To overcome the challenges and risks of the digital era, while positioning their businesses for success, SMBs need to partner with professional services organizations with the expertise that can safely guide them through achieving the following six key IT business initiatives: Data mobility A strong information security framework (for external and internal threats) 24x7 application availability Scalable infrastructure Pervasive, end-to-end data protection End-to-end professional services

The increase in mobile devices and cloud applications has changed everything, from where we work, to how we communicate, collaborate, and store information. A new approach to security is needed. The cloud is no longer a trend or a movement. It’s now so integrated into IT and infrastructures that, for many companies, it’s simply how business is done. The availability of mobile devices and cloud services has redefined how and where people work. Applications and servers are moving to the cloud faster than ever to take advantage of cost savings, scalability, and accessibility. The age of perimeter-only security is over. Find out more today about how Cisco can help.

This white paper provides information on how Organizations of all kinds rely on their relational databases for both transaction processing and analytics, but many still have challenges in meeting their goals of high availability, security, and performance. NetApp’s systems, software, and services offer a number of advantages as a foundation for better operational results.

Data is the lifeblood of your business. To compete in today’s global information economy, you need to keep your IT systems up and running and provide consistent and reliable access to business-critical applications at all times. Application downtime or slow performance can mean diminished employee productivity, dissatisfied customers, and lost revenue. But keeping pace with change and managing growth can be a real challenge. Increasing numbers of applications, evolving technology, and rapid data growth are pushing older IT infrastructure to the limit—demanding more storage and bandwidth, greater security and agility, and higher availability than ever before.

Data is the lifeblood of your business. To compete in today’s global information economy, you need to keep your IT systems up and running and provide consistent and reliable access to business-critical applications at all times. Application downtime or slow performance can mean diminished employee productivity, dissatisfied customers, and lost revenue. But keeping pace with change and managing growth can be a real challenge. Increasing numbers of applications, evolving technology, and rapid data growth are pushing older IT infrastructure to the limit—demanding more storage and bandwidth, greater security and agility, and higher availability than ever before.

In today’s digital economy, consumer products (CP) companies face pressures from all sides. Consumers wield great power based on easy access to information about products, pricing, and availability. The barriers of entry for new players with the “next big product idea” are lower than ever. At the same time, channel partners, from big retailers to Amazon, are expanding their own private-label businesses. Added to all that, tremendous volatility persists in the basic costs of doing business, from raw materials, to labor, to shipping, and beyond.

In today’s digital economy, consumer products (CP) companies face pressures from all sides. Consumers wield great power based on easy access to information about products, pricing, and availability. The barriers of entry for new players with the “next big product idea” are lower than ever. At the same time, channel partners, from big retailers to Amazon, are expanding their own private-label businesses. Added to all that, tremendous volatility persists in the basic costs of doing business, from raw materials, to labor, to shipping, and beyond.

In today’s digital economy, consumer products (CP) companies face pressures from all sides. Consumers wield great power based on easy access to information about products, pricing, and availability.

Take a look at this flier for additional information regarding archiving and retention solutions from IBM.

This ESG whitepaper reviews challenges introduced by data growth and focuses on IBM data protection and retention products/technologies that address storage efficiency.

This whitepaper explores the latest challenges and innovations in data protection and retention.

Browse the data-sheet for additional information regarding archiving and retention solutions from IBM.

To compete in today’s fast-paced business climate, enterprises need accurate and frequent sales and customer reports to make real-time operational decisions about pricing, merchandising and inventory management. They also require greater agility to respond to business events as they happen, and more visibility into business activities so information and systems are optimized for peak efficiency and performance. By making use of data capture and business intelligence to integrate and apply data across the enterprise, organizations can capitalize on emerging opportunities and build a competitive advantage. The IBM® data replication portfolio is designed to address these issues through a highly flexible one-stop shop for high-volume, robust, secure information replication across heterogeneous data stores. The portfolio leverages real-time data replication to support high availability, database migration, application consolidation, dynamic warehousing, master data management (MDM), service

As organizations develop next-generation applications for the digital era, many are using cognitive computing ushered in by IBM Watson® technology. Cognitive applications can learn and react to customer preferences, and then use that information to support capabilities such as confidence-weighted outcomes with data transparency, systematic learning and natural language processing. To make the most of these next-generation applications, you need a next-generation database. It must handle a massive volume of data while delivering high performance to support real-time analytics. At the same time, it must provide data availability for demanding applications, scalability for growth and flexibility for responding to changes.

Organizations like yours are creating and collecting more valuable information than ever before, and this new data is critical to your business. Increasingly, your business demands a high-availability database platform built to support complex, mission-critical workloads.

VMware Virtual Infrastructure and CA Recovery Management (CA ARCserve Backup and CA Xosoft products) team up to deliver higher availability and risk-resistance for business-critical information and applications, while lowering management and operational costs and complexity.

Metalogix Replicator gives all users uninterrupted, fully synchronized, fast access to SharePoint content on land, sea, and in the air. It synchronizes SharePoint content across geographically dispersed farms so that all parts of an organization can work from the most current information and provides high availability access, so users can access the same content anywhere, anytime.

Metalogix Replicator gives all users uninterrupted, fully synchronized, fast access to SharePoint content on land, sea, and in the air. It synchronizes SharePoint content across geographically dispersed farms so that all parts of an organization can work from the most current information and provides high availability access, so users can access the same content anywhere, anytime.

Meeting Room Manager now gives you the option to share your company's reservations and events with others via SocialView - an innovative new optional add-on that's essentially a public, shared online calendar, view-only interface that you control. Integrate this online calendar creator option into your internal or external website, and you'll be able to announce event information and room availability in an instant.

As the business case for Software-as-a-Service (Saas) and other cloud computing models solidifies, more companies are incorporating cloud computing into their IT programs. However, the legal, regulatory, and ethical requirements of data security must be adhered to regardless of where the information is housed. The best SaaS providers offer strong authentication systems, user activity auditing tools, and real time usage reporting to maintain the highest level of control over sensitive and confidential data. In this 11-page white paper, Intralinks provides tips and questions to ask prospective providers about their security standards and practices, software reliability and uptime, and the availability of reporting and audit trails.

IBM and SAP® have a unique partnership that was established with the goal of delivering the very best enterprise IT solutions to SAP customers.

CIOs today are being called upon to interpret business strategy and priorities, then add value through information technology initiatives. At a time when "critical to the business" translates to "mission-critical IT", how do you ensure end-to-end availability and reliability of the IT resources that enable your company’s essential business processes.

This paper examines the trends towards server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations address the challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.

This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution.

This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help IT managers solve the challenges of automated patient care and compliance.