Cloud Computing Whitepaper List

This whitepaper is the follow up to the Red Hat Storage Webcast.  Exploring the economic advantages of scale-out storage is the focus of this paper. After briefly defining scale-out storage we discuss, in turn, the capital, operational and strategic advantages of scale-out storage solutions.

This whitepaper explains how the public sector can use Zenoss to manage their physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructures more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Oracle Exalogic is an engineered hardware and software solution that provides highly integrated and optimized middleware application components. By incorporating scalability, performance, partitioning and ease-of-management to enable consolidation, it is the world’s best foundation for cloud

This informative whitepaper discusses the challenges with cloud operations management and the best practices needed to overcome them.

This whitepaper aims to make sense of cloud computing for government audiences that haven’t been deeply involved in the details of its rapid evolution. It lays out the capabilities and characteristics of a cloud computing infrastructure and how this can be achieved using existing IT investments, without vendor lock-in. It discusses how these features translate into significant potential for government agencies. It also describes how open choice and application portability in the cloud and the relationships between technology providers are critical to building a cloud that government agencies can take advantage of.

Cloud Computing for Govies™ explains the basics of cloud enabling technologies in relation to the specialized needs of public sector IT environments.  It will help you determine the best cloud fit for your agency or organization while touching on some of the pros, cons, and cautions that you should bear in mind as you seek to deploy cloud computing in your government agency or organization.

Web success requires many elements, both technical and business. This whitepaper is designed to help all involved to define the elements and provide a framework for decision making and determine whether to build or buy a web content management system. 

Consolidation requires more than just adopting virtualization, cloud, and other related technologies. It involves developing, implementing, managing, and continually improving a strategy that addresses consolidation.

See how DreamWorks moved from proprietary software to open source to achieve greater cost savings, stability and performance.

This informative datasheet discusses a new approach to transform your existing data center into your private cloud.

Download this complimentary whitepaper and read how BMC Software delivers on the value of the cloud.

In order to capture the full benefits of cloud computing a “Cloud First” policy was instituted for government agencies. This policy will change the way government uses and buys cloud resources and infrastructure.

Autodesk Buzzsaw provides Manatee County, FL with a new way to electronically manage workflow, creating a more efficient way to submit building and land development applications.

The City of Canton, Georgia maximizes taxpayer dollars and cuts IT time by 20+ hours each week with Google Apps. To learn how Canton, GA reduced costs by thousands, download the Google Apps Case Study – The City of Canton, GA.

Read about the characteristics of IaaS clouds that offer the most deployment options and the easiest on-ramp to the cloud. Also, how CloudForms IaaS management provides what’s needed to build a well-managed IaaS cloud and why Red Hat’s approach to cloud computing delivers more value to customers.

This whitepaper discusses how to build a private PaaS solution; standardize application deployments across different environments; build, manage and consume applications and best practices for a savvy cloud strategy. 

This presentation engages Norwich University’s School of Graduate and Continuing Studies to conduct a survey on virtualization and cloud computing among government and higher education IT management professionals.

Research findings about open source software in the government and the viability of open source for the implementation of federal cloud computing.

Register for the complimentary whitepaper, "Storage Infrastructure for Cloud Computing".

Read about key governance issues affecting both private and public clouds, frequently cited risks and ways to mitigate them, approaches Red Hat is taking to help customers implement effective cloud governance and best practices for a savvy cloud strategy.

Understand the challenges that have prevented organizations from fully utilizing their virtualization technology and how combining the right human and technical resources can help organizations accelerate the value and penetration of virtualized IT.

This whitepaper explains how the Sister of Mercy Health System used the Quest Cloud Automation Solution to reduce application deployment costs and cut testing time by ninety pecent.

Learn about the differences between private and public clouds, what applications you should/shouldn’t consider virtualizing and monitoring the applications you do virtualize in this online magazine (eZine).

Data center consolidation is complex and risky, and cost reductions are not guaranteed. Download this e-guide to learn more about the best practices for consolidation while keeping disaster recovery in mind.

Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat Public Sector, answers common questions on virtualization posed by Federal agencies, such as how to reduce costs and ensure the solution they implement is easy to manage and control.

Read how the US Census utilized Akamai’s Cloud Solution in their 2010 campaign to ensure scalability, security and performance to their website.

The promise of substantial cost savings and greater efficiencies are driving ever-increasing numbers of public sector organizations to investigate cloud computing. There are a number of steps agencies should take to move toward cloud-based services. Learn the best practices for how to move to cloud-based solutions in this special report from i360Gov.com.

This whitepaper focuses on some key parts of the foundation that underpin cloud computing, how they affect the cloud environment and why they matter.

Developed to meet the specific needs of our government customers, Google Apps for Government helps agencies to reduce IT costs with web-based office applications that empower your employees to do more for less. Google Apps delivers reliability and security built on Google data centers, reducing your infrastructure and maintenance needs while supporting your agency’s continuity of operations and disaster recovery plans. Google Apps is the first multi-tenant cloud application.

Report how state and local governments are overcoming budgetary shortfalls to streamline IT operations and improve services.

Read up on how Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud provides mission-critical private cloud capability of virtually unlimited scale and performance.

Open source Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) offers ease of deploying new and existing applications to the cloud while minimizing risk and maximizing productivity through:

• Portable tools and languages
• Platform-independent architectures
• Loosely-coupled applications, standard interfaces, and service-oriented architectures

Read this informative whitepaper to understand how to simplify the process of developing, deploying and managing applications in both public and private clouds.

Bill Inmon discusses the benefits of Data Warehousing and Archiving

Cloud Computing allows users to tap into a virtually unlimited pool of computing and storage resources over the Internet

Zenoss' full-stack coverage and model-driven architecture seamlessly integrates management of cloud services for easy reporting with uniform metrics.

A series of tailored consultations that combine open source expertise, product recommendations, and best practices.

Aims to make sense of cloud computing for audiences that haven’t been deeply involved in the details as it has rapidly evolved.

Clouds with Red Hat:  Comprehensive, Consistent, Flexible, Better Infrastructure and an Industry-leading Ecosystem.  With architecture illustrations.

Red Hat Open Source technologies ensure maximum flexibility, safety, and price performance between public and internal cloud solutions.

As a company that consistently uses technology as one of its core competencies, DreamWorks Animation demonstrates the successful adoption of Red Hat products.