Adding, moving, decommissioning and renaming devices in the data center should be a simple process. But in today’s complex data centers, these tasks have become something of a high-wire act, fraught with inefficiency and risk. Trends like virtualization are only compounding the difficulty. In these dense environments,...
Published: Apr 01, 2014
Ten years ago, IT was a lot simpler – especially when it came to backup and recovery. But now that recovery has less to do with tape backup and physical facilities and more to do with the cloud and virtualisation, IT needs to find a more adaptive approach to this critical process.
This infographic examines some...
Published: Mar 13, 2014
Call us cynical but if you ask us, whomever it was that said, “a change is as good as a rest”, they clearly never worked in IT.
Don’t get us wrong. We know better than anyone that truly successful businesses embrace the future. That they move forward and adapt in order to thrive. We know that...
Published: Jan 14, 2016
The Promise of Business Intelligence, Delivered at Last
Every business trying to compete and win needs intelligence – about their customers, suppliers, products, partners, and markets. Over the decades, the pursuit of that intelligence has gone by different names, including Decision Support Systems,...
Published: Sep 27, 2019
The modern data center is no longer a singular location. Rather, new demands require the data center to be a geographically distributed network of resources. As new services, cloud components and users find their way into the data center model – there will be more reliance around the services that the data center...
Published: Aug 19, 2014
Ransomware isn’t new. In fact, it’s 30-years-old . What IS new is ransomware’s sudden rise as a favored attack by cyber criminals . Cyber crime has become a lucrative business and, unfortunately, ransomware has become an integral attack method that many organizations are fighting a losing battle against. ...
Published: Aug 02, 2019
Regulating temperatures in the modern data center can be a challenging task. In this data center cooling survey, Data Center Knowledge set out to find out how those responsible for managing data center environments coped with cooling them. It quizzed people with managerial roles in modern data centers to determine their...
Published: Jun 09, 2014
Cybersecurity must be a top-level priority for any organization and for many it is. Security should be viewed holistically and should include a range of elements, including layered, technology-based solutions on-premises and in the cloud; security awareness training to help employees become a more integral part of security...
Published: Aug 02, 2019
Oracle ERP systems are often the most critical IT applications an organization has. Any missteps in administration or hardware configuration can be very costly to a business. Given the complexity of the tasks they perform, the Oracle applications require the correct hardware configuration in addition to specialized expertise...
Published: Sep 04, 2014
Mobility remains a top strategic opportunity for businesses of all kinds, due to its potential to make an enterprise far more competitive, whether by making employees more productive or by enabling more innovative ways to engage with customers. To serve this mobile workforce and customer base, enterprises must securely...
Published: Apr 20, 2016
Security teams have a difficult task to perform, and it’s not getting any easier. IT environments are becoming more complex, threats are becoming more sophisticated, and the number of known vulnerabilities is dramatically increasing. In addition, there is a critical shortage of skilled IT security specialists, and...
Published: May 29, 2019
The success of a hybrid cloud approach requires a private cloud that can deliver agility and self-service—and full control over performance and availability—while reducing costs versus public cloud.
Download this guide to delivering and simplifying private cloud at scale with NetApp HCI.
Published: Nov 01, 2018
Survey highlights key challenges and opportunities for improving services in the workplace A new report from ServiceNow, “Today’s State of Work: The Service Experience Gap,” shows that business services typically fall far short of the service experiences we enjoy in our personal lives.
Despite...
Published: Oct 10, 2016
Microsoft made a massive push to the cloud in 2014, and as a result Office 365 is taking off. We’re seeing it in how Okta customers are using Okta to connect to Office 365 in increasing numbers.
This eGuide provides some data from the Okta Application Network on the trends we are seeing around Office 365. It...
Published: Nov 08, 2016