Cloud Whitepapers

Hyperscale Cloud

SQL server can deploy a private cloud, hybrid cloud, public cloud and can use familiar tools for development and management in the public cloud for your organisation. Microsoft realised the importance of cloud integration as organisation continue to realise the cost benefits of running their database applications into the cloud but on a much larger

SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 is one of Microsoft’s biggest leaps forward in data platforms, making strides in terms of: • Mission Critical Performance: It offers superior performance, security upgrades, high availability and scalability.• Deeper insights across data: Letting users access any data, scale and manage their data, providing powerful insights on any device, and advanced analytics.•

SQL Server 2014 & the Data Paltform

Discover how SQL Server 2014 and the data platform can help an organisation gain faster insights into its data assets through in memory analytics. This user friendly whitepaper breaks down how SQL Server can work across all workloads, work with familiar data management and analytical tools and work across multiple IT architectures, including hybrid cloud

IT Security Priorities

Securing the Internet of things is a new issue, especially in large organisations. It is a priority for a third of them. This is one of the main findings of this European survey of 213 IT Security decision makers. Find out all the results.

Taming the Burgeoning Hybrid Cloud

Today, an agile enterprise increasingly means a cloud enterprise. But rapid adoption on a use-case basis has resulted in complex hybrid infrastructures over which enterprises have little control. In a recent worldwide survey conducted by IDG Research Services, IT managers indicate their cloud resource usage will increase an average of 54% over the next three

How cloud computing is affecting organisations?

52% of organisations are using cloud computing. This share has increased by 5 percentage points over the last 12 months. However, there are challenges to face for IT decision makers related to integration of cloud with existing applications, lack of skills in teams and shadow IT. These are some of the main findings revealed by

Application Migration to On-Premises Cloud

Today’s IT organisation is expected to play a leading role in increasing revenue and margins, improving employee productivity, differentiating from the competition, and enhancing customer experience. In the modern enterprise, IT is a driver of business growth. Find out more about Application migration by downloading this whitepaper HPE Proliant Gen9 servers powered by Intel®Xeon® processors

5 Benefits of Disaster Recovery in the cloud

One of the biggest use cases for the cloud – in fact, the biggest, in the case of hosted private cloud – is for backup and disaster recovery. It adds up to one thing: Organizations are counting on the cloud to make sure they retain access to their critical corporate data.

Protecting Data With Secure Collaboration Solutions

In today’s distributed enterprise, the need to share information has gone beyond what traditional systems provide. Employees have become used to the convenience that consumer-grade file sync and share (FSS) solutions provide in their personal lives and are looking for the same simple and easy-to-use solutions at work. At the same time, cloud networks are