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Most IT professionals today recognize that enterprise IT will be hybrid in the future. To provide the optimal foundation for each workload being deployed, the hybrid IT environment will include cloud-based infrastructures—from multiple providers—co-existing alongside infrastructure within the enterprise data center or a hosted environment. But not all hyperconverged solutions yield the same results. The right hyperconverged infrastructure can meet your IT needs both today and well into the future. In this paper, we will talk about where your data center needs to be in the next five years to meet changing business demands, and how the roles of IT professionals will evolve. We will also review “hyperconvergence” models, and how they can best meet your IT needs both today and in the future, as well as the benefits you can expect along the way. Finally, we discuss what to look for in the right hyperconverged provider, who will position your IT department for success.

This paper explains both UC and the attraction to the cloud or specifically UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service). Hosted communications is the only communications sector experiencing recent, consistent, year-over-year growth. The model offers businesses operational, financial and technical advantages. UCaaS offers a transformation in business communications and collaboration. There’s a lot of change taking place, and it is good news for business enterprises.

Every day, companies generate mountains of data that are critical to their business. With that data comes a clear challenge: How do you protect exabytes of data that's strewn across global data centers, computer rooms, remote offices, laptops, desktops, and mobile devices, as well as hosted by many different cloud providers, without choking business agility, employee productivity, and customer experience? The solution lies not in throwing more technology at the network, but in taking specific steps to identify malicious actions and respond to them in order to fix the issue, a process known as operationalizing security.

"Visibility into the live mix of network and application activity being hosted and delivered by the IT infrastructure has always is a 'must-have' for many aspects of IT planning and operations. But the greatest value and impact is achieved when those two viewpoints are blended together into one unified view. This paper reviews the primary challenges that IT teams face in establishing unified visibility, the key requirements that management solutions must meet to address those challenges, and examines a Riverbed solution that has been specifically designed to offer a path to success."

Prophix and IMA hosted a webcast, titled “Overcoming Barriers to Implement CPM Methods”, featuring subject matter expert Gary Cokins, the CEO, at Analytics-Based Performance Management. The adoption rate of business analytics and corporate performance management (CPM) methods has been slowed by various barriers. Gary Cokins outlines the causes of this lag, as well as lessons learned about how to overcome obstacles, and obtain buy-in to manage and improve performance. He describes techniques such as strategy maps, balanced scorecards with key performance indicators (KPIs), channel and customer profitability reporting, and driver-based budgeting that can prevent failure when implementing CPM methods.

The core technology behind Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has evolved for decades. More recently, DRaaS has linked to the cloud, and finally hit its stride. Today it can provide unprecedented availability options to companies who don’t have secondary data centers dedicated to business continuity. Before now, only IT teams with additional IT budget, staff and geographic locations could effectively hedge against downtime, and disasters. But today’s DRaaS means that businesses of all sizes have the peace of mind that comes with knowing a replica of their data and systems is hosted at a remote site that they can fail over to—without bearing any of the infrastructure costs or maintenance responsibilities. All infrastructure and maintenance is the responsibility of the DRaaS provider. And the technology ensures that a replica is not only available, but always current and immediately available. This attractive value proposition led Gartner to predict that global DRaaS revenue will rea

IT admins tasked with restoring servers or lost data during a disruption are consumed with a single-minded purpose: successful recovery. But it shouldn’t take an adverse event to underscore the importance of recovery as part of an overall backup strategy. This is especially true with large datasets. Before you consider how you’re going to back up large datasets, first consider how you may need to recover the data. Variables abound. Is it critical or non-critical data? A simple file deletion or a system-wide outage? A physical server running onsite or a virtual one hosted offsite? These and a handful of other criteria will determine your backup and disaster recovery (BDR) deployment. What do we mean by large? A simple question with a not-so-simple answer. If your total data footprint is 5 TB or more, that’s considered large. But what kind of data is it? How many actual files are there? How frequently do they change? How much can they be compressed? It’s likely that two different 5 TB en

How hosted data center services eliminate the daily pain and frustration of managing your IT infrastructure.

This webinar, hosted by Palo Alto Networks, focuses on deployment of 'Zero Trust Network Segmentation' in industrial control systems in large scale, mult-plant environments. We begin with an explanation of the concepts behind 'Zero Trust', scalability, the best ways to adapt existing networking and segmentation without needing to reconfigure infrastructure, and how Palo Alto's platform adresses these needs. Speakers Lionel Jacobs is the Sr. ICS Security Architect at Palo Alto Netowrks Jonathan S. is an Information Security Architect at a Global F&B Manufacturer Del Rodillas (Moderator) is the Sr. Manager of ICS Initiative at Palo Alto Networks

Rethink the way you plan, budget, and forecast. This webinar, hosted by Workday and featuring Paul Hamerman of Forrester Research, provides insight into the advantages of: Uniting organizational, workforce, and financial data Collaborating with stakeholders and planning participants Guiding the business with reporting, dashboards, and scorecards Watch the webinar replay to learn best practices for planning, budgeting, and forecasting that’ll help your organization succeed.

