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Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization

Source: HP & Intel

If you manage technology today, you know the story: everything is mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. Expectations are high. On any given day, it's all about service delivery. You need to provide technology-enabled services to your people whenever and wherever they need them-and you need to do it cost-effectively, securely, and quickly. This is one of the driving forces behind the rise in cloud computing. Cloud computing can provide new levels of collaboration, agility, speed, and cost savings for enterprises of any size and type.

HP is driving the evolution of what we call the Instant-On Enterprise. It is an enterprise that embeds technology into everything it does to better serve citizens, partners, employees, and clients. We believe that today's Instant-On Enterprises need to think differently about how they source and deliver services that are enabled by technology. They need to take advantage of a hybrid delivery model-one that truly optimizes the mix between traditional IT, private cloud, and public cloud.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

Source: HP & Intel

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Seven Priorities for Integrated Network Management - How HP Intelligent Management Center Delivers an Enterprise-class Solution

Source: HP & Intel

This white paper describes the major requirements for network management solutions to help the organizations become more profitable, efficient and reliable.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center

Source: HP & Intel

One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.

HP, a global provider of IT solutions and an early innovator in converged infrastructure systems, provides a complete portfolio of hardware, software, and services for enabling greater/faster deployment of converged infrastructure solutions in data center environments. More important, HP is also delivering the advanced orchestration management software that will make it possible for IT organizations to effectively obtain the maximum business value from these investments.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks white paper

Source: HP & Intel

Enterprises are turning to the Cloud to improve business agility, reduce expenses and accelerate business innovation. Cloud computing redefines the way IT assets are deployed and consumed and dramatically affects the way data center networks are architected and managed. Conventional hierarchical data center networks built to support traditional IT architectures can't meet the security, agility and price/performance requirements of virtualized cloud computing environments. This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP's approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams, Q2 2012

Source: Yammer

The enterprise social software market is exploding thanks to converging trends of consumerization, cloud, and mobile. In this must-read report, "The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams, Q2 2012", Forrester Research Inc. evaluated five social software vendors with core strengths in the stream based on the overall strength of vendors' current offerings, a clear product strategy, and vendor market presence. In a detailed look at the space, Forrester named Yammer as a leader.

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SMBs Get Virtualization, Plus the Benefits of High Core Count Processors

Source: AMD

Given the complexity of their operations and their relatively sophisticated staffs, enterprise IT departments were the first computing customers to broadly embrace data center virtualization. Small to medium businesses (SMBs) soon followed suit, attracted by the same IT and business benefits that virtualization offers to larger firms. A recent IDG Research Services survey of SMB IT managers reveals that data center virtualization has become a high-priority investment for them.

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Virtualized for Agility

Source: AMD

Server virtualization is a transformative technology offering a myriad of benefits to companies of all sizes. By consolidating hardware and placing multiple virtual machines on a single server, organizations can decrease both capital and operational expenses while boosting server utilization rates and easing management. This paper explores how the right processor platform can maximize virtualization benefits for mid-sized companies.

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The Accelerated SMB: Moving at the Speed of Virtualization

Source: AMD

Mid-market corporations increasingly rely on technology to serve as the enablers and accelerators of the business-not just to reduce costs but also to empower new business initiatives and increase the top line. This means that IT leaders are under intense pressure to reduce costs, while making services increasingly functional and reliable. Mid-Market companies must move quickly to capture competitive advantages. Read on and see what Nemertes Research found out and recommends to IT leaders for making their infrastructure agile.

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Make Virtual Desktops a Valuable Reality with AMD

Source: AMD

When it comes to desktop virtualization, most IT pros focus on the hypervisor. But the underlying hardware, particularly the server CPUs, plays a critical role. This paper details how to enhance VDI implementation with quick access to real memory and the highest - 12 cores per processor available today.

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The Enterprise Data Center Recipe

80% of the IT budget is consumed by mundane keeping the lights on activities. This tech dossier examines the components of a truly efficient data center with expert guidance on how to standardize, simplify and automate. Learn how you can free more budget for innovation and strategic projects.

Sponsored by Dell  Read More »

 

Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs

Identification of underperforming processes for databases, operations, systems, storage and capacity management is the first step to service optimization. But where do you start? This paper will help you identify the areas for improvement and explains how IT workload automation can significantly reduce complexity and IT staff inefficiencies.

Sponsored by BMC  Read this White Paper »

 

Reduce Windows 7 Costs by 60%

Getting ready for a Windows 7 upgrade requires careful planning. To start, youll need to ensure application and hardware compatibility, give careful consideration to VDI and learn the advantages of new tools to automate the migration process. This tech dossier provides expert advice on deployment best practices and highlights experiences of early adopters.

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Emerging Technologies 3

The future of archiving.  Read More »

 

Think Globally and Locally

Jeff Joerres, CEO of worldwide, multibillion-dollar staffing company Manpower, talks with CIO Executive Editor Christopher Koch on creating the delicate balance between global IT efficiencies and the power of local ownership. (15:38)  Read More »

 

Surviving IT Worst Case Scenarios

Could you support yourself for 48 hours in the event of a disaster? How would you deal with a hurricane that broadsided your corporate offices--in Pittsburgh? Top IT leaders discuss their answers to tough continuity questions  Read More »

Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.  View Now »

 

Oracle Database Appliance Best Practices

Business users increasingly demand 24x7 availability of their data while IT departments face the challenge of ensuring maximum availability while operating with limited budgets.  View Now »

 

Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation

Learn how to get the most from your cloud investment in our on-demand webinar from BMC and InformationWeek. You'll hear how integrating the cloud into your production workload brings critical business benefits.  View Now »

 
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