How to manage cloud workloads and resources from the data center

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  Should data center managers consider cloud computing?

  Experts weigh in on whether data center managers should contemplate cloud computing, and under what circumstances. Learn where to use cloud computing, the risks that may occur, and whether or not it is useful at all. Read Now

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  Considering data center resource options

  New technologies, security threats and compliance requirements place an increased demand on data centers. When building new data centers is out of the question, it is time to contemplate new possibilities, such as consolidation and outsourcing. Read Now

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  Building up hybrid cloud with virtual data center services

  Hosting providers are adding sophisticated management features to their Infrastructure as a Service and managed service offerings, giving users a combination of cloud resource control and support. Read Now

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  How to integrate hybrid cloud into corporate data centers

  Business use of hybrid cloud computing is evolving alongside public and private cloud options. Administrators need to know where workloads should live, how to manage the hybrid cloud and the best ways to change the distribution of workloads. Read Now

1Data center costs in a hybrid cloud model

Data centers rack up major costs; that's no secret. A hybrid cloud might be better for your budget, but that also might mean making sacrifices. Does a hybrid cloud model mean saving more or spending more?

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  Centralized or decentralized? You decide

  Cloud computing options allow enterprises to get away from IT's control -- but will this move be permanent? New challenges and inadequacies facing management may return power to IT teams, and these changes all affect data center costs. Read Now

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  Taking advantage of cost models to get more for your cloud money

  Implementing cloud computing can positively affect your costs and budget, removing capital expenditures. Kris Bliesner, CEO of 2nd Watch, proposed a few tips on getting the most out of the cloud cost model at the Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference in New York. Read Now

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  Myths of on-premises vs. cloud cost savings

  It's no secret that data centers want to save money. With underutilized servers, applications can create unnecessarily higher costs. Where are the actual savings of offloading your data center infrastructure and workloads onto the cloud? Tom Nolle identifies how to raise average use levels and ultimately lower costs. Read Now

2Cloud workload management choices for the data center

With the hybrid cloud model in the mix, new concerns arise in the world of data center management. New networking opportunities, choosing between IT infrastructure strategies, and syncing up service-level agreements (SLAs) across platforms keep cloud workloads running efficiently.

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  Networking choices for cloud deployments

  Cloud networking affects network infrastructure management, such as how an enterprise handles Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) decryption. Has your business offloaded resources to a third-party cloud hosting service? This article provides network security, administration and cost choices for cloud adopters. Read Now

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  How to best support as-a-Service operations

  Infrastructure, Platform and other as-a-Service offerings require flexible underlying resources that can scale up as needed. Options range from a fleet of servers to private cloud on a converged infrastructure to public cloud hosting. Read Now

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  Don't dilute SLAs when ramping up hybrid cloud

  Applications often rely on private and public cloud resources. Don't allow the established SLA for your private cloud to fall apart when it meets a cloud service SLA. Read Now

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  No escaping familiar issues like capacity planning

  While hybrid cloud solves some problems for IT shops, others remain the same, with a new platform to consider. Read Now

3Hybrid cloud management tools

You've implemented hybrid cloud; so, what's next? This section covers the tools that data center managers can consider to optimize productivity. The right tools and platforms can help make hybrid cloud management transparent, eliminating frustration and confusion.

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  Red Hat Open Hybrid Cloud to tackle complicated cloud management

  With a mix of on-premises hardware, virtualization, private cloud and public cloud workloads, enterprises need open-source management tools, according to Red Hat. Read Now

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  Choosing application performance management tools

  With some workloads kept in-house, some virtualized and some in the public cloud, IT teams might adopt several application performance management tools, each tailored to the application. Read Now

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  The server monitoring tool for today and the future

  Most enterprises have significant on-premises infrastructure to support, as well as a growing public cloud computing infrastructure or plans to start one. So, how do you choose a server monitoring tool for both deployments? Read Now

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  One company's SaaS support choices

  When Planview Inc. decided to offer its enterprise Software as a Service, they used virtual machines instances instead of undertaking a lengthy, costly software redesign for multi-tenancy. Here's what Planview's infrastructure looks like. Read Now

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  Cloud vendor overview for hybrid cloud adopters

  While the hybrid cloud offering landscape is still relatively new, vendors are out there with packaged-up private and public cloud architectures. Read Now

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  Cross-platform, single-pane-of-glass and specialized tools

  Hybrid cloud management choices vary depending on your cloud infrastructure. One enterprise's hybrid cloud setup and uses can be completely different from another's. Here are some tool categories. Read Now

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  Keeping an eye on resources for cloud applications

  Without insights into private and public cloud performance, IT cannot support the applications using them. There are three steps to ensuring that cloud resource pools meet enterprise's IT needs. Read Now

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  Cloud computing: A centralized approach

  VMware vCloud may be a good choice for those enterprises that seek a centralized approach. VMware vCloud Suite creates a virtual data center. Find out what this means for cloud management. Read Now