Cloud Computing

This paper summarizes and evaluates the prevalence and efficacy of data center virtualization deployments, as well as the hardware that supports them. The conclusions drawn from this report are based on analysis of both quantitative market research and two qualitative interviews with a CIO and CTO in healthcare and finance, respectively. Each customer, referred to ESG by Hewlett-Packard (HP), had extensive experience deploying both server and desktop virtualization. The goal of the study was to determine the IT and business drivers to adoption of virtual technologies, the expected and realized benefits, ensuing infrastructure decisions,future outlook of the data center, and best practices for deployment.

Selecting the optimal wide area networking service to meet your diverse needs has been challenging given the many choices. However, over the past several years, business Ethernet services have emerged as the optimal choice to best address many applications.

Read this white paper to separate the technology and business potential from the marketing fluff. Get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization.

This strategy lets you leverage your existing virtualization investments in order to quickly and cost-effectively reap the full benefits of the cloud.

In this paper, we explore these concepts and highlight the critical features necessary to move beyond server virtualization by leveraging key integration capabilities between IT components.

If you find yourself in need of a WAN optimization solution you’ll want to download this report to understand what’s new in the WAN optimization market, what vendors are the key players, and which products are most appropriate for your needs.

Silver Peak Systems' new Agility technology initiative gives application owners easy control with point-and-click virtual workload acceleration thanks to tight integration with VMware vCenter and other virtual infrastructure management consoles.

Hyperconvergence is defined as the state of a network that follows the adoption of modern computing initiatives. Now organizations can embrace each and every modern computing initiative with confidence, and build a hyperconverged enterprise network into strategic corporate asset by implementing WAN optimization best practices. Download this webcast and learn how.

This IDC paper “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures” indicates the considerable cost savings and the improved agility of the IT infrastructure by migrating to an HP BladeSystem environment. In fact, HP BladeSystem cut data costs by 68%. Customers participating in this study were able to pay back their initial investment in just over 7 months, a significant factor given the financial constraints most IT organizations are facing.

Uncover the impact modern business demands are having on corporate networks today and learn what you must do to ensure your network performs the way you need it to for business success.

Learn more how HP Converged Cloud can allow you to implement cloud in the way that’s right for your enterprise, to support the need to speed innovation, enhance agility, and improve financial management, so you can gain access to the right IT services, from the right places, at the right time, at the right cost.

The pace of innovation in the virtual world continues to accelerate, opening new virtual dimensions and strategies for multi-tier hypervisors.

As a network manager, application manager or security manager, you need systems that can collect data across your WAN, continuously analyze the data to discover problems, and troubleshoot issues as soon as they occur. Riverbed Cascade has fundamentally changed the economics of network performance management. Learn more.

Enterprises are rapidly adopting virtualization for dynamic service delivery and service management agility. IT challenges already exist in virtual environments and will only be exacerbated with the higher adoption of virtualization. The ability to proactively monitor traffic within these environments is critical for enabling predictable and reliable delivery of applications and for troubleshooting diverse IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more.

This guide includes a demonstration on how you can accelerate troubleshooting, gain end-to-end visibility, and solve intermittent performance problems without having to recreate them; a detailed case study that shows how a large-scale federal government and defense consultant solved a months-long problem in just 15 minutes; and an on-demand webinar that introduces you to Cascade Shark and Cascade Pilot.

This whitepaper discovers how by implementing cloud computing across 6 fundamental workloads can transfer the way whole groups employees do their jobs, enabling them to speed new development and uncover new sources of revenue.

Download this paper to learn best practices for Blade environments from Jed Scaramella, research manager of IDC's Services program on behalf of HP's customers.

Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data center into an innovation center.

According to a 2012 CSO survey, 68% of enterprises are wary of data security in the cloud. Learn how moving to a Cisco private cloud can make you more agile, help mitigate data security risks, and reduce enterprise costs up to 40%.

Private clouds create IT challenges that can limit increases in production, even hinder agility. Find out why enabling self-service and automated end-to-end provisioning with Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud may be the solution.

The rise of cloud models brings with it new infrastructure, applications, access policies, and traffic patterns. Learn how networks must adapt to keep up with the demands of the cloud, and find out how Cisco is leading the charge.

Break free of data center constraints. Provide IT service and cloud computing that’s more agile and efficient. Learn why Cisco’s unified architecture and cost-efficient design uniquely positions you to deliver the advantages of a private cloud.

This strategy lets you leverage your existing virtualization investments in order to quickly and cost-effectively reap the full benefits of the cloud.

Ready to move to a private cloud? Starting with a look at infrastructure and virtualization through process and governance, learn the Cisco Domain TenSM —the ten essential domains you need to know to get started with this journey.

Read this whitepaper to better understand a migration to the cloud, how to get started, and what the next steps are for your organization.