Ernst & Young 2012 Global Information Security Survey (GISS) - Fighting to close the gap

Based on responses from 1,836 information security executives in 64 countries the 2012 GISS suggests that organizations are taking steps to enhance their information security capabilities but few are keeping up with an ever-changing risk landscape.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Optimized Power, Cooling, and Management Maximizes Benefit

Effects of virtualization on Data Centre physical infrastructure and Methods on achieving power usage efficiency.

Real-time diagnostics for virtualized infrastructures

HP Virtualization Performance Viewer (vPV) is a real-time diagnostic and triage tool for quickly troubleshooting performance issues and bottlenecks in virtualized environments.

CASE STUDY: Vodafone

Vodafone’s new services framework enables automatic assessment and correllation of events and incidents according to business-defined SLAs, ensures IT operation resources are constantly focused on providing high-quality services.

CASE STUDY: Sprint Case Study

Sprint used a business services framework to transform IT management, drive improved customer satisfaction and cost savings, and create an intelligent enterprise.

CASE STUDY: SoftBank Mobile

SoftBank Mobile, a leader in Japan’s mobile phone industry, upgrade its mobile Internet service infrastructure to offset increased risks of failure.

Network management: the foundation for cloud services

Four steps to get network operations cloud-ready.

CASE STUDY: Allianz

Allianz Shared Infrastructure Services SE replaced its suite of management tools, some of which had been developed in-house, with a standard solution for the management of 600 network components in its data centre—and derived reduced costs and improved quality of service.

CASE STUDY: Henan Local Taxation Bureau

Henan Local Taxation Bureau established an operation and monitoring platform that delivers information and insights on its IT environment in real time, 24/7.

CASE STUDY: NEC

NEC reduced network management costs, raised network visibility, lowered mean-time-to-repair, enhanced stability and mitigated the risk of downtime—with a single initiative.