Presentation from Chesapeake Regional Tech Council\'s TechFocus Seminar on Cloud Security; Presented by Scott C Sadler, Business Development Executive - Cloud Computing, IBM US East Mid-Market & Channels on Thursday, October 27, 2011. http://www.chesapeaketech.org
This document discusses how hyperscale infrastructure approaches can enable enterprises to meet increasing future IT capacity needs with lower costs than traditional IT approaches. It describes how leading cloud providers have developed hyperscale computing models internally to dramatically improve efficiency and performance. The document proposes that operators and enterprises can adopt similar hyperscale infrastructure using disaggregated hardware architectures, which standardize components, abstract complexity, automate processes, and allow perpetual refresh of parts rather than entire systems. This would enable lower total cost of ownership through improvements like high utilization rates, reduced energy consumption, and eliminating forced hardware replacement cycles.
Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud ComputingRackspace
The document discusses four key mechanisms through which Cloud Computing generates cost savings for organizations:
1) By lowering the opportunity cost of running technology through more efficient use of resources.
2) By allowing for a shift from capital expenditure to operating expenditure, providing more flexibility.
3) By lowering the total cost of ownership of technology over time.
4) By giving organizations the ability to focus on core business activities rather than managing infrastructure. Case studies are provided to illustrate how these savings can be realized in practice.
The document discusses IBM's virtualization journey and the benefits of virtualization. It describes how virtualization can help consolidate resources, manage workloads more efficiently with a single management interface, and automate processes to improve IT agility and business responsiveness. Key steps in the virtualization journey include consolidation, management, automation, and optimization of IT infrastructure and workloads.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
HP 3PAR Utility Storage is a next-generation storage system designed for virtual and cloud data centers. It was built from the ground up to maximize efficiency and agility through features like thin provisioning and thin copying that reduce storage capacity needs and increase utilization. Experts say 3PAR brings enterprise-class features to the midrange market and provides the flexibility required for cloud environments through secure multi-tenancy and scalability.
This document discusses key infrastructure elements for cloud computing. It describes the evolution of cloud computing from earlier technologies like grid computing. The document outlines an architecture framework for a dynamic data center that leverages virtualization and infrastructure management technologies. It provides examples of how cloud infrastructures have been used for innovation, software development, and data-intensive workloads.
Presentation from Chesapeake Regional Tech Council\'s TechFocus Seminar on Cloud Security; Presented by Scott C Sadler, Business Development Executive - Cloud Computing, IBM US East Mid-Market & Channels on Thursday, October 27, 2011. http://www.chesapeaketech.org
This document discusses how hyperscale infrastructure approaches can enable enterprises to meet increasing future IT capacity needs with lower costs than traditional IT approaches. It describes how leading cloud providers have developed hyperscale computing models internally to dramatically improve efficiency and performance. The document proposes that operators and enterprises can adopt similar hyperscale infrastructure using disaggregated hardware architectures, which standardize components, abstract complexity, automate processes, and allow perpetual refresh of parts rather than entire systems. This would enable lower total cost of ownership through improvements like high utilization rates, reduced energy consumption, and eliminating forced hardware replacement cycles.
Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud ComputingRackspace
The document discusses four key mechanisms through which Cloud Computing generates cost savings for organizations:
1) By lowering the opportunity cost of running technology through more efficient use of resources.
2) By allowing for a shift from capital expenditure to operating expenditure, providing more flexibility.
3) By lowering the total cost of ownership of technology over time.
4) By giving organizations the ability to focus on core business activities rather than managing infrastructure. Case studies are provided to illustrate how these savings can be realized in practice.
The document discusses IBM's virtualization journey and the benefits of virtualization. It describes how virtualization can help consolidate resources, manage workloads more efficiently with a single management interface, and automate processes to improve IT agility and business responsiveness. Key steps in the virtualization journey include consolidation, management, automation, and optimization of IT infrastructure and workloads.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
HP 3PAR Utility Storage is a next-generation storage system designed for virtual and cloud data centers. It was built from the ground up to maximize efficiency and agility through features like thin provisioning and thin copying that reduce storage capacity needs and increase utilization. Experts say 3PAR brings enterprise-class features to the midrange market and provides the flexibility required for cloud environments through secure multi-tenancy and scalability.
