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Cisco MDS and Emulex Virtual HBA Solutions for VMware Infrastructure 3: A Technology Overview for SAN Connectivity Using NPIV in a VMware ESX Server 3.5 Environment: Virtualization. This one word speaks volumes and is first on the minds and the agendas of most IT professionals today - and it has to be. For the ever increasing service and resource demands placed on IT departments by users to remain manageable - or to become manageable - the...; Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Emulex Corp., SAN, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Cisco Systems Inc., VMWare ESX, IT Organization, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Hardware, Servers, Storage, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-08
BMC Recovery Manager for Databases: Benchmark Study Performed at Sun Laboratories: IT organizations are faced with backing up an increasing amount of data from an environment that is growing rapidly in complexity and these backups have to perform in ever-shrinking windows. Finally, organization needs to recover data quickly, whenever users need it. BMC Recovery Manager for Databases provides blazing speed in...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Database, Sun Microsystems Inc., Backup, IT Organization, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-09-24
Financing IT Improvements: The average IT organization is being squeezed in the vice-like grip of maintenance and support of ongoing operations. As much as 80% of the IT budget is being consumed by these activities, leaving only 20% for strategic initiatives and innovation. This is an untenable situation, yet there is no easy...; Tags: Information Technology, Financing, Forrester Research Inc., IT Organization, Strategy, Management; Research reports 2007-08-29
SAN/iQ: Enabling Technology for Effective VMware Deployments: IT organizations are recognizing the benefits of virtualizing their datacenters, and many of them are enabling server virtualization with VMware Infrastructure 3. VMware Infrastructure 3 allows IT organizations to manage their server infra-structure as a single pool of resources on which applications can be deployed and then moved dynamically from...; Tags: LeftHand Networks, Information Technology, VMware Inc., IT Organization, VMware Infrastructure 3, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-04-25
Is your IT dept. a regulator or an advocate?: In this world of worms, viruses, security vulnerabilities, hardware and software non-interoperability, and just plain old malfunction, it's a wonder sometimes that IT organizations can remember that they are service providers. Because of the constant bombardment of threats and malfunctions mentioned above, IT finds itself,...; Tags: IT Organization, IT Organizations, This IS, information technology; Blog posts 2006-01-26

Is your IT department about regulation or advocacy?: In this world of worms, viruses, security vulnerabilities, hardware and software non-interoperability, and just plain old malfunction, it's a wonder sometimes that IT organizations can remember that they are service providers. Instead, because of the constant bombardment of threats and malfunctions mentioned above, IT finds itself, almost by design, as...; Tags: IT Organization, information technology, IT Organizations; Blog posts 2006-01-17
Compuware's Vantage 9.8: A Multi-Pronged Approach to QoE Adopting the Ultimate Service Metric: A Checklist for an Effective Quality of Experience Solution: IT organizations are being held more and more accountable to the businesses they support to deliver on both quality and cost-effectiveness. While in itself this is nothing new, industry attention is accelerating dramatically in its efforts to better understand the core criteria behind quality and cost, and how to leverage...; Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Industry, Compuware Corp., IT Organization, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2005-10-01
Paced by IP telephony, wired and wireless ranks as top enterprise IT priority: Over on our Datapoint blog, colleague Chris Jablonski parses the results of the latest IT Priorities Research Program data.As Chris notes: Every 30 days, the ZDNet Enterprise Research Team selects a representative sample of 500 IT managers who work in organizations of more than 500 employees. We ask them...; Tags: information technology; Blog posts 2005-09-07

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10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis: The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...; Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?: InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
UK education agency nixes OOXML: Office Open XML â€“ the open standard with a trademark in its name â€“ might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly: EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...; Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making: As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Oregon says its law is copyright: Carl Malamud at resource.org and Tim Stanley at Justia are fighting off cease and desist letters from the State of Oregon. The state is asserting a copyright interest in the state code, even though the law is by definition public domain. After a conference call in which...; Tags: Oregon, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Apani and Cross-Platform Server Isolation: A while ago, I spoke with the folks of Apani about security in virtualized environments. Although this isn't a topic that is getting as much media attention as virtual machine software, virtual access software or virtual application environment software, it is a very important topic. Security risks still exist even...; Tags: Software, Environment, Apani, EpiForce, Server Virtualization, Servers, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-13
XP Key Changer (zip): XP Key Changer finds Windows XP Product Key, retrieves Owner, and Organization information. Finds and decrypts the product key in your computers and displays the information right in the main panel. Also recovers the Service Pack version, Owner registered name and Organization registered name. Changes all this information, with one...; Tags: Product Key, Service Pack, MoonValleySoft, XP Key Changer, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software; Software downloads 2008-05-13
The Green Enterprise: Intel: On the next installment of The Green Enteprise, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos looks at how Intel is developing green technologies for its customers and within its own organization. Innovations include ultra-lower power 45nm chips, greening its fab operations in China, Arizona and Israel; and developing non-toxic materials for packaging and...; Tags: Michael Kanellos, Intel Corp., Chip, Data Centers, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Networking, Green; Videos 2008-05-12
True Server Virtualization: I see that Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy Officer over at Virtual Iron, recently presented some interesting comments about what makes up true server virtualization in his blog. In his post, he points out that "The hypervisor is important and is useful for consolidating servers. But true server virtualization isn't just...; Tags: Environment, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, Server Virtualization, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe: Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob AsheIBM is completely missing the SaaS BI trendI wasn't surprised by Rob's comment that "BI doesn’t lend itself to SaaS" (though I suspect that the folks from Cognos' Celequest acquisition were caught a bit off guard.) But, I strongly disagree. The notion that...; Tags: Sales strategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, SaaS BI, sales, software-as-a-service, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-09