It’s not easy being today’s CISO or CIO. With the advent of cloud computing, Shadow IT, and mobility, the risk surface area for enterprises has increased dramatically, while IT budgets have shrunk and skilled cyber security talent is virtually impossible to find. Thankfully, the CIS Top 20 Critical Controls provides a pragmatic approach, offering prioritized guidance on the important steps for implementing basic cyber hygiene practices. With the CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, CISOs now have a blueprint for reducing risk and managing compliance. By automating each of these controls, CISOs enable their information security teams to do much more with less, essentially operationalizing good cyber hygiene.

A high level overview and introduction to the VCE VxRail Appliance.

This solution brief describes how VxRail Appliances are the easiest, fastest, most affordable way to implement a VDI infrastructure.

This VxRail solution brief provides an overview and describes benefits gained by Federal Agencies.

This VxRail solution brief provides an overview and describes benefits gained by State and Local Govt Agencies.

Business development and marketing programs have a tendency to underwhelm when it comes to actual results. As a result, we’re bombarded with SalesTech and MarTech apps endeavouring to plug the leaks. But these tools rarely tackle the core issues behind your lacklustre results. What’s needed is a fundamental change to your go-to-market approach. This ebook shows you what that change could look like, and describes how to make it happen.

This report outlines the limitations of legacy networks and how adding a technology called multipath networking can greatly improve the performance of cloud applications. It also provides advice on the evaluation criteria for multi-path networking solutions.

In this ebook, we provide some suggestions as to how firms might approach model risk measurement under the assumption that the firm has control over its broader information infrastructure, or at least is on a committed path toward that goal.

MBSI was providing approximately 800 virtual desktops to their employees using VMware Horizon with View and 8 VMware ESXi hosts and they were running an additional 140 virtual servers using 5 VMware ESXi hosts – all on a Tegile Hybrid SAN. “It was shortly after we converted from ICD-9 diagnosis codes to ICD-10 codes that performance for the VDI desktops began to suffer noticeably,” explained Shawn Wood, Assistant Manager of Systems Administration, MBSI. “We have relied on Xangati for a number of years now to help us quickly see where bottlenecks are in a short period of time. It's an important part of maintaining the integrity of our infrastructure.” Read more to learn how Xangati helped MBSI address this problem.

What can you do to optimize your converged infrastructure efficiency? While there are no 10-second, quick-fix answers, here are five strategies you can start implementing right now to bring your organization much closer to optimal efficiency and longterm cost savings.

So you’ve built a stable, dependable business. But now you want to expand your store’s growth and capitalize on mobile and ecommerce shopping. There are a few steps you should take before just throwing up some of your products online to make more money. Read more to learn about these steps and best practices to efficiently create the most effective ecommerce site for your business.

Do you know how your inventory is really doing? Do you have enough stock on hand? What are your top selling items? If you are unable to answer these questions, it might be time to consider rethinking how you manage your inventory. Inventory management allows you to run your business in the most effective and profitable way. When your inventory isn’t moving out the door, you are actually losing money. Are you aware of the best practices you should be using to manage your inventory? Read on to find out what you can be doing to better manage your inventory!

Taking physical inventory can seem like a tedious task, especially if you expect to rely completely on your inventory management solution. While it is very important to have retail management software that keeps track of your inventory, there are some things the software just can’t account for. This is where you come in. We have tips and advice that will help you count inventory in the most efficient way.

In the spring of 2015, IDC organized a study on the business value Vblock systems bring VCE customers. The organizations that took part in this study ranged from 400 employees to 200,000 employees, with an average employee count of 27,113. These organizations represent a wide array of industries and countries. The results of this study were published in the VCE-sponsored IDC white paper entitled, “The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility, May 2015”. This report discusses how Vblock Systems empowers IT teams to move quickly and more flexibly.

By unlocking engineering knowledge with IBM Rational solutions, organizations can deliver fast, easy access to engineering information - across multiple disciplines - so engineers can make the right decisions at the right time to speed development, improve quality and advance innovation.

IBM® DB2® is a multi-workload database software that improves business agility and reduces cost by better managing your company's core asset - data. Let's explore which edition of DB2 is the best fit for your needs.

IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure.

It is no longer practical or cost-effective to completely engineer all aspects of a unique data center.

This paper proposes standard terminology for categorizing the types of prefabricated modular data centers, defines and compares their key attributes, and provides a framework for choosing the best approach(es) based on business requirements.

This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling, racks, physical security, monitoring, and lighting.

This paper highlights nine key datacenter and cloud architecture challenges that NetScaler helps solve more effectively than F5 to help you.

Read this paper to learn how NetScaler is meeting modern demands for more robust datacenter security.

Learn Office 365™ Migration Risks and How to Avoid a SaaS Monoculture.

Even with the latest devices, your mobile workforce may not have what they need to get the job done. Without a strategy to provide them with data and applications, they’re forced to work without them or find workarounds that can compromise security. Today’s workers are constantly on the move, and IT departments are scrambling to keep up. Access to email is not enough. You must address the legacy applications that your employees can’t easily access from their mobile devices, knowing that app development can be cost prohibitive and complex. And you have to have a strategy in place to secure and manage every application in use.

Mobility has brought massive changes to the way we work, and to avoid lagging behind, you need to be able to respond to these changes. But to truly move your organization forward, it takes a proactive approach. We can help you build and implement a mobility strategy that lets you do more than just contain complexities in order to position your organization for future success.