Fragmentation & System Reliability: The Real Impact | Service Delivery & the Cloud: Why They Are Better Together
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| | | IT professionals are constantly faced with a wide array of new technologies promising greater efficiencies, higher performance, and faster development times. Why should they concern themselves with file transfer, which is, after all, a solved problem? The truth is file transfer in many organizations is a partially solved problem. File transfers have to meet certain levels of reliability, performance, security, cost effectiveness, and accessibility. When ad hoc solutions come up short, businesses will likely find they have unmet requirements. This paper examines how common practices in file transfers undermine the efficiency and security of business operations. | |  | | | | A computer system, like any other system, is only as fast as its slowest link. On a computer, the weakest link is typically the hard drive, a mechanical device in an environment of electronic operations. Accessing a spinning magnetic device through disk heads (operations measured in milliseconds) is much slower than the electronic communications that take place between a CPU and memory (nanoseconds). A slow disk subsystem can cripple the fastest combinations of CPUs and memory. Applications, and the operating system itself, interact with the disk subsystem via a structured set of layers. This ensures a symbiosis between a file system driver (e.g. ntfs.sys) and the disk subsystem. Bottlenecks anywhere in this layered structure reflect on the overall performance. When this article describes file system performance, it relates to both file system level considerations as well as disk subsystem considerations. | | | | | | | Is your organization really ready to leverage the benefits of a cloud solution? Are you prepared to request, fulfill, and manage cloud services? One important factor in this equation is to ensure that you are able to properly manage and exploit the benefits of the virtualized environment. Another important criterion is to ensure that you have the visibility of your IT infrastructure. Watch this webcast to learn more about solutions that can help you transform your operational support model from a traditional IT focus to a cloud service delivery model. | | | | | | | Your virtual environment houses critical (and often irreplaceable) information, so you need an effective backup and recovery solution. In this Quest Software white paper, learn how to not only increase the effectiveness of backup and recovery in your virtual environment, but how to also make it simple, fast, affordable and scalable. You'll also learn five tips that ensure the data in your virtual environment is secure day in and day out. Don't gamble with the information vital to your company's success. Read this white paper today. | | | | | | | Providing low-risk, resilient IT services that can rapidly adapt to business needs while controlling costs is not an easy task. The task can seem almost impossible with the additional pressures of legislative controls that add to these constraints. These challenges are no longer just the domain of the large enterprise. They are relevant to large and small businesses alike. Positioning your company to compete successfully in this business climate can mean the difference between the survival and failure of your business. Read more about integrated services management in this white paper. | | | | | | | Hackers are employing more sophisticated techniques to infect systems and steal data. In addition, more data is subject to privacy and protection laws and regulations. As a result, organizations are under increased pressure to secure their computers, protect their users' and customers' data, and comply with new regulations. Dell computers running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional and/or Enterprise offer many features that can help organizations make their operations more secure and meet compliance requirements. | | | |
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