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The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

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The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of seven leading WAN optimization solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the company's requirements, before sitting down with dealers and...

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The WAN optimization landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years. Technologies that were once cutting edge have become mainstream and vendors are now focusing their attention on the future. Mobility, virtualization, and cloud computing...

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of seven leading Cloud Backup solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy company requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor...

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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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Though the Cloud Backup market is very nascent, existing players have very mature solutions that create a case for evaluating it as a serious alternative to existing backup architectures.

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Adoption of cloud storage is sky-rocketing, thanks to its ease-of-use and low cost entry barrier. Cloud storage is a potential solution in several use cases, but issues like reliability and security are not to be overlooked.

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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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The Cloud Storage TCO Calculator enables IT professionals to estimate the costs of deploying a cloud storage solution, comparing it to the cost of purchasing new NAS or SAN storage capacity.

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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...

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Info-Tech recently conducted several surveys for our research projects. This document is a high level summary of those results and an introduction to the resulting research.

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In storage acquisition strategy it is ideal to balance the most storage capacity and performance with the lowest cost per unit of storage. Some solutions have a lower overall price tag, but have a higher TCO per Terabyte because of a lack of...

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Consolidated network storage makes more efficient use of storage resources through the elimination of waste and effort duplication across distributed islands or silos of direct attached storage. Consolidated storage is also a strategic enabler...

While cloud computing hype can be overblown, actual benefits are out there. Start by understanding the types of cloud service and what they can do for you. This note cuts through the cloud hype so you can start reaping tangible results.

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Cloud computing offers a compelling opportunity for small businesses to reduce IT costs. Cloud costs are orders of magnitude lower than the per unit costs of internally developed IT resources.