HeritageBank of the South is a community-oriented regional bank serving southwest Georgia and north central Florida. Founded in 1955, the company offers personal banking, commercial banking and investment services through eight full-service offices. HeritageBank was primarily using tape backup methods to protect sensitive and critical internal data. However, this approach was proving too unreliable, time-consuming and burdensome for a financial services company challenged with a limited IT staff, geographically distributed servers and a complex, growing set of federal compliance mandates.

Why it cannot be an afterthought and how to protect virtual server resources

Virtualization stands out as one of the most discussed and debated technologies in recent years.  Businesses have been built around virtualization technology and organizations are using it to benefit business operations in multiple ways.

Founded in 1908 in Denver, Colorado, The Children’s Hospital is one of the top five children’s hospitals in the United States.  As a private, not-for-profit pediatric healthcare system, The Children’s Hospital is 100-percent dedicated to caring for kids of all ages and stages of growth.  That dedication is evident in more than 1,000 pediatric specialists and more than 3,500 full-time employees, and is the main reason that The Children’s Hospital is a place parents have come to trust.

Bringing World-Class Data Reduction to Primary Data Storage              

Server virtualization and data storage capacity optimization are high on the wish list of most CIOs. Each technology enables IT operations to do more with their existing IT infrastructures. But can these technologies be combined to bring even more value to an organization? In the case of VMware and data de-duplication there is an ideal fit.

When The New York Times wanted to convert a century and a half worth of its newspaper archives into PDFs for online distribution, it needed considerable computing power from its data center.  But, because it was a one time job, a capital investment in equipment for its data center hardly made sense. Instead, the newspaper simply bought as much computing power as it needed from Amazon’s computing cloud for the one time job at hand.

Cloud Computing is the hot new term the information technology community is floating about these days. But it’s often paired with promises that aren’t so new. Promises of unlimited computing power and near utility-like availability. But to many, the term Cloud Computing still lacks meaning and the promises appear transparent. We’ve heard it all before and a new wrapper won’t change the bitter aftertaste, right?