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Vendor Landscape Plus: Cloud Orchestration

Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.

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Vendor Landscape market evaluations provide an overview of the market and tools to ascertain suitability for your organization of each vendor’s solution. Vendors covered in this Cloud Orchestration VL Plus include:

  • Cloud.com
  • CA Technologies
  • Flexiant
  • Enomaly
  • Platform Computing
  • Elastra
  • CloudScale
  • Eucalyptus
  • Vmware
  • Citrix Systems

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Is the Cloud the End of Infrastructure?

Cloud computing will significantly impact the roles of infrastructure professionals and internal infrastructure processes. Taking ownership of the cloud and internal Infrastructure-as-a-Service is integral to proactively prepare and implement changes that will make the cloud work for you.

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Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service

The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market is still in its nascent form with a large and diverse set of vendors. This size ensures that there is an IaaS option for all sizes and types of enterprise.

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Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Cloud Backup

The Cloud Backup market is very nascent, but the existing players have mature solutions that are creating a compelling case with advanced features that provide the reliability businesses expect.

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Evaluating & Migrating to Cloud Storage

Regardless of how you plan to use cloud storage, there are key criteria that must be met, and the initial data migration challenges that have to be resolved. Now there are several technologies and vendors that can accelerate your data transfer to the cloud.

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Storyboard: Develop a Cloud Storage Strategy

Cloud storage is typically seen as an alternative to in-house backup or archiving capacity. However, businesses are finding multiple use cases for cloud storage, often adopting it across the enterprise to experience maximum benefits.

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Storyboard: Manage & Plan Capacity for the Internal Cloud

An internal cloud requires capacity management to cost effectively match business requirements with infrastructure. Develop a capacity management plan that optimizes infrastructure as a service by inventorying current capacity while planning for the future.

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virtualization, VMware, Cloud, Citrix Systems, Flexiant, Cloud.com, CA Technologies, Enomaly, Platform Computing, Elastra, CloudScale, Eucalyptus

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Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Server & Storage Virtualization
1. Get the Most out of Server Virtualization
Develop a strategy to move infrastructure from a virtual fantasy to a virtual reality.
2. Vendor Landscape: Server Virtualization
Server virtualization continues to drive value in infrastructure consolidation and management while laying the foundation of private and public computing.
3. Avoid Server Virtualization Implementation Pain
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
4. Leverage Server Virtualization for DR Affordability and Agility
Virtualization is not just for consolidation - drive cost and complexity out of system availability and restore.
5. Build an Optimized Infrastructure-as-a-Service Internal Cloud
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
6. Use Cloud Computing to Achieve Small Enterprise Savings
Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.
7. Vendor Landscape: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
8. Manage & Plan Capacity for the Internal Cloud
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
9. Transform Utility Infrastructure into a Cloud Service
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
10. Vendor Landscape Plus: Cloud Orchestration
Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.
View the full Solution Road Map