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Time for Converged Infrastructure?

Managing corporate information technology infrastructure has long centered on the challenge of getting the pieces—servers, storage, networks—to work together.

With converged infrastructure (CI), that work is done ahead of time and behind the scenes. So it can be easier to install, deploy, update, and manage infrastructure, as well as to optimize its performance, minimize its cost, and maximize its business value. IT organizations can rescue skilled staff from “keeping the lights on” and focus them on realizing new technology-enabled business opportunities.

Software defined networking in the new business frontier

IBM's white paper looks at the trends driving the move to SDN, the implications for the enterprise and the actions you can take to optimize the outcome for your business

Empowering the Digital User

To empower the enterprise to stay ahead of the new digital user and see how other forward-thinking enterprises are harnessing progressive Interconnected Oriented Architectures™ today download the Empowering the Digital User White Paper.

Forrester Report – Strategically Locate Your Next Data Center

Are your business systems, applications and content close to where your customers are? If not, then you have an opportunity to rethink your data center’s location to deliver the best customer experience possible ‐ and colocation can play an important role.

Gartner – Use Colocation Networking

Colocation has evolved from simple space and power to become a key element in enterprise networking. Beyond simply connecting compute assets to the enterprise, colocation networking can enable new business models, support the move to hosting and the cloud, and reshape the enterprise WAN.

Gartner – Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance

The cloud is impacting WAN architectures. IT leaders looking to use a cloud-based infrastructure and/or application services, especially high-bandwidth, real-time voice and video over Internet Protocol applications, should strategically locate communications hubs outside the enterprise data center.

Networking for a smarter data center

Your network plays an essential role in how efficiently other IT resources are connected, utilized and secured. That’s why the network should be addressed in the early stages of your cloud design. But too often, a network plan is tacked onto an all-but-completed cloud solution. The result: a cloud solution that delivers less-than-optimal business value. Read this white paper to learn about the potential networking ramifications of various cloud deployment models and learn how to meet these challenges head on.

Redefining networks for CAMSS

Cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security place new demands on enterprise LAN, WLAN and data center networks. Read this paper to learn what those demands are and how IBM can help address them.

Redefining networks for cloud, analytics, mobile and social

This paper explores the implications of cloud, big data and analytics, mobile, social business and the evolving IT security landscape on data center and enterprise networks and the changes that organizations will need to make in order to capitalize on these technology force.

Optimizing your network for virtualization, convergence and cloud

Cloud computing, consolidation/virtualization and integrated computing systems strain existing data center networks. IBM solutions help re-configure networks for greatly improved performance.

What is Downtime Costing Your Hospital?

Think about the last time your information systems were down. Patient admissions, medical records, and other data collection had to be done on paper, which later had to be scanned in or manually entered into the system. Or maybe the data was never collected at all? How many thousands of dollars in overtime did that cost you—not to menƟ on your damaged reputation from backlogged admissions and delayed orders. How many future clients did you lose from that one incident? How many of your nursing or offi ce staff quit in frustration? How would you like to prevent that from ever happening again?

Deliver a Better Service Management User Experience

The role of enterprise service management technology has changed. For many years the focus has been on improving IT efficiency through process automation and industrialized IT. While this approach has many benefits, it doesn't go far enough to address the needs of the modern digital business. User experience and productivity are the new measures of success.

This white paper explores the four key elements for modernizing service management through engaging user experiences.

The Role of the Network in Cloud Computing

For a network that better supports your cloud and brings the most value possible to your business, its design has to be considered in the early stages of cloud planning. Read the white paper "Networking for cloud computing" to discover specific networking considerations for public, private and hybrid clouds.

HP Network Virtualisation for Mobile

HP Network Virtualisation for Mobile is the only network virtualisation solution designed specifically for the unique requirements of mobile app testing. This field-proven HP solution reduces the risk of poor mobile performance and helps your organisation test, validate, and optimise the performance of your mobile apps before deployment.

Unified IT Monitoring: A Necessity in the Era of the Customer

Today’s customer and employee profiles look very different than they did just a few years ago. These tech-enabled, highly connected buyers are using many different platforms to research, shop and work. They’re engaging brands in new ways—through social networks, as well as mobile and cloud-based applications. And with all their newfound capabilities, they’re expecting more from their business interactions.