Infrastructure

The implementation of virtual machines within the IT infrastructure allows for more efficient use of physical servers, which reduces capital expenses along with power and cooling requirements. However, the use of virtual servers also increases the management challenges associated with maintaining infrastructure reliability and ensuring service-level agreements. For peak efficiency, the new environment requires the use of integrated tools that can proactively manage...

strategy of not just supporting IT pros, like you, as you make infrastructure purchasing decisions, but on providing vendor-neutral advice on the infrastructure you can – and can't – get away with NOT purchasing. ...

machine lifecycle, and dynamically provisioning Hyper-V infrastructure.

Server virtualization with Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V allows you to make the best use of server hardware investments, reduce management overhead and create a more dynamic IT infrastructure. However, as is common with new, game-changing technologies, server virtualization can challenge traditional approaches to IT delivery. For example, storage management in virtualized environments can be cumbersome and...

for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies.

An improved method for measuring total cost of ownership (TCO) of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to the overall Information Technology infrastructure is described, with examples. The cost drivers of TCO are quantified. The largest cost driver is...

technologies to achieve a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. Read this white paper to learn more. Historically, the adoption of storage virtualization technologies in SAN environments has been limited, primarily to enterprise data centers needing a tool for online data migration between heterogeneous storage environments. However, this is no longer the case and virtualized iSCSI SANs make it drastically easier to deploy, manage...

and business considerations for deploying a virtual infrastructure for SAP landscapes with EMC and VMware technologies. The white paper addresses a variety of key considerations for deploying such an infrastructure.

This white paper describes technical and business considerations for deploying a virtual landscape for SAP. The paper addresses a variety of key considerations for deploying virtual SAP infrastructures. Specifically, the paper provides example deployment...

EMC Virtual Infrastructure Data Protection solutions guard your virtual infrastructure applications and data from downtime and provide the availability you expect for critical workloads. It combins backup and recovery technologies with VMware server virtualization. EMC Virtual Infrastructure Data Protection solutions guard your virtual infrastructure applications and data from downtime and provide the high availability you...

In this paper, you will learn how SOA impacts your IT infrastructure--in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in a traditional application architecture. How service-oriented architecture (SOA) impacts your IT infrastructure

You've heard about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it holds the promises of quicker response to market trends, improved customer services and lower application...

CIOs are looking for infrastructure approaches to make IT an enabler of services, products and even processes to improve operational efficiency and competitive advantage. Read this white paper to discover how you can reshape the way you deliver business value by leveraging cloud computing, the growth of data and increased security risk.

With the intense focus on applications, services and business processes, technology infrastructure has taken a...

are available from CA to enhance and manage enterprise IT infrastructure. These tools are designed for multivendor, multiplatform environments and are used to simplify infrastructure management. With the addition of CA Virtual Performance Management to CA Spectrum® Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth® Performance Manager, IT organizations can use proven management tools for both their physical and virtual infrastructure. The CA tools, which are designed for multivendor...

and technology leadership can help you transform your infrastructure—at your pace—by engineering your IT resources to work better together.

Convergence—the solution to IT resource sprawl—is one of today's mega-trends, and it is a good predictor of tomorrow's business infrastructures. The optimum Converged Infrastructure matches the supply of IT resources with the demand for business applications. It requires evolving your infrastructure from a product-centric...

This paper discusses some of the common myths about infrastructure monitoring, and addresses how to ensure your infrastructure monitoring is responsive enough to satisfy and retain your customers.

While infrastructure monitoring can tell IT organizations a lot about the performance of its software and technology components, it often fails to reveal useful information regarding the quality of the experience for your customers. This paper discusses some of the common myths...

This report defines storage-centric virtualized infrastructure, its opportunity and use cases, and the emerging vendor landscape that IT infrastructure and operations groups should evaluate as they pursue the software-defined data center.

The transformation of virtual computing environments into fully software-defined data centers is disrupting the architecture of the underlying physical infrastructure. IT administrators need to administer a new approach to manage...

datacentre. And the final part of our buyer's guide to big data infrastructure looks at the different ways storage experts need to approach the big data challenge. Read the issue now.

 

BlackBerry bets its future on operating system and handset aimed at BYOD users

BlackBerry’s latest launch, with separate screens for consumer and business uses, could be just what it needs to win customers back.

 

Cloud supports business as usual

Cloud disaster recovery has opened up previously unaffordable business...

This white paper serves as a primer for HP's converged infrastructure platform.

Now is the time when leading CIOs are aggressively investing in infrastructure innovation to bring in new customers and tap new markets.  However, this strategy is being challenged by the increased sprawl of technology silos that is causing IT infrastructures to be inflexible, unmanageable, inefficient, and more costly.  The HP Converged Infrastructure featuring Intel processors delivers a blueprint for...

systems to an integrated, building-wide IT connectivity infrastructure.

In October 2009, Panduit Corporation (Panduit) commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprise customers may realize by deploying its Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) solution. UPI is an architecture that integrates hardware and software products with design principles to create an integrated infrastructure for power and...

Without the most up-to-date technology infrastructure, your organization will struggle to meet the changing demands of its internal and external users. Take a look at this exclusive resource to learn how Intel migrated its entire internal infrastructure to the Intel Architecture for a revitalized computing experience.

Without the most up-to-date technology infrastructure, your organization will struggle to meet the changing demands of its internal and external...

the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.

In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.

 

Examine how infrastructures that can't keep up with business strategies and programs can often...

and implement a flexible, scalable, automated virtualized infrastructure for several companies, allowing them to take advantage of cloud computing and focus on their core business.

Over the last several years, virtualization has proven itself an invaluable technology for streamlining test and development environments, consolidating IT infrastructure, reducing costs and setting enterprises on the path to cloud computing. But as many companies have discovered, test and development and...

75% based on real-world data. Read this paper to learn more IT infrastructure software has a well-established track record for large projects experiencing frequent cost overruns and missed deadlines. Expensive software and extensive customization are the prime contributors to expanding identity management costs, spiraling budgets for identity projects to lifecycle costs that are 4-5 times more than the price of the initial identity software license. Even ‘free' or open...

ensure both physical and virtual efficiency in your infrastructure by designing a storage array that fits unique workloads.

One of the big problems in IT infrastructure today, based on data being studied at XioTech, is the challenge of getting efficiency out of infrastructure when it comes to virtualization - both virtual server and virtual desktop.

Research firms such as Gartner and IDC have published statistics suggesting that data will grow six-fold over the next 3 years, so...

you need to do in order to establish an agile data services infrastructure that leverages your investments in data virtualization, discovery, transformation, quality, governance, publishing, caching, data warehousing and other key infrastructures.

Agility is key to success in a fast-changing business environment. Agile business intelligence (BI) can empower every level of your company to make the best possible decisions, leveraging sophisticated predictive analysis and tapping into a...

This paper describes five infrastructure technologies that are making it easier for growing businesses to introduce new IT systems as needed while maintaining high levels of availability. While growing businesses manage a high degree of change with limited resources, a new generation of infrastructure technologies has emerged that make it easier to accommodate unexpected changes in IT systems without disrupting operations. Working together, a...