IRV is a reinsurance enterprise, working with reinsurance companies all around the world. Historically, the firm had relied on traditional telecommunications channels such as phone, fax, and email. In 2012, as the company’s existing phone system was nearing nine years of age, it decided that the time was right to introduce new unified communication tools
Although virtualization technology has made server consolidation possible, it has also created many challenges. Infrastructure is complex, difficult, and time consuming to scale. Network ownership is split between network and server administrators. Security is managed by least-common-denominator approaches. And the massive number of virtual machines these environments spawn taxes server, network, and storage administrator time.
Businesses today face new challenges. Users want limitless flexibility in the ways they get their work done, and IT departments are recognizing the need to reestablish control over their desktops and the mission-critical data that is distributed across their global enterprises. This challenge can be addressed by the Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution with Citrix XenDesktop,
Today’s user workloads are becoming ever more intense: they include a wider range of demanding applications, all with users expecting quick response times. They perform operations such as document preparation, spreadsheet manipulation, web browsing, presentation preparation, and video streaming. The VMware View Planner benchmark helps organizations through their virtual desktop planning processes by precisely measuring
IT environments are in the midst of a major transition, as they shift from being a cost center to an integral, strategic role for businesses. The shift doesn’t end there; being a bigger part of the business requires IT organizations to provide services through an elastic, self-service, pay-as-you-go cloud-computing model while still supporting applications running
This Solution brief shows how the cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers with Intel Exon processors are an excellent choice for implementing database applications such as Microsoft SQL Server.
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Modern business requires the ability to be flexible, agile and cost effective in order to not only respond to market demands, but also to more importantly gain a competitive advantage. Improving operational efficiency has become the first step for rising over the competition, and many IT pros are doing such by viewing their data centers
In today’s business world, enterprise messaging and collaboration have become mission critical components of IT infrastructures. They directly affect every employee’s communications and productivity, so it’s imperative to improve the scalability and flexibility of computing infrastructures, storage capacities, and storage performance in order to fully support and scale Microsoft Exchange servers. Access this resource to