Step-by-Step Guide to Success in the Next Wave of the Data Center Consolidation (NEED CONTENT)

This guide will review what was discussed in the previous webcast:
  • Learn from the CTO of the Nuclear Security Agency how the NSA met the unanticipated challenges of their data center consolidation
  • Understand and anticipate the changes in IT staff roles and skills that consolidated operations will require
  • Recognize the impact of consolidation and cloud migration on networks, storage and compute capacity
  • Get tips from a technology thought leader on evaluating new opportunities for shared services and cloud-based infrastructures
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Cybersecurity Research Report: Agencies Battle Cyber Threats, Budget Cuts (NEED CONTENT)

Many government officials fret about their agency’s approach to risk assessment or the need for continuous monitoring and more holistic security solutions. Many also believe that their agencies are ill-prepared to deal with these challenges, and complain about understaffing or inadequately trained IT staff. And budget dollars are increasingly hard to come by in an era of sequestration. But there is movement toward augmenting current cybersecurity efforts, not only by improving training and expanding cybersecurity staff but also by investing in new solutions that improve data protection, network forensics and identity authentication. Join this exclusive webcast for an in-depth look at these issues that continue to be at the top of government IT agendas. [hr]

FDCCI Strategy Guide

A  whitepaper by ThunderCat and Knight Point, to help set up your data center consolidation and asset management strategy. You’ll find out how their unique consolidation tool, Hercules, can help you use the principles and components of active asset management to:
  • Understand key drivers for the initiative
  • Define the requirements and goals
  • Execute the project successfully
  • Install controls to manage and monitor the process
  • Maintain an accurate dataset for new operational parameters
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Top 5 Data Center Consolidation Lessons Learned

This document contains five helpful hints, including things to look for and pitfalls to avoid when going through data center relocations and consolidations. These common mistakes and easy-to-implement ideas are based on real world experiences of a variety of agencies in the Federal space. Download the PDF [hr]

Tools for Tracking and Managing Inventory: Increasing Efficiency, Accuracy, and Asset Transparency

Maintaining a current, detailed understanding of your data center’s assets and applications is critical to ensuring optimal performance and cost reduction. Learn how one company successfully leveraged an Active Asset Management Solution to realize a total combined expense savings of nearly $1.5M per year. Download the PDF [hr]

Tools for Mapping Applications: Using Hercules to Help Understand Your Business and Technology Dependencies

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Federal Data Center Consolidation Playbook

This whitepaper features a case study of the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA’s) efforts to consolidate by reducing its 17 data centers to two primary data centers. Riverbed offers tips for outlining a step-by-step strategy for successfully identifying your consolidation targets, optimizing and redistributing your IT infrastructure, organizing your migration, and leveraging cloud services, all while reducing disruption risk. Download the PDF [hr]

12 Best Practices For Data Backup and Recovery

Reliability. Up to 71% of restores from tape contain failures. Best Practice: Use disk-to-disk technology for backups. With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes… Download the PDF [hr]

The Viability of Indefinite Storage – Insights From Email Archiving

New storage technologies currently offer unprecedented capabilities for storing large amounts of data at low cost. At a time when legislation, legal precedent, and managerial best practices are calling for the retention of data for prolonged periods of time, declining hardware costs have propelled the idea of indefinite storage… Download the PDF [hr]

WAN Optimization Requirements and Suggestions

This document proposes a list of suggested requirements and evaluation criteria for selection of a WAN Acceleration product that can be deployed robustly to support a large-scale enterprise network. While many WAN acceleration products seem to perform adequately in simple lab tests in isolated network environments… Download the PDF [hr]

The Storage Management Lifecycle

Predictability, manageability, risk, cost efficiency, and alignment have always been key concerns of the IT executive. Today, with the rapid growth in enterprise storage and the various supporting technologies, the Storage Manager has similar concerns exacerbated by the ever increasing complexity and cost of storage management, even while storage hardware costs are reducing… Download the PDF [hr]

A Joint Solution By Riverbed and Infoblox

In typical IT environments, most organizations maintain dedicated servers in remote offices for local delivery of core network services. These services include DNS, DHCP, and RADIUS that help ensure connectivity and performance for remote office users attaching to the network… Download the PDF [hr]

Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Accelerate Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange 2003 has become the corporate standard in email, calendaring, and workforce productivity. As a result, significant time and IT resources go into creating a robust, reliable, high-performance Exchange environment… Download the PDF [hr]

Optimizing Microsoft Exchange Traffic Over The Wan

Microsoft Exchange performs poorly on WANs, so much that large enterprises often deploy distributed Exchange servers to support their local users. As a result, maintaining Exchange servers is an expensive and complex process. By deploying Steelhead appliances, users in remote offices can access Exchange servers in a centralized and distant data center with roughly the same responsiveness as a local mail server… Download the PDF [hr]

NetApp’s Unified Storage Architecture

The traditional model for enterprise storage requires a different storage system for each storage function. One storage architecture might be deployed for primary network-attached storage (NAS), another for storage area networks (SANs), with additional platforms for secondary storage, archive, and compliance… Download the PDF [hr]

Application Acceleration

Distributed organizations come in all sizes and shapes. Even small organizations may have multiple locations connected by data networks around the world. For the largest enterprises, even the simplest usable network is a complicated arrangement, while the most elaborate and sophisticated networks have unbelievable layers of replicated and interlocking functionality…. Download the PDF