This brief expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com explains how CIO Steve Cretney successfully pitched his case for a new cloud computing model at Lands' End. Read this now and also gain leadership intuition to help you sharpen your soft skills and convince your business' leaders to share your vision, too. 

Discover how a gap analysis can reveal areas where the reality and long-term vision of your organization are diverging and provide the momentum  needed to start adopting service management best practices. Find out how gap analysis can help your company identify what it does well and how to achieve its goals. 

This case study highlights the challenges faced by an independent production company and the benefits achieved through the adoption of Quantum's StorNext digital workflow solution. 

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first engineered system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimagined management simplicity. 

New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. 

Enterprise organizations need to take a serious look at end-to-end application performance management. 

Whether you are trying to reduce costs, manage risks, decrease capital expenditures, or expand your business, you must make sure to select the right service that offers the experience and expertise to help you achieve your goals. Access this resource to learn how to leverage your vital strategic resources while transforming your credit services. 

In this comprehensive resource, learn how you can build virtualization and cloud-ready data centers and examine the role that network convergence plays in ensuring a top-level network architecture. Explore important convergence considerations, including cost, security, high availability and more. 

Download this report from Accenture to discover the 6 IT technology trends that will impact CIOs in 2012. 

Using two of the Intel SS4000-E storage servers mirrored for additional redundancy, Philips has cut about USD 10 thousand off the storage cost for more than one terabyte of data by eliminating the need to buy expensive optical disks. 

With the amount of data center consolidation occurring today, moving to server virtualization has happened very quickly. This whitepaper discuss SPB and TRILL, two emerging technologies that wish to virtualize networks without adding complexity. 

This white paper maps out how EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems preserves data integrity, meets stringent RTO/RPO objectives, and integrates easily into a multitude of active SQL or third-party backup environments. 

<p>Too often, organizations choose x86-based platforms over more cost-effective mainframe alternatives. This white paper reviews the key benefits of the mainframe and discusses the savings you can expect by using these systems to support heavy I/O applications in your Linux environment.</p>