Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, November 16, 2011
At the CA World 2011 conference this week, CA Technologies took a major step towards integrating the management of different platforms under one common framework. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst Friday, October 7, 2011
Cloud services, managed services and outsourced IT functions can prove to diminish the importance of the CTO in an organization. Before you scoff at that claim, let me digress — I had the opportunity to talk this week with several value-added resellers (VARs) and managed service providers (MSPs) at a SonicWALL partner conference, where the resounding theme was about providing “managed services." Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, September 13, 2011
There’s no question that the amount of data that needs to be managed is spiraling out of control, which is starting to put a lot pressure on the underlying databases used to manage all this information. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst Tuesday, September 6, 2011
It is a simple formula actually – reducing IT management overhead can increase the value of a solution. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the corporate data center, where CTOs often find themselves balancing the cost of a solution against the cost of managing that solution. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Rajini Padmanaban Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Service-level agreements (SLAs) and associated metrics can be applied to projects at various levels and for a diverse set of disciplines. In this write-up, I am focusing on what it takes to implement such SLAs in the true spirit for quality assurance (QA) efforts. Continue Reading »
