WHITE PAPER - Looking to implement a hybrid management strategy for your cloud, virtualized and physical business services? This white paper discusses the five key capabilities that IT professionals must have in order to effectively operate and manage hybrid environments. In addition, learn about common fatal mistakes and how to avoid making them.
Posted: January 23, 2012 | Published: January 23, 2012


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Applications Management | Business Service Management | Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Hybrid clouds | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains how government IT can enjoy cloud capabilities while keeping existing IT investments and avoiding vendor lock-in. Explore how open source and application portability in the cloud and the relationships between technology providers are critical to building a successful cloud strategy.
Posted: January 23, 2012 | Published: January 5, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Government Agencies (U.S.) | Hybrid clouds | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Open Source | Private Cloud | Security

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains how cloud computing can help expedite application delivery and increase time to value. Discover key steps for proper cloud planning and and deployment and learn how to incorporate this technology into your existing IT environment.
Posted: January 17, 2012 | Published: January 16, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Hybrid clouds | Private Cloud | Private cloud computing | Public Cloud | Public cloud computing

WHITE PAPER - The cloud is meant to be easy. So why do so many vendors offer do-it-yourself style hosting solutions with support and architecture completely unsuited to the complexities of an SAP environment? Read this paper to discover an alternative that delivers the services and support necessary to simplify your move to the cloud.
Posted: January 13, 2012 | Published: January 13, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Hosting Services | Hybrid clouds | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Infrastructure Services | Private Cloud | Public Cloud | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper discusses recommendations for embarking on a fact-based approach for selecting servers for hosting modern applications based on workload attributes. In addition, learn about hybrid cloud computing, a technology aimed at addressing the various challenges encountered in scaled out distributed computing implementations.
Posted: January 12, 2012 | Published: January 12, 2012


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Server Hardware | Application Server Software | Cloud Computing | Distributed Computing | Hybrid clouds | System z

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses hybrid computing, an approach that aims to support the heterogeneous nature of modern computing environments in a simplified way. Learn how this technology supports existing and new applications with less complexity, better performance and at a lower cost.
Posted: January 12, 2012 | Published: January 12, 2012


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Enterprise Computing | Hybrid clouds

WHITE PAPER - In this exclusive resource, read common questions on private, public, and "hybrid" cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems posed by Sage Software customers to IDC's research director Scott Guinn.
Posted: January 11, 2012 | Published: January 11, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | ERP | ERP Software | Hybrid clouds | Private Cloud | Private cloud computing | Public Cloud | Systems Integration

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - This Advanced Networking Workshop explores the next generation data center with two videos and an expert E-Guide.
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Premiered: January 4, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Hybrid clouds | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Platform as a service | Private Cloud | Private cloud computing | Software as a Service | Virtual Machine | VLAN | VM

WHITE PAPER - Access this whitepaper for an introduction to cloud computing for service providers and large enterprises.
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Published: January 6, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Hybrid clouds | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Network Management | Platform as a service | Private Cloud | Private cloud computing | Public Cloud | Public cloud computing | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - Access this whitepaper to find out how the cloud can cut Capital Expenses and Operating expenses for any company that deploys a lot of technology.
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Published: January 6, 2012


Topics:  Capital Expenditures | Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Hybrid clouds | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Private Cloud | Private cloud computing | Public Cloud | Public cloud computing

WHITE PAPER - When moving to the cloud, utilizing the latest solution can help ease the transition, enabling an agile set of service delivery capabilities across all IT domains. Read this white paper to learn more about how this technology utilizes a hybrid service delivery model to optimize the business value of your cloud.
Posted: December 7, 2011 | Published: December 7, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Hybrid clouds | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | Private Cloud | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - Discover a cloud infrastructure platform that can run large public clouds, power operator application management and development, provide powerful machine-to-machine cloud infrastructure, and enable private and hybrid clouds.
Posted: December 6, 2011 | Published: December 6, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Cloud Security | Hybrid clouds | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Security | Networking | Private Cloud | Private cloud computing | Public Cloud | Public cloud computing

WHITE PAPER - Access this whitepaper to read the first of a group of serial publications of the 2011 Cloud Networking Report. Cloud networking refers to the LAN, WAN, and management functionality that must be in place to enable cloud computing.
Posted: November 30, 2011 | Published: November 30, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Data Centers | Hybrid clouds | ISVs | LAN | Private Cloud | Public Cloud | Public cloud computing | SLA | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Find out how you can develop a private or hybrid cloud strategy that successfully capitalizes on your existing data center. Gain expert tips on planning and implementing cloud in this white paper.
Posted: November 27, 2011 | Published: November 27, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Hybrid clouds | Private Cloud | Server Virtualization | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - No matter what cloud strategy you choose to employ it is crucial to carefully assess business and technology synergies. This white paper discusses how to optimize your cloud deployment with three key steps: investigate, experiment, adopt.
Posted: November 23, 2011 | Published: November 23, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Hybrid clouds | IT Infrastructure | Private Cloud | Public Cloud