Enterprises Seek The Benefits Of Hybrid Cloud, And Work To Overcome The Challenges

IT decision-makers report greatest interest in using IaaS in a hybrid cloud approach to complement on premises capacity, rather than replace it, and are planning for the impact that will have on network operations and spending. This profile highlights cloud adoption trends as well as the key benefits and challenges that US and European enterprises see when considering and adopting […]

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Cloud Bursts Into Higher Education

A study conducted by Forrester Consulting finds that university IT leaders need to focus their efforts on strengthening ties to academic departments, transitioning the internal infrastructure to a private cloud and learning to embrace a hybrid cloud future. Read more.  

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Dell ProSupport With Multivendor Capabilities

With Dell ProSupport with multivendor capabilities, you can conquer IT complexity, helping you save time and helping you realize the full power and the value of your technology investment. Dell can help you take the next step so you can realize your growth potential. Consolidate, coordinate, and streamline your IT support with a simplified, single vendor contract that helps increase […]

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Cisco Cloud Connectors: Bringing Network Intelligence To The Cloud

Increasingly enterprises are adopting cloud services, with more than 50 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2014 according to the 2011 Cisco® Global Cloud Index. However, cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network, especially the enterprise WAN in delivering these services to remote and branch-office users. In order to meet these new […]

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Cisco Regional WAN Solution

Extending the enterprise network to remote branch offices has long been one of the more difficult challenges of the IT organization. The Cisco® Regional WAN (RWAN) Solution architecture provides a set of pretested deployment recommendations for addressing some of the challenges with remote branch-office environments. The RWAN includes the network services for the remote branch office as well as the […]

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Creating The Enterprise-Class Tablet Environment

Corporate tablet use is rising fast – but most tablets are designed for consumer use, not created to meet the increasingly complex security and productivity needs of enterprise employees. In this Yankee Group whitepaper, find out why creating an enterprise-class tablet environment should be at the top of the list for every security-conscious organization.  

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Education Company Moves Data Center To The Cloud, Saves Big

Cisco UCS also helps enhance network and application performance. “Our new infrastructure is delivering five times more speed, and it allows my team to work faster,” says Blaisdell. “The server provisioning and physical rollouts that used to take us seven weeks to accomplish, now only take a few hours in a virtual environment.” Read more.  

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IDC Business Value Of Blades

The IDC Business Value of Blade white paper examines how midsize companies spanning the education, healthcare, media, retail, research, and telecommunications (service provider) industries were able to reduce their annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25 percent by migrating to a blade platform. IDC estimates that over a three-year period, the companies in the study saw their implementation […]

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