White Papers
Managed Cloud Services (MCS)
The Six Most-Overlooked Principles in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies
The modern BCDR discipline presents exceptional opportunities to increase efficiency, lower costs, and reduce risk. For IT organizations contemplating a makeover of their BCDR operations, this whitepaper reviews key principles, precepts, and practices that should be factored into go-forward plans.
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Security Issues in the Cloud and How to Address Them
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Mike Pittenger, security industry analyst and expert, discusses cloud computing security strategies. Enterprise IT security technology, policies and procedures need to be augmented rather than revolutionized to accommodate new attack surfaces that may be introduced by cloud computing. The most effective approach is still a layered defense, based on a security framework.
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Implications for IT
The predictions that many industry pundits have been making about the rise of BYOD are coming to fruition. The surprise is that it is happening at a much-accelerated rate in businesses of all sizes, around the world. While BYOD is increasingly important for employee satisfaction, it poses significant challenges to IT in terms of security risks, productivity loss, support issues and costs.
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The Hybrid Cloud
Is the future of computing in the cloud? Increasingly, it appears headed in that direction. Cloud computing presents numerous cost, agility, and operational advantages that are undeniably compelling. However, risk-averse enterprise IT professionals are understandably cautious about simply moving their entire IT portfolio of resources and services into a 100-percent cloud architecture. That’s why so many IT professionals advocate a so-called “hybrid” approach.
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Cloud Benefits Beyond ROI
Cloud Benefits Beyond ROI
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This white paper, explores the value the cloud brings through business transformation that is fueled by continuous innovation and uses real-world customer experiences to examine:
- IT Innovation: Relieving IT Teams from the burden of managing applications, infrastructure, and desktops enables creativity and innovation.
- Application Delivery: IT teams can more quickly implement their ideas because they don’t need to find the time, budget, and space to provision servers, storage, and networking.
- Increased employee efficiency and satisfaction: Employees can capitalize on the IT team’s innovations to do their jobs better, creating a sustainable business advantage in today’s fast-paced marketplace.
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