Cloud Computing

The Emergence of the Application Delivery 2.0 Era: The primary goal of this handbook is to help IT organizations plan for that transformation.

View this flash demo that shows the Assess stage of the management lifecycle and how our customers are able to discover and determine where opportunities exist for consolidation and rationalization across physical, virtual, mainframe, distributed and cloud environments.

Cloud computing is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations build, deploy and use applications, and it's raising expectations on how quickly and cost-effectively new IT functionality can be made available to the business.

The research surveyed CIOs, IT Directors and Heads of IT in the U.S., U.K., and Singapore from medium to large enterprises and the public sector. The findings reveal that respondents fully anticipate significant growth in outsourcing.

This paper describes the Symphony VPDC enterprise-grade infrastructure service that provides true high availability enterprise IT environments, supporting development to production, with automated provisioning of servers, network, storage, software and security.

The Web hosting market is evolving rapidly and converging with cloud system infrastructure services, creating new opportunities for cost savings and business agility. These services are all unique, and vendors must be chosen with care.

Savvis Symphony Dedicated and Open offer enterprises a compelling opportunity to reshape their hosting environment to a more scalable and cost-efficient operating model without sacrificing security or performance.

Savvis Symphony VPDC introduces one of the industry's first enterprise-grade Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) solutions with multi-tiered security and service profiles.

Virtualization presents a tremendous opportunity for IT organizations. Yet deployment involves major process and management complexities. This white paper outlines best-practice methodologies that help you tackle challenges brought on by virtualization. We also suggest key questions to ask when evaluating a consolidated management solution.

This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

Many products on the market today promise to measure and manage "end user experience" - but how can they if they are only testing from a central location? Download this whitepaper to learn how to see and solve user experience problems from their point of view. We'll show you to measure actual application traffic from the user perspective and other critical points in the network so you can pinpoint and understand where the issue is, either the end points or the path between them.

Abstract: Learn the essential considerations when evaluating network management tools and processes. We'll show you how most network management systems fail to deliver a complete picture of network and application performance.and that puts the organization at risk. Being aware of the potential shortcomings of an incomplete NMS is essential. In this whitepaper we'll cover three common shortcomings, the possible consequences, and we'll highlight six key capabilities to be aware of when evaluating your network management tools and processes in order to avoid these shortcomings and associated risks.

WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.

This Cloud Computing Trends Report provided insight into the expectations small, medium and large businesses have of cloud computing, their intended uses, reasons for adopting, and expected time-frames for implementing cloud-based solutions.

Siemon, a global leader in network cabling solutions and data center physical layer infrastructure, offers this new 66-page E-Book focused on guiding data center professionals and service providers through key infrastructure challenges.

If one of your servers went down today, would you know about it? Probably. But if an obscure service on a small server that is part of a much larger solution started transacting at a slower rate than normal, would you? Perhaps not. If that obscure service is responsible for a critical activity in your business, its slight reduction in performance might be a big deal that you need to know about!

Find out how private clouds deliver unprecedented flexibility and economies of scale by leveraging the speed of virtualization and preparing you to federate applications across internal or external IT resources. EMC Consulting can help you to quickly seize these benefits by deploying a private cloud strategy.

Make your IT environment Virtually Perfect.

Learn how email archiving has become a critical "best practice" for organizations of all types and how the cloud model can provide a more effective email management solution.

Read this white paper for a look at how and why the latest generation of in-the-cloud security really does deliver big dividends for your organization's network security posture.

Move protection to where the threats are managing web-borne threats is becoming a major headache for today's resource-strapped organizations.

By using a service based in the cloud, protection against threats is brought nearer to where those threats are located, making it easier and more effective to protect users against security threats such as malware.

This paper examines the realities of web threats and looks at the promise that cloud-based solutions bring for organisations in terms of providing a higher level of protection against the increasingly complex and sophisticated threats being seen today.

The web today is a prime vector for attack. Interrupting information flows, which are increasingly transmitted over the internet, has become the prime focus for today's financially motivated hackers.

The components required of an effective web security solution are many and varied, including a range of tools that guard against specific types of threats