Consulting Whitepapers and Ebooks
This sections provides whitepapers on Consulting that details on trends, analysis and latest happenings in the industry.
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Hybrid IT: Best of All WorldsToday'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. -
How to Sell Clients on Co-Managed IT ServicesOffering co-managed IT can be profitable, but is often difficult to sell clients on. The business owner is weary of adding IT costs and the IT Manager is worried about his job being outsourced. Learn how to educate each of them on your value and overcome these roadblocks in the sales process. -
Forrester: Navigate the Future of Identity and Access ManagementThis report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on building an identity and access management strategy for the extended enterprise. We designed this report to help you understand and navigate the major business and IT trends affecting identity and access management (IAM) during the next five years. IAM in 2012 has become a tool not just for security but also for business agility. Competitive challenges push businesses into the cloud and encourage mobile device use even without full-fledged access controls in place. -
Managed Network Services: The TCO PayoffThree out of four midsize businesses describe themselves as network dependent. While network-based business solutions can enhance productivity, market velocity and customer relationships, concerns about operating complexity, reliability and security challenge IT professionals at midsized companies. To gain the benefits of advanced networking and minimize the operating risks, companies are increasingly turning to managed network service solutions. The approach offers an all-in-one, easy solution for setting up, monitoring and operating network data, Internet and security services. ACG Research conducted two use cases that find managed network services pay off by delivering a superior total cost of ownership (TCO) than an internally staffed alternative. -
Forrester Report: Market Overview: Hosted Collaboration for Services ProvidersSixty-five percent of IT leaders Forrester recently surveyed said they are interested in or already using software-as-a-service (SaaS) for some portion of their collaboration technology portfolio. But many IT leaders – particularly those at very large organizations – are unsure whether standardized SaaS offerings from Google and Microsoft provide the flexibility they need. These concerns shouldn't prevent CIOs from moving collaboration tools off-premises. We find a burgeoning services sector that can deliver highly customized messaging, teaming, and real-time communication services for the enterprise. This report provides an overview of the market, giving CIOs a sense of the players, their capabilities, and their offerings.
Top White Papers
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Can You Really Support Business Continuity Requirements?
Intelligent N+X Redundancy, Placement Affinities, & Future Proofing in the Virtualized Data Center
Virtualization brought about the ability to simplify business continuity management in IT. Workload portability and data replication capabilities mean that physical infrastructure failures no longer need impact application services, and they can rapidly be recovered even in the event of complete site failure.
However, Enterprises and Service Providers face new challenges ensuring they have enough compute capacity in their virtualized data centers to support their business continuity requirements, while at the same time not over provisioning infrastructure capacity resulting in unnecessary capital expenditure.
Read this white paper for these three takeaways:
How to maintain N+X redundancy capacity requirements while not over-reserving
The challenges introduced by affinity rules, and how to manage them
How VMTurbo simulates "What-If" hypotheticals to plan for future scenarios – including full site failure – so that you can make the necessary capacity decisions to avoid them today
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Hands-On Teams: Computrace Protects the Laptops of the Intelligrated Mobile Workforce
The Intelligrated IT Department was concerned about potential laptop theft, and needed a solution that would allow them to track and secure laptops in the field. After researching available options, they chose Absolute Computrace.