Category Archives: data center

HP Software delivers integrated management for apps deployment, banking on simpler approach to navigating cloud choice

Often lost amid the talk of cloud deployment models and hybrid hosting efficiencies is the actual task of properly deploying enterprise applications. Deploying applications touches so many aspects of IT systems and business processes, and requires ongoing updates and management, … Continue reading

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Data complexity forces need for agnostic tool chain approach for information management, says Dell Software executive

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Dell Software. A data dichotomy has changed the face of information management, bringing with it huge new data challenges for businesses to solve. … Continue reading

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Idera’s Server Backup 5.0 eyes backing up all servers

Idera wants to make it practical to back up every server on the planet. With the release of its Server Backup 5.0 and new pricing structure, the company believes it can change the minds of enterprises that may have viewed … Continue reading

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Cloud approach to IT service desk brings analysis, lower costs and self-help to BMC Remedyforce users

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: BMC Software. Join Danielle Bailey and Alec Davis at Dreamforce 2012 Sept. 18-21 in San Francisco. The next BriefingsDirect discussion examines how two … Continue reading

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HP expands Converged Cloud portfolio to work with VMware’s new vCloud Suite 5.1

HP today announced at the VMworld 2012 conference in San Francisco that it’s expanding its HP Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, enabling clients to transform traditional virtualization deployments into private and hybrid cloud environments … Continue reading

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VMware CTO Steve Herrod on how the software-defined datacenter benefits enterprises

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. Get the latest announcements about VMware’s cloud strategy and solutions by tuning into VMware NOW, the new online destination for breaking news, … Continue reading

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Data explosion and big data demand new strategies for data management, backup and recovery, say experts

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Quest Software. Get the free data protection and recovery white paper. Businesses clearly need a better approach to their data recovery capabilities — … Continue reading

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Join HP support expert Tommaso Esmanech for a May 15 live chat on IT support automation

Register now as seats are limited for this free HP Expert Chat. The speed of business has never been faster, and leaders will continue to need to be ever-more responsive, ever-more able to react to customers before and better than … Continue reading

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For Acorda Therapeutics, disaster recovery protects vital enterprise assets and smooths way to data center flexibility and migration

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. The next BriefingsDirect case study discussion targets how biotechnology services provider Acorda Therapeutics has implemented a strategic disaster recovery (DR) capability to … Continue reading

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Fast data hits the big data fast lane

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is senior analyst at Ovum. By Tony Baer Of the 3 “V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add “Value” as the 4th V) – velocity has … Continue reading

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