The 2013 Global Technology Outlook Since 1982, IBM Research’s worldwide community of top scientists has created the Global Technology Outlook (GTO). The GTO is a comprehensive analysis that identifies and evaluates significant, disruptive technology trends that will lead to industrychanging products and services over a three- to ten-year period. IBM Research considers the societal and…
EMC’s IT Transformation Blueprint – Reaping the Benefits of Cloud Computing EMC Corporation’s IT organization launched a transformational journey toward cloud computing beginning in 2004. In 2009, ESG published an initial audit of EMC’s achievements, documenting their impressive initial savings on equipment and power as well as improvements in productivity, efficiency, and resource utilization. We…
Introduction There usually isn’t anything overly complicated about backing up a physical datacenter. While it’s true that some applications require special consideration, the backup process itself is usually very straightforward. After all, backups have been a common practice for decades. Even so, backups take on a new level of complexity when they are performed in…
A practical guide to more efficient data operations. Energy costs are expected to double over the next 10 years. In this time, the amount of energy consumed by data centres is also expected to double. This has serious potential to affect an organisation’s ability, whether commercial or public sector, to grow its services, expand its…
Virtualizing disaster recovery using cloud computing Transition your applications quickly to a resilient cloud – Not long after the widespread adoption of computers, it became apparent that disaster recovery would become a necessary com-ponent of organizations’ IT plans. Business data must be backed up, and key processes like billing, payroll and procurement need to continue…
Executive summary The Virtualization Data Protection Report 2013 builds upon the key findings from previous years to track the progress of enterprise-level organizations’ data protection strategies for their virtual environments. Where previous reports looked at broad trends around data protection before focusing more closely on specific techniques such as server replication, this year’s report investigates…
Recovery Assurance is an innovative platform that uses state of the art technology to deliver enterprise class business continuity features at a lower price and with more flexibility. Backup is not Disaster Recovery Many organisations fail to realise that daily or weekly backups and the replication of data from one site to another are not…
You know VMware as the virtualization company that has been the market leader for the past 11 years. In fact, according to Gartner, more than 80% of all virtualized applications in the world run on VMware today. This ebook highlights the VMware perspective on disaster recovery in the data center. But let’s forget about IT…
IT systems and data are the lifeblood of today’s businesses and yet challenges in managing these continue to rise. Against this background, EMC wanted to understand the real causes of business interruption currently facing European companies and to measure the economic impacts from IT downtime. We sought to identify how well companies felt about being…
OVERVIEW Established in 1998, Core DataCloud is a leading UK managed service provider of private cloud backup and recovery-as-a-service solutions for midmarkets. The company’s commitment to excellence, as well as an affordable pricing strategy, have resulted in dynamic growth approaching 100 percent per annum. Core DataCloud and its SMB customer base rely on next-generation IT…