Infrastructure Services Reports

WHITE PAPER: Read this source to learn how to make your virtual desktop management easy, flexible and secure.

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 | Published: 09 Aug 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study explores the solution one of your peers implemented to meet the growing needs of their client base, ensure availability, performance, and security, and increase their competitive advantage in the cloud services market.

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the specs and details of an option that encompasses server, storage, networking and software resources. Read on to learn how these deeply integrated resources can be deployed in hours rather than days, how its optimized configurations can accelerate purchases and time to value, and so much more.

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides high-level guidelines for assessing cost and complexity of a Linux migration and provides tips for planning a smooth, successful and strategic transition. Discover how your organization can add value to its IT infrastructure with the use of open source software.

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Have too many questions on whether cloud computing is right for your organization? Access this key resource to alleviate your concerns and set you in the right direction to recognize the full benefits of the cloud.

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this case study to discover how one banking institution used an infrastructure platform for their VDI deployment with great results. Learn how this system jumpstarted the process by delivering accelerated assessment and planning and provided valuable benefits like accelerated proof-to concept completion and faster deployment time.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide presents the most important strategic IT and data centre infrastructure trends that you should consider when building a new facility or pursuing technology upgrade. Get essential tips for better energy efficiency and much more.

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 | Published: 11 Jun 2012

VIDEO: To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Client virtualization is a complex beast. This white paper highlights some of the general issues and concerns surrounding this initiative.

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 | Published: 10 Jun 2011

EBOOK: This E-book reveals how building a SOA infrastructure for the cloud requires a truly service-oriented approach and a thorough understanding of the value of services

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

PODCAST: This podcast discusses the challenges that come with a mission-critical environment and the four characteristics of a converged infrastructure to meet the ever-changing demands of business.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Premiered: May 9, 2011

WHITE PAPER: Find out how your business can have a better and more efficient identity management system in this white paper.

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 | Published: 13 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, find answers to four key Web application security questions. Also discover best practices for application-level firewall selection and deployment.

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 | Published: 04 Apr 2011

VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast from CDW Corporation to learn how consolidating your infrastructure can simplify your management platform.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 11, 2011

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat's suite of open source software provides a rich infrastructure for cloud providers to build public/private cloud offerings. This Volume 1 guide for deploying the Red Hat infrastructure for a private cloud describes the foundation for building a Red Hat Private cloud.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper details the revolution that Cloud Computing is bringing to IT and contrasts the new IT approach from traditional approaches. Read now to learn more!

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 | Published: 24 Jan 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: This paper explains how to use shared services to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands, while reducing costs, complexity and server sprawl.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines both the potential successes of a virtualised environment as well as the challenges. Learn the tools and strategies to help you achieve comprehensive data migration and protection across your company's virtualised infrastructure.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Hosted data centers, both outsourced/managed and collocation varieties, provide a unique benefit for some customers through capital savings, employee savings and in some cases an extension of in-house expertise. Traditionally, these facilities were thought of as more SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) customers.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will get you up to speed on all aspects of cloud computing. It will help you examine cloud opportunities, review potential issues, and consider where and how specific information should be processed in your organization. Check out this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Systems Director supports the PowerVM environment and is the IBM platform management tool for multiple heterogeneous servers and advanced management functions such as workload lifecycle management, health check, and topology mappings, as well as the ability to take action on monitored events. Read this paper for more information.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

RESOURCE CENTER: This reference architecture describes the design for deploying and managing high-density clusters of VMs built on two hypervisors—VMware ESX* and Xen*—using Novell Cloud Manager.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: Applying the ideas and principles of cloud computing to IT operations can offer organizations agility and cost savings. Read this paper to learn more about building a cloud infrastructure through the use case presented by Parallels Elastic IT Solution.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

EBOOK: SearchSecurity.com presents a comprehensive guide to NERC compliance. Our experts cover all the angles in order to help your efforts in meeting compliance with the information security standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 24 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the controller-based architecture was created to solve manageability, mobility (as opposed to portability), and high operational expenditure (OPEX) problems that were prevalent in autonomous (fat, thick, standalone) AP implementations.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010