Flash Storage For Dummies, NetApp Special Edition

Flash Storage for Dummies, NetApp 2nd Special Edition, describes the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From flash-accelerated storage to all-flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures. The book examines various elements of flash storage: how it evolved, and why you should consider it for your storage infrastructure. The book explores key differences in NetApp’s flash storage solutions: NetApp Flash Cache, Flash Pool, all-flash FAS, and the EF-Series. You’ll also learn five strategies for using Flash in your next storage project. In that classic For Dummies style, you’ll get some useful tips on how to best incorporate flash in your IT environment.
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Flash Storage For Dummies, NetApp Special Edition

Flash Storage for Dummies, NetApp 2nd Special Edition, describes the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From flash-accelerated storage to all-flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures. The book examines various elements of flash storage: how it evolved, and why you should consider it for your storage infrastructure. The book explores key differences in NetApp’s flash storage solutions: NetApp Flash Cache, Flash Pool, all-flash FAS, and the EF-Series. You’ll also learn five strategies for using Flash in your next storage project. In that classic For Dummies style, you’ll get some useful tips on how to best incorporate flash in your IT environment.
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Build vs Buy tool

How Much Capital Can You Save? The decision to build or buy your next data center is complex - involving a variety of inputs from construction, lease, and labor costs, to forecasting future needs. That's no easy task for IT heads of infrastructure, which is why this simple tool was developed. Create a personalized cost savings analysis and see the potential savings you can achieve when you choose to manage your business, not your data center. Calculate now.
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VersaStack CVD – VersaStack for Data Center with Direct Attached Storage

This document describes the architecture and deployment procedures of an infrastructure composed of Cisco®, IBM ®, and VMware® virtualization that uses IBM Storwize V7000 Unified storage serving both file and block protocols. The intended audience for this document includes, but is not limited to, sales engineers, field consultants, professional services, IT managers, partner engineering, and customers who want to deploy the core VersaStack architecture with IBM Storwize V7000.
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VersaStack At-a-Glance

Combining the performance and operational efficiency of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure and IBM Storwize storage, the VersaStack solution offers ease and speed of deployment with operational agility and the power of unified management.
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Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation

Download the CenturyLink executive brief "Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation” and explore how cost efficiencies can be achieved via the different elements of a Hybrid IT infrastructure outsource approach, allowing IT groups to apply more of the IT budget to innovation.

Learn how even a small percentage reduction in IT infrastructure costs can dramatically increase the funding available for innovating new applications or other initiatives critical to business success.

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Enterprise Strategy Group: “Transforming the Enterprise with a Dynamic IT Infrastructure”

Imagine an environment where business decisions drive application choices of policy, with no regard for infrastucture, where best practives are implemented based soley on business requirements - and a "guaranteed service level" means just that. The IT of the future will be an elaborate business operation unencumbered by past technology decisions, one capable of providing exact service levels to multiple constituencies while continually optimizing costs. In this environment, IT will evolve into an even more valuable "weapon" for the business, with the ability to react quickly and cost-effectively, to deliver seamless user experience and become a true digital enterprise that leverages digital technology as a competitive advantage.

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

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IDC ExpertROI® SPOTLIGHT Equinix

The day-to-day benefits of cloud-based service automation are well-documented. But what can be harder to ascertain is the quantitative benefits, the money saved, and the impact on the company’s bottom line.

IDC and Equinix teamed up to crystallize the benefits of true economic benefits of ServiceNow’s IT service automation. Download this report to learn:

• The average annual benefits of Service now over five years
• The actual time to payback of the ServiceNow investment
• The true ROI of ServiceNow

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Meet Business Demands and Drive I.T. Innovation

Red Hat can help you gain control of your IT infrastructure at a lower cost. Red Hat®Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat Virtualization gives you the simplified management, military-grade security, and infrastracture flexibility you need to respond quickly to business demands now and innovate in the future. Plus, you’ll be ready for the move to the cloud when the right time comes.
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Casio Strengthens Its Core IT Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Casio set out to create and transform its business through the use of innovative IT. In doing so, the company wanted to deliver IT solutions that created business processes and contributed to effective business management. Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization has not only cut costs for Casio, but has also helped the company effectively handle business management challenges and prepare for a future cloud environment.
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Converged Solutions: Platforms for 21st Century Enterprises – PART 3

Sponsored by Dell and Intel®

This TechByte series looks into three pillars of converged solution success – speed of deployment, lowering TCO through automation and increasing flexibility through modularity – and demonstrates how your business will benefit from a converged solution approach to infrastructure.

Watch this webcast to learn:

• How virtualization has led to converged infrastructure
• How to speed deployment of new applications and services
• Why converged solutions bring overall IT costs down
• How convergence can enable powerful analytics to help drive business decisions
• What you should do now to prepare for converged solutions in your business

Intel Inside®. Powerful Data Center Outside.

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