Cloud Computing

The deployment of a converged FlexPod infrastructure is already exceeding expectations and facilitating the nonprofit’s ambitious fundraising goals.

This white paper will explain the benefits of CI, the reasons for considering such a platform and compare available architectures. It will also examine the most popular CI solutions and their advantages.

Bank of Ireland is a leading retail and commercial bank. Snow has helped Bank of Ireland streamline and optimize its software licensing.

The fundamentals of security and management of software have not changed. But the new computing environment – mobile devices, cloud computing and virtualization – requires new approaches to familiar challenges. What’s more, software publishers are bringing a new energy to their own vigilance. A capricious economy has many of them stepping up the number of customer audits. As organizations deal with these software licensing challenges, they also face increasingly sophisticated security threats that continuously morph, just a step ahead of remedies to stop them. Organizations need a comprehensive approach to security and software asset management. This white paper will examine the interconnection between SAM and security, offering practical advice on how enterprises can protect themselves and where to go for support.

All organizations require software systems to conduct daily operations. These strategic enterprise assets are often acquired or created in isolation of each other as an organization grows, particularly for those that provide services rather than physical products. Over time, these systems become complex, overlapping and highly dependent on one another, so more effort must be expended to discover the full effects of any system change. The ability of an entity to update, replace or improve the overall capabilities of the enterprise can become severely impaired. Moreover, support and administrative costs for these critical assets inevitably grow to be a major burden. Add to all this the need to control licensing, follow the organization’s policies and ensure security for the internal network, and it becomes clear that some manner of oversight is required for the enterprise to be successful.

Software asset management (SAM) solutions promise to fix all that. They present a set of tools, practices and processes that take the uncertainty out of software licensing and enable organizations to fully optimize software inventories.

Hear from real-world IT professionals about their experiences using Backup ExecT 2012.

Great new features like VMware and Hyper-V backup, bare-metal disaster recovery and "no-hardware disaster recovery" all help conveniently keep your backups easily accessible and secure.

See what happens if you neglect to protect your mission-critical applications and data, and learn what you can do to mitigate disaster.

See how The Cardian and Vascular Institute of Gainesville developed a reliable IT solution and developed a reliable and scalable data center.

Read how chief information security officers (CISOs) view the state of mobile computing. This whitepaper discusses the importance of mobile enablement, policy updates, pertinent security practices and what organizations have done to secure their business mobility.

With daily reports of network breaches on the way up, now is the time to double down on solid network protection. This whitepaper documents the evolution of data and identity theft and the strategic security approaches companies are taking to stay ahead of the curve.

Following the sale of a company division housing its corporate data center, Source Interlink had to relocate core IT operations. Teaming with CDW, they were able to not only relocate, but lower capital and operating costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and increase efficiency.

There's a reason why the buzz around cloud computing never seems to die down. Concrete results are replacing the initial hype. Many organizations are taking advantage of private clouds which come with the accessibility of a public cloud and the security of a local server.

In today's competitive business landscape, users' needs are continuously changing. Employees want access to their data and applications anytime, anywhere, from any device. The journey to seamlessly integrate data and applications across all devices begins with desktop modernization.

Your business counts on you for reliable, secure, responsive IT services. It's a nonstop job, with no time off to figure out complex new technologies or wrestle with software solutions designed for larger firms. Virtualization is the way to simplify your IT without unnecessary complexity or cost.

As with many enterprises today, your data center houses critical IT components that your business depends on. But are they fully secure and protected from potential threats such as intruders or natural disasters? A data recovery plan is very important to be fully prepared in the event of a disaster.

Leveraging the cloud to bring cost effectiveness and efficiency to an organisation must always be coupled with advanced security measures. Learn how Centrify, through its wide range of products, is able to provide firms both basic and advanced identity access management solutions - making fully integrated security possible.

As software continues to ‘eat the world’ in today’s app economy, companies need to adapt to changing business models, globalization, and increasing regulatory compliance. Under pressure to support strategic business objectives, IT is rapidly embracing cloud technologies. Cloud adoption has steadily gained acceptance because it promises to help you achieve your business goals faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively. Cisco Metapod™ is an excellent solution to some of your organization’s biggest business and technology challenges. This infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offer delivers a reliable and programmable infrastructure for your application development and operation teams while providing a public cloud experience behind your firewall, on your premises, and with full remote management.

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.

In the time it took to download and open this eBook, you could have spun up and configured hundreds of virtual machines in a public or private cloud, deployed your application, database, middleware, messaging, load balancers, storage, and other components to those configured servers, linked them all together, and had your app live in production - all with a single click. This isn't the future we're describing, it's right now, and thousands of development teams around the world are doing it. At a high level, we;re describing automation that cloud and API's enable, and at a low level, we're describing the outcome of adopting a DevOps mentality and the associated tooks. This eBook will look at the basics of DevOps, automation and configuration management to get you started down the right path.

Not long ago Gartner released an oft-quoted statistic: 95% of private clouds fail. According to Tom Bittman, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, of 140 customers polled, 95% reported “something was wrong” with their private cloud. Identifying a shortcoming and labeling it a “failure” might be a bit of hyperbole, but it still leaves enterprises wondering if there is a place for private cloud in their strategy. This paper will attempt to answer this question, and will focus on the role of OpenStack in particular as a private cloud solution.

Symantec Delivering on Its Strategic Vision with Next-Generation Secure Datacenter Powered by Cisco ACI

View this infographic to learn how Cisco's ACI can produce benefits throughout your company, from fully automating IT and standardizing policy to reducing costs across your departments.

Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) seeks to address the datacenter operator's need for automated provisioning, programmatic management, and comprehensive orchestration.