Whitepaper

The Wild, Wild West of Mobile Apps

Mobile applications are providing exciting new business opportunities for service providers and technology companies. Innovative firms are thriving by offering apps in app stores and app markets, by supporting apps with mobile services and infrastructure, and by managing apps through mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) products. Enterprisesare providing mobile apps to

EMC ScaleIO Architectural and Functional Overview

EMC ScaleIO is software that creates a server SAN, aggregating servers’ local direct-attached storage to form globally accessible shared block storage. This white paper describes the functionality of ScaleIO and explains the converged architecture, scalability capabilities, elasticity features and the massively parallel, linearly scalable performance of the system.

Mind the Virtual Gap-Convergence of Everything

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 Matures And Proves Its Value

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

The Evolution and Value of Purpose-Built Backup Appliances

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

Internet Security Threat Report 2013

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

Scaling Agile: Fractals of Innovation

“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”