https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/rss en-us Content collections grow over the years, without much revisiting, so it can be easy to overlook the value of the data they contain. Even materials that might originally have only been important for specialized purposes may now have... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2567 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 06:40:44 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2567-finding-needles-in-very-large-haystacks-implement-a-content-conversion-strategy-to-aid-in-data-management The cloud is supposed to mean speed and agility. Cloud orchestration and automation tools promise to allow IT organizations to move significantly faster and become more competitive as service organizations. But there is a catch that not enough people are addressing head-on, which is that while orchestration tools typically do a great job of deploying applications flexibly once virtualization is in place, the underlying (or horrors-the non-virtualized and legacy) infrastructure is not very agile or automated. The challenges of automating physical infrastructure issues are often swept under the rug, but solving these challenges are critical to making the whole datacenter agile... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1808 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:14:31 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1808-don-t-ignore-physical-realities-in-your-rush-to-the-cloud The Challenge: Many Remote Offices and Branch Offices (ROBOs) have deployed or are considering deployment of server virtualization to realize the benefits of improved cost, agility and availability. Trying to utilize internal disk drives and SSD that are packaged within the servers alone is not a good option, since... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1207 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:59:40 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1207-streamlining-virtualization-and-storage-at-your-remote-offices-and-branch-offices As we reflect on the lessons learned through the data boom of 2013, we anticipate that in the coming year continued data growth will force enterprise organizations to rethink how to securely capture, store and retrieve data to derive more value from it. The amount of information being created by Internet-enabled devices and an increase in the number of business-critical applications being virtualized will contribute to this growth and... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1195 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:18:41 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/1195-executive-viewpoint-2014-prediction-what-s-next-for-the-cloud-in-2014-and-beyond-the-key-word-is Imagine waking up to a phone call at 2am from your CIO saying that she isn't getting email on her smartphone. Then you receive another call from your CEO saying the branch office in California cannot access the shared directory. Your remote access is not working so you throw on some clothes and head into the office. Some of you reading are probably... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/713 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:37:03 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/713-your-business-continuity-wake-up-call No longer just for early adopters and innovators, desktop visualization has become a mainstream IT strategy for companies of all sizes. Still, many organizations remain leery, concerned about the perceived need to purchase, manage and maintain costly and complex infrastructure. This view is increasingly out of date, however. Rapidly evolving technologies have... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/712 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:35:49 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/712-the-falling-cost-of-desktop-virtualization-and-what-it-means-to-you Conceptually, disaster recovery (DR) is a logical requirement for any organization that wants to stay in business. Practically, however, the cost and resources required make a viable DR strategy out of reach for many - if not most! - organizations. Fortunately, the advent of the cloud as a viable storage solution has introduced a new set of options to organizations that wish to create or improve their disaster recovery strategy. This article describes... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/711 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:33:53 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/711-disaster-recovery-and-the-cloud Virtualization provides IT organizations with a significant opportunity to improve management and automation across the data center, enabling improved resource utilization and a more dynamic and flexible environment, while reducing the cost and complexity to manage data center infrastructure itself. As such... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/613 Wed, 15 May 2013 09:06:51 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/613-software-defined-networks-and-data-centers-are-coming-but-what-about-my-application-delivery-layer Most enterprises today are adopting virtualization strategies and using virtual infrastructures as a means of increasing the efficiency and availability of their physical IT infrastructures. According to research conducted by PKWARE, 81% of enterprises report using some form of virtualization. IDC predicts the worldwide market for enterprise server virtualization will reach $19.3 Billion by 2014. ï؟½With more than half of all data center workloads now virtualized, enterprises need... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/600 Fri, 10 May 2013 09:18:49 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/600-research-reveals-the-need-for-a-virtualization-reality-check