The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services in the coming years. It notes that as businesses look to grow, IT will need to balance integrating new applications and infrastructure models while supporting existing systems. This will require increasing efficiency on both the IT and facilities sides through streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. The document outlines strategies for improving infrastructure resource efficiencies, storage efficiencies, and increasing datacenter flexibility to adapt to changing demand. It also notes that many IT organizations may require external expertise to implement new technologies and strategies as they work to enable business transformation.
Delivering ITaaS With a Software-Defined Data CenterEMC
This document discusses delivering IT as a service (ITaaS) using a software-defined data center (SDDC). Key points include:
1) ITaaS allows IT to quickly respond to changing business needs through standardized, virtualized solutions deployed on demand.
2) An SDDC enables automated, elastic provisioning of compute, storage, networking and security resources according to policies.
3) ITaaS positions IT as a strategic partner rather than just a support function, improving its ability to enable the business.
Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth.
HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.
BI at your fingertips - views also from Hariram Kalidas (GBM)Shwetank Jayaswal
Business intelligence solutions have become more integrated and easier for organizations to implement. They are no longer limited to just large tech companies, and more industries are using BI to improve decision making. As BI tools have advanced, trends like predictive analytics, big data, cloud-based services, and analytics focused on specific industries have emerged. Successful companies will be those that can organize themselves around analytics to drive differentiation from data.
Ziff Davis Benefits of Next Generation DashboardsSAP
Next generation dashboards provide concise yet comprehensive business intelligence to executives and managers across an organization. They visualize data from multiple sources in an intuitive format, and enable interactive analysis through simple navigation. By aligning business processes with up-to-date information, next generation dashboards help users make faster, more informed decisions to improve operations and seize new opportunities.
1. Financial services firms are undergoing digital transformation to improve customer engagement and increase revenue through new digital initiatives and technologies.
2. To succeed in the digital era, financial services firms need to modernize their data infrastructures to deliver optimal customer experiences, build digital trust, and improve operational efficiency.
3. Modernizing data infrastructure requires investing in technologies like cloud, analytics, security and adopting strategies like hybrid cloud to drive digital transformation initiatives around customer experience, risk management and cost reduction.
The document summarizes Accenture's Technology Vision for 2012, which outlines six technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs should leverage: 1) context-based services using new data sources to deliver insights, 2) converging data architectures that bridge structured and unstructured data, 3) industrialized data services to increase data sharing and value, 4) social-driven IT that utilizes social media's business impact, 5) PaaS-enabled agility shifting focus from cost to innovation, and 6) orchestrated analytical security addressing inevitable security breaches through data platforms. CIOs are challenged to help CEOs understand technology's growth impact and lead conversations on capitalizing on changes that matter most to the business.
Delivering ITaaS With a Software-Defined Data CenterEMC
This document discusses delivering IT as a service (ITaaS) using a software-defined data center (SDDC). Key points include:
1) ITaaS allows IT to quickly respond to changing business needs through standardized, virtualized solutions deployed on demand.
2) An SDDC enables automated, elastic provisioning of compute, storage, networking and security resources according to policies.
3) ITaaS positions IT as a strategic partner rather than just a support function, improving its ability to enable the business.
Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth.
HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.
BI at your fingertips - views also from Hariram Kalidas (GBM)Shwetank Jayaswal
Business intelligence solutions have become more integrated and easier for organizations to implement. They are no longer limited to just large tech companies, and more industries are using BI to improve decision making. As BI tools have advanced, trends like predictive analytics, big data, cloud-based services, and analytics focused on specific industries have emerged. Successful companies will be those that can organize themselves around analytics to drive differentiation from data.
Ziff Davis Benefits of Next Generation DashboardsSAP
Next generation dashboards provide concise yet comprehensive business intelligence to executives and managers across an organization. They visualize data from multiple sources in an intuitive format, and enable interactive analysis through simple navigation. By aligning business processes with up-to-date information, next generation dashboards help users make faster, more informed decisions to improve operations and seize new opportunities.
1. Financial services firms are undergoing digital transformation to improve customer engagement and increase revenue through new digital initiatives and technologies.
2. To succeed in the digital era, financial services firms need to modernize their data infrastructures to deliver optimal customer experiences, build digital trust, and improve operational efficiency.
3. Modernizing data infrastructure requires investing in technologies like cloud, analytics, security and adopting strategies like hybrid cloud to drive digital transformation initiatives around customer experience, risk management and cost reduction.
