Design Architecture Whitepapers and Ebooks

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Hybrid IT: Best of All Worlds
Today's fast and furious pace of business change is driving extreme demand for IT infrastructure agility. But even as the demand for agility must be met, so must the need for 100 percent availability. In Hybrid IT: Best of All Worlds, you'll learn why this situation is leading many IT decision-makers to re-evaluate and re-imagine their core infrastructure. And, as a result, they're outsourcing a growing proportion of it, utilizing a hybrid array of different approaches – such as data center colocation, managed services and cloud solutions. This allows decision-makers to focus more of their resources on delivering business applications – not managing the day-to-day operations of data centers. In the next five years, most organizations will make this transition to a hybrid mix of outsourced services. The right blend of services will shift as business priorities change, cloud computing matures and new technologies emerge. The progression will begin with colocation and ultimately end with a full migration to the cloud. Discover the strategies you need to know to begin your progression and fast-forward your business' agility, including how to: Mix and match services to business priorities Choose a hybrid IT provider Unlock infrastructure agility with hybrid IT Download Hybrid IT: The Best of All Worlds now, and learn how hybrid IT is the key to creating an agile infrastructure at your core.
Intelligent Compliance: Establishing Trust in the Datacenter
With the average cost of a data breach reaching $3.5 million, the pressure is intense to maintain the security and compliance of your data center. It only takes one breach and the cost to your organization can spiral out of control. In this white paper, you will discover how your organization may be at risk and how you can protect your data center from costly and highly visible breaches. Through the Intelligent Compliance process, you will learn how you can: Automate the discovery process for your infrastructure Continuously assess risk and compliance Proactively prevent problems from recurring Cost-effectively automate remediation, including exceptions Read the white paper today to take the stress out of security and compliance -- and put the trust back into your data center.
5 Key Components Of Standardized, Efficient Datacenters
Today's enterprise IT organizations require more flexible IT services, greater capacity, and faster service delivery. Meanwhile, system management is more complex and compliance and audit overhead is increasing. A standard operating environment can drastically increase IT efficiency and lower operational expenses. Watch this webinar and learn more about 5 transformative areas that can make IT operations more efficient: System standardization Architectural flexibility Automation of updates and maintenance Greater productivity Access and control Standardize your infrastructure and streamline your system management with Red Hat.
The Power & Payback of Unified Monitoring
Monitoring IT operations is made costly and inefficient due to the presence of multiple, complex monitoring solutions. These legacy systems have a silo view of the IT environment creating unnecessary complications when trying to resolve infrastructure and availability issues. While system administrators are attempting to resolve these problems the customers and their business are suffering. For hosting providers there is the threat that customers will walk to cloud outsourcers. There is therefore a need for a single solution that can provide timely support for new applications and technologies, to help reduce IT operational costs and complexity, and to put customer need at the center of operations. Download this informative white paper to find out more about these increasingly important issues and potential solutions to them.
Virtualization Best Practices Guide
Virtualization promises to boost efficiency and cut costs, making it an important element in your IT department's efforts to do more with less. Whether you're running applications on physical or virtual machines, you still need to stay vigilant to guard against the constant and growing hazard of malware and other cyberthreats that can put your business at risk. Kaspersky Lab security experts have created this practical guide to help you learn about: The benefits and perils of virtualization How to fold virtualization into your existing security policies The difference between agent-based and agentless security software Choosing and implementing the right virtualization security solution for your organization

Top White Papers

The 2015 Mobile Enterprise Application Survey: App Development, Adoption, and Security Benchmarks
Live Event Date: March 19, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. PT The 2015 Enterprise Mobile Application Survey asked 250 mobility professionals what their biggest mobile challenges are, how many employees they are equipping with mobile apps, and their methods for driving value with mobility. Join Dan Woods, Editor and CTO of CITO Research, and Alan Murray, SVP of Products at Apperian, as they break down the results of this survey and discuss how enterprises are using mobile application management and private app stores to increase the value and security of their mobile deployments. In this eSeminar you will learn: How your peers believe they will get the most out of enterprise mobile apps and which apps will transform today's enterprise" What IT leaders biggest mobile challenges are, and what they are trying to achieve from their mobility investments How organizations are building apps and measuring their effectiveness How you can use a mobile app lifecycle to overcome the security and adoption concerns associated with enterprise mobility today Register for this eSeminar today to benchmark yourself against your peers and learn how to move ahead by implementing a mobile application lifecycle. Featured Speakers: Dan Woods - Editor and CTO of CITO Research Mark Lorion - CMO, Apperian James Hilliard - Moderator, IT Business Edge Attend this live eSeminar and be automatically entered to win a new iPad Air! Official Rules for more details.
How Hybrid Flash Array Helps Businesses Do More With Less
Data integrity and ultra-high performance dictate the success and growth of many companies. One of these companies is BridgePay Network Solutions, a recently launched and rapidly growing financial services organization that allows merchants around the world to process millions of daily credit card transactions. Due to the nature of their business, their IT team needed to strike the perfect balance between meeting regulatory-mandated data security measures with the lowest possible levels of latency and response times. As their growth accelerated, BridgePay realized the need to immediately address infrastructure shortcomings and prepare for their future growth. Download the case study now and see how BridgePay built a competitive advantage and scaled transactions by 500% in the same storage footprint using some of the most advanced and differentiated technology available today.