Ernst & Young 2012 Global Information Security Survey (GISS) - Fighting to close the gap

Based on responses from 1,836 information security executives in 64 countries the 2012 GISS suggests that organizations are taking steps to enhance their information security capabilities but few are keeping up with an ever-changing risk landscape.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Optimized Power, Cooling, and Management Maximizes Benefit

Effects of virtualization on Data Centre physical infrastructure and Methods on achieving power usage efficiency.

What to Consider When Choosing Virtual Machine Protection

IT administrators are faced with number of important considerations when weighing data protection methodologies for virtual machines. This Paper explores several different approaches that will provide the right kind of coverage for your virtual machine workloads.

The One Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity

This paper provides a basic understanding of business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution.

Why Real-Time Replication Is Better Than Periodic Replication

Replication technology enables information sharing between primary and backup servers. This whitepaper discusses different replication methodologies and how they pair up with multi-tiered computing environments.

How to Migrate Without Downtime: An Executive Overview

Migrating applications, systems and data has always been a challenge for IT staff; most have just gotten used to the pain that comes with migrations. To properly migrate applications and data to new platforms involves risk and takes time to complete.

CASE STUDY: NEC

NEC reduced network management costs, raised network visibility, lowered mean-time-to-repair, enhanced stability and mitigated the risk of downtime—with a single initiative.

Network management: the foundation for cloud services

Four steps to get network operations cloud-ready.

CASE STUDY: SoftBank Mobile

SoftBank Mobile, a leader in Japan’s mobile phone industry, upgrade its mobile Internet service infrastructure to offset increased risks of failure.

CASE STUDY: Sprint Case Study

Sprint used a business services framework to transform IT management, drive improved customer satisfaction and cost savings, and create an intelligent enterprise.