More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems. 

This document presents a reference architecture and additional controls needed to address the three cloud challenges to achieve PCI compliance. 

In the September 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Eric Siebert clears up some of the confusion as he looks at the characteristics of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and reviews the pros and cons of each for virtual environments. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security. 

Access this resource to learn how you can simplify and streamline the management of your IBM i servers with a comprehensive solution set designed for your system’s architecture. 

Check out this expert E-Guide to learn about new vSphere Storage 1/0 control for virtual environments, how it eliminates storage bottlenecks, and how to configure it. Also learn about VMware’s latest release – vSphere 5 –and what it means for storage administrators. 

Voice over Internet Protocol is the future of enterprise telecommunications. Find out if VoIP is the right choice for your company right now. Discover the benefits VoIP has to offer and how to overcome potential pitfalls during deployment. 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

<p>Organizations often struggle to fully realize the benefits of virtualization due to the complexity of controlling identities, access and information. In this resource, uncover how to successfully deploy virtualization projects, while providing the right security controls over privileged user access across virtual and physical environments.</p> 

Watch this video for a brief overview of the future-ready Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays, focusing on the innovations, such as UltraFlex modular I/O and virtual provisioning of this highly flexible storage platform. 

This research brief is based on a recent Tech Target survey with more than 200 storage administrators and IT professionals in mid-sized and enterprise-class companies, and focuses on how these decision-makers view the storage-related challenges that result from server virtualization.