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- NCA Partner Online Series: Consultative Selling With Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
- Infrastructure Optimization is Microsoft's maturity model for business productivity and IT operations. The presenter of this webcast will cover the elevator pitch for Infrastructure Optimization, review a case study from a partner that used to deepen their customer relationship, and review the tools available today to help incorporate Microsoft IO...
- Tags: Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Strategic Planning, Productivity, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2008-04-04
- Momentum Webcast: Introductory Session to Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model and Virtualization (Level 100)
- Infrastructure Optimization IO is the systematic process of reducing the complexity and costs associated with managing an IT infrastructure and improving its security and stability, with the goal of enhanced productivity for an organization and its people. The Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model IOM provides a framework for identifying the people,...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management
- Webcasts 2007-11-01
- Momentum Webcast: Introduction to Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model and Virtualization (Level 100)
- Infrastructure Optimization IO is the systematic process of reducing the complexity and costs associated with managing an IT infrastructure and improving its security and stability, with the goal of enhanced productivity for an organization and its people. The Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model IOM provides a framework for identifying the people,...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management
- Webcasts 2007-10-15
- Infrastructure Optimization Opens New IT and Business Possibilities for EDF Energy
- EDF Energy, one of the largest energy companies in the UK, employs over 13,000 people and supplies energy to approximately 5.5 million customers. After the utilities industry was deregulated and privatized in the UK four years ago, EDF Energy was formed from the acquisition of three separate companies. After these...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-07
- Infrastructure Optimization Drives Efficient Service Delivery
- IT is challenged to continuously improve service levels and meet ever-greater business demands while holding the line on costs. Yet in many IT environments, key infrastructure components must be managed manually. This increases IT complexity, negatively impacts service and makes it difficult to control operating expenses because staff must focus...
- Tags: Optimization, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Infrastructure Optimization, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Microsoft Webcast: Infrastructure Optimization (Part 01 of 11): Realize the Value of IT Investments
- As an IT manager, one can use infrastructure optimization to realize the value of the company's IT infrastructure investments and make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset. Ultimately, infrastructure optimization helps organizations connect with people, information, and business processes to increase market responsiveness and helps eliminate inefficiencies. To that end,...
- Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- Momentum Webcast: Introduction to the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model (Level 100)
- Infrastructure Optimization IO is the systematic process of reducing the complexity and costs associated with managing an IT infrastructure while improving its security and stability to achieve enhanced productivity for both those who support the infrastructure and those who use the infrastructure to accomplish the goals of the business. Microsoft...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Infrastructure Optimization Model, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
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- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...
- Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Desktone "Desktops as a Service"
- I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?
- Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...
- Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Symantec buys MessageLabs for $695 million; Bolsters SaaS lineup
- Somebody is finding some values out there in techland. Symantec on Wednesday said it is acquiring MessageLabs for $695 million in cash. MessageLabs, which offers messaging and Web security services, had about $145 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending July 31. Symantec...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Open source in a time of recession
- Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...
- Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forwardCDMA is deadGSM and related technologies have almost 90% share of the mobile market. Why will Apple spend time and money to make a model that will work on that network. Only Verizon and partially Sprint amongst the major networks in North America use...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Corporate law, CDMA, Apple Inc., GSM, antitrust, ATT, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Google is your friend
- Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...
- Tags: Channel management, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- A question about web server volume failures
- A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...
- Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
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