Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Common wisdom has it that virtualization is the best course to improve scalability, continuity, performance, and resource efficiency on everything from desktop to servers to storage. In practice, however, that is easier said than done. Part of the difficulty lies in knowing where to start the process and how to contain the risk and where…
Open source vendor Red Hat is betting on a year-old open source effort that it hopes will further open up the Cloud. Red Hat’s deltaCloud project http://deltacloud.org/ started last year as a way of enabling and managing a heterogeneous Cloud virtualized infrastructure. Now, deltaCloud is on a path to commercialization as part of a set…
Technology executives are signaling a readiness to make critical IT investments, a new survey shows. More than one-third (37 percent) of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed said, post-recession, they plan to implement software and hardware upgrades deferred due to the bad economy. Others foresee moving forward with virtualization projects (16 percent) and website design initiatives…
Often, for managers the start of the new year is a time to reassess staffing needs. For many, 2010 may mean the return to hiring. The most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report found that 7% of CIOs plan to add IT staff in the first quarter of 2010, and 4%…
Virtualization is a pretty hot topic in enterprise IT these days. It’s safe to say that everyone has some sort of virtualization project going on. according to a survey by TheInfoPro more than half of new servers in 2009 will be virtualized compared to 30% in 2008. In some way, virtualization is a VMware world….
One of the more tech-geeky Cloud debates centers on what exactly Cloud computing is and whether or not “private Clouds” are a contradiction. Technically, perhaps, they are, but Cloud purists are already being drowned out by pragmatists. Early Cloud leader, Amazon, isn’t worrying about definitions. They recently released the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service,…
Helping their businesses run more productively, efficiently and improving agility are the main concerns of CIOs today. Most also believe we are seeing the light at the end of the recession tunnel but few will commit to spending, except on safe bets. CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives cite business productivity and cost reduction as…
Four technologies stand out this year as having strong investment profiles: server virtualization, storage virtualization, unified communications, and cloud computing, according to the Computer Economics Technology Trends and IT Management Best Practices 2009/2010. “I think organizations are definitely pulling back on large system replacement projects in favor of more incremental changes that have quicker payback…
To get seven copies of a particular piece of content distributed online, typically it has required a network to have seven physical copies of the data. But what if you could have seven copies available while having less than two copies’ worth of data on the network? That’s been the promise of open source storage…
Cloud services will be what the electrical grid was a century ago: the basis for a whole new set of services, markets and possibilities that can change the way we live and operate, but also threaten the dominant computing hierarchy, said Nicholas Carr, controversial author of Does IT Matter?, in his closing keynote speech at…