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In this short presentation from PUND-IT, discover why a Global 500 retailer—struggling with managing increasingly complex IT and supply chain environments—chose Dell EMC Vblock Systems over HPE to manage a variety of workloads and realize significant savings. Download this report from Dell EMC and Intel® to learn more.

When it comes to applications like archiving, organizations are faced with several choices. Should they go with a hosted solution, install the application on-premise, or use a hybrid approach where the data resides on-site but the archiving application is hosted? Although the options are hotly debated, there is no right choice. It’s a decision that should be driven by business needs, not the solution that’s most popular with pundits today.

A few years ago many pundits were ringing the death knell for brick and-mortar stores. Shops— and even walk-in services—they told us, would soon be eclipsed and pushed out by the massive online giants. No one would be shopping in the real world anymore. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

Unified Communications, or UC, has no official or even widely accepted definition. Pundits, analysts and journalists all have their own descriptions. So do vendors – theirs just happen to fit their own products perfectly. But this lack of consensus doesn’t mean the term is meaningless. In fact, unified communications is a complex but very real phenomenon. And this phenomenon has the potential to radically improve businesses’ ability to communicate.

Smaller businesses represent the entrepreneurial engine of the U.S. economy - that's why IBM has extended the BladeCenter value proposition to smaller businesses and organizations in a compact, affordable package. Read more about how BladeCenter can benefit your business in this report by Pund-IT.

Today, large organizations are being buffeted by a host of changes, many of them unexpected or unfamiliar. Business information is virtually exploding in size, kind and locale, taxing the abilities of even the most progressive enterprises to keep up. Mobile technologies and business analytics that were once exclusively used by employees with specialized needs and skills are now common across the entire workforce. As a result of all this, IT is bending under the strain of developing and delivering necessary new services while at the same time maintaining core service quality. This report will consider these issues, as well as IBM’s position in and efforts around developing next generation enterprise systems solutions, including its System z mainframes, POWER7+ processor-based Power Systems servers and System Storage offerings focused on those areas and use cases.