Consulting Whitepapers and Ebooks

The Final Barrier to Cloud Adoption

Not long ago, the biggest concern when considering moving workloads to the cloud was security. Today, the main obstacle to cloud adoption is different but familiar: the pain of migrating data. But, migrating data doesn't have to be painful. Purpose-built tools enable efficient data migration without downtime or the risks for data loss. This eBook summarizes the major pain points for IT pros tasked with performing migrations, breaks down the flaws in traditional approaches, and illustrates how modern tools help businesses stay agile by making data migration painless.

Measure, then Manage: IT Director's Experience of Instrumented IT over Three Companies

Thanks 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.