IT Infrastructure Reports

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide offers three essential strategies to ensure IT workers are proactively managing your IT infrastructure, rather than spending the majority of their time reacting to problems as they arise. Also, learn about the most popular IT performance management infrastructures, and how they can be affecting the service of your enterprise.

Posted: 11 Jan 2017 | Published: 11 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide offers 10 professional tips to improve the management process of IT assets and IT support in your data center. Walk through these tips and see first-hand how they can improve upon the strategies you already have in your data center while also offering a fresh new perspective.

Posted: 28 Dec 2016 | Published: 18 Dec 2016

EBOOK: In this buyer's guide, learn what IT operations analytics is, how it works, what product features are essential and how to evaluate vendor ITOA offerings.

Posted: 01 Dec 2016 | Published: 01 Dec 2016

EZINE: In this month's Modern Infrastructure e-zine, take a look at the data management market and how you can equip your management infrastructure for the big data trend, how to prevent kernel breakouts and ensure the security of container-based workloads, strategies for simplifying today's data center networks, and more.

Posted: 17 Nov 2016 | Published: 17 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Keeping an in-house network test lab up to date requires considerable expertise. Learn how to avoid the complexity of maintaining an internal lab by utilizing a virtual test environment. Additionally, learn how expert bloggers assess SDN switching at UNH InterOperability Laboratory.

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 | Published: 11 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide analyzes the ways in which dev ops and IT ops professionals will have to work in a cross-functional team, the specific skills they will need to adopt as well as some of the challenges they will face during the integration process.

Posted: 08 Nov 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Although it's become increasingly common for organizations to allow employees to work from home, this presents a number of challenges, challenges that VDI can solve effectively. Learn the benefits VDI can have for managing remote employees, including enhanced security, simplified license management, and more.

Posted: 07 Nov 2016 | Published: 07 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) technology has been around for a while now, but relatively few organizations have bought on to this cloud-hosted virtual desktop trend because of a few major DaaS concerns. This e-guide details three reasons cloud-hosted virtual desktops haven't taken off yet.

Posted: 07 Nov 2016 | Published: 07 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide addresses the growth of ITSM methods, tools, and processes. Also, engage in seven CIO tips for existing and upcoming ITSM changes that are reconstructing IT services, how to manage all of these developments effectively and ways in which you can keep your enterprise relevant.

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide offers 10 of the best practices when it comes to managing IT assets, loading server resources onto rack spaces, configuring infrastructure or even handling IT support.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: The August 2016 Delta outage caused a stir in the disaster recovery world. Ensure your organization doesn't make the same mistakes as the airliner with these DR testing guidelines.

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 | Published: 21 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Migrating an enterprise's data and applications to the cloud includes a laundry list of considerations – from tools and costs to security. Learn six tasks that should be included on your checklist to ensure a successful cloud migration strategy.

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 | Published: 21 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide analyses which system management tools IT professionals find most effective for monitoring VMs and clouds. Also, learn more about the rise in shadow IT, which automation tools monitor application availability versus server availability, as well as the overall importance of these tools on your IT environment.

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: As lock-in concerns become less prevalent, public cloud adoption continues to rise; however, organizations find that some workloads are best left in-house. Discover the boons and challenges associated with public cloud deployment, and additionally learn how to leverage it to eliminate latency and increase response times for IoT apps.

Posted: 24 Oct 2016 | Published: 19 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Some organizations rush into a cloud migration, assuming cost savings are a guarantee. But not all applications are meant for the public cloud, and moving them may cost you more. Find out what's more cost-effective for your organization – keeping apps on-premises or moving them to the cloud.

Posted: 21 Oct 2016 | Published: 20 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: In early 2016 alone, healthcare organizations saw a 300% increase in daily ransomware attacks from 2015. That's why Harun Rashid, CIO of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, has provided 6 pointers for the prevention of a ransomware attack. And in the event that attacks still get through, read through Reda Chouffani's 5 steps for effective response.

Posted: 20 Oct 2016 | Published: 19 Oct 2016

EZINE: This month's Modern Infrastructure e-zine examines how two abstraction technologies are being used together and how some open source innovators are even latching onto this best-of-both-worlds idea in an effort to better merge containers and VMs.

Posted: 18 Oct 2016 | Published: 18 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Feedback about a DevOps environment on the back end is as important to its success as automated tools are on the front end. In this expert e-guide, we explore how to make the communication path between DevOps and IT a two-way street. Inside, discover how tools like container management, ChatOps, and more can bridge the gap.

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 | Published: 06 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, learn the difference between hyperconverged and converged infrastructure, four common data problems that can be solved with hyperconvergence as well as how to avoid vendor lock-in.

Posted: 03 Oct 2016 | Published: 03 Oct 2016

EBOOK: HIPAA-compliant cloud storage and backup require healthcare organizations to conduct risk assessments of the potential uses of cloud technology.

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 | Published: 30 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Access this guide to examine the importance of leveraging tools like autoclassification and predictive coding for effective information governance. Additionally, you will discover approaches that improve ROI beyond just e-discovery.

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 | Published: 28 Sep 2016

EBOOK: There's a fair bit of mystery about just how containerization affects an IT infrastructure. Container deployment will likely require system admins to reconsider their data center's capacity-management plans. Access this e-guide to unravel that mystery and understand the exact impact containerization will have on your data center.

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 | Published: 29 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Cloud-based disaster recovery has emerged as an affordable, flexible method for providing application availability following a disaster event. This e-guide provides insight into cloud DR including strengths, issues, different model types, and more.

Posted: 23 Sep 2016 | Published: 22 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Memory manufacturers are getting creative for high performance. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) module could appear in the next generation of servers. This exclusive e-guide details each new memory type and how they're shaking up performance expectations.

Posted: 22 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide predicts upcoming data center changes as well as which trends to pay close attention to and how they can benefit your enterprise. Also, gain insight on some of the challenges that these new trends can present, and ways to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016