Distributed enterprises often encompass many remote offices that are essential to running the organization and supporting customers. Important activities at the edge include manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, even mobile or remote life-saving environments like health clinics. And while there is usually a central IT staff that creates the overall business architecture for the enterprise, specialized
It’s a new era in IT. The end-user workforce is mobile, social, and putting huge strains on your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It’s time for a new model, one that liberates you from costly infrastructure maintenance and delivers the service and availability end-users demand. Yet, the complexities of implementing VDI at scale, specifically having
Technology developments and virtualisation have created huge potential for what can be achieved with businesses’ continuity and disaster recovery plans. Recent developments in enterprise technology means that organisations need to radically rethink their approach to disaster recovery and create new solutions that are more flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Disaster recovery is now high on the
Over the last few years, the concept of business continuity has become a popular topic for organisations. This is especially true, not only for corporates and global conglomerates, but for SMBs as well. Depending on the industry and sector in which these organisations operate, business continuity may encompass more than simply keeping the organisation going
Developments in IT are advancing with ever-greater speed. Where decades passed between Zuse’s Z1 and the first PCs, now the industry is seeing evolutions practically every month. As the performance and variety of devices grows, so do the demands involved in managing them. Many users nowadays work not just on PCs and notebooks, but use
Fixed PCs in the office are increasingly being supplemented by mobile devices that enable employees to read and reply to emails on the move and to edit other content. While this may provide hitherto unknown flexibility for employees, it also presents new challenges to IT departments. While servers and PCs are automatically subject to the
The spectacular and headline-grabbing cyber attacks in which thousands of data records are stolen are in no way just the result of a stroke of genius from highly talented hackers. In fact they are increasingly brought about by criminals who have managed to get through without expensive equipment and professional programming knowledge. They use exploits
The importance of IT has never been greater. Companies are transforming their business models with digital technologies, leveraging emerging mobile and social platforms, and increasingly operating online. And all of these developments are powered by IT innovation. Yet, IT departments face critical challenges in meeting the ever-increasing demands of the business. With new generations of
Cloud computing is transforming IT in terms of how services are delivered, how infrastructure is deployed and managed, and how IT organizations structure themselves. For the purposes of this study, Forrester is defining a cloud solution as having three major characteristics:“self-service access, full automation of processes and policies, and metering and tracking of usage.”1 It
To grasp the modern challenges of running and sustaining infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, ask yourself these questions: “How can I manage the ongoing health of my multi-vendor infrastructure more efficiently as a system, not as siloed technology components?” “How can I simplify and more effectively manage my data center as a unified, agile resource pool,