White Papers & Case Studies

Cisco, VMware, and NetApp have jointly designed a best in breed Secure Cloud Architecture and have validated this design in a lab environment. This document describes the design of—and the rationale behind—the Secure Cloud Architecture. The design describes includes many issues that must be addressed prior to deployment as no two environments are alike. This document also discusses the problems that this architecture solves and the four pillars of a Secure Cloud environment.

As enterprises develop business strategies for 2010 and beyond, they require an infrastructure that can quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. This paper describes how H3C resilient virtual switching fabric utilizing 3Com's Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology can help extend the control plane across multiple active switches, increasing resiliency and reducing complexity.

According to Gartner, the right enterprise software solution will help companies achieve cost reductions, enable the proper alignment of IT with business, as well as meet business goals. This paper discusses the result of a recent Gartner survey looking at how companies are using enterprise-class software to do business.

IT managers with AIX and/or i5/OS environments must find ways to eliminate the adverse impact of downtime and accidental data loss. This paper provides a basic understanding of the costs of unplanned downtime, the building blocks of an IT continuity plan, an overview of AIX and i5/OS data protection and recovery technologies, and more.

Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.

In white papers, there is no shortage of advice about what best practices can lead to success. But equally important is a thorough understanding of what worst practices are to be avoided during an implementation. Problems during implementation are never deliberate. But in this white paper, we will review four practices that should be avoided unless one wants to go out of one’s way to cause their implementation to tank.

The public health challenge facing communities and governments has never been greater. This white paper focuses on the challenges for policy makers seeking to transform outdated, inadequate public health surveillance systems, and the opportunities for leveraging newly emerging technologies that will make this transformation possible.

Successful IT Departments are distinguished by their ability to put the right information in front of the right decision-makers at the right time, while not allowing that information to be lost. This whitepaper looks at Commvault's unified software architecture, Simpana, that increases flexibility, scalability and security, allowing IT to regain control and focus on meeting business needs.