This document discusses key infrastructure elements for cloud computing. It describes the evolution of cloud computing from earlier technologies like grid computing. The document outlines an architecture framework for a dynamic data center that leverages virtualization and infrastructure management technologies. It provides examples of how cloud infrastructures have been used for innovation, software development, and data-intensive workloads.
Time for Converged Infrastructure? Executives Discuss the Operational and Str...EMC
CIOs whose organizations have significant Converged Infrastructure implementations share how convergence is transforming the cost structure, performance profile, and business value of information technology infrastructure.
The document discusses SimpliVity's OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure platform. It aims to provide both cloud economics and enterprise capabilities like data protection, efficiency, performance and unified management. SimpliVity's key innovation is its data virtualization platform which performs real-time deduplication, compression and optimization of data without impacting performance. This allows data to be optimized once and accessed globally. The OmniCube combines compute, storage, networking and management into an integrated 2U building block to simplify IT infrastructure management and costs compared to traditional legacy stacks.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the cloud-enabled managed hosting market, including definitions, use cases, and a Magic Quadrant evaluating major vendors. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of six vendors - AT&T, CenturyLink, CSC, Datapipe, Dimension Data, and FireHost. Key findings include that no single vendor excels in all areas, customization is limited, and shorter contract terms are now common compared to traditional managed hosting.
AGILE CLOUD: MANAGING THE EMPOWERED USERdinCloud Inc.
As important as the back end technologies of virtual data center operations, application virtualization
and orchestration may be, a substantial portion of cloud’s ‘magic’ is its ability to provide new forms of
support to line-of-business staff, providing advanced automation options for functions that were
previously poorly automated or entirely manual.
As a leading Managed service provider with datacenters in India, Netmagic solutions, fulfills your entire IT infrastructure requirements: from collocation services to backup solutions.
G05.2015 - Magic quadrant for cloud infrastructure as a serviceSatya Harish
This document provides a summary of Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant report on cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers worldwide. It defines cloud IaaS and outlines the evaluation criteria used to assess providers, including their ability to execute on products/services and customer experience, as well as vision. The report evaluates major public and private cloud IaaS providers and provides an assessment of their strengths and cautions for customers to be aware of.
Despite years of industry advocacy, cloud adoption in larger firms remains slow. There are many logos for many vendors dotting the cloud technology landscape and many competing architectures. But there are also few standards that guarantee the interoperability of different approaches.
The latest buzz in enterprise cloud technology is around “hybrid cloud data centers” in which large enterprises “build their base” – that is, their core infrastructure, possibly as a “private cloud” – and “buy their burst” – that is, obtain additional public cloud- based resources and services to augment their on-premises capabilities during periods of peak workload handling, for application development, or for business continuity.
Ultimately, the adoption of cloud architecture will be gated by how successfully organizations are able to leverage emerging technologies in a secure and reliable manner and whether the resulting infrastructure actually delivers in the key areas of cost-containment, risk reduction and improved productivity.
The TCS Cloud Plus Governance Manager is a centralized platform that provides business-aligned dashboards and reports for organizations. It offers complete visibility into an enterprise's IT infrastructure and operational data in a graphical format. This helps stakeholders identify issues, improve processes, and make timely decisions. The platform tracks KPIs and SLAs, generates standard and custom reports, and offers benefits such as enhanced service availability and cost-effective operations.
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare)SP Home Run Inc.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare).
Is consolidation a question mark hanging over the future of your colocation data center? Find out why this trend could be in fact good for you too.
Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
This document presents a framework for estimating the value of cloud computing compared to conventional IT solutions. The framework consists of four main steps: (1) defining the business scenario including objectives, demand behavior, and technical requirements; (2) calculating the costs of fulfilling the scenario using cloud computing; (3) calculating the costs of using a reference IT solution; and (4) comparing the total costs of both approaches to estimate the value of cloud computing for that scenario. The document also provides two examples that illustrate how real-world use cases can be analyzed using this framework.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
This powerpoint slide deck is the presentation given at the Microsoft center in Waltham, MA titled Leading Practices and Insights for Managing Data Integration Initiatives.
Topics covered include:
Key Drivers
Approaches and Strategy
Tools and Products
Useful Case Studies
Success Factors
Business software and information technology are changing rapidly, and so is the terminology used by business professionals, software and IT professionals. For your reference, following is an alphabetical listing of terms that will be updated frequently for accuracy. Have a suggestion for a term?
Hybrid clouds offer the best of both public and private clouds by combining two or more cloud infrastructures. They provide enterprises with scalability, flexibility and control. Most enterprises now adopt a hybrid multi-cloud strategy to deploy workloads across public, private and hybrid clouds based on their needs and applications. Hybrid clouds allow optimization of resources and costs by providing capabilities like cloud bursting during periods of high demand. Successful hybrid strategies require integration of applications and workloads across cloud environments.
In almost every organisation, irrespective of its size and industry sector, IT infrastructure managers today are grappling with the same challenges: how to transform IT efficiency; increase agility and flexibility; and lower overheads in such a way that performance, availability, resilience, data security and compliance remain under tight control.
This document discusses the benefits of moving IT infrastructure services to cloud-based delivery models. It argues that traditional on-premise infrastructure is inefficient and limits business agility and responsiveness. The cloud offers unprecedented flexibility and cost savings by allowing infrastructure to be provisioned and managed remotely via robust networks. However, some IT managers are hesitant due to concerns over data security, performance and control. This document aims to dispel common myths about public cloud risks and shows how enterprise-grade private cloud solutions delivered over managed networks can address these concerns while delivering cloud benefits.
Air Canada was experiencing inefficiencies from using legacy software systems that were not integrated. Maintenix, an aviation MRO software from MIX Technologies, improved operational efficiency and decision making by providing an integrated system with enhanced visibility of fleet-wide data to allow maintenance, engineering and finance divisions to easily share information. Maintenix consists of six modules that support decisions like scheduling maintenance based on technician availability, reserving and issuing requested parts, and ensuring minimum inventory levels. Amazon provides cloud computing services like EC2 and S3 on a pay-as-you-use basis, benefiting subscribers through lower costs and increased scalability while generating additional income for Amazon through underutilized capacity. However, some businesses remain cautious due to lack
The document discusses how "everything as a service" or XaaS is transforming businesses by allowing them to operate core business functions through cloud-based solutions. These "BusinessCloud" solutions allow companies to both "run better" by reducing costs and gaining efficiencies, as well as "run differently" by developing new business models and ways of operating. Examples discussed include medical management as a service to reduce health plan costs and 3D printing as a service to change dynamics for manufacturers. The document argues that BusinessCloud solutions empower businesses to rethink their operations and gain strategic advantages through new, more flexible operating models.
IDC: Selecting the Optimal Path to Private CloudEMC
The document discusses three approaches to building a private cloud infrastructure: integrated infrastructure systems, reference architectures, and building your own systems. It finds that integrated infrastructure systems reduce overall costs by 55% and time to deployment by 65% compared to traditional approaches. Reference architectures also provide advantages in reducing costs by 25% and deployment time by 25%. Both approaches deliver significant benefits in efficiency and agility over building systems independently.
Oman logestic company
MIS
MBA
IT
1. IT Infrastructure and support systems
2. Data and Document Management system
3. Network management and Mobility
4. IT Security, Compliance, and Continuity
5. E Business and E commerce
6. Web and social media strategies
7. Operational planning and control systems
8. Enterprise information system
9. Business Intelligence and business support
10. IT Strategic Planning
11. Business process management and system development
Time for Converged Infrastructure? Executives Discuss the Operational and Str...EMC
CIOs whose organizations have significant Converged Infrastructure implementations share how convergence is transforming the cost structure, performance profile, and business value of information technology infrastructure.
