Your service level agreement (SLA) sets the tone for your relationship with a new client by outlining your responsibilities, your client’s responsibilities, and the terms and timelines you will both work under. When you’re clear on expectations, you’ll be able to measure and manage the user experience in a meaningful way and position yourself as a trusted advisor. The better your agreement, the more you and your clients benefit.

This white paper is a business briefing for C-Level Executives on how integrating a range of technologies - including unified communications, service oriented architecture, virtualization and cloud computing - can transform the productivity and profitability of large enterprises.

End-user expectations and high levels of performance against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) must be achieved or organizations risk the loss of business. This paper details key capabilities needed for successful end-user monitoring and provides critical considerations for delivering a successful end-user experience.

In the financial services industry (FSI), high-performance compute infrastructure is not optional; it’s a prerequisite for survival. No other industry generates more data, and few face the combination of challenges that financial services does: a rapidly changing competitive landscape, a complex regulatory environment, tightening margin pressure, exponential data growth, and demanding performance service-level agreements (SLAs).

"Now there’s an innovative new way to move enterprise applications to the public cloud while actually reducing risks and trade?offs. It’s called multicloud storage, and it’s an insanely simple, reliable, secure way to deploy your enterprise apps in the cloud and also move them between clouds and on? premises infrastructure, with no vendor lock?in. Multicloud storage allows you to simplify your infrastructure, meet your service?level agreements, and save a bundle."

Protecting your business-critical applications without impacting performance is proving ever more challenging in the face of unrelenting data growth, stringent recovery service level agreements (SLAs) and increasingly virtualized environments. Traditional approaches to data protection are unable to cost-effectively deliver the end-to-end availability and protection that your applications and hypervisors demand. A faster, easier, more efficient, and reliable way to protect data is needed.

Download this whitepaper to learn how real-¬time cluster optimization technology can be used in multi¬-tenancy Hadoop environments to: • Eliminate the expense of having to physically isolate workloads • Enforce service level agreements (SLAs) based on customer¬ defined policies • Enable cluster usage tracking by job, task and user to speed troubleshooting and help with chargebacks

Business leaders expect two things from IT: keep mission-critical applications available and high performing 24x7 and, if something does happen, recover to be back in business quickly and without losing any critical data so there is no impact on revenue stream. Of course, there is a gap between this de facto expectation from nontechnical business leaders and what current technology is actually capable of delivering. For mission-critical workloads, which are most often hosted on databases, organizations may choose to implement high availability (HA) technologies within the database to avoid downtime and data loss.

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Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform featuring powerful on-demand infrastructure and solutions for building and deploying applications workloads as well as a wide variety of IT and application services. You can use Azure as a public cloud provider and as a hybrid extension to existing on-premises infrastructure. Organizations that use Microsoft solutions on-premises are able to extend their infrastructure and operational processes to Azure. With the growing popularity of Azure, today’s systems administrators need to acquire and strengthen their skills on this fast-growing public cloud platform. In this guide we explore the Azure public cloud platform with a focus on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features. We cover general architectural features of the Azure cloud including geographic regions, availability zones, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) attached to the core Azure IaaS infrastructure.

Learn the 10 strategies for selecting a disaster recovery service provider to ensure that your organization will be better protected should a natural disruption occur.

A self-service experience helps IT and business users do more, and do it better, at a lower cost This eBook, “Consumerize the User Experience,” distills insights from the ServiceNow user community that can help you rapidly deploy an improved self-service experience while maximizing your short, medium, and long-term benefits. Learn best practices to: • Create a self-service portal where users can report issues, make requests, ask questions, and check request status • Define the service catalog to accurately reflect details of supported services, such as: scope, cost, service level agreements (SLAs), dependencies, and more • Automate knowledge sharing for better service and less hunting for information

This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria for constructing an online collaboration service and where they stand in relation to each other. Forrester chose to evaluate the overall strategies of these providers across criteria like global footprint, service-level agreements, mobile support, enterprise readiness, and more. This report and associated Excel model highlight the key criteria CIOs and their staffs should evaluate when looking at prospective providers of online collaboration services. Download now to learn more!

This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria for constructing an online collaboration service and where they stand in relation to each other. Forrester chose to evaluate the overall strategies of these providers across criteria like global footprint, service-level agreements, mobile support, enterprise readiness, and more. This report and associated Excel model highlight the key criteria CIOs and their staffs should evaluate when looking at prospective providers of online collaboration services. Download now to learn more!

The all-encompassing data center is a thing of the past. Modern data environments are distributed and include remote and branch offices, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as cloud solutions such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). There’s more critical data to back up than ever before. Plus, data silos and fragmented management mean poor visibility, which can make it difficult to comply with regional data residency and security rules as well as service-level agreements (SLAs). On-premises data protection has not kept pace. According to a survey by Fujitsu, 45% of IT managers said they had lost data or productivity related to data protection inefficiency within the last year.1 Often, this is because on-premises backups are cumbersome and do not always happen on time.

IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer Demo - simplify and scale your file transfers Companies of all sizes in every industry are extremely reliant on file transfer as an essential infrastructure to power business. In fact, 55% of all systems integration is still done through file transfer.? IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer is a battle-tested platform that secures and simplifies scalable file-based transactions. In a single offering, you can: • Automate inbound and outbound file transfer across multiple protocols so you can partner with anyone, anywhere. • Handle your most demanding workloads with reliable, point-to-point file transfers. • Gain full end-to-end visibility and governance to help you meet your service level agreements. • Protect your brand reputation and comply with tightening regulations.

Every business day, corporate campuses across the country function like small cities requiring highly specialized facilities and logistics management services. This paper will explore effective and efficient Corporate Campus Logistics Services to ensure the efficient flow of materials and people at large multi-building office campuses serving thousands of employees. Corporate facilities, real estate management, logistics and procurement teams as well as commercial real estate management companies are charged with sourcing the services that are the underpinnings of these mega-campuses. It’s an effort that spans a wide range—coordinating the receipt and distribution of supplies, equipment and packages; safely transporting thousands of employees as well as suppliers and contractors to locations within the campus; tracking and warehousing countless materials to support daily planned and unplanned workplace needs. Learn more about lowering costs, streamlining operational efficiency and gaining high employee satisfaction.

This paper will explore the potential of applying business performance management (BPM) principles to advance document performance management (DPM) in a way that enables organizations to reduce costs; better manage documents as vital strategic, ?nancial and information assets; and secure positive returns on investments from outsourcing. An example of this approach — spotlighted later in this paper — is MAX, a document performance management system that enables companies to more effectively manage their document processes and outsourcing service providers.

The focus of this document is to quantify the cost of IT-induced business downtime.

Data is now accessed via physical and virtual desktops, laptops and mobile devices. IT organizations struggle to control and manage this widening pool of devices. View this Computerworld Survey to better understand the solutions to these challenges.

Recent new technology introductions are fundamentally changing the way we utilize and manage IT resources. This whitepaper shows how these new processes and automation solutions deliver the agility and extensibility to maintain performance and relia

Many IT organizations are excited about the prospects of incorporating Cloud-based technologies into their present/future vision. Download this whitepaper and learn how you can leverage Cloud services for increased resiliency and efficiency.

Reducing IT costs and improving service quality are primary concerns when looking to improve your IT efficiencies. This paper presents the Return on Investment implications for organizations considering an IT Service and Client Management solution.

Managing IT services has rarely been as challenging as it is today. The solution is to adopting a standards-based strategy that automates IT service management. This white paper examines what’s holding IT back and offers a potential way forward.

Learn how to assess your organization’s necessity for cloud services and whether or not it would be a beneficial addition.