Cloud Computing

WEBCAST: This webcast will explain how you can gain visibility into the performance and availability of your critical business applications, no matter where they are running. By monitoring all computing resources, you will be able to make better decisions as your enterprise transitions to a combination of internal and external environments.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: A robust enterprise cloud should not be focused myopically on CPUs, memory, disks, and a range of IP addressees. Businesses instead should include the nine attributes presented in this paper when formulating an enterprise cloud platform strategy.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: For many organizations, the move to cloud computing is imminent. This paper features a range of practical insights into some key issues your organization should be aware of. It looks at some of the most pressing challenges cloud computing presents in terms of service level management and offers tips for overcoming these obstacles.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Assessing your organization's challenges, abilities and assets will help to determine if deploying a cloud-based data backup strategy is a better alternative than relying on an on-site data backup and recovery strategy. This tutorial spells out what you need to consider when trying deciding if cloud backup is right for your organization.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today’s data centers and cloud computing environments require increased I/O performance to support large-scale applications such as databases, web servers, e-commerce applications, file servers, and email. This whitepaper focuses on the performance benefits of using the Adaptec MaxIQ™ SSD Cache Performance Solution.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

PODCAST: Tune into this podcast for a cloud computing disaster recovery (DR) checklist. Learn about various DR approaches for your cloud computing environment. Find out how to secure your data and how to get your DR objectives met by your cloud provider.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 02 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, learn how to ensure your disaster recover (DR) needs are met by your cloud provider. Gain insight into the differences between standard and cloud-based DR approaches and how to incorporate your exiting DR plans.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 02 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we demonstrate the concept of High Performance Computing in a cloud and show that HPC clouds can deliver the needed utilization and scalability on par with the current native HPC approach of designing dedicated systems for specific applications.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: IDC White Paper: Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings Learn how companies like yours built custom apps 4 - 5 times faster at half the cost with Force.com Platform.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn the ways in which new technologies are impacting power demand patterns, explores the consequences of having too much power capacity or too little and then provides concrete advice on strategies for right-sizing your power systems.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dealing with disasters at remote offices, where you likely have little or no technical staff, can be challenging—and, if you're not careful, expensive. Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, learn about an IT service catalog that will help you achieve virtualization benefits like cost savings and IT agility. Discover a new operating model that enables effective virtualization and cloud computing management. Learn how IT can become more cloud-like and explore how to pave the way for an internal cloud.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 29 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION: This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference presents an overview of the security concerns that arise from the new trend toward cloud computing. The slides cover what cloud computing is, how it is used, and the concerns it raises. The presentation also makes some recommendations for dealing with these concerns.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Tune into this podcast for expert insight into the impact of cloud computing on your IT infrastructure. Hear from cloud computing expert, Jeff Kaplan, as he explains the basic pressures driving cloud computing. Learn about Amazon's influence on the cloud market and discover the 3 elements that attract enterprises to the cloud.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 29 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide offers an in-depth look at the security of cloud computing. Discover a risk versus benefits comparison, learn why it may be difficult to satisfy compliance auditors if security controls are obscured, and see why cloud vendors aren’t very concerned with security.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION: This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference gives an overview of the changes in security compliance regulations and the resulting changes in security technologies. Download the slides and learn about changes in regulations, the evolution of technology, keeping virtualization and cloud computing compliant, and more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

EBOOK: With a focus on keeping a dynamic infrastructure secure, this chapter examines virtualization, cloud computing, distributed information flows, and Web 2.0 technologies with an eye toward discerning the security implications of each.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Now you can get the ultimate Web app delivery solution in a flexible, dynamic and cost effective virtual appliance with Citrix® NetScaler® VPX. Simply download the NetScaler VPX Express edition, then deploy it across your existing infrastructure - anywhere, anytime, anyhow you need it.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this report to learn the research findings of this study, which examined the challenges of managing Test/Dev environments and the opportunity for server virtualization and cloud computing to address them. This paper includes several graphs and an in-depth discussion of the advantages of private cloud computing.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the evolution of private clouds and discusses how many organizations that have implemented grid or virtual machines are moving towards private clouds. It also describes how organizations can successfully implement this new IT delivery model using a phased approach that starts with cloud management software.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: An ideal solution for dense computing environments where energy and thermal efficiency are at a premium. Featuring the Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2419 EE, this solution is designed with ZT's signature data center server engineering expertise for the groundbreaking new levels of performance per watt cloud computing providers demand.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss the forces behind the rise of flexible, cloud-like data center architectures; describe the hardware needs created by those new architectures; and show why custom servers from ZT Systems powered by AMD Opteron™ processors are an exceptional fit for these demanding new data center environments.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Relying on tape backup for branch-office data protection is costly and risky. This white paper examines some of the strategies and technologies available for backing up remote or branch offices.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This is a presentation transcript of the SearchStorage.com expert videocast on Remote Backup. Dave Raffo, Senior News Director at TechTarget’s storage sites, discusses remote backup with Curtis Preston, Executive Editor at TechTarget. The transcript will address the challenges of backing up remote sites.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009