The document discusses SimpliVity's OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure platform. It aims to provide both cloud economics and enterprise capabilities like data protection, efficiency, performance and unified management. SimpliVity's key innovation is its data virtualization platform which performs real-time deduplication, compression and optimization of data without impacting performance. This allows data to be optimized once and accessed globally. The OmniCube combines compute, storage, networking and management into an integrated 2U building block to simplify IT infrastructure management and costs compared to traditional legacy stacks.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the cloud-enabled managed hosting market, including definitions, use cases, and a Magic Quadrant evaluating major vendors. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of six vendors - AT&T, CenturyLink, CSC, Datapipe, Dimension Data, and FireHost. Key findings include that no single vendor excels in all areas, customization is limited, and shorter contract terms are now common compared to traditional managed hosting.
AGILE CLOUD: MANAGING THE EMPOWERED USERdinCloud Inc.
As important as the back end technologies of virtual data center operations, application virtualization
and orchestration may be, a substantial portion of cloud’s ‘magic’ is its ability to provide new forms of
support to line-of-business staff, providing advanced automation options for functions that were
previously poorly automated or entirely manual.
As a leading Managed service provider with datacenters in India, Netmagic solutions, fulfills your entire IT infrastructure requirements: from collocation services to backup solutions.
G05.2015 - Magic quadrant for cloud infrastructure as a serviceSatya Harish
This document provides a summary of Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant report on cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers worldwide. It defines cloud IaaS and outlines the evaluation criteria used to assess providers, including their ability to execute on products/services and customer experience, as well as vision. The report evaluates major public and private cloud IaaS providers and provides an assessment of their strengths and cautions for customers to be aware of.
Despite years of industry advocacy, cloud adoption in larger firms remains slow. There are many logos for many vendors dotting the cloud technology landscape and many competing architectures. But there are also few standards that guarantee the interoperability of different approaches.
The latest buzz in enterprise cloud technology is around “hybrid cloud data centers” in which large enterprises “build their base” – that is, their core infrastructure, possibly as a “private cloud” – and “buy their burst” – that is, obtain additional public cloud- based resources and services to augment their on-premises capabilities during periods of peak workload handling, for application development, or for business continuity.
Ultimately, the adoption of cloud architecture will be gated by how successfully organizations are able to leverage emerging technologies in a secure and reliable manner and whether the resulting infrastructure actually delivers in the key areas of cost-containment, risk reduction and improved productivity.
The TCS Cloud Plus Governance Manager is a centralized platform that provides business-aligned dashboards and reports for organizations. It offers complete visibility into an enterprise's IT infrastructure and operational data in a graphical format. This helps stakeholders identify issues, improve processes, and make timely decisions. The platform tracks KPIs and SLAs, generates standard and custom reports, and offers benefits such as enhanced service availability and cost-effective operations.
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare)SP Home Run Inc.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare).
Is consolidation a question mark hanging over the future of your colocation data center? Find out why this trend could be in fact good for you too.
Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
This document presents a framework for estimating the value of cloud computing compared to conventional IT solutions. The framework consists of four main steps: (1) defining the business scenario including objectives, demand behavior, and technical requirements; (2) calculating the costs of fulfilling the scenario using cloud computing; (3) calculating the costs of using a reference IT solution; and (4) comparing the total costs of both approaches to estimate the value of cloud computing for that scenario. The document also provides two examples that illustrate how real-world use cases can be analyzed using this framework.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
This powerpoint slide deck is the presentation given at the Microsoft center in Waltham, MA titled Leading Practices and Insights for Managing Data Integration Initiatives.
Topics covered include:
Key Drivers
Approaches and Strategy
Tools and Products
Useful Case Studies
Success Factors
Business software and information technology are changing rapidly, and so is the terminology used by business professionals, software and IT professionals. For your reference, following is an alphabetical listing of terms that will be updated frequently for accuracy. Have a suggestion for a term?
