Design Architecture Whitepapers and Ebooks

Today's enterprise datacenter can be one of the most complex business environments with dozens (for smaller business), hundreds (for larger and midsize business), even thousands (for hyperscale businesses) of servers that must be managed and monitored. At this level, just managing the cords can be challenging — let alone keeping up with the growing need for more agility and scalability within the datacenter. Simply put, companies are aggressively looking for less complexity and more agility from their servers. Learn how Hyperconverged solutions can deliver simplicity in spades with plug-and-play setup and the ability to deploy workloads faster than traditional servers. Sponsored by Lenovo.

Over the past decade, IT has evolved at an unprecedented rate. Virtualization, in all its various forms and schools of thought, is in many ways the keystone enabling this evolution by introducing incredible efficiencies and economies of scale to the data center, and creating a platform for automation and workload mobility. Cloud technologies, virtualization's successor, take us to a new realm of possibilities. This report establishes a baseline understanding of the present and anticipated adoption of various cloud formats, and explores both the approaches and challenges organizations have faced in the endeavor.

Many companies today are struggling with ever-growing business challenges, from addressing complaints through social media to handling the exponential growth of information in this new digital economy. To stay competitive, companies are adopting in-memory computing and leveraging cloud technology to run analytics applications smarter, speed up business processes, and simplify data infrastructures. Watch this on-demand webinar to see how the SAP HANA Cloud Platform is helping companies like yours transform into a digital enterprise, and learn why in-memory should be core to any on-premise or cloud strategy. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.