Definitions, Benefits & ROI

Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - IBRS

IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services reveals the key points from Strategic Path’s executive peer-group roundtable Strategic Path’s roundtable discussions aim to foster better understanding ...

Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - Roundtable

Strategic Path discusses best practices and IT infrastructure challenges with IBM’s Chris Fasseau and Michael Shallcross, and Dylan Morison of Cisco. This compelling panel discussion was moderated by Kevin McIsaac, following a longer end-user rou...

AFCOM - Asset Management and Data Centre Optimisation

By William L. Dibella, President, AFCOM The age old business questions never change. For decades, we have asked: how do I lower cost, increase revenue, improve efficiency, lower risk, keep up with change and reduce head count all while continuing to...

DEHWA - Energy Efficiency and the Regulation of Servers

E3 attempts to harmonise its approach with US EPA approach in building benchmarks for computer servers and data centres. By Shane Holt, Director - Appliance Energy Efficiency Team, Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts. During th...

Gartner - Virtualisation and Software Licensing: Tread Carefully

Virtualisation and Software Licensing: Tread Carefully Many organisations are implementing virtual machine technology, not only as part of server and storage consolidation but increasingly, to also improve manageability and security on PCs. But the im...

Prism - Service Oriented Architecture: applications, origins and a story from the wilderness

Service Oriented Architecture: applications, origins and a story from the wilderness I especially enjoy having the opportunity to contribute articles to a magazine that specialises in information technology topics. In such a young industry innovation ...

Strategic Path - Virtualisation Roundtable

The Strategic Path Virtualisation Roundtable Naveen Sharma, Associate Director of Information Services at Griffith University, puts his questions to our panel. Naveen teaches in the Master of Technology Management and Master of Business Administrat...

Strategic Path - Data Centre Designs and Blade Servers

Data centre designs and blade servers By Kirsten Marsh , STRATEGIC PATH WRITER The server has long been an indispensable part of the company information network. Acting as distributor of information, providing connections between workstations and, ...

Iron Mountain - Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery

INTRODUCTION Backup of vital company information is critical to a company’s survival, no matter what size the company. Recent studies show that 93% of businesses that lose data due to a disaster go out of business within two years. Increasi...

Iron Mountain - Protecting Server Data in Small and Medium-sized Businesses

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Protecting critical business information stored on servers in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is increasingly challenging.The pervasive use of computer resources throughout business operations not only continues to increas...

Iron Mountain - Iron Mountain’s LiveVault: Automated Data Protection Maximizes Your Productivity, Profitability and Competitive Advantage

Data protection is critical to your company’s daily operations and long-term interests. Traditional backup and recovery methods involve time-consuming tasks that can keep technical staff from business priorities that could improve your productivi...

Iron Mountain - THE BUSINESS CASE FOR DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING: CALCULATING THE COST OF DOWNTIME

WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF DOWNTIME? Over the past 20 to 30 years, businesses of all sizes have steadily grown more dependent on their expanding IT infrastructures to help them automate, manage, and analyze their business operations and strategy. Whether...

Iron Mountain - LiveVault® Software Planning and Best Practices Guide

1. Introduction The LiveVault Software™ gives you the ability to implement an entirely disk-based backup and off site archiving solution custom tailored to the needs of your business. This guide will help you plan your LiveVault deployment and h...

Iron Mountain - Automatic Data Protection, Easy Data Restoration, Unmatched Scalability

Connected DataProtector/PC™ is the market-leading solution for automatic desktop and laptop data protection and userfriendly data restoration. DataProtector virtually eliminates the risk of PC data loss, by automatically backing up desktop and la...

Iron Mountain - RL Corporation

CUSTOMER: RL Corporation, parent company of Lordi Consulting and Peopleflex BUSINESS: Leading suppliers of accounting and staffing services in Philadelphia CHALLENGE: Keeping an increasing amount of client and company data safe and easily recoverable...

Iron Mountain - Preserving Resources With Electronic Vaulting

CUSTOMER: The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality BUSINESS: State Government Agency CHALLENGE: To protect critical environmental regulatory data and internal operational data, distributed across multiple servers and locations. The Michiga...

Iron Mountain - Home Paramount Pest Control

CLIENT: Home Paramount Pest Control BUSINESS: Pest Control CHALLENGE: Keeping Data Protection a Priority Despite Limited Resources Founded in 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland, family-run Home Paramount Pest Control has grown to include nearly 500 emplo...

VMWare - Improve your ROI with Virtualisation

Improve your ROI with Virtualisation As organisations around the world embrace virtualisation as a tool for driving capital and operational efficiencies, Paul Harapin explains why decoupling your software and hardware infrastructure can save thousands...

VMWare - Delivering High Performance

Delivering High Performance WebCentral’s rapid growth meant that the Web company’s needs would, in the medium term, outstrip its IT infrastructure’s capacity to deliver. In response, the company turned to virtualisation as a means of...

Iron Mountain - Protecting Distributed Laptop and Server Data

Protecting Distributed Laptop and Server Data Protecting critical business information stored on servers at remote and branch offices as well as that of remote laptop users presents unique challenges to those responsible for protecting data. The perva...

Kingston Technology - The Role of Memory in VMware Servers

The Role of Memory in VMware ESX Server 3 Introduction The memory management capabilities of VMware ESX Server 3.0 provide a unique and sophisticated way to maximize the usage of physical memory within a single box. For many workloads, memory is th...

Egenera - Advantages Egenera PAN Architecture

Advantages of the Egenera Processing Area Network (PAN) Architecture Executive Summary Enterprise datacenters are filled with underutilized hardware platforms rigidly tied to specific applications—the direct result of a legacy computing archi...

Egenera - Case Study

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group “With the BladeFrame as our common infrastructure, every application benefits from the mission-critical services and capabilities Egenera has built into its architecture—at no added cost.” Satoshi Hama...

TAS - The route to virtualisation and selling the concept

The route to virtualisation and selling the concept. Technical Architecture Solutions Introduction This whitepaper deals with a common problem experienced by CIOs. The financial and business returns of virtualisation are significant but how do you...

Acronis - Protecting Virtual Servers Case Study

Protecting Virtual Servers with Acronis True Image IT organizations have discovered that virtualization technology can simplify server management and reduce total operating costs. Despite the technical and economic benefits of virtualization, though...