http://www.itoamerica.com ITO America online magazine http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=podcast&id=1248&name=The+Challenges+and+Rewards+of+Big+Data In this one-on-one interview, Rich Brueckner, President of insideHPC, discusses big data challenges and opportunities, as well as what technologies will help companies deal with their growing amounts of data. InsideHPC is a CIO Summit, CIO Cloud Summit, and CIO Life Sciences Summit event partner. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1247&name=Achieving+Business+Value+with+Network+and+Application+Visibility In this white paper, IDC analyzes the ROI that customers can expect from Riverbed Cascade, based on interviews with Cascade customers. Additionally, IDC lays out the business case for proactively managing network and application performance. Get the visibility you need to achieve your IT objectives. Download this whitepaper today. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1246&name=Fine-Tune+Your+IT+Performance Riverbed IT performance solutions allow you to aligne IT with the business objectives, accelerate applications and manage performance across the entire corporate network - at the data center, in the cloud, at branch offices, and for mobile workers. Businesses run faster and more efficiently, saving time and cutting the cost of infrastructure. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1245&name=Case+Study+-+International+Herald+Tribune International Herald Tribune (IHT) needed to ensure that all of its journalists, regardless of their location, have network access 24x7 to meet their demanding editorial schedule. Read the case study to learn how IHT deployed Riverbed Cascade™ to gain insight into their WAN traffic and a true end-to-end view of the application delivery path from servers to desktops. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1244&name=Case+Study+-+Depository+Trust+and+Clearing+Corporation The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) needed greater insight into how disparate network systems were working together, and needed to be alerted to information vital to effective management of business service delivery. The Corporation deployed Riverbed Cascade™ with sensors at several strategic locations to achieve end-to-end application visibility. Read the case study to learn more. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1243&name=Case+Study+%96+Boston+College In recent years Boston College has experienced rapid growth in data center network complexity. This complexity was driven by the need to provide a high level of fault tolerance to new, multi-tiered applications that had large bandwidth requirements. Read the case study to learn how the university deployed Riverbed Cascade™ to improve application performance management and increase network uptime. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1242&name=Seeing+Through+the+Fog%3A+Managing+Application+Performance+in+the+Cloud Much of a network professional's time is spent in the weeds-fixing what breaks-and trying to keep infrastructure humming so users don't call the help desk. Climbing out of the weeds to take in the big picture and thoughtfully lay the groundwork for better future performance seems a luxury. However, strategic planning to improve performance can yield tremendous benefits, especially when paired with a strong visibility solution. This report introduces best practices for understanding and improving the performance of mission-critical networked applications and provides pointers for what to look for in a measurement tool in a WAN optimized environment. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1241&name=Adding+Visibility+to+WAN+Optimization As business applications transition from desktops into data centers and eventually the public cloud, application visibility becomes increasingly shrouded. Good network visibility enables IT managers to baseline application performance before moving it into the cloud and to measure performance continuously thereafter to ensure that applications meet business needs. This report describes the inherent dangers for those inadequately prepared to move applications into the cloud, and covers the essential role that network-based performance measurement plays in maintaining service visibility when applications are drawn into the cloud. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1240&name=EMA+Radar+for+Application-Aware+Network+Performance+Management+Q3+2010+-+Riverbed+Vendor+Profile Riverbed offers the Cascade solution for Application-Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) for use in both enterprise and communications services settings. The Cascade product technology was obtained by Riverbed when they acquired Mazu Networks in early 2009. Until that time, Riverbed was focused on their core business line of WAN Optimization Controllers and worked mostly with third-party technology partners for performance monitoring and reporting. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=webinar&id=1239&name=PCI+%26+Virtualization%3A+Achieving+PCI+Compliance+in+Complex+Environments In this webinar Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, ESG and Allan MacPhee, Senior Product Manager, Trend Micro examine security challenges and PCI Compliance in complex environments. They also discuss how compliance can be more difficult to achieve in a virtualized environment as well as PCI DSS 2.0 specification requirements. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1238&name=Better+Patient+Care%3A+Virtually+There As the healthcare industry seeks to implement and drive widespread adoption of clinical computing, performance and accessibility of applications for clinicians are critical http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1237&name=Optimizing+Data+Center+Efficiency%3A+A+Prescriptive+Model+for+Reducing+Energy+Consumption+and+Improving+Performance Faced with expanding IT requirements and diminishing operational budgets, today's enterprises need to adopt new data center infrastructure management processes in order to achieve business goals. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1236&name=Operationalizing+Cloud%3A+The+Move+Towards+a+Cross-Domain+Service+Management+Strategy Cloud computing is a complex and often confusing array of sometimes logically unrelated technologies with consistent roots in virtualization and on-demand service delivery. But perhaps what's most relevant about Cloud computing is the catalytic effect it's having on IT organizations as they seek to become more resilient and responsive in enabling new and existing services, while minimizing capex and opex costs. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1235&name=EMA+Radar+for+WAN+Optimization+Controllers%3A+Q1+2011+Summary This Enterprise Management Associates Radar Report reviews thirteen providers of WAN Optimization Controller (WOC) solutions and compares their ability to deliver basic and advanced optimization benefits across a range network and application technologies. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1234&name=Network+Management+and+the+Responsible%2C+Virtualized+Cloud One of the greatest "innovations" within the current IT climate is that of Cloud services. Cloud services can offer great advantages over traditional, siloed, infrastructure-centric approaches to IT, but we are now progressing beyond the unrealistic optimism phase and confronting the hard part of making it all work to it's potential. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1233&name=Service-Centric+Asset+Management+in+the+Age+of+Cloud+Computing%3A+Report+Summary The concept of "Service-centric Asset Management" has its own roots, but shares a largely common vision with ITIL v3's concepts of "Service Lifecycle Management" and "Asset Lifecycle Management." However, EMA has been both predicting and advocating a more service-centric model for asset optimization and planning for nearly a decade. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1231&name=NetApp%2C+VMware%2C+Cisco%2C+Wyse%2C+Fujitsu+50%2C000+Seat+VMware+View+Deployment+++ NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse joined forces to create an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture built on VMware vSphere and NetApp shared storage. This white paper provides an initial overview of the ongoing virtualization project, with special focus on the architectural design and the partner involvement. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1227&name=A+Guide+for+Enterprise+VMware+ThinApp+Deployments++ VMware ThinApp is an enterprise-class application virtualization solution that eliminates conflicts and compatibility issues by decoupling applications from their underlying operating systems. This guide outlines the design considerations and architecture that customers and partners need for enterprise implementations of VMware ThinApp for both physical and VMware View desktop environments. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1220&name=Enterprise+Strategy+Group+Report+-+HP+Data+Protector+and+Deduplication+Solutions This ESG Lab Validation Report examines Hewlett Packard's family of backup and recovery solutions that combine the power of HP StorageWorks Virtual Library Systems (VLS) in the data center and the agility of HP D2D appliances in remote offices, tied together with HP Data Protector backup and recovery software. http://www.itoamerica.com/index.php?section=pdf&id=1219&name=Effectively+managing+storage+virtualization+with+HP+Storage+Essentials HP Storage Essentials can help your IT organization understand what is going on in your virtualized storage environment better to optimize utilization, deliver better storage service to business applications, and reduce the cost of storage hardware and storage management.