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- Capacity Management and the CDB: BMC Solutions as the Cornerstone to a Capacity Management Strategy
- A successful capacity management strategy requires having the resources in place to deliver just-in-time support of the business requirements. Integral to that process is the development of a capacity plan based on the data from a Capacity Management Database CDB. According to the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, the CDB is...
- Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Capacity Management, CDB, Capacity Management Strategy, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, It Management, Quality, Business Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-04-27
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- ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
- Great platform for next-gen OS developmentThis sounds like it would be a great platform for somebody to develop the next generation OS we so badly need as a replacement for all of the existing 20th century OSes we're currently using.Still primitive - OS has a long way to goI use...
- Tags: Operating systems, Keyboards, multi-core processor, Intel Corp., chip, operating system, keyboard, ARM
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Gain Greater Real-Time Spending Control and Visibility by Accounting for All Your Direct and Indirect Expenses
- Operating in this age of multi-channel information leaves businesses struggling to manage the sheer volume and variety of information they own. Many organizations opt to use separate or unstructured systems for each information channel - which then quickly reach capacity. As competition increases in the global marketplace, so does the...
- Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Content Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-09-11
- Updated software provides additional data center insight
- The team at nlyte Software formerly known as Global DataCenter Management must have despaired of me writing about them months ago. But I noticed the company has a new version of its software shipping, which I wanted to note for readers of this blog. First some background....
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Nlyte, Data Centers, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- VMware completes the PaaS to vCloud
- If you’ve been wondering why an infrastructure leader would acquire a developer framework, the answer is a bit more complex that what shows on the surface â€" and a lot more strategic. As stated in the press release and in the blogs by VMware CTO Steve Herrod and SpringSource CEO...
- Tags: Java, PaaS, VMware Inc., SpringSource, Microsoft Windows Azure, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Rethinking virtualization: Why enterprises need a sustainable virtualization strategy over hodge-podge approaches
- Rethinking virtualization: Why enterprises need a sustainable virtualization strategy over hodge-podge approachesRedHat's Xen is good enough for usSorry I didn't learn much from this other than how cool HP is and their business partners. But I'll share what we know. We're a large transportation company in north America.We've got...
- Tags: LANs, Outsourcing, Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, physical server, Rethinking virtualization, virtualization strategy, server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data
- How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...
- Tags: Mark Lewis, EMC Corp., Tool, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Cutting software maintenance costs 101
- Cutting software maintenance costs 101agreedI am no fan of vendors charging clients for unused products. Many clients of mine have taken this for granted, although they certainly haven't like it. Good suggestions, Larry.Drop your maintenance after 1 yearIt makes no sense to have a 18% maintenance contract on an MRP...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Groupware, E-Room, open source, software maintenance, Microsoft SharePoint, software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0
- Guest editorial by Andrea Baker Let's face it, it's probably true. Your business is deeply married to email. You never read a blog until the past year at least with some regularity. And you probably don't know what a discussion page is on a wiki. ...
- Tags: Team, Employee, Collaboration, Blog, Social Media, Business, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Workforce, Andrea Baker, Productivity, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Stop Buying Storage - Part 2: Maximize Storage Assets With Thin Provisioning, Tiered Storage, and Cluster File Systems
- Thin Provisioning represents an opportunity to immediately optimize the storage systems and make more capacity available to the applications. Although thin provisioning is a storage array feature, servers need to be 'Thin aware'. In order to migrate from "Thick" to "Thin," one need tools that makes the transition seamlessly and...
- Tags: Provisioning, Tiered Storage, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-04-16
- Can Twitter's backbone handle sudden jump in popularity?
- Can Twitter's backbone handle sudden jump in popularity?IT Infrastructure and Unexpected GrowthInteresting post. It seems as if the cost factor vexed Twitter from the beginning. There's no way that Twitter management could have made the case for an expensive mainframe--much less two--upon founding the company. [i]Who would have guessed that...
- Tags: Mainframes, Twitter, sudden jump
- Discussion threads 2009-04-11
- Cisco's bong-sized "cloud"
- Peeling the onion on the Cisco Unified Computing System UCS reveals a very small onion. The platform they're promoting is tiny by cloud infrastructure standards. Perfect for a dorm room - but not anywhere near close to what an enterprise hoping for economies of scale or management would want. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Storage, Servers, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Business, Business Method, Business Strategy, Dave Bort, Dion Hinchcliffe, Internet, Management, Network, Open Source, Reasons Organization, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Sun reseller contacts
- Sun reseller contactsSun and C=There are some very eerie parallels between Sun marketing and Commodore's in the 80's. The Commodore Amiga was a superior computer by far in the late 80's. US Ham radio operators were the first major group to adopt it, as it fit their needs perfectly. They...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Marketing research, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., marketing
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- What's next after server virtualization? Orchestration
- There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to orchestrate workloads to make maximum use of physical server capacity, reduce power consumption, reduce administrative and operational expenses and create an environment which can assure that each and...
- Tags: Data Center, Server, Resource, Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Gathering clouds brew up a storm
- With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...
- Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- Intel Maximizes Power and Thermal Management in an Aging Data Center to Add Needed Servers - Without Expensive New Infrastructure
- Intel's 20-year-old FM1 data center in Folsom wanted to free up power capacity in an aging data center that is operating near its server limit and ensure there is enough power to support 300 new servers needed for an upcoming SAP re-platforming exercise. The challenge was to do it all...
- Tags: Data Center, Server, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware
- Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMwareAs if...As if Apple, Apple fanboys, Linux fanboys and every other MS competitor don't refer to their anti-MS playbook every single day.What exactly is your point with this article, Mary Jo Foley?RE: Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMwareBeside the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., Linux, anti-Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
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