CIO Guide: Hybrid Cloud Use Cases That Reduce TCO and Drive Business Value

This CIO Guide examines several innovative solutions from NetApp that enable organizations to leverage Microsoft Azure in a hybrid cloud environment. NetApp AltaVault helps organizations to lower costs and reduces backup and archiving risks, while NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure improves disaster recovery and deploys primary enterprise workloads.
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IDC Whitepaper: NetApp All Flash FAS: Performance of Flash with Feature-Rich Enterprise Storage Functionality

ESG published white paper focusing on NetApp Flash Strategy and Offerings—a Breadth of Choice. NetApp supports hybrid infrastructures—including cloud as needed—in both principle and in fact. Within that infrastructure, it offers a portfolio of differentiated solutions—multiple all-flash arrays, and multiple hybrid flash arrays—that enable NetApp’s customers to integrate flash into their enterprises in whatever way makes the most sense for their business, needs, and options/constraints. NetApp has been a leading trailblazer in flash for some years now: it is to be applauded for thinking broadly and not just following the herd to certify an SSD or two into its storage boxes.
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Realize the Benefits of OpenStack

A few reasons a company would build their own private cloud focus on three key points: Value extraction, by investing in your custom infrastructure; control and agility, to be able to keep cost down and respond quickly to business needs as they arise; and regulation and compliance, for auditing proof and visibility across business, customer, and partner data. It makes sense to build and own a private cloud when you need to take a custom approach to your company’s cloud configuration. Dell and Intel® allows users to build OpenStack private clouds through a close partnership with RedHat.

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Forrester Reveals Economic Benefits of Private Cloud

Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by investing in an on-premises private cloud. The purpose of this study by Dell and Intel® is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of an on-premises private cloud deployment on their organizations and to understand how leveraging private cloud can help their organization win, serve, and retain customers.

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ITSM Processes for Hybrid Cloud Governance

IT organizations recognize the strategic importance of cloud computing. Hybrid cloud computing, in particular, is a key enabler of the IT agility demanded by lines of business to drive digital innovation. Initial hybrid cloud deployments have been aimed largely at speeding up delivery of IT services. While those agility benefits are still very important, mandates for speed cannot override requirements for risk management, security, and governance.

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Forrester Report: Consider Bare-Metal As A Viable Cloud Option

Bare-metal clouds offer a way for infrastructure and operations professionals to deploy workloads that demand dedicated hardware for performance and isolation reasons with all the operational advantages of VM-based infrastructure-as-a-service cloud services. This report discusses bare-metal clouds, how they differ from conventional IaaS offerings, and how I&O pros can benefit from them. Read this Forrester study to see whether this alternative platform may fit well as another option in your overall services ecosystem.
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