Cloud Computing

In this new white paper from Digital Realty Trust you'll see why virtualization software is actually a powerful complementary tool that can increase the efficiency of your existing and future data centers.

In this report, we will take a look at the IT-related activities from the ITPro and AnalystPerspectives collections, as well as the most popular IT and business search terms.

This white paper demonstrates how companies that have moved their SQL databases to the cloud have overcome past performance and security concerns to increase operational efficiency, improve availability and scalability, reduce costs, gain a faster-time to-market, and achieve a better return on investment.

Botnets are based on similar principles as legitimate clouds, but serve malicious business interests. Find out more about how botnets work and the right steps after having detected infected machines within your own network.

Join us live starting at 7 a.m. EST on Jan. 26, 2011. The event will be on-demand worldwide the months following. The Red Hat Virtual Experience is a complimentary global online forum of Red Hat experts, partners, customers, and the open source community.

An Expert Discussion on IT Bottleneck to IT-as-a-Service.

How today's CIOs deliver strategic IT. In a two-hour, roundtable discussion, they shared their experiences and pooled their thoughts on modern best practice for delivering IT services.

Layered Tech's engineers created a customized package of virtual private data centers (VPDCs), managed services and disaster recovery solutions that support KANA's clients, large and small. Layered Tech tailored the architecture to meet the highest enterprise security requirements, as well as ensuring that each KANA client can deploy applications that scale to ongoing volume fluctuations.

Now you can have easy SaaS-based Discovery and Reporting on all Physical and Virtual Systems, Security Update Status and Assets in Minutes.

This whitepaper will provide an overview of cloud computing, identify some challenges and considerations for using the cloud, and will look at how best to manage a combination of physical and virtual systems throughout your infrastructure in order to support your business objectives.

This paper focuses on the challenges of integrating Salesforce.com logins for single sign-on (SSO) and automating provisioning/de-provisioning from on-premise directories like Active Directory.

Learn best practices for optimizing critical systems for cloud deployment in existing facilities, including optimizing power architectures for high availability.

Reducing the Time, Cost and Risk of System Provisioning and Maintenance

Find out why the Council believes that organizations that actively shape their cloud deployment strategies and extend strong information governance practices into the cloud will maximize their ability to leverage information for business advantage.

Available on-Demand(recorded on December 9, 2010): Join us for the first of a three-part Webcast series on building your future-ready IT today.

Read this white paper and learn how VMware is helping companies boost the value of server virtualization.

This whitepaper takes a detailed look at the ins and outs of converting from Lotus Notes to Google Apps.

Learn about its benefits-and potential pitfalls-and why so many of today's leading companies already embrace this emerging technology. Download this enlightening white paper from Google today.

Download the independent research report comparing the costs of email from Google and other providers.

This paper will explain the ways Google creates a security-based platform for offering its Google Apps products, covering topics like information security, physical security and operational security.

There's a smarter, secure, collaborative way to work. Cloud-based messaging and collaboration apps help businesses increase productivity while simplifying IT and reducing costs.

This white paper, sponsored by Google, discusses the critical and growing requirements for better email security and email archiving, and it illustrates the benefits of the cloud approach to manage both.

This report documents hands-­-on testing of server virtualization technology from Citrix with a focus on manageability, consolidation, and cost effectiveness.

This approach allowed Forrester to realize the broad impact Google Apps is having on IT and end user organizations and to supplement this data with an understanding of the underlying factors driving firms to move to a cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform.

To evaluate the possible cost savings a federal agency might expect from migrating to the cloud, in this study Darrell M. West (Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution) review past studies, undertake case studies of government agencies that have made the move, and discuss the future of cloud computing.