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  • Taking Applications Virtual: Virtualization Revamps IT Landscape

    The relationship between the applications and the operating system, and also with other applications is often tenous enough to justify the presence of a digital marriage counselor.

  • The Essence of Cloud

    Cloud computing is essentially a deployment model that sets a new paradigm for how services are selected, provided and billed. So, what makes the cloud deployment model different from other deployment models? Quite simply, the cloud is defined by three main components and technologies.

  • They are the 11 Percent (or less) Who Really Get Security

    We find exactly that to be the case very often," says Robbie Higgins, VP of security services at IT solution provider GlassHouse Technologies. "Enterprises can easily justify buying hardware and software. When you take a look at everything, they have all the right technologies, all those things that Gartner would say is that upper right-hand quadrant. Yet, in many cases, they've actually put weak security controls in place."

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  • Demystifying The Cloud - The Why And How Of Cloud Adoption

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    Cloud computing is an IT strategy that holds great opportunity for businesses to increase IT agility and at the same time reduce its unit cost. However, for IT Executives looking to realize its potential, it raises as many questions as it answers. In this webcast, Anthony Dickinson GlassHouse Cloud Computing Service Director discusses: -The characteristics of a cloud, its service and deployment modes, as well as the key and emerging roles within the cloud ecosystem -Why cloud is simply an evolution for IT, yet has the potential to revolutionize a business - The nature of the risks that need to be overcome in order to effectively begin the transition

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  • Desktop Virtualization Strategy: Seven Traps To Avoid

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    When making the decision to move ahead with a desktop virtualization initiative, there are several key issues you need to recognize and manage for a successful deployment. Consideration and understanding of these issues now can streamline the process and accelerate your realization of benefits and potential ROI. In this webcast Erwin Vollering will discuss the seven top issues to explore prior to a desktop virtualization deployment, including: Use Cases and User Profiles Anticipating “unanticipated” costs The storage implication of deploying VDI

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  • Which Cloud Should Be In My 10-Day Forecast?

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    Gartner estimates the cloud market to grow to $150B by 2013, and with the plethora of options available with undoubted benefits, it's not hard to see why. However, the transition to the cloud is a significant strategic undertaking. While buying and setting up a few virtual servers in a public cloud can be done in minutes with a credit card, designing and implementing an integrated strategy that provides the desired benefits while maintaining manageability and corporate governance is a major undertaking. This webcast will discuss: The challenges associated with formulating a cloud strategy The differences between private, public and hybrid cloud options Adoption of a service-based mindset

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White Papers

  • How To Build An IaaS Cloud

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    Can you build your own internal cloud? Or even better, can you transition your existing environment to an internal cloud model? At first blush, this may seem like a herculean task, but in reality it is a matter of following a few simple rules, adopting a few disciplines, and finding some good tools.

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  • Clouds on Campus

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    Human nature has an affinity for devising and perfecting better, faster, and cheaper ways of doing things. Long considered a hotbed of IT innovation and adoption, institutions of higher education are often on the leading edge of this search. It should come as no surprise to learn, therefore, that educational institutions – combining both cutting edge research and innovative teaching models – are leading the charge in the area of cloud computing. As university CIOs move cloud computing from an experimental stage into the realm of mainstream adoption, it is worth considering the drivers, challenges, advantages, and disadvantages of cloud computing in academia alongside specific cloud initiatives among the nation’s leading universities.

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  • Data Center Transformation

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    Data centers today are undergoing a dramatic shift in terms of the design objectives, technology options and configurations, and functional requirements. The combination of increasing service and availability requirements, continued data growth, and capacity constraints is placing substantial pressure on organizations to adopt new approaches to accommodate current and future business needs. Adding to the challenge is the need to meet these demands while containing or reducing expenses. Of course, any transition from old to new must be accomplished without business disruption.

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Podcasts

  • How to add storage tiering to your data storage environment

    Storage tiering automatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.

  • How to add storage tiering to your data storage environment

    Storage tieringautomatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.

  • Data reduction techniques for primary storage: How suited are deduplication and compression?

    In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Steve Pinder, practice lead for storage with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the difference between data deduplication and compression, their suitability for use with primary storage and how you can determine whether these data reduction techniques are suited to your primary storage environment.

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Blogs

  • Behind the Technology Curtain

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    Trillions are spent on new technology every year, while the dissatisfaction with, and within IT escalates. Jay Seaton explains why the real challenge for IT organizations is to look beyond the technology and address the more difficult policy, process, and organizational issues.

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  • Enough about Cloud already!

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    March 27, 2012: Anthony Dickinson's recap of three recent Cloud events: Cloud Expo 2012 (London), The Legal IT Business Show, and the Enterprise Cloud Computing and Virtualisation (ECCV) 2012 event. "Now don't get me wrong, they were all well organised and informative events, but even for someone whose job it is to stay abreast of what is going on the Cloud marketplace, I've heard about enough hype for now."

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  • Think of the Cloud as an IT Tool? Your Competitors Don’t!

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    Anthony Dickinson, Service Director for Cloud Computing, explains how the value of the Cloud will be specific to each part of a company's business, in effect making Cloud a business tool rather than an IT tool. You can’t just procure and provide Cloud technology and expect your business to effectively realise the benefits.

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