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IT Survivor's Guide for Disaster Recovery
To protect your business-critical applications, you need a structure designed around high availability — a systems continuity structure that accounts for every component of your infrastructure that may impact these business-critical applications.
The End of Corporate Computing
Information Technology, the most important commercial development of the last 50 years, is undergoing a "utility" transformation.
Utility Computing: Business Reality and Advantages
The business benefits of utility computing go well beyond reduced capital costs and operating costs.
Payment Card Industry: Data Security Standard
Essential information for all members, merchants, and service providers that store, process or transmit cardholder data.
Success Stories
Berlitz
Like many other companies, in the late 1990s Berlitz completed an exhaustive Y2K project that required the upgrade of every server. That was a watershed event that demanded the full attention of every member of the Berlitz IT team. Following that experience, Sean Power, Berlitz's Director of Strategic Technology, said the company realized it had to find a more manageable, cost-effective, long-term solution to its IT infrastructure needs, so its IT team could focus on more strategic business issues that would contribute greater value to the bottom line.
Achieve Healthcare
Achieve Healthcare Technologies is focused on the long-term care industry and provides a comprehensive technology solution, including products and services, to nearly 3,000 customers nationwide. Since Achieve positions its offering as a complete solution - including the infrastructure supporting its software - customers perceive any
hardware problems as software problems, and they expect Achieve
to address them. To help it deliver a high-availability environment, Achieve has chosen to outsource the infrastructure needs supporting its applications.
Wild Oats
While Wild Oats continues to enjoy success, executives realized that they needed to make a change in their strategy for reaching the company's next milestone: doubling the number of stores nationwide through new store development. To prepare for its expansion plans, Wild Oats elected to outsource its core IT activities, including enterprise hosting, managed services, security functions, and data assurance.
Cicada
With a demanding client base, Cicada requires an infrastructure suitable to run its own and its clients' hardware and software at a mission-critical level. Cicada is not a hosting company, nor does it bill itself as a data center operator. Its focus is on data quality management, integration, and distribution. To remain true to its core competency, Cicada explored VeriCenter for hosted outsourcing.
NASA
Since it was formed by an act of Congress in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has many scientific and technological accomplishments to its credit — in both air and space. People from around the world stay informed about space missions and raise their level of scientific knowledge through the NASA Web site (www.nasa.gov). NASA employees also stay connected through a complex series of portals and intranets. The content on these sites is managed using powerful software from eTouch Systems (www.etouch.net), which addresses NASA's business design needs. NASA also outsources its IT infrastructure to a managed services provider. NASA and eTouch assessed enterprise hosting providers on their abilities to deliver IT infrastructure based on reliability, managed services, and customer support.
