Platform Framework Whitepapers and Ebooks
This sections provides whitepapers on Platform Framework that details on trends, analysis and latest happenings in the industry.
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IDC Technology Spotlight: Primary Flash Market Evolving to Next–Generation ArchitecturesDownload this IDC report to learn how your organization can benefit from new flash architecture built for the cloud era. The IDC report examines the evolving primary flash array market with a particular emphasis on how next generation flash–driven enterprise storage architectures will take performance, scalability and infrastructure density to the next level. -
2017 Thales Data Threat Report: Security Spending Decisions Leave Sensitive Data VulnerableOld Habits Die Hard: The report, which is in its fifth year, polled 1,100 senior IT security executives at large enterprises around the world and indicates an ongoing disconnect between the security solutions organizations spend money on and the ability of those solutions to protect sensitive data. While 30 percent of respondents classify their organizations as 'very vulnerable' or 'extremely vulnerable' to data attacks (and the number of breaches continues to rise) the two top spending priorities are network (62 percent) and endpoint (56 percent) protection solutions. Counterintuitively, spending on data-at-rest solutions (46 percent) comes last. -
The Business Value of Cloud Management Platforms: VMware vRealizeOver 85% of enterprises will commit to multicloud architectures by 2018. The flexibility of the cloud will allow these organizations to more fully support DevOps and gain critical business insights. In this Solution Brief, you can explore how IT leadership can utilize VMware vRealize Suite as a unified, full-function platform to manage cloud infrastructure and application provisioning, monitoring, capacity planning, analytics, and more. -
Measure, then Manage: IT Director's Experience of Instrumented IT over Three CompaniesThanks to the pervasive use of virtualization, hybrid cloud, and software–defined architectures — enterprise IT infrastructures are impossibly complex. Performance monitoring solutions are critical for enabling IT teams to identify key bottlenecks and emergent issues, for understanding which workloads are more demanding in terms of resource contention, and for cost effective capacity and resource planning. Read this IDC Customer Spotlight for a glimpse into real–world implementations and use of infrastructure performance management solutions within enterprise IT infrastructures for three large British organizations. -
SD-WAN: Aligning the Network with Digital Transformation, Cloud, and Customer EngagementDigital transformation is a growing, urgent imperative for organizations worldwide. Subsequently, network resources to support digital initiatives are coming under intense scrutiny. Increasingly, that focus concentrates on the wide area network (WAN), which provides essential connectivity and valuable network services for branch offices, remote sites, and mobile workers. This white paper from IDC examines how digital transformation and cloud computing have necessitated a significant reassessment of the WAN, and explores how SD-WAN can make the challenges of digital initiatives manageable on the enterprise network.
Top White Papers
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Quantifying ROI: The Business Case for IoT
Organizations today are under tremendous pressure to deliver a higher quality of products and services at lower costs, and to do so using existing resources. Any expenditure companies do make to help them achieve this goal is expected to deliver a measurable, hard-dollar ROI — and to deliver it quickly.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new opportunities for companies to enhance their products, gain business insights and differentiate their offerings. This whitepaper defines an ROI model for building a business case and tracking results related to IoT initiatives.
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Evolve Your Network as Your Business Digitally Transforms
The total number of ransomware samples grew by 127% in 2015. Find out how hybrid connectivity solutions help you stay ahead of the pace of change by keeping your network up and data secure. Evolve your network as your business digitally transforms. Level 3 offers solutions by helping enable your journey to the cloud with SD-Wan and 24/7 network management.