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IT Operations White Papers – Page 4

Journey to the Cloud: A practitioner’s Guide

This white paper, the first in a series discusses the initiative to move toward a private cloud-based IT infrastructure and describes the three steps in transitioning to the cloud.

Get more out of cloud with a structured workload Analysis

This paper discusses the importance of workloads when planning for migration to the cloud. It also describes how a structured approach to cloud workload analysis can help identify cloud initiatives that offer faster time to value, reduced migration risk and higher potential return.

Optimizing the Journey to the Cloud: Balancing Trust Economics and Functionality

This paper discusses the course to optimizing business services in the cloud: whether an application or a related set of applications belong in – public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud or an organization's legacy environment. It does so by assessing workloads through three essential filters, namely economic,trust and functional

CIO’s Cloud Strategy

This whitepaper helps CIOs plan a cloud strategy based upon expert guidance, success stories, and a view to groundbreaking new capabilities so IT works not as a support function but as a business differentiator.

Preparing for Cloud Computing

A discussion on cloud computing – what is it? why is it important? what are the deployment models? what are the risks and challenges? how to migrate to the cloud

The Payoffs Of PaaS

This overview reveals how Platform as a Service (PaaS) can transform your business by enhancing IT efficiency and reducing operational expenses.

Pricing and Positioning Cloud Computing Services

This paper helps position cloud computing services in a solution stack and price them for profitability. Written for vendors it can assist clients understand cloud computing service pricing.

Creating an Effective Disaster Recovery Strategy

This whitepaper examines the business value of operational continuity – including the increasing regulatory expectations – and exposes common technical and business flaws in disaster recovery strategies.

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