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IT Operations White Papers

Enhancing Data Integrity and Recoverability

This whitepaper discusses that no single mechanism is sufficient to ensure data integrity in a single storage system. It is only through cooperation of a multitude of mechanisms that establish successive lines od defense against all sources of errors that data recoverability can be assured. The paper focuses on four key elements of EMC’s Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture

Understanding Cloud Security Challenges

This paper discusses that providing security for cloud environments that matches the levels found in internal data centers is essential for helping modern organizations compete and for allowing service providers to meet their customers’ needs. However, to match the levels of security that customers experience internally, service providers must make the proper investments in providing, proving and ensuring appropriate levels of security over time.

Accelerate your Cloud Journey

This paper discusses a new way of computing for the enterprise. In light of the the recent move toward mobile applications and smart devices and with cloud computing having become a fixture in the enterprise IT landscape; Enterprise IT needs a new approach to manage processes and applications that are distributed across a mix of environments.

Big Data for the Enterprise

This paper discusses how the analysis of new and diverse digital data can reveal new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into customer behavior and identify market trends. It also discusses the challenges this new data creates and concludes that in order to derive business value from big data,

Defining a Framework for Cloud Adoption

This paper illustrates the key capabilities to consider when developing cloud computing strategies, and identifies key aspects required to successfully execute that strategy. It discusses a cloud computing adoption framework, which establishes common definitions, delivery models and services.

IT as a Service Model: 10 Key Steps

This whitepaper discusses 10 key steps that will help guide an organization's journey in fully leveraging cloud computing and creating a more agile and relevant IT operation