IT Management

Why self-signed certificates are much costlier - and riskier - than working with a trusted security vendor

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Oracle has followed the trend of other major ISVs and terminated further software development for the Itanium platform.

A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware vSphere (4.1 & 5.0) Virtualization Performance.

Wide area network (WAN) optimization market leader, Riverbed, has introduced a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center.

The enormity of a consolidation effort in a global organization can be daunting, but the rewards are compelling. To get a step in the right direction, download this informative report from Forrester Consulting to find out how organizations are successfully consolidating their environments using advanced WAN optimization solutions along with an updated vocabulary and adjusted business approaches to drive greater business value from IT infrastructure.

This informative ESG Lab report examines the Riverbed® Steelhead EX + GraniteT appliance, which delivers a powerful combination of wide area network (WAN) optimization, a virtual services platform, and innovative block-storage optimization to help organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally, while ensuring the performance required in remote and branch offices. Download this informative report now to find out how edge-VSI can improve your IT infrastructure.

In this report, Taneja Group explores how Riverbed Technology has identified a critical challenge that limits IT performance in highly distributed customer environments: costly, complex, and hardware-heavy branch offices. The report profiles the new Steelhead EX + Granite appliance, combining a true "branch-office box" virtualized hardware platform with a first-of-its-kind block storage technology. Download now.

Riverbed Granite enables a new edge virtual server infrastructure (Edge-VSI) architectural approach that does for edge servers what virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) did for desktops.

Transcendent Technology for the Dynamic Data Center

Desktop virtualization is a top strategic business initiative for IT. While its value is understood, many IT managers are wondering, "How do I get started?"

Desktop virtualization helps organizations support business priorities that are crucial for growth. By freeing people to work in more places, on more devices, the organization can offer a more attractive work experience to recruit and retain the best candidates and empower them to do their best work.

The geographical dispersion of the modern workforce is demanding real-time collaboration through unified communication solutions such as Cisco®Unified Communications (including CiscoUnified Communications Manager and Cisco Jabber), Microsoft Lync (formerly Microsoft Office Communicator) and Citrix GoToMeeting with HDFaces. These solutions enhance productivity and effectiveness by allowing employees in different physical locations to communicate through face-to-face conversations over live video conferencing, audio chat and instant messaging.

Whether your organization is new to virtualization or you've been deploying it for years, the reality is that virtualization is a technology that should be a strategic part of your business, now and in the future.

What does it mean to "get virtualization right?" The answer lies in a set of deep, connected technological capabilities.

New business requirements are transforming the demands placed on IT. To operate effectively in today's fast-paced global environment, organizations need to be able to get work done anywhere, anytime, by any type of worker to achieve the best results. This is the context for the rise of workshifting-the practice of moving work to the most optimal location, time and resources.

This paper discusses various options that FlexCast provides to help meet the computing requirements of every user type and guide organizations.

Agility has become one of the most important objectives of IT departments and business executives worldwide. In this era of 24/7 connectivity, organizations must often respond to customer and employee needs immediately

Business agility be defined as a company's ability to respond to changes in business conditions quickly enough to benefit from them. To support business agility, IT managers generally want to be able to execute projects quickly and efficiently,

Server virtualization falls within the domain of IT operations but it can very much be a business matter with a measurable impact on the bottom line.

Today's organizations encompass a diverse range of users, from road warriors using laptops and mobile devices as well as power users working with demanding high-end applications, to task workers performing standard, relatively predictable processes. A one-size-fits-all approach to desktop virtualization cannot meet all the different requirements of these users.

Download this research report to find out how your security and IT colleagues view the world of advanced cyber threats and find out how you compare.

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This paper explores the business benefits that contractors can gain by adopting field workforce scheduling & optimization technologies.