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SOLVING FOR “TOTAL COST” IN THE CLOUD

It’s a simple question: How much is it going to cost to move an application to the cloud? But the answer is not simple, and many businesses suffer costly surprises when they make the move.

This paper shows you how to calculate the total cost of migrating applications to the cloud, including obvious hardware costs as well as the human costs of managing apps in the cloud.

Have you factored in these costs?

• Training related to new skills, tools, and processes

• Server CPU, memory, storage, and monitoring

• VPN and direct connect fees

• Need for additional cloud administrators

• Cost of moving data to the cloud

Providing security for software systems in the cloud

The software industry has learned that putting fancy boxes on the network doesn’t fix bad software. Especially if you’re using cloud-services, you need to focus on the risks they bring to the software you deploy. This paper details risks to software deployed in the cloud and tells you what steps you can take to mitigate those risks.

What Makes a Private Cloud a Cloud?

To run a truly efficient private cloud, the enterprise must have clear visibility into operations, applications, and costs, no matter how heterogeneous the underlying virtualized environment. Read on to learn how to build the ties that bind the private cloud infrastructure to what the business needs. Dell Cloud features Intel® technology.

Intel Inside®. Powerful Cloud (Services) Outside.

**Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

Top Five Reasons to Take Advantage of the Private Cloud Now

If your company has yet to investigate the move to a private cloud infrastructure, it’s clearly bucking the trend. The private cloud - defined as on-premise or hosted cloud-based infrastructure dedicated to your company’s use - has moved from the trendy to the mainstream, and organizations of all sizes and in virtually all industries are beginning to invest in private cloud solutions. Dell Cloud features Intel® technology. Download this paper to learn more.

Intel Inside®. Powerful Cloud (Services) Outside.

**Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

Building the Business Case for Cloud: Real Ways Private Cloud Can Benefit Your Organization

Companies and IT organizations are exploring migrating to a cloud architecture today in order to rein in IT costs, gain the flexibility and agility to deliver new and better services, and meet rapidly evolving business requirements. Read this paper to further learn how:

• Leveraging cloud technology can help drive costs while enabling service-oriented IT.
• Private and hybrid cloud approached improve application delivery.
• Cloud implementations increase agility and help organizations adjust to meet customer and worker expectations.
• Dell Cloud features Intel® technology.

Intel Inside®. Powerful Cloud (Services) Outside.

**Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

Three Tough Business Challenges a Private Cloud Can Handle

More organizations are discovering that private cloud gives IT the right foundation to tackle three tough business challenges every day. This paper by Dell and Intel® highlights these 3 challenges and the smart solutions that private cloud offers.

Intel Inside®. Powerful Cloud (Services) Outside.

**Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

Building a Windows Based Private Cloud

Information technology pervades all aspects of organizations today including operational systems like financial processing or customer-facing applications like e-commerce or partner management. Today there is an “IT on demand” mindset that expects rapid delivery of innovative technology solutions at lower costs. This trend is driving the adoption of cloud capabilities. Download this paper from Dell and Intel® to learn more.

Intel Inside®. Powerful Cloud (Services) Outside.

**Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

Development in Motion: Wrangling the Moving Targets of Hybrid Cloud and Multiple Mobile Platforms

The evolution of IT infrastructure is no more evident than in the development teams that must provide access and linkage to the growing number of apps--in-house, packaged, and SaaS--that comprise today's infrastructure. This Pulse discusses the results of a recent Slashdot Media survey that looks at the challenges facing developers today, how the primary development target is evolving, and how strategies are changing to embrace public, private, and hybrid-Cloud models. Respondents to the survey were asked four questions regarding their challenges in development and their needs regarding infrastructure and PaaS. Download now to view the results.

The Cloud App Visibility Blindspot

This white paper covers the significant blindspot in visibility and increased risks for organizations in the face of “Shadow IT”. In addition, this paper covers why traditional controls that secure your on-premise environment don’t provide the required visibility into user activity and risks related to cloud app use.

Digital Media and Gaming Company Protects Cloud-based Apps and Services on AWS

In anticipation of a major product launch, this online gaming company decided to host its e-commerce applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), rather than invest significant time and money upgrading physical data centers. Delivering services in the cloud exposed the organization to web attacks, data theft, and fraud. Learn how this company found protection with Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall for AWS.

IaaS Reference Architectures: for AWS

Data center, IT and Operations Architects can now secure their web applications whether they are on-premise, in a virtual environment or in the most popular public cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blueprint document provides guidance on architecting security for cloud-based web applications.

Best Practice Security in a Cloud-Enabled World

This report explores that security in a fast-paced technology-infused world cries for an “invest once and deploy everywhere” approach. For this to be realized, security must be planned in advance and built-in, yet still be fluidly adaptable to circumstances, and singularly controllable.

On Demand Webinar: IT Analytics for the User-Centric Enterprise

BMC recognizes that the growing complexity of IT Environments makes manual log analysis unrealistic. The lack of correlation between log data and normal monitoring events impacts the total time to resolve an issue.
TrueSight Operations Management with integrated TrueSight IT Data Analytics monitors a wide variety of applications and infrastructure and correlates that information with your logs.

Learn how TrueSight delivers the following:

Intuitive Interface
Intelligent Data Processing
Effective Collaboration
Horizontal Scalability
Quick Time to Value

Forrester TAP Study: Capacity Management Benefits in the Cloud

To realize the full benefits of the cloud, you need to choose the right type of cloud for your needs and optimize the workloads you put there. In this commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC, you will see that 93% of US and UK IT decision-makers surveyed consider capacity management important or very important to their cloud strategy. Learn how using capacity management to manage workloads in the cloud helps you:

Make sure your cloud environment is optimized
Increase flexibility and continuity for your organization
Obtain significant business and economic benefits

Forrester: Business Applications Take Innovation Beyond The Cloud

As the shift to the cloud broadens across more business application types, application development and delivery, professionals are torn between maintaining key operational systems and making investments in innovative platforms that drive better customer experiences and business process innovation.

This report highlights five key predictions for 2015 in the context of your applications budget, portfolio mix, selection criteria, and the evolving vendor landscape.