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The new 2013 Infrastructure E-Guide is designed to help you ensure you're up to date with the most current infrastructure trends, best practices and innovations so you can make the right infrastructure decisions for your organisation. VIEW SUMMARY

Managing the IT infrastructure for a university, college or school is a thankless job. Education IT professionals need to walk a tight line between providing for the needs of users and managing the IT infrastructure. This paper presents the top ten IT management pain points in education environments VIEW SUMMARY

New technologies and principles like cloud computing, virtualisation and IT as a Service are reshaping how enterprises think of IT. Business and IT are seeking a new balance to make their collaboration work better for the company. This paper highlights the exciting times in store for the IT industry VIEW SUMMARY

This exclusive WatersTechnology white paper based on the results of senior data management executives from financial organisations examines the current state of data infrastructure at participating companies, as well as thoughts on future needs and concerns in this area of their businesses. VIEW SUMMARY

Virtualisation technology and cloud computing have changed the world of IT completely. The new virtual data center is much more complex. This video explains the need to change the way you think about capacity and how to take control over your data center’s capacity requirements. VIEW SUMMARY

Within shared storage, there is a constant struggle for resources – noisy neighbours. Performance becomes an issue due to the competition between workloads, reducing quality of service. Read this paper for limitations of legacy solutions and challenges in hosting performance-sensitive applications. VIEW SUMMARY

Legacy storage solutions cannot keep up with the rapidly expanding datacentres with increasing application numbers and which demand higher performance. Throwing hardware at this problem is not the answer. Read this paper for a discussion about performance of applications in the datacentre. VIEW SUMMARY

Cloud computing, virtualisation and mobility have forced companies to rethink their branch networking strategy. The primary challenges of delivering headquarters-like service to remote locations are cost and complexity. Read this paper to examine how to support a secure and robust remote network. VIEW SUMMARY

New and powerful mobile devices are making flexible working the norm in many organisations. But mobility is a double-edged sword. Mobile-enabled workers are undeniably more productive, but the increasing need to make company applications and data mobile are creating new and often unforeseen risks. VIEW SUMMARY

Distributed computing is connecting sites across the world, improving communication, collaboration and responsiveness. However, it also has its limitations. This paper explores the drawbacks of having a distributed environment, before suggesting a more agile alternative. VIEW SUMMARY