This research paper from Saugatuck Technology discusses the multi-sourced hybrid IT environment, including how to recognize the needs that can increase costs and compromise operations, and how to optimize the environments for peak effectiveness.

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.

How do you successfully transition business continuity to the cloud? Read the white paper to learn how an end-to-end, scalable solution can help you plan and execute an enterprise-wide continuity and resiliency strategy. As a result, you will be able to help improve risk management, reduce costs, facilitate resilient service delivery and respond to changes more quickly.

Forbes Insights discusses how the cloud is changing resilience in the expanding universe of digital data.

This white paper describes the pervasive lack of resiliency planning in most cloud implementations today and discusses how better up-front assessment and planning can help organizations realize the enormous potential cloud offers for improved, more agile resiliency.

IBM Resiliency Services has been recognized as a leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service. For the report, Gartner looked at about 30 candidates, selected and evaluated 14 service providers, recognizing IBM Resiliency as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. View this report to understand this evolution and learn how Gartner describes the full breadth of IBM's Resiliency Services portfolio.

This research report from the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by IBM, analyzes the impact a business continuity management program can have on the financial and reputational consequences of a data breach. Read the report to learn how involving your BCM team in the up-front  planning and remediation of a data breach can help reduce the incidence and costs to your enterprise.

Every organization must put a plan in place for recoverability after an outage, but testing your enterprise resilience without full business and IT validation is ineffective. Read the white paper to learn how to put a plan in place for full functional validation, and get details on the importance of validating resiliency in a live environment; learn why small-scale recovery “simulations” are inadequate and misleading; understand why validating resilience demands involvement from IT and the business; and get details on the checks and balances you need to maintain and validate business resilience.

This Executive Summary of the Next Generation Data Center white paper highlights IBM’s vision for the next-generation data center, its potential to be truly revolutionary and the prescribed pathway for getting there.

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An IBM white paper describing the infrastructure implications of today’s converging technology forces and the software defined, next-generation data center transformation vital to capitalizing on them.

An IBM infographic highlighting the infrastructure implications of today’s converging technology forces and the software defined, data center transformation essential to capitalizing on them.

This white paper discusses the different support challenges thatcan confront you when implementing a smarter infrastructurethat includes new solutions like cloud initiatives, virtualized environments and other new breeds of computer models.