To deliver high-demand content to a widely dispersed pool of internet users, a cache-based Content Delivery Network is the way to go. This type of CDN stores duplicates content near user access points, reducing distance-imposed latency and improving video and audio quality. This paper weighs the pros and cons of using a network-based CDN provider. 

In this audio excerpt from his video presentation "Inside the cloud: Key security factors when considering managed services,"Jeff Reich discusses a few of the key technical risk factors involved with cloud computing. 

Read this special report that reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more. 

The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS. 

Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment. 

This whitepaper discusses the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long‐term ILM strategy. 

Delivering high-demand content to a large number of end-users that are spread out geographically can be a difficult task. Long distances between content and users can cause latency, jitter, and reductions in audio/video quality. Read this paper to find out if a cache-based content delivery network is appropriate for your network. 

As data center infrastructures become increasingly complex, so do the IT processes--such as incident management and server provisioning--that keep infrastructure up and running. 

This videocast highlights the importance of metrics and measurements for enabling efficient and optimized physical, virtual or cloud data centers and storage. It discusses some different metrics, for example performance, availability/data protection, and capacity/space. It also gives tips for what metrics to use when, where to use them, and why 

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies. 

Non-compliance with HIPAA can affect the integrity and security of an organization's entire IT system. Read this paper to learn how combining technologies with security policies can help your organization reduce the risks associated with mobile devices. 

This document describes how to extend the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution™ using the BlackBerry Mobile Data System™ (BlackBerry MDS™) to provide a mobile workforce with access to a wide range of corporate data and applications.