Organizations of all types are attracted by the promises of private cloud computing, but few actually have the virtual maturity to be successful. This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud.
If you are like most companies, you have been adding servers, storage, and networking devices to keep pace with your business demands. You could be spending upwards of 70 percent of your IT budget on operations and maintenance, which means you are spending 30 percent or less on innovation that is critical to growing your business. You don't have to be captive to unmanageable IT sprawl. Solutions are available today to help you realign traditional technology silos into virtual pools shared by any application and flexible enough to change as business needs evolve. HP CloudSystem Matrix offers a self-service infrastructure portal for auto-provisioning and built-in lifecycle management to optimize infrastructure, monitor applications, and increase uptime for your cloud and traditional IT.
This solution brief will help you understand the benefits of the HP CloudSystem Matrix which provides a unified solution for physical and virtual environments that's perfectly suited as an IT consolidation platform.
vSphere 5, the next version in the ESX and ESXi and vCenter family of products builds on the strengths of Version 4. First, you will get an overview of vSphere 4; then you will be introduced to five new features of vSphere 5.
Whenever the new version of a popular application is released, it receives a lot of attention. SharePoint Server 2010 (SPS 2010) is no exception. Because its deployment affects so many areas of an organization, its new features and requirements should get careful consideration. SPS is definitely not just a new face on an old product, its predecessor Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).
Barely a month goes by without a big data protection story in the media. But where is the real threat and what can you do to protect your business? How do you protect data 'at rest' and data 'in transit'? If encryption is so important, why isn't everyone using it? Is there a simpler, more efficient way to encrypt your data? This white paper aims to answer these questions.
Growing litigation and compliance demands have only compounded data retention and retrieval problems, leading to new cloud-based archiving options that better manage costs while transferring risk and complexity. Cloud-based archives offer the cost savings, ease of use, and scalability of the cloud coupled with best-of-breed security from a trusted provider for defensibly handling high-risk enterprise data.
Yet, they continue to place a few essential applications locally because of performance, survivability, or compliance requirements. By making use of server virtualization, these lean branch offices can increase utilization of local infrastructure, reduce application downtime and recovery time, and shorten the time needed to deploy local applications while lowering infrastructure and operating costs.
Server virtualization is an ever more important tool for reducing cost, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility. But for many organizations, the savings that come from server consolidation are the primary reason for server virtualization.
Given that almost all crucial and sensitive data is being stored by management via internal hard drives, it quickly becomes apparent that sudden data loss can cripple a company's short-term progress and long-term success. This guide provides basic insights to the benefits of backing up your data and help you learn what you can do to protect you businesses information as well as several no-obligation price quotes from pre-screened and industry-certified Data Storage Remote Backup companies.
This document is intended to provide a comprehensive and balanced examination of SharePoint storage concepts and issues, and to equip you to fully understand, communicate and make informed decisions about the role of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.