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It's All in the Planning: Ensuring a Successful Cloud Deployment

Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved rapidly from fringe curiosity to the mainstream. As enterprises increasingly move mission-critical workloads to the cloud, it's important to track best practices to ensure a seamless migration process. While CIOs are becoming increasingly mature and pragmatic in their approach to cloud, surprises and challenges still need to be addressed. Read this eBook to learn the key best practices for cloud deployment success, the importance of SLAs in choosing a cloud provider, and the seven reasons why your cloud deployment may not go as planned.

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.