Cloud Computing

Join our featured speakers, Rackspace and 10th Magnitude on a round table discussion on the concepts of cloud form factors leading to hybrid cloud, the advantages of using hybrid cloud technologies, and a look at how the Microsoft Azure platform enables efficient and effective hybrid cloud computing.

Why you should care about Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS): An Expert’s perspective

The cloud has taken many twists and turns on its route to maturity.

In this world of always-on services, the systems that support them must be designed to be both highly available and resilient. Today, many IT leaders are looking for their applications and infrastructure to be covered by the following: • Defined SLA¹s for workloads and applications • Mapped failure points and impact of these on the business • Regularly measure application and Infrastructure health Access this white paper to discover your resiliency, and learn how to create a resilient architecture on Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Moving existing line-of-business (LOB) applications to the cloud can be a daunting task. In this white paper, find out how Rackspace makes moving to the Microsoft cloud easy by: • Assessing current system and applications with one of 250+ Microsoft Experts • Understanding how to utilize new cloud capabilities based on our over 15 years of Microsoft Cloud experience • Manage, monitor and secure migrated applications and workloads 24x7x365

The cloud has become mainstream. Businesses are no longer asking “Should we move to the cloud?” but wondering “When should we move?” Furthermore, hybrid clouds are not new, and some of the foundational elements of hybrid cloud creation, operation and maintenance are rooted in decades-old traditional data center technologies. This whitepaper will: •Examine the concepts of hybrid cloud environments. •Discuss the potential advantages of using hybrid cloud technologies. •Look at how the Microsoft Azure platform enables efficient and effective hybrid cloud computing. Download it now.

Building and managing cloud resiliency solutions in-house is difficult. Many organizations prefer to work with a third-party technology provider for the development and management of cloud solutions.

Discover the Power of Application Centric Infrastructure

This e-book includes a summary of the key components of some of the emerging approaches to WAN architecture and design and concludes with a call to action that outlines a project plan that network organisations can use to evolve their WAN.

This case study reveals how Interroll, a leading provider of high-quality core products for internal logistics, became frustrated with the high cost and complexity of MPLS and turned to Silver Peak to build an SD-WAN.

Perhaps the biggest transformation in enterprise IT since the public cloud emerged is the move toward “mobile-first” application development. As mobility continues to become the new enterprise standard, developers are looking for frameworks that provide the tools they need to create innovative mobile applications without sacrificing their existing investments. While there are proven, enterprise-ready frameworks and platforms for developing and deploying traditional desktop applications, the mobile application development landscape is still evolving. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) attempts to fill the gap between traditional application platforms and mobile applications. It is the new middleware, exposing APIs and functions that enable developers to rapidly build new mobile apps and mobile-enable legacy enterprise applications.

Many larger enterprises have a variety of different integration technologies based on deep integration requirements or simply because consolidation failed in past. Hybrid² integration capabilities improve the interoperability and coexistence of multiple integration tools in merged scenarios.

Amy McCormick, offering and product manager at IBM, discusses IBM in Healthcare, the value of integration, IBM Healthcare integration, and client successes as well as integration use cases.

The world of data centers and IT has been historically been one of gradual evolution, but events and capabilities that have emerged over the past 3-5 years present both a challenge, and opportunity to the IT organization. Click here to read about the IT Metamorphosis.

This paper proposes standard terminology for categorizing the types of prefabricated modular data centers, defines and compares their key attributes, and provides a framework for choosing the best approach(es) based on business requirements.

This paper highlights nine key datacenter and cloud architecture challenges that NetScaler helps solve more effectively than F5 to help you.

With its new TriScale Technology, Citrix is enabling a genuine revolution for enterprise cloud networks by providing an unrivaled set of capabilities that smartly scale application and service delivery infrastructures, affordably and with no additional complexity.

Read this paper to learn how NetScaler is meeting modern demands for more robust datacenter security.

SAP has reviewed and qualified Vormetric’s Transparent Encryption as suitable for use in SAP HANA solution environments. Vormetric provides a proven approach to securing SAP data that meets rigorous security, data governance and compliance requirements. Vormetric Data Security can be quickly deployed to secure data while requiring no change to SAP, the underlying database or hardware infrastructure. This approach enables enterprises to meet data governance requirements with a rigorous separation of duties. Whether you are securing an existing SAP deployment or upgrading, to a new version, Vormetric delivers a proven approach to quickly secure SAP data while ensuring SAP continues to operate at optimal performance.

The primary focus of any data center is the critical applications that form an enterprise’s business and operational core—its commercial and technical heart.

How to gain large corporation advantages at a midsize price.

Read this executive report to discover how the cloud can open the door to more efficient, responsive and innovative ways of doing business.

Read this paper to gain valuable insight into prospective providers of online collaboration services.

This benchmark analysis examines the relative performance of major VM components including virtual cores, memory, block storage, and internal network for Internap AgileCLOUD and Amazon Web Services (AWS) ECS/EBS.

This cloud buyer’s guide includes important information about the advantages of an open source cloud platform, benefits of managed services and self-service as well as considerations for evaluating cloud solutions.