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- Outsourcing picks up for smaller enterprises
- The outsourcing market has traditionally been perceived as something only the larger enterprises entertain. Research from Computer Economics suggests that as the large enterprise business has become tougher, the outsourcing companies are getting better at reaching the smaller and mid-sized market. The reports...
- Tags: Application Development, Information Technology, Outsource, Service Provider, IT Organization, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Software Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Verizon enters mobile management services; enough to take it beyond early adopters?
- Verizon will announce its entry into a new market today, offering a full suite of services designed to help business customers analyze usage, manage devices, maintain security and more through a suite of software tools. Deja Vu. Just yesterday, I posted about Zenprise, a...
- Tags: Mobile, Information Technology, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobility, IT Organization, Wireless And Mobility, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers
- IT organizations are well-versed in protecting their physical infrastructure and data from interruptions. Most, if not all, organizations employ some level of data protection to minimize downtime and data loss in the event of a disruption. Just as introducing multiple operating systems created complexity and challenges, as these organizations incorporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Environment, IT Organization, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Backups, Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-23
- NEC Virtual PC Center (VPCC) Product and Technology Overview
- IT organizations are constantly on their guard to tackle the next wave of data security threats. Unfortunately, all too many occurrences take place where corporate data is stolen either from the loss of a laptop, or an intruder accessing data on business PCs outside of the IT data center....
- Tags: PC, Information Technology, NEC Corp., IT Organization, Data Centers, Strategy, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Increase Visibility and Control Over Virtual and Physical Data Centers
- IT organizations are facing a huge and growing challenge: How to efficiently manage an increasingly large and complex application and server infrastructure running on physical and VMware environments. IT organizations struggle to relate the application environment managed by VMware to the application environment in the physical infrastructure. The presenter shows...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Environment, EMC Corp., IT Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-10-03
- IT Organization Enhances Security, Improves User Interface for 50,000 Workstations
- Euro-Information supports the IT needs of a global banking and insurance company. The IT organization wanted to both update employees' applications and increase workstation and data security. Euro-Information chose the integrated, user-friendly 2007 Microsoft Office system, plus Windows Vista, for workstations and used Windows Deployment Services for a smooth, remote...
- Tags: Security, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., IT Organization, Euro-Information, Workstations, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-12
- What's holding Desktop Virtualization back?
- Server virtualization appears to be gaining acceptance in even the most conservative organizations that deploy industry standard systems. It long has been a fixture in mainframe and midrange system based datacenters. Desktop virtualization, on the other hand, seems to be considered a technology looking for a problem to solve. Why...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Dan Kusnetzky, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Information Technology, IT Organization, Management, Storage, Storage Management, Strategy, Technology, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Virtualization Technology
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41% of execs stumped about mashups
- Corporate technology departments are becoming the primary gatekeepers of Web 2.0 purchases--it used to be the business types--but could use a little education on concepts like mashups. According to a report by Forrester Research, IT departments are now in control of enterprise Web 2.0 deployments and the...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Mashup, Technology Department, IT Organization, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Improve Operational Efficiency and Reduce Costs With Network Configuration Automation
- IT organizations are increasingly facing pressure to perform as a value-added business partner and contribute visible results tied directly to business requirements. The network is a critical IT infrastructure component on which most IT services depend. At the same time, complexity, constant change, and human error combine to put network...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Network Configuration, Network, Information Technology, Automation, IT Organization, Networking, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Building the Virtualized Enterprise With VMware Infrastructure
- IT organizations are still grappling with the legacy of the IT explosion of the 1990s, which left many of them with high costs, slow response times, and an inconsistently managed infrastructure. VMware Infrastructure allows IT teams to continuously consolidate workloads to maximize server utilization and decrease operational costs. It allows...
- Tags: Information Technology, Intel X86, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., IT Organization, VMware Infrastructure, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-04-23
- 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., N-Port ID Virtualization, VMWare ESX, IT Organization, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, 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: IT Budget, Information Technology, Financing, Forrester Research Inc., IT Organization, Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2007-08-29
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services: Secure, Scalable, and Simple Central Management
- IT organizations are challenged with conflicting requirements: to consolidate costly remote-office infrastructure and to maintain adequate service levels for remote-office users. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS provides the technologies necessary to consolidate infrastructure in the data center while also providing application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities that achieve application...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Organization, Cisco Wide Area Application Services
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Veritas CommandCentral Storage: An Integrated Approach to Storage Resource Management
- One of the most perplexing challenges facing data centers today is that of storage management. The challenge of storage management has increased exponentially as information has become more valuable, computing environments have become more complex, and the cost to manage this growth has continued to spiral out of control. IT...
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., IT Organization, Storage Growth, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Goal: Make Best Use of Resources
- IT organizations are under considerable pressure as they struggle to control operating and capital costs while meeting stringent service requirements. TeamQuest provides an effective approach to controlling costs while meeting service requirements by making optimal use of existing IT resources. TeamQuest software shows how well IT systems are currently performing...
- Tags: Information Technology, TeamQuest Corp., IT Organization, It Management, Strategy, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Can You Really Get ITIL Out of the Box?
- IT organizations are under intense pressure to meet ever-increasing demands for business services in an IT environment that is characterized by growing complexity, tight budgets, and the need for regulatory compliance. ITIL can help to address these demands, but many IT professionals perceive the effort required to implement ITIL processes...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Organization, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-04-25
- 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, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2007-04-25
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimizations for Data Domain
- IT organizations are increasingly faced with the challenge of maintaining an always-on infrastructure, which requires data to be fully protected and accessible under any circumstances. IT organizations also are challenged to keep backup copies of potentially redundant data to facilitate recovery for everything from the desktop to high-end application servers....
- Tags: Optimization, Information Technology, Domain, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Organization, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Securing Virtualized Infrastructure: From Static Security to Virtual Shields
- Data centers have undergone tremendous transformation in the past five years. Virtualization has changed the architecture for servers, storage and networks. IT organizations are using management and provisioning automation to reduce operational cost, and increase responsiveness to business demands. But security is becoming more and more challenging. While virtualization has...
- Tags: Nemertes Research, Information Technology, Shield, IT Organization, Virtualization, Security, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-21
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