The greatest promise of the information-driven enterprise resides in the vertical-specific questions business leaders have historically been unable or afraid to ask, whether because of a lack of coherence in their data or the prohibitively high cost of specialized tools.
Centralizing and bringing compute to all your...
Published: Sep 10, 2014
As the cloud model matures, it’s a good time to stop and think. And a good time to hear from the people who have been there done that, bought the T-shirt and bear the scars.
We’ve handpicked six cloud veterans to provide their thoughts and insights on the potential and the pitfalls of cloud in the enterprise. ...
Published: Mar 20, 2014
The beauty of the cloud is that you can get up and running fast. oracle Fusion HcM cloud Applications offer many powerful features and capabilities to accelerate your time to value.
Published: Aug 15, 2013
Choosing a cloud application backup provider is like any technology decision: there is no one-size-fits-all solution. You must determine which provider offers the best cost/benefit for your organization’s unique needs. This guide will highlight the most important features and policies associated with cloud-to-cloud...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
As this document highlights, when firms move to reference architecture or integrated infrastructure system strategies, they gain material cost and time-to-market advantages over traditional IT. Reference architecture and integrated infrastructure system strategies offer advantages over a "build your own" approach. ...
Published: Feb 25, 2014
The next five years is set to bring a dramatic, hybrid shift in the way IT leaders approach the IT infrastructure that supports their business growth and innovation, according to a global IT Outsourcing study released today by Savvis, a CenturyLink company.
In fact, by 2018, this global report predicts...
Published: Mar 17, 2014
Jerry Gregoire, the CIO of Dell Computers, said it best “Customer Service is the next competitive battleground.” We have entered the era of the customer. Today, providing customers with outstanding customer service is essential to building loyal customers and a long lasting brand.
Social media, and other...
Published: Jul 25, 2013
Enterprise data center operators face a number of challenges as they try to build and maintain their business’s most important strategic asset.
Orchestrating applications, traffic and virtual machines is becoming much more difficult. Managing an increasingly complicated network takes up time that could be better...
Published: Sep 24, 2014
This paper discusses the importance of workloads when planning for your migration to the cloud. It also describes how a structured approach to cloud workload analysis can help you identify cloud initiatives that offer faster time to value, reduced migration risk and higher potential return.
Published: Jul 14, 2014
Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise software—public, private or hybrid cloud. However, many cloud vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility: they’re either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both.
But for those...
Published: Apr 10, 2014
In this interview, IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) executives Man Bui, Ben Morehead and Warren Sirota discuss today’s disaster recovery challenges and how cloud computing can help overcome them. They also share their insights on cloud’s abilities to help recover IT operations more quickly,...
Published: Oct 14, 2014
Most companies would rather not continue indefinitely diverting resources into software systems or adding costly IT resources.
That’s why ERP systems that use a cloud, or Software as a Service (SaaS), delivery model are great choices.
The cloud solution providers handle the maintenance and management of...
Published: Feb 26, 2014
If you are evaluating cloud service, this white paper is a must-read. Benefit from an evaluation of the HP CloudSystem, an integrated system for building and managing services across private, public, and hybrid clouds.
This white paper provides an overview of HP CloudSystem, including three CloudSystem components...
Published: Jul 14, 2014