Hybrid clouds offer the best of both public and private clouds by combining two or more cloud infrastructures. They provide enterprises with scalability, flexibility and control. Most enterprises now adopt a hybrid multi-cloud strategy to deploy workloads across public, private and hybrid clouds based on their needs and applications. Hybrid clouds allow optimization of resources and costs by providing capabilities like cloud bursting during periods of high demand. Successful hybrid strategies require integration of applications and workloads across cloud environments.
In almost every organisation, irrespective of its size and industry sector, IT infrastructure managers today are grappling with the same challenges: how to transform IT efficiency; increase agility and flexibility; and lower overheads in such a way that performance, availability, resilience, data security and compliance remain under tight control.
This document discusses the benefits of moving IT infrastructure services to cloud-based delivery models. It argues that traditional on-premise infrastructure is inefficient and limits business agility and responsiveness. The cloud offers unprecedented flexibility and cost savings by allowing infrastructure to be provisioned and managed remotely via robust networks. However, some IT managers are hesitant due to concerns over data security, performance and control. This document aims to dispel common myths about public cloud risks and shows how enterprise-grade private cloud solutions delivered over managed networks can address these concerns while delivering cloud benefits.
Air Canada was experiencing inefficiencies from using legacy software systems that were not integrated. Maintenix, an aviation MRO software from MIX Technologies, improved operational efficiency and decision making by providing an integrated system with enhanced visibility of fleet-wide data to allow maintenance, engineering and finance divisions to easily share information. Maintenix consists of six modules that support decisions like scheduling maintenance based on technician availability, reserving and issuing requested parts, and ensuring minimum inventory levels. Amazon provides cloud computing services like EC2 and S3 on a pay-as-you-use basis, benefiting subscribers through lower costs and increased scalability while generating additional income for Amazon through underutilized capacity. However, some businesses remain cautious due to lack
The document discusses how "everything as a service" or XaaS is transforming businesses by allowing them to operate core business functions through cloud-based solutions. These "BusinessCloud" solutions allow companies to both "run better" by reducing costs and gaining efficiencies, as well as "run differently" by developing new business models and ways of operating. Examples discussed include medical management as a service to reduce health plan costs and 3D printing as a service to change dynamics for manufacturers. The document argues that BusinessCloud solutions empower businesses to rethink their operations and gain strategic advantages through new, more flexible operating models.
IDC: Selecting the Optimal Path to Private CloudEMC
The document discusses three approaches to building a private cloud infrastructure: integrated infrastructure systems, reference architectures, and building your own systems. It finds that integrated infrastructure systems reduce overall costs by 55% and time to deployment by 65% compared to traditional approaches. Reference architectures also provide advantages in reducing costs by 25% and deployment time by 25%. Both approaches deliver significant benefits in efficiency and agility over building systems independently.
Oman logestic company
MIS
MBA
IT
1. IT Infrastructure and support systems
2. Data and Document Management system
3. Network management and Mobility
4. IT Security, Compliance, and Continuity
5. E Business and E commerce
6. Web and social media strategies
7. Operational planning and control systems
8. Enterprise information system
9. Business Intelligence and business support
10. IT Strategic Planning
11. Business process management and system development
A consolidated data center has been an attractive alternative for CIOs to protect the IT investment as many of them have realized that centralized infrastructure and processes help optimize the shared resources and in turn bring greater ROI from their IT investments. This whitepaper explains the various benefits of data center consolidation and how CIOs can work collaboratively with service providers to build an outcome based IT framework that can deliver cost efficiencies, savings and innovation in an organization.
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Making Multicloud Application Integration More EfficientCognizant
With the dramatic, ever-growing increase of companies migrating applications and data to public and private clouds, the integration of cloud and on-premises applications is both absolutely essential and extremely complex. We offer a brief roadmap to establishing a "cloud console" for integrating multicloud environments.
