System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. Even in completely redundant systems, controllers can fail, fans can stop operating, power supplies can burn out, and disk drives can degrade or fail.

How can a company decide what the right decision is when it comes to outsourcing? A growing percentage of companies are reaping the benefits of leveraging technology to streamline business operations and automate their business processes to create greater efficiencies by turning to outsourced web hosting. In today's economy, more and more small to medium sized businesses with no IT staff, or an already over-burdened IT staff, are finding there is no other choice. However, even with companies that have the resources necessary to host their own websites are looking to outsource their hosting needs. For these companies not resources, but the issue of ensuring that the hosting environment is secure, reliable, and scalable is why they look towards outsourcing. Learn the pros and cons of outsourcing and how NeoSpire can help.

By choosing Savvis as a provider for all its infrastructure, Wall Street Systems is succeeding in the fiercely competitive SaaS marketplace by delivering reliable, scalable, mission-critical solutions to its highly demanding client base.

Servers are the foundation of a dependable IT infrastructure. You need your IT to be reliable, flexible and ready to support your business through changing times. Read this white paper to see how IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers can offer an outstanding platform for virtualization and consolidation.

The SUSE Enterprise Linux Server, now on the IBM PureFlex System, provides an open, reliable and secure IT environment with faster deployment,better business agility, lower power consumption, better hardware utilization and lower total cost of owners

This how-to-guide has been designed to help you better evaluate a VAN provider and determine the real value of the offer.

Adaptive Infrastructure provides fast and reliable access to data and the applications that rely on that data. When a problem occurs, you better be able to get things running again in a very short order. There are multiple solution architectures available to provide reliable access to data and applications - find out more now.

The internal staff at Ptak, Noel & Associates determined that their ability to deliver services was highly dependent upon their capability to operate with highly reliable and efficient IT operations. The changes described in this case study explain how Service Desk Management help them to achieve that goal.

Their ability to deliver services is highly dependent upon their capability to operate with highly reliable and efficient IT operations. The changes described in this case study will help to assure they will be able to achieve that goal.

This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Explore how the project demonstrates the most reliable methods for deploying a scalable and easily expandable environment, anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 seats.

Learn how enterprise planning and analysis solutions powered by IBM Cognos 10 are uniquely suited to support timely, reliable forecasts and plans with key analysis, modeling and participation capabilities, paving way to better business choices.

As mobile computing becomes an increasingly important technology, the need for robust, reliable wireless networks is growing. In addition to enterprise-issued devices, users are bringing their own tablets and smartphones and demanding access to IT resources. Organizations need a wireless infrastructure that can support these demands. Our research shows that in addition to mobile demands, aging hardware is driving many organizations' wireless upgrade plans. Download this white paper to read more about the research.

See why an appropriate time and attendance system that meets your organization’s needs can help to eliminate and prevent most of the negative aspects of inaccurate and unreliable timekeeping for your business.

An appropriate time and attendance system that meets your organization’s needs can help to eliminate and even prevent many, if not most, of the negative aspects of inaccurate and unreliable timekeeping. Maintaining accurate and reliable time and attendance information makes it easier to keep a handle on labor costs, increases the accuracy of payroll, and reduces administration in the human resources (HR) department, thus saving time. This white paper outlines the top benefits of a time and attendance system and the positive effect automating your time and attendance process can have on your organization.

Kimpton's success as the #1 boutique hotel company in the United States started with the implementation of the most advanced and reliable converged infrastructure system - VCE Vblock®. Modernizing the data center enabled this top hotel chain to spend less time focusing on managing and supporting infrastructure, and more time serving its ecosystem. Some of the benefits Kimpton achieved since the deployment of EMC Converged Infrastructure from VCE included a 25 percent reduction in operating expenses by moving to Vblock Systems, compared with an expected savings of only 10 percent. Kimpton can also stand up virtual machines (VMs) in minutes to capitalize on business opportunities, compared to days or weeks with the old infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more about the Kimpton Hotels story.

