This paper examines technology advancements in storage and explores how using these technologies in conjunction with virtualization can solve your storage challenges. 

Changing business requirements and customer demands are pushing cloud to the forefront. Access this exclusive report from IDC to investigate the key benefits that cloud has over traditional delivery models, current market trends, cloud offerings and challenges providers are facing. 

This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics. 

This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now. 

This essential e-zine offers expert insights from industry guru Brian Madden on the ins and outs of desktop virtualization from the basics to the many complexities.  Madden covers key topics such as app virtualization, the differences between “TCO” and “ROI”, desktop virtualization's effect on the network and much more. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

When ABD Insurance & Financial decided to switch its email environment from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange, the company knew it would have to optimize its network. By offering a variety of flexible equipment and applications, Riverbed met the company’s diverse needs for WAN optimization, DR, and replication services. 

Troubleshooting is a necessary evil. Where does one start when the operating system does not start, the application does not load or run correctly, the network hangs or a network service does not listen or perform? Linux is noted for being rock solid, stable, and easy to manage but not as user friendly. 

Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture.  

This series examines some of the implications of virtualization for small and medium-sized businesses. In this note, we examine opportunities to leverage virtualization to automate service level management. 

Business continuity and disaster recovery can mean a rapid return to operations or financial downfall. This IDC white paper highlights the challenges and best practices for implementing continuity and recovery solutions, and details how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable firms to meet their recovery requirements.