Knowledge management and information systemnihad341
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White Paper Reduce Infrastructure Cost With Microsoft System Centerrajeshchoudhary23281
The document discusses how Microsoft System Center products like Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations reduce IT infrastructure costs through automation, centralized management, and optimization best practices. It provides examples of cost savings from more efficient software distribution, monitoring, data protection, and security/compliance management enabled by these products.
Enabling Hybrid Cloud Today With Microsoft-technologies-v1-0David J Rosenthal
The document provides an overview of hybrid cloud and how organizations can implement a successful hybrid cloud strategy using Microsoft technologies. It defines key cloud concepts like public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. It discusses how hybrid cloud can help organizations improve management of on-premises systems through private cloud while also utilizing lower-cost public cloud services. The document outlines Microsoft's approach to hybrid cloud, highlighting common technologies that span private and public clouds and enable common hybrid experiences.
Dynamic Hyper-Converged Future Proof Your Data CenterDataCore Software
IT organizations are continuously striving to reduce the amount of time and effort to deploy new resources for the business. Data center and remote office infrastructures are often complex and rigid to deploy, causing operational delays. As a result, many IT organizations are looking at a hyper-converged infrastructure.
Read this whitepaper to discover that a hyper-converged approach is flexible and easy to deploy and offers:
• Lower CAPEX because of lower up-front prices for infrastructure
• Lower OPEX through reductions in operational expenses and personnel
• Faster time-to-value for new business needs
This draft paper throws light on data center technology trends of 2016. This paper also suggest ways to enhance the competitiveness of Data Center. We have tried to carve out a strategy that can help decision makers to decide whether a technology adoption will prove beneficial for them or they will end up spending more without any significant ROI.
Converged infrastructure bundles servers, storage, networking equipment, and management software into a single optimized system. This centralized approach improves efficiency by consolidating resources and increasing utilization rates. It helps address challenges of growing data volumes, limited resources, and management complexity that arise from independent "silos" of server, storage, and network infrastructure. Converged infrastructure provides cost savings and simplifies administration compared to disparate systems. Major technology companies compete in providing converged infrastructure solutions to organizations facing data growth and management challenges.
This document discusses enterprise cloud analytics. It begins by defining cloud computing and its benefits for businesses, including cost savings from a pay-as-you-go model versus owning infrastructure. New cloud analytics services can help businesses better manage big data and applications. The document then describes the architecture of enterprise cloud analytics, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Process as a Service, and analytics platforms like Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR. It emphasizes that cloud analytics allows businesses to easily deploy analytics capabilities to gain insights from large amounts of internal and external data.
The Journey Toward the Software-Defined Data CenterCognizant
Computing's evolution toward a software-defined data center (SDDC) -- an extension of the cloud delivery model of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) -- is complex and multifaceted, involving multiple layers of virtualization: servers, storage, and networking. We provide a detailed adoption roadmap to guide your efforts.
Cloud computing a services business application challengesEditor Jacotech
This document discusses challenges related to adopting Software as a Service (SaaS) business applications. It reviews literature that has identified key challenges such as data security, customization, and scalability. The document provides background on cloud computing models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It also discusses characteristics of the SaaS cloud computing model and the business value it provides.
This chapter discusses the rise of big data due to increases in data processing capabilities, data storage, and communication technologies. It defines big data as extremely large data sets that are difficult to process using traditional methods. Big data comes from a variety of sources and requires real-time analysis. It also outlines the key players in the big data value chain including data collectors, aggregators, and users.
The document discusses the emergence of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology. It describes some of the key issues that led organizations to adopt HCI, including the need for business-IT alignment, operational efficiency, cloud-like flexibility on-premises, and reducing data center complexity. It then provides context around earlier converged infrastructure solutions and how HCI aimed to improve on those approaches.
