cloud strategy

The buzz around the cloud is very real. It offers considerable business agility, cost efficiencies and service improvements to IT managers. What the buzz doesn’t tell you is that getting to the point where the cloud brings these benefits to your organization isn’t easy. So the real question becomes: What do you need to keep in mind when integrating cloud computing into an IT strategy?

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.

As business purposes have changed over the years, IT approaches and infrastructures have had to change in lock-step to serve them optimally. IT professionals are now combining the best of the centralized approach – via virtualization, federation, and clouds of all sorts – with the best of the decentralized model – via mobile and localized consumption and production. In this paper, Enterprise Strategy Group examines approaches to IT operational challenges and business requirements. Learn how HP Converged Storage’s comprehensive approach represents a logical evolution development in storage, delivering ease, flexibility and cost-efficiency all in one.

This white paper details the current challenges organizations face with respect to their evolving IT requirements, growing storage needs, and more extensive data protection requirements. It focuses on an expanding set of cloud-based storage offerings and the buying considerations of those who want to improve the data management metrics associated with data protection services such as backup and recovery. The paper also takes a closer look at the solutions offered by Riverbed Technology that allow organizations to integrate cloud-based storage withing solutions that address a growing set of data protection demands.

This paper examines various technologies and strategies that have traditionally been the basis for DR planning, as well as new methodologies that have arisen around the public cloud. For those situations where a cloud-based DR strategy makes sense, specific best practice recommendations and implementation steps are described.

Watch this webinar replay featuring 451 Research’s Principal Analyst, Carl Lehmann, and Iron Mountain’s Technology Director, Don Davis, as they discuss a range of Cloud and Data Center topics.

Windows 10, a mobile and cloud-ready operating system (OS), is poised to significantly impact on organizations' end user computing (EUC) strategy, with a unified platform for building apps and extending the organization's core processes to end users using any Windows 10-powered device. However, enterprise-wide execution of this business mobility vision comes with its own set of challenges. Read this whitepaper to learn how a unified endpoint management solution can enable organizations to fully capitalize on their mobility initiatives and IT departments to redefine themselves as true business enablers.

Windows 10, a mobile and cloud-ready operating system (OS), is poised to significantly impact on organizations' end user computing (EUC) strategy, with a unified platform for building apps and extending the organization's core processes to end users using any Windows 10-powered device. However, enterprise-wide execution of this business mobility vision comes with its own set of challenges. Read this whitepaper to learn how a unified endpoint management solution can enable organizations to fully capitalize on their mobility initiatives and IT departments to redefine themselves as true business enablers.

This white paper from Light Edge Solutions explores how the cloud is changing network strategy. The report also highlights LightEdge's own IT Core (vCore) network architecture that addresses some of today's biggest network challenges.

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.

Data that once lived in basements and backrooms is being moved to cloud-based servers and SaaS applications. Historically, data backup has always been a key component of any IT strategy – whether it was stored on floppy disks, duplicate servers, or in custom built applications. With this shift to the cloud, backup shouldn’t be taken out of the strategy; rather, it should be re-thought to be more adaptable and cost-effective –the same reason you moved to the cloud in the first place.

With the intelligent Business Platform (iBP) in the cloud from IBM, you can transform your enterprise to exploit the potential of cloud-based business transactions, improve the quality of your business processes and help realize significant cost savings.

Optimize your business processes in the cloud with a next generation BPM strategy — an intelligent Business Platform (iBP) that implements an on demand, “service as you need it” model.

The Disruptive Future of Digital Experience Clouds Topics Include: - IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS - Addressing concerns around cloud security, integration and customizability - Availability of cloud solutions in the major DX categories - The urgency for adopting cloud solutions

Topics Include: - IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS - Addressing concerns around cloud security, integration and customizability - Availability of cloud solutions in the major DX categories - The urgency for adopting cloud solutions

HCM suites enable core HR, payroll, talent, workforce management and HR service delivery processes. Application leaders in entities with over 1,000 workers and emerging global needs that are pursuing a cloud HCM strategy should use this research to help identify vendors for further evaluation.

HCM suites enable core HR, payroll, talent, workforce management and HR service delivery processes. Application leaders in entities with over 1,000 workers and emerging global needs that are pursuing a cloud HCM strategy should use this research to help identify vendors for further evaluation.

This PC Mall webinar addresses the types of cloud services available, provides real world examples of cloud services and defines the economic benefits of working with the cloud.

This report sponsored by HP + Intel outlines a strategy for getting the benefits of the cloud quickly. Learn about the solutions that can help you save time, improve storage efficiency and maintain a secure, available environment.

This Executive Brief is one of five installments in this series that will examine trends you need to include in your IT planning in 2012.

In the past, many analysts contended that the private cloud did not provide the efficiency one should demand. IBM zEnterprise changes that, using the concept of the heterogeneous cloud to enable a fit-for-purpose strategy that delivers real value.

This white paper from GigaOM Pro explains the factors to consider when developing a public-to-private cloud migration or hybrid strategy, some pitfalls to avoid and a case study. Get your complimentary 40-page report now.

In today's mobile, always-on, cloud-based business environment open is not a choice, it's a requirement. With openness comes access risk, does your organization have a strategy to identify, quantify and manage this risk? Learn more today!

In the race to become top dog in the IT industry, IT pros remain unsure of what cloud computing s and the benefits it can bring to their organization.

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. This paper will discuss the 21st Century IT landscape as it relates to the new integration, and argue that the need for a comprehensive integration strategy has never been more urgent.