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Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of swinging a hammer for a living or to pay for a semester of school knows this fundamental truth: build a solid foundation or whatever you place on top of it stands a pretty good chance of toppling over at some point in the future. This truth is perp... Sep. 16, 2009 08:58 AM EDT Reads: 1,898 |
Congratulations! You’ve successfully virtualized your network/server/storage environments and saved xx% (insert percentage). But who besides your CFO really cares? All you’ve done is lower the cost of an increasingly commoditized service, and anyone who’s spent a day working for a vend... Aug. 25, 2009 03:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,857 |
A global 2000 Enterprise IT group is caught in a groundswell of chaos. The current economic malaise is forcing a challenge from the business to IT to cut operating expenses by 20 percent or greater while preserving capital ferociously.read more Jul. 8, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,268 |
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Have you ever been pulled into a troubleshooting call, where all the support teams report their monitoring systems are reporting a ‘green’ status, but the users are reporting horrendous performance? Unfortunately, this happens more frequently than most of us would care to admit. When I... Mar. 12, 2009 09:48 PM EDT Reads: 1,156 |
What does it really mean to be green in IT? Is it just decreasing a datacenter’s power consumption by making the cooling process more efficient and thus consuming less energy? Is it addressing the footprint of the data center and examining the infrastructure to ensure that the design i... Feb. 18, 2009 11:57 PM EST Reads: 1,432 |
In a recent blog about IT and innovation, the point was made that there are numerous untapped opportunities for IT to become an enabler of the business as opposed to just a cost center to be tolerated. Read more Dec. 15, 2008 03:38 PM EST Reads: 1,104 |
A recent blog mentioned the importance of the business to consider strategic investments during this recession. IT should be a significant participant in this effort. This is an opportunity to perform strategic house cleaning, while helping the business manage costs, while establishing... Dec. 15, 2008 12:29 PM EST Reads: 1,009 |
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Now that the gold rush of mortgage backed securities trading has led to a severe crash, what do surviving investment banks do with all that hardware (i.e.10 million dollars plus for each institution or more)? Why not become a service marketplace, reduce the risk that comes from directl... Oct. 27, 2008 03:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,085 |
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Network vendors are starting to provide 10GigE connections, switches and fabric, and given the exponentially increasing demand for bandwidth, enterprises will buy this equipment. Applications that can gobble up the bandwidth will soon follow-there is simply never enough bandwidth. It i... Oct. 13, 2008 12:10 PM EDT Reads: 954 |
The current volatility of the financial markets is an example of why understanding demand is so important. The inter-connections across all aspects of our global village, Insurance, Capital Markets, commodity supplies such as energy, forces questions about the characteristics of demand... Sep. 29, 2008 05:19 PM EDT Reads: 960 |
A complex system such as an enterprise network is subjected to many kinds of stresses from a large variety of business applications that have different demand profiles. Dig deeper into any large network and you will see that one solution doesn't solve all problems. Pockets of point sol... Sep. 1, 2008 10:37 PM EDT Reads: 886 |
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Enterprise users are coming to expect the same options they get as consumers, heralding the Platform as a Service (PaaS) movement May. 5, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 952 |