This white paper provides guidance for adding support for hosted applications and desktop sessions to your VMware Horizon infrastructure. Whether the goal is to integrate an existing RDS environment for combined management with VMware Horizon with View™ virtual desktops or deploy hosted applications or desktop sessions for the first time, Horizon provides the technology required and a simple path forward.

In the last few years, businesses have changed the way they protect data. Studies show they’re abandoning traditional backup and recovery in favor of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).1 With DRaaS, businesses enjoy the luxury of keeping a replica of their data hosted at a remote site that they can fail over to in an emergency—without bearing any of the infrastructure costs or maintenance responsibilities. All infrastructure and maintenance is the responsibility of the provider. Gartner predicts that global DRaaS revenue will reach $3.4 billion by 2019. The firm cited several reasons for the shift:

VMware Horizon® 7 offers full-featured support for hosted applications and shared desktop sessions, expanding the capabilities of the leading virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. Tightly integrated with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Horizon can deliver hosted applications and desktop sessions, virtual desktops, and VMware ThinApp® virtualized applications, all supported on the devices end users want to use. This white paper provides guidance for adding support for hosted applications and desktop sessions to your VMware Horizon infrastructure. Whether the goal is to integrate an existing RDS environment for combined management with VMware Horizon virtual desktops or deploy hosted applications and desktop sessions for the first time, VMware Horizon provides the technology required and a simple path forward.

Citrix and Google are collaborating to bring the best, most secure way to deliver virtual apps and desktops from Google Cloud. The Citrix Workspace solutions traditionally installed on data center servers—including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix Networking, and Citrix Content Collaboration (formerly known as Citrix ShareFile)—are now enabled on Google Cloud Platform services. Citrix enables customers to choose the workload deployment option that best aligns with their enterprise cloud strategy and offers a variety of ways to securely deploy Citrix solutions to meet unique application needs. Whether deployed on-premises, cloud-hosted, as a Citrix Workspace service, or with a service provider—customers choose how much and which components of app workloads to manage and when and where to securely deploy business apps, data, and desktops.

Despite the clear opportunity for more effective deployment of IT capability and more efficient IT management offered by cloud, most midmarket workloads are still hosted and managed on site. There is a clear trend towards greater use of managed services, and clear business benefit to embracing this hybrid IT model. The question isn’t really “will we move our midmarket business to cloud/hybrid infrastructure?” but rather, “how quickly will we effect this transition, and how will we prioritize workloads and capabilities along the way?”

As IT managers urgently seek to reduce the fixed costs associated with running their in-house fax servers, cloud-based faxing emerges as a highly effective tool for combating the unpredictability of fluctuating infrastructure costs.

This paper discusses the many drivers for organizations looking to move email to the cloud and highlights the shortcomings of some of these solutions.

What if you could transform your communications system to rival the rich functionality and flexibility of bigger competitors with dedicated IT staff? This new white paper compares the costs and functionality of using a hosted unified communications (UC) system "in the cloud" versus investing in an on-site "premises-based" system. The findings might surprise you. Download this new white paper now to: •Understand the tradeoffs between owning vs. hosted UC systems •Review a dollars-to-dollars comparison in a full total cost of ownership (TCO) study •Learn the pitfalls to avoid when evaluating different UC systems

Entrust IdentityGuard Cloud Services PKI establishes and manages certificate-based security across an organization through a reliable, customizable and flexible hosted public key infrastructure (PKI). Entrust’s cloud-based PKI service eliminates up-front capital investment and significantly reduces on-going operation cost associated with in-house PKI software, provides built-in maintenance capabilities and speeds deployment time.

Entrust IdentityGuard Cloud Services PKI establishes and manages certificate-based security across an organization through a reliable, customizable and flexible hosted public key infrastructure (PKI).

Increase Use of Managed, Hosted and Cloud Services to Boost Business Success

Effective security for cloud-hosted web applications requires full visibility into the environment in which the apps live and the potential exposure to vulnerabilities — and to do so consistently, while proactively monitoring for attacks without causing delays in application development and delivery. Cloud adoption means that a focus on perimeter security is not sufficient and may even be obstructive, because it can impact application performance and availability. By completing this form, I agree that I'd like to receive information from Amazon Web Services, Inc. and its affiliates related to AWS services, events and special offers, and my AWS needs by email and post. You may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions in the communications received. Your information will be handled in accordance with the AWS Privacy Policy. https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/

"Visibility into the live mix of network and application activity being hosted and delivered by the IT infrastructure has always is a 'must-have' for many aspects of IT planning and operations. But the greatest value and impact is achieved when those two viewpoints are blended together into one unified view. This paper reviews the primary challenges that IT teams face in establishing unified visibility, the key requirements that management solutions must meet to address those challenges, and examines a Riverbed solution that has been specifically designed to offer a path to success."

With 75% of business intellectual property contained in email, efficiently managing this data can pose a major challenge. Learn how hosted email archiving reduces legal risks while improving employee productivity.

In this whitepaper, you will learn 11 features and benefits your company should consider when deploying a hosted private cloud.