In the last 7 years, virtualization has profoundly changed the IT world. In 2013, even though the latest buzz may have shifted towards cloud computing, big data and mobility, virtualization remains the foundation for all of the above. With wide ranging benefits that include reduced capital and other operational costs, greater IT efficiency and agility,
Converged infrastructure (CI) solutions have been widely adopted by a range of enterprises, and they offer significant value across a variety of applications. Forrester has seen steady growth in deployment of CI, systems that integrate server, storage, networking, I/O virtualization, and potentially entire application stacks, over the past couple of years, a result of firms
Today, customers are still grappling with subpar backup performance as backups outstrip the allotted backup window time. Customer strategies for data protection and recovery continue to be dictated by aggressive SLAs, rapid recovery, and ease of integration in existing environments. As a result, firms are embracing more disk-based data protection technologies, including purpose-built backup appliances
This whitepaper first discusses what to look for in a virtualization protection solution and then considers the merits of a separate solution for protecting one’s virtual environment, compared with using a unified solution that offers comparable virtualization protection capabilities. Near the back of this document is a guide to assessing the total cost of ownership
Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world which they use to identify, analyze, and provide informed commentary on emerging trends in attacks, malicious code activity, phishing, and spam. The result is the annual Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, which aims to give IT Managers the essential
“Sure, Agile works for small organizations, but we’ve got to organize hundreds (or thousands) of people on four continents and Agile just won’t work for us.” Sound familiar? It does to Rally coaches. It’s something we hear all the time, and yet very large companies—all of whom acknowledge that something is wrong with the “traditional”
Your market moves fast, and Agile is a proven business advantage for keeping pace with rapidly changing markets. See why so many organizations like yours have chosen Rally to help make this important Agile transition.
Few processes are as impactful to business operations as the introduction of technology changes. This is particularly true of trending technologies supporting IT service optimization, cloud computing and workforce mobility, which collectively represent a radical departure from traditional methods of enterprise computing. In this whitepaper learn about these three key trends and technologies, how to
Realizing the business value of cloud is one of today’s key challenges in enterprise IT. The key strategic capabilities of cloud – agility, resiliency and efficiency — can only be harnessed if the IT organization possesses the automation, orchestration and integration capabilities required to tie together hardware and software along the lines of business processes.
The adoption of trending technologies, such as workforce mobility, are essential to ensuring any modern enterprise remains competitive, profitable, agile and successful in meeting organizational goals. Process and technology changes, however, are rarely adopted without resistance from both users and administrators and can be disruptive to business productivity. IT managers are often caught between the