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- Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification
- Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...
- Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Performance Monitoring, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-11-19
- Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V
- Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Virtualization, Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Five Things You Wish You Knew Before You Virtualized
- The reality of deploying virtualization is that it can also increase the complexity and cost of managing the applications and servers. As Virtual Machines VMs proliferate - storage growth, data protection, and application and data recovery are just a few detours that can impact the business' bottom line. Without an...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts 2009-11-03
- AMD rolls out 8 new Athlon CPUs in time for Windows 7
- Too littleI've bought AMD CPUs in the past, but they lost their edge with Intel's release of Core 2. AMD has yet to recover. I just don't see myself going AMD to save $50. Frankly, $100 won't move me when I consider I will keep a new...
- Tags: Processors, CPU, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Intel Core i5, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, Core i5, Intel Corp., AMD Athlon
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- New Adobe PDF flaw under attack; Patch coming Tuesday
- Note to all Knuckleheads....The vulnerability affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions on Windows, Macintosh and UNIXWhy announce at all? Just fix the thingI'm getting really tired of any company that gives the ostensibly obligatory "We're on that!" and then it's some time before the fix comes. These...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Adobe PDF flaw, flaw, Adobe PDF, operating system, Adobe Systems Inc., attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy
- Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- The Similarities Between a Cloud Forest and Cloud Computing
- Nature is extremely efficient in it's use of a cloud forest. Likewise, Cloud Computing is an extremely efficient use of computing resources. It is for this reason that Intel IT has developed an enterprise cloud computing strategy focused on building an internal cloud to boost efficiency and flexibility...
- Tags: Information Technology, Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2009-10-01
- HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely
- HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- IBM Virtualization Services
- Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at the entire architecture and determine how to best...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-09-16
- Intel shakes up mid-range CPUs with Lynnfield Core i5 750, Core i7 860 and Core i7 870
- Business Class PCs to get Core i5Last winter when the Core i7 was released, it was pretty much placed in high level consumer gaming PCs. Even the lower end Core i7 did not find its way into business class PCs.I would certainly like to see Lenovo and HP get working...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Processors, CPU, Virtualization Technology, Core i7, virtualization, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., socket, processor
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- VMworld 2009: Dell developing 'virtual ready infrastructure'
- At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, Praveen Asthana, Dell's VP of storage and networking, talks about the company's virtualization strategy and how it plans to optimize the data center with fewer tools.
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, VMworld, Dell
- Videos 2009-09-03
- IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Chat With Kevin - Virtualization (Level 100)
- The presenters of this webcast discuss how IT organizations use virtualization as a strategy to drive much more than physical server consolidation and data center cost cutting. The presenters will review the portfolio of virtualization targets - servers, applications and desktops. The discussion focuses on real challenges and solutions IT...
- Tags: Webcast, IT Manager, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-09-03
- Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down
- RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- VMWare's Maritz: IT spending patterns need change if industry intends to grow
- The theme of the opening keynote at VMWorld 2009 was centered around two ideas: reducing complexity and offering freedom. In its quest to shift from a virtualization company to the tech industry's cloud infrastructure giant, VMWorld CEO Paul Maritz on Tuesday touched on a number of...
- Tags: Industry, IT-spending, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Cloud in Context - The 451 Group's ICE Summit
- As we've seen from IDG World Expo's recent OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld conference, putting on events is often a great deal of work. Outside events can make event the best planned event surprisingly interesting or totally irrelevant. In this context, I've been speaking with Rachel Chalmers, Director of The 451 Group's Infrastructure...
- Tags: Event, Supplier, Conference, Budgets, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences
- I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...
- Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- With virtualization, a way to wrangle mobile data costs in the enterprise
- Are you an IT pro who's tired of rising mobile bills? Does incorporating personal smartphones under the enterprise security umbrella keep you up at night? Bob Tinker may have a solution. Tinker, chief executive of mobile enterprise solutions provider MobileIron, is...
- Tags: Virtualization, Mobile, Information Technology, Smart Phone, Enterprise, MobileIron, single-OS Strategy, Employee Self-service, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
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