Over the past decade, B2B customers have become socially empowered, highly informed decision makers. While it’s common knowledge that consumers are using social media to find deals, research products and make recommendations, the widespread use of social media among business purchasers is less appreciated. In fact, social media (along with search) is giving B2B customers
Choosing how to build a hybrid cloud is perhaps the most strategic decision IT leaders will make this decade. It’s a choice that will determine their organization’s competitiveness, flexibility, and IT economics for the next ten years. That’s because, done right, a cloud delivers strategic advantages to the business by redir-ecting resources from lights-on to
A recent finding by IDG in 2011 found that over 70 percent of customers surveyed are either already deploying a dual virtualization vendor strategy, or have concrete plans to do so1. With the maturation of the virtualization market and the emergence of alternative virtualization platforms, VMware customers are recognizing the advantages of deploying Red Hat
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides an abstraction that makes developers more productive by helping them focus on creating applications rather than dealing with infrastructures. This is important as information and its associated processing has become central to more businesses, even those in industries that haven’t been historically thought of as dependent on information technology. And that makes
Security of a wireless network still ranks as one of the largest concerns of IT professionals planning to roll out an enterprise wireless LAN. Many people erroneously believe that a wireless LAN is inherently insecure. This is largely due to security flaws in early Wi-Fi protocols like WEP (Wired Equivalency Protocol), more recent vulnerabilities found
There is a growing recognition that the best-connected business wins and that the network is the key to gaining real competitive advantage. To enable the always-on application access and connectivity that business now demands, you need a rock-solid network foundation. Organizations can no longer afford to dismiss their networks as simply “the plumbing.” How organizations
With current IT management dictating that more and more resources move from the local area network (LAN) to the wide area network (WAN), enterprise dependency on WAN is on the rise. Thus, the criticality of WAN management in the enterprise is increasing. Business-critical applications, from real-time voice and video to data storage, are being moved
Some storage and backup mistakes could be called “sins” because they lead to expensive IT problems – and even risk to the enterprise. But luckily for today’s overworked storage and IT managers, Nimble Storage has developed innovative approaches to addressing the seven biggest storage sins. This whitepaper was brought to you by a partner of
Much has been made about bringing application visibility and control into network security. The reason is obvious: applications can easily slip by traditional port-based firewalls. And the value is obvious: employees use any application they need to get their job done—often indifferent to the risk that use poses to the business. Nearly every network security
The Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization market has evolved signi- cantly over the past decade. Whereas once it focused exclusively on improving visibility into the WAN and shaping trafc, today it serves a much broader purpose — overcoming bandwidth, latency, and loss challenges to enhance the performance of all IP applications and control IT costs.