Cloud Computing White Papers

IDC White Paper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.

Sponsor: HP

Security Strategies to Virtualizing Internet-Facing Applications

The IT organization at Intel has set a goal to transition their enterprise to a private cloud for their Office and Enterprise applications. The goal is to virtualize 75% of the environment by the end of 2012. This paper highlights the steps they are taking to overcome security challenges of virtualizing Internet-facing applications.

Sponsor: Intel

Cloud Security Planning Guide

Cloud security considerations span protecting hardware and platform technologies in the data center to enabling regulatory compliance and defending cloud access through different endpoints. This guide provides recommendations for strengthening data, identity, and platform protection and will also walk you through seven key steps to plan your cloud security strategy from the ground up.

Sponsor: Intel

Cloud Security Vendor Round Table

This vendor round table guide will help you to evaluate different cloud technology vendors and service providers based on a series of questions posed to three cloud infrastructure providers, three managed or hosted infrastructure providers, and three cloud technology providers. Compare their answers to questions on data protection, compliance, ROI and more.

Sponsor: Intel

Planning Guide - Technology for Tomorrow's Cloud

This cloud planning guide will introduce you to data center technologies that address challenges of networking, storage, security, and power management. It's based on Intel's experience working with IT managers, cloud providers, and security and power management vendors-as well as the experience Intel has gained building and deploying its own cloud technology.

Sponsor: Intel

Cloud Security Insights for IT Strategic Planning

The survey results of 200 IT professionals highlights the key business and technology drivers behind implementation plans, the importance of security, and the level of investment in security required. This benchmark data can be used for your own cloud security planning.

Sponsor: Intel

Creating Community Within Your Business Partner Network

Learn how you can connect with customers and suppliers for business-to-business e-commerce more affordably with SAP Information Interchange OnDemand. Using prebuilt profiles, you can make changes within your supply chain quickly using a minimum of your valuable resources.

Sponsor: SAP

SAP Customers Move to Managed Cloud Services to Cut Costs and Improve Efficiency of B2B Integration

Changes in business objectives and advances in technology compel many businesses to reassess their B2B integration capabilities to seek further process efficiency and better adaptability. Other organizations are just starting down the road to B2B integration. In our research, we find that very few enterprises make a large change to their B2B integration process for a single reason; instead, multiple factors combine to create the need for change. Read this white paper to learn the top reasons why enterprises make a change to their current process. The findings are based on interviews with 23 enterprises that chose to outsource B2B integration.

Sponsor: SAP

Defining the 21st Century Sales Person

Do you know what seller types you have and what it takes for them to succeed? Online information sources and social networks have made basic product information and recommendations so readily available and ubiquitous that the role of the 21st century salesperson is now more so than ever defined in terms of his or her ability to add value to the customer. Forrester developed and tested a hypothesis that B2B selling is really about the transfer of information between a vendor and a buying organization. In examining a variety of different B2B businesses, Forrester identified two major variables that determine the role of the seller in the value communication process - the number of products and services involved in a purchase; and the degree of the knowledge exchange required to make the transaction. Read about the results of this research and the four different archetypes of salespeople of the 21st century: the expediter, the specialist, the consolidator, and the conductor.

Sponsor: SAP

New IT Change Management Cloud Service Significantly Reduces MTTR

As much as 80 percent of the time related to MTTR (mean time to repair) is spent on identifying the key components, relationships, and people involved to determine the cause of a problem and fix it. In this scenario, an IT operations service group grapples with seemingly unrelated issues that turn into a cascade of problems. Alternatively, this white paper will examine how the scenario could have gone with ITinvolve for Change Management.

Sponsor: ITinvolve

New IT Change Management Cloud Service a "Game Changer" Says EMA Analyst

Learn why Enterprise Management Associates analyst Dennis Drogseth calls ITinvolve for Change Management "a breath of fresh air in humanizing change management and streamlining collaboration across a wide range of relevant stakeholders. The result promises to deliver substantial improvements in IT's ability to assess the impact of changes prior to implementation."

Sponsor: ITinvolve

Securing the Cloud

Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live.

Sponsor: F5

Cloud Computing Models for Data Warehousing

Gain better business intelligence through private cloud self service capabilities. In this whitepaper, analyst Mark Madsen explores why private cloud computing is a better choice to meet your analytical needs as business conditions fluctuate and grow.

Sponsor: Teradata

Cloud Computing for Midsize Business: Delivering Innovation and Efficiency

You may be considering a cloud computing solution or in the midst of specifying one or even implementing a solution. Read this paper to see what IBM discovered about how companies like yours are adopting, implementing and using cloud computing solutions. Learn about the current rate of adoption, as well as drivers, barriers, and considerations that are influencing the adoption of cloud computing.

Sponsor: IBM

Cloud Computing in the Midmarket: Assessing the Options

You may be looking at cloud computing as a means to access IT resources that may not be affordable otherwise. Cloud solution options include public, private and hybrid models each of which offers its own benefits, cost model and risks. Read this analyst brief from IDC to learn about each of these models and discover how your organization can take advantage of them. The paper also looks at how organizations can integrate cloud solutions into existing infrastructures and how an incremental implementation approach might work. Finally the paper explains some principles for measuring the success of your cloud solutions.

Sponsor: IBM

Cloud Security: Who do you trust?

Cloud computing changes the way we use computing with the promise of significant economic and efficiency benefits. But significant security issues are presented with this new approach to computing. This white paper explains why trust, reliability and security decisions are central to choosing the right model.

Sponsor: IBM

Dispelling the Vapor Around Cloud Computing

Cloud technology has enormous potential to enable highly efficient and dynamic IT infrastructures that are more elastic and responsive to potential disruptions and data loss. Virtualization technologies combined with new cloud management techniques enable IBM to provide a simplified "anywhere, anytime" self-service approach for the delivery and consumption of IT services. Read this paper to see how using a cloud-based approach for your IT can free you to reap immediate benefits of a specific technology instead of having to spend time, resources, and money focusing on how to implement it.

Sponsor: IBM

Strengthen Your Business with Cloud Computing

If your midsize company has limited resources, you need to make the most of your IT investment. Cloud computing can lead to extraordinary cost savings and business innovation. This white paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing, explains how midsize companies can benefit, and describes the steps they can take to take advantage of what it has to offer.

Sponsor: IBM

Ready or not, here comes the cloud

Clouds do many things well, but fixing performance problems isn't one of them. For that you need a world-class application server. Learn how application delivery problems continue to frustrate IT managers and how to move to the cloud without losing your sanity.

Sponsor: Oracle

Discover Options for Improving Supplier and Customer Integration

A new report from Gartner outlines nine different frameworks that companies are using to address their integration challenges, and the benefits of including B2B outsourcing as part of a successful IT strategy.

Sponsor: SAP

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