Infrastructure

By moving infrastructure to cloud IaaS providers, savvy organizations are jump-starting these efforts while maximizing their investments in infrastructure, security and IT personnel. Here's what you need to know in order to get started.

Learn why energy efficiency for UPS equipment is so important, what can influence energy UPS efficiency and how it can directly impact energy costs.

This whitepaper provides insight, best practices, and recommendations for monitoring the end user experience within Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI).

This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps one should take for a successful implementation.

This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps you should take for a successful implementation.

This paper discusses the radical change in datacenter and IT processes brought about by virtualization and by the inception of a cloud or service led model for delivery of IT resources. Perceived risks and organizational hurdles are analyzed, and guidance is given for organizations as they move to the cloud.

The road map outlines a set of evolving objectives, challenges, required competencies, and success measures needed to transform IT from a cost center to a strategic value driver. It is designed to address key success factors at the executive sponsorship level and at the infrastructure level.

Virtualization is the essential catalyst for enabling the transition to cloud computing. VMware, the fastest growing enterprise software company and virtualization industry leader, builds on virtualization to deliver cloud infrastructure and management solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity.

By enabling services for controlling access to the infrastructure and monitoring for activity, management decisions can be made to improve data center services.

Deciding on colocation and trying to select a provider? Download the guide to learn about driving factors, benefits, assessment considerations and more.

Companies who have implemented solid state disks make better use of server infrastructure, support concurrent user loads and improve user satisfaction

Migrating apps to more contemporary platforms is a proven modernization strategy that reduces costs and makes IT more agile in supporting business.

The cost savings delivered by enterprise application migration can fund business transformation projects without a net increase in IT spend.

This whitepaper addresses how government agencies can overcome the three principal barriers to consolidation: constrained WAN bandwidth, TCP throughput drop-off with latency, and the effect of latency on application chattiness.

Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.

In this white paper Quest's data protection experts offer five tips for effective backup and recovery to help you avoid the challenges that might keep you from fully protecting your virtual assets and infrastructure.

This EMA White Paper examines in more detail the building blocks for private cloud computing - automation, virtualization, and cloud service management - and provides EMA's recommendations for a phased approach to cloud computing, based on EMA's maturity model, research data, and enterprise activities, with prescriptive approach and some sample use cases to help get started.

Read this white paper to learn how IT organizations can implement an effective Service Catalog that will enable them to reap the full benefits of self-service in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

Learn how CloudForms fully delivers on your requirements to increase business agility, efficiency, innovation, and simplified IT management.

The Red Hat Cloud Quickstart consulting engagement leverages Red Hat's Cloud Foundations Reference Architecture Edition One to speed up assessing the viability of a cloud environment for your enterprise, and, if chosen, it can demonstrate a tangible implementation of a private cloud for testing purposes.

Organizations around the world are benefiting from public clouds. But, when production applications or critical data is involved, it's important to extend on-premise governance to your public or hybrid cloud resources. Effective cloud governance is possible.

Virtualization and cloud computing are sometimes discussed interchangeably. But gaining the full benefits of cloud computing requires approaches and processes that often aren't in place where ad hoc virtualization is the norm. Join us and learn how to make a smooth transition.

HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time.

This IDC research with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices shows that well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%.

HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time.