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Our Advisory Guides are designed to offer pragmatic advice for CIOs and
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Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service

Document Type: Advisory Guide

This 20 page guide provides an understanding of the business-criticality of backup and recovery services, an overview of the most common mistakes, advice on getting it right and case examples and an introduction to outsourced services.

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The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management

Document Type: Advisory Guide

How to deliver the IT resources your business needs, when it needs them! This 12 page guide explores the drivers for demand and capacity management; the benefits and ROI; and the practical steps needed to make it work.

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Finding Capacity in the Data Centre

Document Type: Research Report

This Company-i report surveyed over 150 IT professionals in the UK and established that 73% of respondents put solving the capacity issue in their top 10 concerns.

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Desperate for Space in Your Data Centre?

Document Type: Advisory Guide

This 12 page Company-i guide offers an alternative solution to relocation or significant re-engineering for solving the problem of space and power in the data centre.

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Managing Enterprise Security

Document Type: Advisory Guide

This 12 page guide provides considerations for partnering with a MSSP for security protection. It includes an overview of the common hurdles when managing enterprise security in-house, the benefits of partnering with a MSSP for security protection, a cost comparison scenario to help you produce a financial analysis when considering a MSSP, and useful guidance for evaluating potential MSSPs.

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Exploiting the Benefits of Shared Computing

Document Type: Advisory Guide

This advisory guide has been formulated following comprehensive research and interviews with UK organisations embarking upon or currently delivering Shared Computing infrastructures. It offers honest insight into what Shared Computing really delivers, the key stages of IT transition, and guidance on the resistance you can expect and suggested methods of addressing it.

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Cutting Storage Costs

Document Type: Advisory Guide

So what is Storage Utility Billing? Put simply, it enables organisations to pay only for the storage they use, just like traditional utility services, while helping them maximise the potential of their existing assets. This advisory guide serves as a roadmap to help your organisation plan its journey to Storage Utility Billing, further your reputation as an innovator and sharpen your competitive edge.

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Complex IT architectures: can deployment and management be made easier?

Document Type: Advisory Guide

This guide offers advice on how to smooth the transition of emerging services to steady-state operations, make project and running costs more predictable, de-risk the process of IT change, and meet the ever-changing skill and training demands of your in-house workforce.

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Overcoming the Challenges of Data Migration

Document Type: Advisory Guide

This guide offers comprehensive and straightforward advice for project leaders on how to avoid common errors and pitfalls. Use this guide to benchmark your current approach and keep your projects on track.

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