Algorithm for Scheduling of Dependent Task in CloudIRJET Journal
This document discusses scheduling dependent tasks in the cloud. It proposes an algorithm to improve the efficiency of task execution in the cloud compared to the First Come First Serve (FCFS) approach. The algorithm is tested using a cloud simulator with different workflows, virtual machine configurations, and task lengths. Results show the proposed algorithm reduces overall makespan compared to FCFS. The document also provides background on cloud computing models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
An architacture for modular datacenterJunaid Kabir
This document proposes a new architecture for modular data centers using standard shipping containers. It argues that fully populating shipping containers with thousands of commodity servers and delivering them as ready-to-run modules could significantly reduce data center costs through lower acquisition, deployment, and management costs compared to individual servers. This approach aims to address challenges from the rapid growth of internet services relying on large numbers of inexpensive, commodity servers in data centers.
This document discusses cloud computing and its potential benefits for organizations. It defines cloud computing and describes deployment and service models. The key benefits of cloud computing include lower costs, faster deployment of applications, scalability, and improved organizational agility. However, security, lack of standards, and regulatory compliance are challenges. The adoption of cloud computing is increasing but still early, with most activity from early adopters.
This document discusses different types of virtualization technologies. It begins by defining virtualization and describing its benefits such as standardization, rationalization, and improved efficiency. It then categorizes various virtualization types including server/platform, desktop, software, system resources, data, and network virtualization. For each type, it provides details on sub-types and discusses opportunities and challenges. The document aims to help consultants, administrators and decision makers understand and evaluate different virtualization options for their organizations.
Similar to Clabby Analytics White Paper: Beyond Virtualization: Building A Long Term Information Systems Strategic Plan (20)
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
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Clabby Analytics White Paper: Beyond Virtualization: Building A Long Term Information Systems Strategic Plan
1. Advisory
Beyond Virtualization: Building a Long Term
Information Systems Strategic Plan
Introduction
Considering that the amount of information that an enterprise collects doubles every three
years — and considering the millions of new devices that must be supported every year
(including mobile devices as well as new peripherals) — resource “virtualization” has
become a “must do now” in the data center. Virtualization (the logical pooling of physical
resources) creates pools of computing power, storage and networking — giving enterprises
the capacity and bandwidth that they need to handle the information explosion while
supporting a myriad of new devices and new business services. Further, by virtualizing
computing resources, enterprises can increase overall systems utilization (thus realizing a
better return on investment) — and enterprises can lower management costs and power
usage (resulting in lower operating expenses [OPEX]). In other words, by virtualizing
resources, enterprises can operate smarter (a theme IBM calls “smarter planet”).
Based upon informal interviews conducted around the world in places like Thailand, the
United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, India and the
United States, Clabby Analytics estimates, only about 15-20% of the world‟s information
systems have been virtualized. This means that 80-85% of the world‟s enterprises must get
“smarter” about how they utilize resources. For these enterprises, this Research Report
describes the steps that need to be taken to build a virtualized, automatically provisioned,
workload balanced, service managed, highly efficient “smart” information infrastructure.
Failure to virtualize resources not only affects return-on-investment and total-cost-of-ownership, it also
affects a company’s ability to respond in an agile manner to changing market conditions or new business
opportunities. Without the savings delivered through virtualization, enterprises may not be able to find the
resources needed to launch new projects or applications — resulting in an inability to respond to
competitive pressure or to satisfy customer demands. And, for all of these reasons, virtualization has
become a “must do”. Accordingly, to compete in the long-term, YOUR ENTERPRISE must build a
comprehensive virtualization/provisioning/workload management/service management strategy.
Executive Summary
When it comes to information systems, the big picture goal of an enterprise should be to
flow business processes as efficiently as possible. By doing this, organizations can greatly
reduce sales, general and administrative costs — and the resulting cost savings can be
passed directly to the enterprise bottom line where they contribute directly to overall
profitability. Further, enterprises can improve customer service (resulting in more
business); and enterprises can streamline supply chain process flows (resulting in cost
savings due to process flow improvements when dealing with business partners).
To flow processes smoothly, enterprises need to build information systems environments
that are highly efficient and flexible (using consolidation/virtualization/automated