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According to recent ESG research, 70% of IT respondents indicated they plan to invest in HCI over the next 24 months. IT planners are increasingly turning toward HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions to simplify and speed up infrastructure deployments, ease day-to-day operational management, reduce costs, and increase IT speed and agility. HCI consists of a nodal-based architecture whereby all the required virtualized compute, storage, and networking assets are self-contained inside individual nodes. These nodes are, in effect, discrete virtualized computing resources “in a box.” However, they are typically grouped together to provide resiliency, high performance, and flexible resource pooling. And since HCI appliances can scale out to large configurations over time, these systems can provide businesses with investment protection and a simpler, more agile, and cost-effective way to deploy virtualized computing infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more.

Today’s business climate demands that corporations have a flexible computing infrastructure. Because of the agility it provides, cloud computing is garnering interest in many organisations. As they look at such possible deployments, however, some CIOs become hamstrung by security concerns. They feel that the traditional method of securing information in premises-based systems is the best way. While that option worked for many years, the threat landscape today is more diverse and more potentially damaging than ever before.

Cisco HyperFlex™ Systems, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, deliver a new generation of hyperconverged solutions that are flexible, scalable, and enterprise class. They combine the software-defined networking and software-defined computing of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) with Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform software to provide a single distributed, multitier, objectbased data store with enterprise storage features

A flexible and optimized infrastructure requires unshackling computing from physical servers.

Today’s mega IT trends – cloud computing, big data, mobile and social media –have dramatically altered how enterprises work, requiring datacenters to find new, more flexible and cost effective ways to meet computing demands. For most datacenters, the path toward tomorrow's compute paradigm mandates an investment in standardization and consolidation as well as a more robust adoption of enterprise virtualization software, along with cloud system software to extend that virtualized infrastructure into a true private cloud environment. Linux has emerged as one of the key elements to a modernization program for a datacenter.

This paper describes the characteristics of a modern middleware platform and how companies benefit by migrating from older inflexible monolithic infrastructures to a modular and flexible environment.

Flexible infrastructure choices and application architectures are changing the way that modern enterprises run their computing. Enterprises have become application-centric, investing significant effort and resources on continuous delivery goals and DevOps practices to achieve automation of routine IT and operations tasks. With application owners seeking public-cloud-like simplicity and agility in their own data centers, IT teams are under pressure to reduce wait times to provision applications and updates.

Dell servers have been optimized to help provide strong support for the latest ESX release, VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2, including enhanced performance for virtualized environments based on support for six-core Intel Xeon processors. Organizations that do not approach server virtualization with a clear plan risk developing a chaotic, inflexible infrastructure that wastes energy and resources.

Virtualization has made compute infrastructure and storage infrastructure an order of magnitude more flexible, yielding huge gains in IT efficiency. However, the network has not achieved the same efficiency gains. Unlike the advancements in compute and storage virtualization, networking has not kept pace, and has become a barrier to achieving the promise of enterprise cloud computing. As enterprise IT continues its transition to the Cloud Era, the data center network is once again taking center stage.

Today's businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in "patterns of expertise" to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.

A flexible and optimized infrastructure requires unshackling computing from physical servers.

In the spring of 2012, IBM® introduced its PureSystems family of intelligent, integrated, powerful and flexible computing systems. At that time, IBM committed to a continuing process of improvement and additions to these systems as technology and innovation evolved.

Digital business requires a culture of organizational agility, as the rapid pace of demand can only be satisfied by faster and more flexible development and delivery models. Most organizations do not have the luxury of completely rebuilding their technology foundation or immediately adopting new practices and mindsets, so they are embracing gradual yet fundamental shifts in culture, processes, and technology to support greater velocity and agility. The cloud-native approach modernizes existing applications and builds new applications based on cloud principles, using services and adopting processes optimized for the agility and automation of cloud computing.

Cloud computing today is fundamentally altering business processes and changing the way organizations interact with customers, partners, and employees. This transformation brings incredible opportunities, including the ability to build a realtime enterprise where interaction and innovation flourish, and more agile, flexible, and cost-effective practices thrive. Yet cloud computing also presents significant challenges. The path to value is not clearly marked, and there are potential stumbling points along the way. Please download the whitepaper to learn more!

As organizations evolve from virtualized infrastructures to private clouds, IT management must measure success by the efficiencies of the infrastructure in providing end users with flexible and cost-effective services and service levels. NetApp® OnCommand® Insight storage resource management software provides service analytics that help enterprises manage the complexity of this transition. OnCommand Insight provides a holistic view into complex multivendor and multiprotocol storage services and powerful analytics to help organizations fully leverage the promise of cloud computing.

As organizations evolve from virtualized infrastructures to private clouds, IT management must measure success by the efficiencies of the infrastructure in providing end users with flexible and cost-effective services and service levels. NetApp® OnCommand® Insight storage resource management software provides service analytics that help enterprises manage the complexity of this transition. OnCommand Insight provides a holistic view into complex multivendor and multiprotocol storage services and powerful analytics to help organizations fully leverage the promise of cloud computing.

Public institutions—particularly government and higher education—need cost-efficient, flexible computing and storage solutions just as much if not more than corporations do. The time for virtualization is now.

Today's businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in "patterns of expertise" to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.

Today’s businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in “patterns of expertise” to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.

The world is changing. A new reality is emerging for organizations of every size from every part of the planet. It is called the cloud—a profound evolution of IT with revolutionary implications for business and society, creating new possibilities and enabling more efficient, flexible and collaborative computing models. The term “cloud,” however, holds different meanings to different audiences.

Today’s businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in “patterns of expertise” to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to gain traction over traditional on-premise software licensing models as organizations aggressively seek more cost-effective, flexible and robust computing solutions. This paper will help you understand and calculate the true costs of SaaS to determine what benefits this important resource-maximizing approach can offer your company now and in the future.

Today's advanced datacenters need flexible, multi-tenant ADCs to deliver on the full promise of virtualization and cloud computing. This free Citrix white paper explains why!