This six-page Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to cloud networking highlights the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals need to consider as they plan their networking  strategies. 

This paper documents the file storage challenges users face and how the HP StorageWorks X9000 systems help organizations address and overcome storage performance, density, management, cost, and deployment issues. 

Dolphin’s Content Archive Service for Cloud lets SAP users use Storage as a Service as an ArchiveLink repository. The service allows a direct connection from the SAP archiving layer to major public cloud provider. It’s an option that makes sense for any organization, whether or not you are running other SAP solutions in the cloud. 

This white paper details the attributes of HP 3PAR Utility Storage powered by Intel® Xeon® processors that make it especially suitable for virtual server environments.  

When seeking modern data protection, many have turned to native array-based snapshot technologies, which combine frequent recovery points and minimum operational disruption. However, snapshot management varies significantly by storage platform and often results in more complexity and risk than most organizations bargained for. 

This white paper describes the challenges IT organizations face when managing large numbers of user desktop systems and explains how Oracle's integrated desktop virtualization and storage solution can help. 

IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats they have to deal with in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs. 

A significant number of younger employees today blur the boundaries between their business and private email accounts out of frustration with their corporate IT infrastructure. This white paper reveals the key findings of a work habits report centering on email communication, and reveals how you can encourage your users to communicate responsibly. 

The concept of virtualization can still be quite confusing, especially as the term can be applied to many aspects of an IT infrastructure including applications, networks, storage and end-users. Find out what virtualization is and how it's helping companies improve efficiencies, resource utilization, cost reductions, automation and more! 

Data center virtualization not only consolidates IT resources and boosts efficiency, but increases flexibility, performance and availability. By combining storage virtualization by Compellent with server virtualization by VMware, users know their data center will operate efficiently today and adapt to change tomorrow. 

There are a number of considerations users should be aware of when looking at scale-out vs. scale-up approaches as related to database storage. Learn more here. 

In this podcast, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization. Find out about PCIe bus extenders' advantages and disadvantages for users, the necessary steps, requirements to implementing them, and more. Listen to this podcast to learn more.