HP’s $8 billion write-down. A disappointing IPO from Facebook, Groupon’s famous flameout. These watershed moments have crystallized what we’ve known for a while: Fluff can no longer trump sound operations in terms of a company’s valuation. Organizations must be built on an empirically firm foundation to flourish. And everyone – from investors on Wall Street to customers on Main Street to the SEC– is looking at companies with more scrupulous eyes.

Whether you have been with your company for 30 years or just completed your first week, chances are pretty high that you are endlessly busy and things never seem to slow down. With so much to wrap your head around and the mindset of not skipping a beat, you likely never had a moment to pause, reevaluate the way things were being done and think to yourself, “What is the real method to this madness here and is there a better, more productive and cost-effective way we could be doing it?

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When it comes to application infrastructure, some of the burning questions that organizations are asking themselves include: If I host some of my application functionality in the could, how do I integrate that with my existing on-premises applications? How do I integrate my on-premises application with external business partners? Everyone is talking about platform as a service (PaaS). Should I use it? If so, when and when not? In this research, we address these questions by introducing the concept of iPaaS, a specific form of PaaS targeting integration and governance requirements, and how it can be used to address cloud-to-on-premises and other related requirements.

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has conducted extensive research investigating the integration and management challenges created by the convergence of on-premise and public Cloud hosted applications. Research conducted in mid-2012 uncovered some compelling statistics about the role of Cloud integration in today's companies: Nearly 50% of the companies surveyed have already deployed tiered transactions spanning public Cloud and on-premise computing environments (one form of "hybrid Cloud") Approximately 35% have integrated (or are in the process of integrating) multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. As one IT professional put it, "Everything is connected to everything." Because of this fact, any discussionof public Cloud as a standalone technology is outmoded. Few modern on-premise applications exist as"silos," and the same is true of Cloud-delivered applications.

Forrester Consulting examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by utilizing Turn Audience Suite and Turn Campaign Suite. Learn how this brand achieved a 50% ROI and attributes 80% of it’s digital media services revenue growth to Turn.

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the prevailing IT trends today. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and better allocate their compute resources. It enables organizations to more flexibly scale their IT infrastructure while reducing the administrative burden on IT organizations. But IT departments determined to take advantage of these benefits are at risk of losing control of their infrastructure. Read this white paper to understand how the HP CloudSystem Matrix is an integrated IT infrastructure solution that meets this challenge head-on, enabling organizations to simplify their IT infrastructure, reduce their management burden, and streamline operating costs. To Learn about the HP Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, click here: http://bit.ly/PTt3yD Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other count

Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it’s no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. This is a task that’s best achieved by striking a balance among IT domains, spanning traditional internal IT, private, and public cloud environments. But how do you achieve the right IT balance for delivering cloud services? Read this white paper to find out. To Learn about the HP Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, click here: http://bit.ly/PTt3yD Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Organizations of all types are attracted by the promises of private cloud computing, but few actually have the virtual maturity to be successful. This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud. To Learn about the HP Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, click here: http://bit.ly/PTt3yD Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

With so much hype surrounding the cloud, most IT professionals understandably are left scratching their heads and wondering: Should I move to the cloud? Where will it be the most helpful? How can it help drive efficiencies? Where does it not make sense? How can I separate the potential from the marketing fluff? Read this white paper to separate the technology and business potential from the marketing fluff. Get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization. To Learn about the HP Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, click here: http://bit.ly/PTt3yD Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

In healthcare, bringing new and reliable products to market is essential for staying relevant and competitive. That's why when McKesson needed to transform its development environments, the nation's largest healtchcare IT solutions provider turned to HP CloudSystem Matrix. By moving from a traditional rack-mount server infrastructure to an HP CloudSystem Matrix integrated solution, McKesson saw an 84-fold increase in processing speeds on their development environments (down to 40 mins. from 7 days). They also enjoyed a 42% reduction in physical server count and a 67% decrease in management time. Read this case study to see how your own organization can use an HP CloudSystem Matrix solution to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and drive innovation. To Learn about the HP Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, click here: http://bit.ly/PTt3yD Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

The cloud promises flexibility, agile development, rapid innovation, reductions in capital costs and infrastructure complexity, and much more. Before you can realize the cloud’s true potential, though, you need to clearly understand what you can do with it. That's why IT professionals from all industries and company sizes turn to an HP Cloud Discovery Workshop for help. Read this white paper for an overview of the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop and to understand how it can help clarify your company's cloud vision. To Learn about the HP Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, click here: http://bit.ly/PTt3yD Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Do your field reps use iPads or iPhones? If so, enable them to present with PowerPoint the way it was meant to be seen -- with fonts, colors and animations intact. Plus, empower you content team to instantly edit and update all versions of a particular presentation, all with the click of a mouse. Ideal for reducing risk and maintaining compliance! Users in more than 140 countries use SlideShark to deliver consistent, secure PowerPoint presentations on iPads and iPhones. Find out how SlideShark can empower you to distribute, control and track field PowerPoints. Click here to watch a quick 2-minute video and see SlideShark in action.

This IDC white paper describes the challenges associated with managing the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, with a focus on support services for the enterprise. It highlights the important role of support services in maximizing system performance and minimizing downtime. The paper also examines the HP Insight Online, HP Insight Remote Support, and HP Proactive Care service offerings, specifically for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers featuring Intel Xeon technologies — including an analysis of the return on investment (ROI) from these programs for existing HP customers.

This paper summarizes and evaluates the prevalence and efficacy of data center virtualization deployments, as well as the hardware that supports them. The conclusions drawn from this report are based on analysis of both quantitative market research and two qualitative interviews with a CIO and CTO in healthcare and finance, respectively. Each customer, referred to ESG by Hewlett-Packard (HP), had extensive experience deploying both server and desktop virtualization. The goal of the study was to determine the IT and business drivers to adoption of virtual technologies, the expected and realized benefits, ensuing infrastructure decisions,future outlook of the data center, and best practices for deployment.

Read this case study to learn how GMO Media achieved a significant reduction in the implementation period of a service development environment using a private cloud. HP Converged Infrastructure and private cloud built on HP ProLiant BL465c G7 Server Blades and open-source software (OSS) with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) enables speed and supports business growth.