White Papers by Topic: Managed services

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IDC White Paper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.

Unified IT Monitoring & Management in Your Environment

At the very start of the IT industry, "monitoring" meant having a guy wander around inside the mainframe looking for burnt‐out vacuum tubes.

Join the Cloud without Reinventing the Wheel

Cloud computing is making significant changes to IT, from its infrastructure to corporate culture. Making the move to the cloud doesn't mean an organization must start from scratch though, as many already have the technological tools they need in place.

Defining a Framework for Cloud Adoption

Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies can deliver or access data. Moreover, the cloud model provides flexible pricing options that are designed to align costs with your specific IT requirements. Over the long term, your transition to a cloud computing model can be a wise business strategy and a cost-effective means to optimize your Dynamic Infrastructure. But in the short term, you will still need a way to pay for it.

Technical Article: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise

This article discusses cloud computing in general, then dissects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this movement is important for enterprise developers.

Leveraging the Cloud to Transform Software Delivery

Read this paper to learn how the cloud and IBM can help you overcome key operational challenges, ensure security, quickly meet goals and improve efficiency in your software delivery environment.

Choosing between in-house and subscription based IT Service Management

Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service.

19 Things to Consider When Selecting an Exchange Provider

This whitepaper provides information to help you identify the issues that are most important to you and offers a guide to help you narrow the field.

Hosted Services: Providing SMBs with Access to Advanced Technology

Download this free white paper and learn more about how hosted services can help you lower the price of implementing infrastructure-related networking technology.

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