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Plotting a Route to Future IT Service Delivery

During the last two years, organisations' level of understanding of where and how different types of cloud services can be used has risen. In that time, cloud services have grown beyond their initial use for replacement of non-critical but opex-heavy applications, such as email and under-utilized server farms, and have broadened their applicability due to the increased availability of enterprise-class applications.

With such choice available, cloud services are being considered as viable alternatives that address a wide range of business service requirements. The question now is when and how, not if, organisations will move at least partially toward a cloud services model.

Read more in this IDC Analyst Connection Paper.

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Are Ethernet Services Really Carrier Class?

Ethernet services have come a long way over the past thirty years. What was once a solution in the LAN has become mainstream in MANs. Within the past five years Ethernet has become a credible solution in the WAN, which has previously been dominated by MPLS and other legacy platforms such as ATM and Frame Relay.

Read more in this IDC Vendor Focus Paper.

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How Ethernet Addresses the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Puzzle

Business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) is only as robust as the underlying infrastructure, IT policy and contingency plans. This makes the choice of network critically important for connecting the various components of an ICT infrastructure together, such as applications, servers, storage and computing. Ethernet is key piece of the BC/DR puzzle, particularly given its ability to provide highcapacity links for site-to-site mirroring and loss-less transmission for 100% data recovery.

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Harnessing the Performance of IP VPNs to Gain an Edge in the New Asia -Centric Era

Growing into or expanding further into Asia?
Wanting to embrace globalisation to gain better cost control and business agility?

Delivering a secure, reliable communications network can be challenging. Read IDC’s perspective on how Multiprotocol layer switching (MPLS) IP VPN is proving to be an enterprise class solution.

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Can Security Be Managed from a Carrier Cloud?

Enterprises need to be constantly 'connected' and most organisations are moving from a centralised system which was easier for IT to secure and control to one that is decentralised and used to support an increasingly distributed workforce.

This IDC Vendor Spotlight examines trends and developments for network-based cloud security and considers the case for moving security to the cloud.

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• Complexity in managing security threats
• The Australian security market
• Benefits of network based cloud security
• Profile of Optus' cloud base security services

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