Sometimes email is the forgotten marketing channel. It’s not as new or topical as social or mobile, but it’s as reliable and profitable as ever. A study from the Direct Marketing Association says that email provides a $39.40 return on every dollar invested into it. We’ve produced a marketer’s guide that discusses the next frontier of email marketing. Learn the advantages of triggered and retargeted emails, and get real-world insights into smart email marketing from C Spire Wireless and others.

Whether it’s worrying about a possible break-in or an employee theft, protecting your business is always a concern. For busy warehouses and manufacturing companies, the worry is even greater, as time lost to responding to a crime means revenue loss. With expensive inventory, an active production site, and workers entering and leaving around the clock, reliable security is a must.

Distributed systems enable different areas of a business to build specific applications to support their needs and drive insight and innovation. While great for the business, this new normal can result in development inefficiencies when the same systems are reimplemented multiple times. This free e-book provides repeatable, generic patterns, and reusable components to make developing reliable systems easier and more efficient—so you can free your time to focus on core development of your app. In this 160–page e-book, you’ll find: An introduction to distributed system concepts. Reusable patterns and practices for building distributed systems. Exploration of a platform for integrating applications, data sources, business partners, clients, mobile apps, social networks, and Internet of Things devices. Event-driven architectures for processing and reacting to events in real time. Additional resources for learning more about containers and container orchestration systems. “There are more

Expanding and enriching the educational experience through a streamlined, broadened networkBYOD in the classroom and one-student-one-device trends meant Kentucky’s Bullitt County Public Schools needed an easily configurable, reliable and scalable network. Read this case study to discover the benefits of WLAN technology in the educational world.

Statistics are the underpinning of how Optimizely’s customers use data to make decisions. We use experiments to understand how changes we make affect the performance of our online experiences. To do this, we need a framework for evaluating how likely those changes are to have an impact, positive or negative, on a business over time. To run great experiments, investing in an understanding of statistics is one of the most important skills you can develop. Statistics provide inference on your results and help to determine whether you have a winning variation. Using statistical values to decide leads to stable, replicable results you can bet your business on. Lack of understanding can lead to errors and unreliable outcomes from your experiments.

There are a number of misconceptions floating around about college students that may cause employers to pass over their applications. Pop culture depicts college students as lazy, irresponsible, and unreliable, yet we have found they’re an extremely beneficial addition to any growing business. Download this whitepaper to learn the top four reasons college students are the best hires for part-time positions.

This eBook will take you through the benefits of using APN Partner solutions and AWS storage services to create an efficient, reliable, and secure backup and recovery solution that can grow with your business. It also explores how organizations can pay for storage per gigabyte and only for what they use. Also included is information on how customers are leveraging object storage services on Amazon Web Services (AWS) like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Glacier. Download this eBook to learn how customers like Oath, IDT, and King County are deploying backup and recovery solutions with our featured APN partners.

The notion of digitizing your business has become a matter of “when,” rather than “if.” For many, migrating critical workloads to the cloud is a key part of this transformation. When deciding on a cloud provider, however, IT executives are under pressure to find a solution that enables reduced costs, greater agility, and above all, the ability to innovate core business processes. At the heart of many businesses embarking on this journey is their SAP environment. But since SAP workloads represent some of the most critical and deeply integrated business applications, IT executives are required to look for ways to execute this migration in the most timely and reliable manner. Organizations migrating to the cloud cannot risk application downtime or productivity loss

In this webinar, you’ll learn how a major Healthcare organization is using integrated, reliable, and secure cloud-based solutions from Commvault and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help address significant data growth while reducing infrastructure costs.

Cambium Networks’ fixed wireless broadband solutions provide an attractive ROI for electric utilities when replacing leased-lines for: Redundant backbone IP network rings Smart meter and distribution automation aggregation transport Transport for substation and distribution SCADA data Remote office connectivity Mobile WiFi connectivity in substations and operation centers Download this white paper to learn more.