Challenging to control, prone to outbursts of disruption - but, ultimately, a powerful force that when hamessed correctly, can be game changing for any organization.
This infographic highlights how the majority of people want digital tools in their jobs.
Here's a look at that research, highlighting how people feel about it, and just why it makes it all the more important to tame the bear.
Dynamic logistics and aviation business John Menzies plc needed a flexible, scalable IT infrastructure to support its ambitious growth plans. And it needed it quickly.?
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 13, 2012
Most organizations today understand that a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to their continued survival should a natural disaster occur. But implementing a DR plan entails substantial time, effort and cost - not to mention significant investment in developing new areas of technical expertise within the organization. As a result, many organizations are turning to disaster recovery service providers (DRSPs) to offload their disaster recovery operations.
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 14, 2012
When considering business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR), a failed recovery means discontinued business. having systems inoperable and people unavailable for a matter of days or even hours can be disastrous in terms of lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction, and negative press. it is therefore critical to understand the root-causes behind why recoveries fail the first place.
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 14, 2012
CHALLENGE:
Florida Hospital performs recovery tests twice a year, recovering more than 100 applications. The healthcare organization needed a recovery strategy that improved communication and efficiency, managed a complex change control process, and that would keep staff at home during a disaster.
SunGard Solution:
With the Managed Recovery Program, SunGard is Florida Hospital's recovery team, ensuring recovery configurations keep pace with production changes, managing recovery test execution, and providing a single point of contact for the complete recovery program.
Learn a four-pronged approach to create a disaster recovery plan for your hybrid IT environments to help ensure successful recoveries of your data and applications.
Learn 5 strategies to efficiently communicate Disaster Recovery to your C-Level Executives in order to protect your organization from data center interruptions.
Learn the 10 strategies for selecting a disaster recovery service provider to ensure that your organization will be better protected should a natural disruption occur.
Learn how an East Coast University and a prominent healthcare provider were able to maintain their IT availability during Hurricane Sandy with a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Program.
In this infograph learn the benefits regarding cloud services and whether it is more cost effective to build an IT Infrastructure for cloud on-site or to partner with a cloud provider that offers a fully managed solution.
Learn the three essential steps for a strategic approach to Hybrid IT in order to reduce capital costs while simultaneously delivering your product and services more efficiently.
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 13, 2012
A leader in performance management, marketing, and training, Frontline Focus required a new data solution to keep information flowing and secure. Any solution had to be resilient, highly available,completely scalable, and cost-effective.
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 13, 2012
Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) has been available for some time, and has leveraged a number of infrastructure options and recovery platforms. Many of these options have provided a recovery solution that is flexible, scalable, and secure. And in some cases, service providers offer fully managed solutions with the expertise to support heterogeneous IT environments.
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 13, 2012
Today's IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of optimizing all aspects of their departments, including people, processes and technology. Optimizing and streamlining server utilization through virtualization represents one particularly exciting example. We found that one of the most popular usage models for virtualization is to drive down server procurements in development, test and production environments. When this model is followed, future server purchases are avoided; instead, new workloads are established on existing systems.
Published By: SunGard
Published Date: Aug 13, 2012
Whether your business is involved with it yet or not, cloud computing will play a significant role in the future of IT: it has already been enthusiastically embraced by small and medium sized businesses and its potential is also being accepted and exploited by larger enterprises.