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The Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) Solution together with Citrix XenDesktop delivers unified virtual desktops and applications, voice and video services to users anywhere, anytime, and on their choice of device. The solution increases mobility and flexibility, resulting in greater productivity across a global workforce. Cisco VXI simplifies deployment, reduces overall cost and minimizes implementation risk of deploying the new virtual workspace with an end-toend, open and validated solution. It builds on Cisco's data center, network and collaboration technologies, combined with services, solution support and advanced desktop virtualization technologies from Citrix. The end result is a flexible, secure IT infrastructure with uncompromised user experience.

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Why you should read this document: This report describes key findings from a survey of 200 IT professionals that can help you plan security into your cloud initiatives, including the following: . Protecting platform and infrastructure resources are top concerns. . Security plays a foundational role in the decision to implement a private cloud. . Nearly half of the overall organizational investment in cloud initiatives is security related. . Security drives outsourcing decisions.

The trend toward "consumerization" marches onward in IT; more and more end-users are choosing their own hardware platforms and software applications in lieu of the IT-sanctioned business tools provided by their companies. These end-users are looking to tackle issues like data sharing, portability, and access from multiple intelligent endpoint devices, creating a conundrum for IT as it needs to balance business enablement, ease of access, and collaborative capacity with the need to maintain control and security of information assets.

A growing number of companies are taking advantage of the natural synergies that exist between cloud-based IT services and content access and sharing. Legacy content management and collaboration systems simply weren't designed to meet the evolving requirements of today's IT and business managers, as well as the needs of content users. Box provides cloud-based content storage, access and collaboration services that require virtually no user training and supports file access and delivery on almost all popular PC and mobile devices. The services of Box let companies rapidly implement a cost-effective and secure content storage and sharing system that can easily expand to accommodate any size and number of files.

Collaboration and content sharing are not, of course, new concepts. But cloud computing has changed the nature of collaboration, content sharing, document storage and project management to enable more efficient, faster-acting and cost-effective enterprises. According to a new study by IDG Research, the vast majority of knowledge workers (86%) placed a very high level of importance on collaborating with internal coworkers and external stakeholders, and having access to the most up-to-date corporate information. Read how organizations are realizing massive productivity gains by transitioning their content management solutions to cloud-based models. Collaboration and content sharing are not, of course, new concepts. But cloud computing has changed the nature of collaboration, content sharing, document storage and project management to enable more efficient, faster-acting and cost-effective enterprises.

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The private cloud is a shared multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, and virtualized infrastructure. Other key elements of the cloud include standardized application platforms provided as a service and a self-service portal that enables business groups to request and manage capacity for their applications. During the design of our private cloud architecture, we were able to take advantage of the extensive experience gained while building the Intel IT design grid, a large multi-tenant environment used for silicon design. The expected benefits of our office and enterprise private cloud include: . Increased agility, including significantly reduced provisioning times. . Greater efficiency, including energy savings, due to better resource utilization. . High availability with minimal incremental cost, by taking advantage of enhancements to industry-standard hardware and software. . Improved capacity management, taking advantage of new business intelligence tools. Because of the extensive scope of this initiative, we plan to deliver private cloud capabilities in phases over the next three or more years. As we add these capabilities, we expect that the cloud will become capable of hosting highly demanding, mission-critical business applications.

Why you should read this document: This guide provides practical information to help you prepare your data center for the cloud with: . Unified networking, a new infrastructure based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). . Scale-out storage that combines software and converged storage servers to deliver high-speed access to data. . Trusted server pools that demonstrate high integrity and build trust across dynamic environments. . Power management that monitors and caps power in real time from server, rack, zone, and data center levels.

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum among businesses of all shapes and sizes due to accelerating consumer technology and the need to reduce both transaction costs and the time to close business. The technology has found traction particularly among banking, insurance, and home and auto lenders as these companies double down on their efforts to reach customers via the Web. The reason is simple: Customers, who are more comfortable with the Web and mobile apps, are now driving e-signature adoption; it's no longer just enterprises looking to reduce paper costs. Looking ahead, consistent attitudes and best practices within industries are required to kick the bottom out of the dam and push e-signatures toward becoming an accepted practice within an industry sector.

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum due to accelerating consumer technology and the need to reduce both transaction costs and the time to close business. But despite increasing customer acceptance, most enterprises adopt e-signatures as an afterthought to larger processes like account opening and allow business units to independently deploy incompatible solutions with poor leverage across IT, compliance, and customers. In response, Forrester has developed an e-signature segmentation framework to help enterprises prepare for increased adoption. The eight top features to look for in an e-signature provider are global reach, company stability, solution accelerators, professional services, a customizable solution, electronic evidence, online session management, and mobile support.