The HP Storage Portfolio
Virtualization creates numerous challenges from increased complexity to new infrastructure pressures and security concerns; HP core storage solution can help build a foundation for virtual infrastructure to overcome IT practice and infrastructure challenges.

Infrastructure Cloud Services and Your IT Roadmap
Cloud is the key to the success of more than half of Canadian businesses, yet understanding cloud remains elusive. The IDC Workbook “Infrastructure Cloud Services and Your IT Roadmap” addresses these topics and provides a set of key questions to consider when assessing infrastructure-based cloud services for your organization.

First National Technology Solutions - Service provider expands target market with enhanced cloud infrastructure
By deploying EMC storage solutions, tech provider First National Technology Solutions was able to improve performance for its clients by more than 66%, reducing outages to zero, achieving a two-hour disaster recovery window and accelerate its business growth.

Discovering hidden costs in your data centre – a CFO perspective
At the June 2010 meeting of top CFOs at the Financial Executives International (FEI) Canada annual conference, IBM had the opportunity to talk with more than 60 CFOs to determine how much business insight they have on their data centre costs.

Comparing DBA Productivity: An Oracle/DB2 Task Complexity Analysis
As staff costs continue to consume an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets, productivity and ease-of-use are becoming more important factors in the overall TCO for a given IT system. The degree of complexity associated with common DBA activities is therefore a key differentiator between the various database vendors’ products. Triton Consulting conducted an objective assessment of the complexity of several routine DBA activities, comparing Oracle Database 11gR2 and IBM DB2 for LUW 9.7. This paper presents the in-depth results and conclusions from the complexity analysis. Download now