Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Some think a converged infrastructure is nerd-vana. Some have never tried to build one. In this series of six articles, we’ll look at what a converged infrastructure is, and what it isn’t. You’ve read the stories about a dynamic data center environment consisting of pools of high-performing computing resources that can be centrally managed, readily…
The race for faster networking speeds hit a major milestone this week as Alcatel-Lucent announced the commercial availability of its 100 gigabits per second equipment for telco service providers. The Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) solution provides a 100G wavelength using coherent technology that can provide transport for up 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles). The new technology marks the…
The Cloud Design Service, released this week, follows HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) Cloud Discovery Workshop and Cloud Roadmap Service. Whereas Discovery Workshop was more educational, designed to help people learn about Cloud computing, and Roadmap Service was a planning service to help plan a future deployment, Design Service actually gets into the nitty gritty of implementation….
Last fall I wrote about the changing state of the network management marketplace. This summer we did some research to test out a few hypotheses and explore a few others about network ops and the role of networking more broadly. The results confirmed some of my ideas and surprised me in a few ways—addressing areas…
As the financial crisis persists and companies snap up their peers at discount prices, they might be getting more than they bargained for. That’s because apart from the regulatory and financial issues, a merger or acquisition also involves a host of technology challenges. Just in the financial sector alone, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been…
Journalists are not particularly noteworthy for being early risers, and there isn’t much that can induce me to roll out of bed before sunup. However, the prospect of interviewing Joel Cherkis, Microsoft’s technology point man at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, had me upright and drinking my first cup of coffee in the dawn’s…
For many companies the days of resolving tech problems through phone based help desks are long gone, being superseded by ever more advanced formers of remote tech support tools. In the growing world of virtual tech support, IDC Research Manager, Matt Healey, said increasingly advanced solutions mean that tech support personnel can take over the…
Developing a technology strategy is not about figuring out what servers or networks to put into place, but rather putting in to place a framework within which a set of business applications can be deployed. There are three things that you need to know when developing a technology strategy for your company: ▫ An in-depth…
Like most CIOs, Zalmai Azmi is adjusting to his changing role and reengineering his IT department. If his pressures stopped there, he would merely be counted among the sea of IT leaders marshalling the tide of change. But here, in the top secret caves of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the tide itself is…
In my last post I promised this time I would describe my search for a definition of “our kind” of architecture that was not a fancy synonym for design and that could encompass varieties of architecture as diverse as enterprise, information technology, information systems architecture, solution architecture, infrastructure, network, software, application, management, security, process, service-oriented…