The Power of Hybrid Cloud

Released: May, 2017

This iView discusses The Role of Multi-Cloud in IT Transformation.

Act Today to Close Tomorrow's Skills Gaps

Released: April, 2017

This Market Spotlight discusses the key trends in cloud computing and the changing nature of the skills needed in an IT organization.

Using Cloud Capabilities for Competitive Advantage:

How Small and Midsize Companies Worldwide Are Applying Cloud Technology to Meet Key Business Goals

Released: March, 2017

This InfoBrief highlights how small and midsize businesses worldwide are using cloud computing for cost-effective competitive benefits.

Business Value Summary for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Released: February, 2017

This Business Value Snapshot highlights findings from the IDC White Paper: Enabling the Business Through Cost-Effective Scalability with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

Enabling the Business Through Cost-Effective Scalability with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Released: February, 2017

IDC interviewed seven organizations to understand how they are using Spot Instances to support their business operations. These AWS customers reported that they have taken advantage of access to very cost-effective and scalable compute resources to grow their business and create more innovative IT operations.

Enterprise Data Management: Creating Competitive Advantage for Healthcare Organizations

Released: February, 2017

This IDC Health Insights White Paper is sponsored by Commvault and examines the need for a robust health data management platform that manages both clinical data and business data across the enterprise. 

Liquid Web Tackles DDoS Challenges with Corero Solution

Released: October, 2016

This IDC Customer Spotlight discusses how Liquid Web enhanced its overall security profile by partnering with Corero Network Security. Corero

Powering Digital Transformation Through the Cloud-Ready Enterprise

Released: September, 2016

This IDC Technology Spotlight looks at the role of Riverbed in accelerating digital transformation by  addressing the new requirements for a cloud-ready enterprise.

IDC Innovators: Cloud-Enabled Mobile Security Products, 2016

Released: July, 2016

An "IDC Innovators" document recognizes emerging vendors chosen by an IDC analyst because they offer an innovative new technology or a groundbreaking business model, or both, and were approved by the IDC Innovators Review Panel.

IDC MaturityScape: Hybrid Cloud Management

Released: April, 2016

The purpose of this IDC MaturityScape is to assist senior IT leaders in assessing the current state of their hybrid cloud management processes, governance models, technologies, and skills in order to identify gaps and create a road map for better aligning the organization's management model and tools with the emerging needs of   complex, dynamic self-service hybrid cloud environments.

Integrated Network and Cloud Sourcing: Enabling Security, Performance, and Hybrid IT

Released: April, 2016

Cloud services are becoming an increasingly mainstream IT and application delivery model. Businesses now look to multitenant clouds (alone or in conjunction with other types of third-party IT) to deliver a wide range of benefits, including infrastructure scalability, improved business agility, and lower total cost of ownership.

Managed Print Services — Service Delivery Excellence

Released: February, 2016

Many organizations understand the value of optimizing its print and document infrastructure in order to achieve greater efficiencies and cost savings, increase security and better meet your regulatory/compliance and environmental/sustainability objectives. This iView discusses the current trends and steps to discuss with your print and document mangement provider.

Securing Productivity in the Borderless Enterprise

Released: January, 2016

As companies increasingly look to transform their businesses with mobility, they need to consider the core management and security infrastructure that will enable these services. This Technology Spotlight examines the important role played by enterprise mobility management (EMM) technology in managing the security challenge posed by the combination of mobile devices and cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps.

Enterprise Cloud Trends: A Status Checkpoint 2015

Released: December, 2015

This InfoBrief disusses the need for IT departments to be open to adopting new and more flexible approaches to IT service delivery to help the business not just grow but to thrive in this age of the digital economy driven by the 3rd Platform of IT innovation.

The Shift to Hybrid Cloud: IT and Lines of Business Both Stand to Benefit

Released: November, 2015

With the advent of the 3rd Platform, the evolution toward cloud-based IT is not an either-or
proposition. Hybrid cloud is a viable option for any organization looking to leverage, rather than
replace or abandon, existing internal IT frameworks. 

The Role of Mainframes in the 3rd Platform Era

Released: November, 2015

The 3rd Platform is causing businesses to rethink their entire IT infrastructure as a result of the steep growth in worldwide numbers of Internet of Things (IoT) systems and mobile devices with which end users drive increased data analytics and transactions on back-end systems. 

Moving to Cloud: How cloud strategy drives business benefits

Released: October, 2015

This infographic highlights drivers and benefits of mobing to cloud.

True Cloud Applications for Agile and Fast-Growing Businesses

Why Cloud Apps Are Key to Supporting Growth of Small and Medium Businesses

Released: September, 2015

This InfoBrief highlights top technologies that are expected to drive SMB growth in the next two years. Research findings outline the benefits, concerns, and strategeies SMBs plan to employ to leverage cloud adoption.

Don't Get Left Behind: The Business Benefits of Achieving Greater Cloud Adoption

Released: August, 2015

Cloud adoption is growing. A recent IDC survey revealed that fully 68% of organizations had some form of cloud strategy (public or private). A very broad range of workloads are migrating to the cloud – 30% or more of organizations have already migrated, or have plans to migrate literally every workload we asked about to the cloud. But despite this level of adoption, most organizations are still working to improve their cloud strategies. 

Adaptive Self-Service Cloud Option Helps RingCentral Optimize Big Data and Complex Systems

Released: March, 2015

RingCentral needed to solve configuration management problems for rapid delivery of changes and quality for complex Hadoop big data analytics and other systems on which the company's phone and communications business depends. Solution: The company selected Qubell Inc. and its autonomic application management platform.

IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment

Released: January, 2015

This IDC MarketScape represents a vendor assessment of 12 vendors that provide private cloud IaaS to the U.S. federal government. 

Expanding digital universe: transformative opportunities

Released: March, 2014

By 2020 the digital universe will be 44 trillion gigabytes. How can all of this data help make your organization more competitive?

The Digital Universe of Opportunities

Released: March, 2014

This Infographic explores the digital universe and its projected growth through 2020.

The Digital Universe of Opportunities: Rich Data and the Increasing Value of the Internet of Things

Released: March, 2014

As more of the world goes online, including the physical world, the more opportunity there is for enterprises (and consumers) to use data in new ways. This iView explores the many different applications of today's data.

Cloud Partners

Higher, Faster, Stronger

Released: July, 2013

Top-performing partners are adding cloud to their mix... and succeeding. This infographic highlights key performance indicators for partners who embrace the cloud and how these metrics shift in the cloud.