TOP CHALLENGES IN STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

One of the biggest challenges in virtualized infrastructure impacting application performance is the ability to manage resource contention in the underlying storage infrastructure. A common approach to reduce the impact of this challenge is to over-provision storage platforms with IO and disk capacity and manage mission-critical and other IO-intensive applications in silos. However, this is a trade-off that leads to a higher cost per gigabyte of storage allocated to every virtual machine, as well as significantly impacting operational costs associated with service assurance.

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Adopting a Modern Data Infrastructure for Trading Analytics

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

As they seek an edge in their trading and investment activities, hedge funds and other sophisticated trading firms are looking to harness new sources of insight that can allow them to identify and exploit emerging market and industry opportunities. But many organizations are saddled with a disconnected sprawl of legacy systems that are unable to handle the demands of today’s fast and often volatile markets.

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5G Virtual Private Networks for Electric Power White Paper: Network Security

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

5G is now entering diverse industries, including the electric power industry. 5G technologies can be adopted in the electric power industry to quicken the industry's digital and intelligent transformation, which will provide strong support for building a clean, secure, efficient, and lowcarbon electric power system. However, before widely applying 5G technologies in the industry, we must address current network security issues. Network security is at the basis of digital transformation and the industry has put forward the security protection principle "secure partitioning, exclusive network use, horizontal isolation, and vertical authentication".

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The Right Approach to Zero Trust for IoT Devices

whitePaper | June 6, 2022

Networking and security teams have historically relied on protections at the network perimeter to secure the entire enterprise. The internal network was deemed trusted and secure. While everything outside was considered “dirty,” everything on the internal network was considered “clean,” and application traffic would flow unrestricted. However, recent and developing shifts in enterprise working models are having a far-reaching effect on the traditionally managed network perimeter for security. The following trends are making organizations reassess their approach to security:

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Intelligent Edge & Private Networks Center of Excellence

whitePaper | December 13, 2022

The Accenture-Cisco Center of Excellence is an international center integrated with ACIC+ and its catalogue with a hub in Rome in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center and one in Milan, in the Cisco Cybersecurity Co-Innovation Center as well as a Demo Center at Equinix’s datacenter ML5. The Center will leverage Market leader software-defined solutions for DC, WAN and LAN, Security for both corporate and industrial sites, to establish, based on Equinix Fabric and network edge catalog, a direct and low latency cloud interconnection through its resilient facilities to main cloud providers (MAG). The benefits of having Equinix in this architecture are numerous in terms of lower IT costs thanks to consumption-based billing, faster time-to-market and rapid innovation that supports large scale-up with fluid and real-time service enablement, plus monitoring from a single portal.

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The Evolving Role of Desktop-as-a-Service in Provisioning the Intelligent Hybrid Digital Workspace

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

The pandemic and its accompanying disruptions changed forever how enterprises think about, acquire, and use technology resources in order to meet constantly changing demands. One of these demands, the ability to work in collaborative teams anywhere in the world, dramatically accelerated in the 2020–2021 timeframe. This transition to hybrid work requires changes not just in the underlying technology architecture required to deliver the work experience, but also to the management and very definition of work.

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How to process data securely on third-party infrastructure

whitePaper | December 14, 2022

Confidential computing is a technology that shields computer workloads from their environments and keeps data encrypted even during processing. The vast and previously unsolved problem that confidential computing addresses is the following: How to process data on a computer that is potentially compromised? This computer could be operated by yourself, your company, or a third party like a cloud provider.

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Tolt Solutions

Effective July 1, 2016, Tolt Solutions will change its name to Pomeroy. Pomeroy is an industry-recognized provider of cloud-first digital transformation and IT infrastructure services to industries such as retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector and more. We provide these high-quality IT services from our locations throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Our portfolio of managed services includes End User Services, Network Services, Data Center Services and Cloud Services.

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