Cast Iron supports the complete spectrum of Cloud Integration use cases—from data migration to bi-directional sync, from API centric invocation style to eventbased integrations. Join us to learn the newer platform features and enhancements and how IBM Cast Iron can help you embrace cloud, paving the way fo

Focusing on SaaS, this IDC report details considerations to help optimize your cloud security model to align with business requirements.

Focusing on SaaS, this IDC report details considerations to help optimize your cloud security model to align with business requirements.

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications. Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

A Critical Look at Key Technologies to Help Ensure that Your Cloud Investments Work For and Not Against You.

Organizations are increasingly adopting a hybrid cloud computing strategy to realize the benefits without compromising on security and control. Learn of the 3 categories of solutions focused on integrating data centers with cloud.

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Watch this webinar to find out how you can best protect your organization.

Many companies have yet to adopt the cloud as part of their IT strategy. Rackspace has put together a slide deck to help people pitch the merits of cloud computing inside their company.

Got cloud? If you’re an SMB, you’ve already been there, done that. But are you really extracting maximum value out of your cloud hosted solutions?

As the primary focus of IT moves from increasing IT productivity through virtualization and cloud computing to enhancing business productivity, the biggest challenge that businesses face in executing corporate strategy is focusing the right people and resources on strategic initiatives. A key element in enhancing business productivity is driving down costs, which can help free up the funds needed to make strategic investments. Businesses also need a means to more effectively orchestrate how IT interacts with business processes and critical application environments. The solution lies in using managed services. Read here to find out more on how companies gained significant and quantifiable benefits from using managed services.

Four technology trends—cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration and analytics—are shaping the business and converging on the data center. But few data center strategies are designed with the requisite flexibility, scalability or resiliency to meet the new demands. Read the white paper to learn how a good data center strategy can help you prepare for the rigors and unpredictability of emerging technologies. Find out how IBM’s predictive analytics are helping companies build more accurate, forward-looking data center strategies and how those strategies are leading to more agile, efficient and resilient infrastructures.

One of the biggest challenges facing companies is how to serve consumers in an environment where customer engagement is rapidly shifting. With the consumerization of customer service taking root, implementing a successful customer service experience strategy means enterprises need to be agile enough to serve customers on the their own terms across all channels.  This business guide shares best practices for how to do this successfully.

Beginning with a brief overview of private cloud computing and the evolution of on-premises private clouds, we will compare Cisco Metapod to options from VMware and the OpenStack community. We’ll also describe Cisco’s unique OpenStack as a Service (OaaS) operating model, and present Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses that compare Cisco Metapod to VMware vCloud Director and an OpenStack Do-It-Yourself (DIY) strategy.

Identifying a shortcoming and labeling it a “failure” might be a bit of hyperbole, but it still leaves enterprises wondering if there is a place for private cloud in their strategy. This paper will attempt to answer this question, and will focus on the role of OpenStack in particular as a private cloud solution.

Public cloud adoption has been more of a grassroots affair, with individual developers or small teams identifying a requirement and using a credit card to rent the resources they think they need.