An Enterprise Cloud-oriented datacenter is a top-down, demand driven
datacenter design that maximizes efficiency and minimizes traditional IT
waste of power, cooling, space, and capacity under-utilization while
providing enhanced levels of service and control. The following design
principles are proven to enable firms to create an enterprise cloud-oriented
datacenter.
#1: Dynamic provisioning
A package-once, deploy-many application facility that incorporates
application, infrastructure, and IP dependencies into a simple policy library
is critical. This affords the capability to deploy in minutes versus days.
#2: Dynamic execution management
Dynamic execution management performs allocation that is managed in real time
based on monitored workloads compared against service contracts adjusting
allocation of applications, infrastructure services, and infrastructure
resour... (more)
Adaptivity Keynote at Cloud Expo
Virtualization is the topic du jour in IT today. The technology is cool, the
attributes are slick and now the stock market even is tracking it. The
adoption problem that is facing virtualization strategies stems from a bottom
up IT driven approach versus a top down business aligned approach.
Furthermore, the technology is limitingin value unless it is implemented as a
“virtual enterprise cloud service oriented platform architecture” with a
dynamic operational model.
The playbook for exploiting virtualizaiton AND other key enabling technology
comp... (more)
Adaptivity at Cloud Expo
Here are the 11 key components that enable IT organizations to operationalize
an enterprise cloud:
1. ECONOMIC MODEL
Define the business and IT linkage of demand and supply. Orient the analysis
and model creations around the interactive dynamics of consumption of IT
resources by the business and the fulfillment behavior of processing by IT.
This needs to be correlated with the value-chain function and the
corresponding products or services, differentiated by business type
(liquidity, risk transference, advice), business importance (margin, labor,
flow)... (more)
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Adaptivity, Inc, the company that is putting "IT
Blueprinting" on the map of Enterprise IT, is adamant: IT must invest in
architecture and engineering, and it must do so right away, here and now in
2010, 2011 and beyond.
An innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy,
design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology
platforms across large organizations, before founding Adaptivity Bishop
served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia's Corporate Investment Banking
Technology Group, where his team designed... (more)
Adaptivity Keynote at Cloud Expo New York
The principles and freedoms of the American dream are finding themselves
resurrected again with cloud computing. The following blog will outline
background, details and living proof that cloud computing is one of the
catalysts of the future that will bring the American dream back!
As an immigrant and soon to be citizen of the United States of America, I
have experienced first hand and continue to experience the greatness of this
country and rewards of the American dream. My belief system of hard work
combined with the principle that "busi... (more)
Blueprint4IT is authored by a longtime IT and Datacenter Technologist. Author of Next Generation Datacenters in Financial Services – Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings. A former technology executive for both Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Securities. 
Tom Flynn
Patrick Pushor
Bob Evans