The document summarizes Accenture's Technology Vision for 2012, which outlines six technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs should leverage: 1) context-based services using new data sources to deliver insights, 2) converging data architectures that bridge structured and unstructured data, 3) industrialized data services to increase data sharing and value, 4) social-driven IT that utilizes social media's business impact, 5) PaaS-enabled agility shifting focus from cost to innovation, and 6) orchestrated analytical security addressing inevitable security breaches through data platforms. CIOs are challenged to help CEOs understand technology's growth impact and lead conversations on capitalizing on changes that matter most to the business.
When Worlds Collide: Intelligence, Analytics and OperationsInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Shawn Rogers and Composite Software
Slides from the Live Webcast on May 15, 2012
Everyone wants more data these days, though often for different reasons. Business analysts, data scientists and front-line workers all know the value of having that extra piece of information. The big question remains -- how can all these needs be supported without taxing IT and without breaking the bank? And how can the worlds of traditional Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Transaction Systems combine to improve business outcomes?
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates explains what is needed to take advantage from today's hybrid data ecosystem. He'll be briefed by Bob Eve of Composite Software who will explain how innovative enterprises are using data virtualization to gain insight across these worlds and doing so with greater agility and lower costs.
For more information visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
Watch us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5EE76E2EEEC8CF9E
White Paper: The Business Case for IT Governance in the Age of Digital Transf...SDI Presence LLC
Why is strong #ITGovernance a strategic mandate in light of business’ use of evolving digital technologies throughout their organization?
SDI Presence assesses the management challenges of legacy and emerging IT throughout an organization and effective processes establishing for #ITGovernance framework in the first of our new “Building Smarter Organizations” white paper series: “The Business Case for an IT Governance in the Age of Digital Transformation”
Digital Transformation - Is Your Enterprise Prepared☁Jake Weaver ☁
- Enterprises are undergoing digital transformation to better utilize technologies like cloud, mobile, social and big data. This requires IT organizations to take on new strategic initiatives while still handling daily operations.
- IT leaders will need to partner with managed service providers that can take over routine tasks and support advanced technologies. This will allow internal IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business value, like using big data analytics for fraud detection.
- A survey found that IT teams expect to devote more time to strategic initiatives in the next two years. They will likely rely more on managed service providers with skills in areas like cloud, data analytics, hybrid IT and security. Partnering in this way can help IT support the business needs of digital
The document provides an interview with Gartner analyst Ronni Colville on configuration management and configuration management databases (CMDBs). Some key points:
- Colville states that configuration management is critical for IT service management as it involves understanding relationships between IT components that make up services.
- Historical configuration management efforts often failed due to information being in many places and not able to be pulled together in real-time.
- New tools can discover and document relationships between components that make up IT services, focused on servers and applications.
- Drivers for CMDBs include audit/compliance, aligning with ITIL processes, and improving asset management to understand financial and configuration aspects.
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, improved productivity, and more time spent on strategic initiatives rather than infrastructure maintenance. [/SUMMARY]
Research in the performance of business intelligence tools finds that most deployments serve less than 15% of the enterprise population requiring insights to make better decisions. Surprising then that corporations on average employ more than 15 different BI tools. The high cost and complexity to change means that many Enterprise BI software suites focus on answering questions that are already well understood. Learning lessons from previous deployments suggest the future of business intelligence lies in nimble tools that extend collaborative workspaces with ‘instant insight’.
The document discusses how Analytix On Demand provides business intelligence solutions as a cloud-based service, addressing the historically high costs and complexities of traditional on-premise BI systems. It outlines key advantages like rapid deployment within 30 days, monthly subscription pricing versus large upfront fees, and pre-built solutions for common business needs like marketing, sales, finance. The service provides consolidated insights across departments using tools like dashboards, reports, and data analysis in an easy to use platform with strong security features.
Cisco Connect 2018 Malaysia - It transformation-an imperative for driving bus...NetworkCollaborators
The document discusses how technology is transforming industries and how business outcomes now rely on digital strategies. It outlines five key tenets of IT transformation: hybrid cloud, virtualized network, future-ready storage, analytics and big data, and multi-layered security. The Intel Xeon Scalable Platform is presented as providing performance, security, agility and lower total cost of ownership. Cisco and Intel are positioned as trusted partners for organizations undergoing IT transformation.
If you are a senior IT leader, you need to make the same kinds of disciplined choices for your department that the CEO and top leadership team are making about the strategic direction of the enterprise. Here's how to develop a sophisticated, more strategically oriented information technology approach--based on six ways to create value for the enterprise, and five archetypes that resolve the tension among those six value drivers.
The document discusses top storage trends that will reshape datacenters in 2012 according to IDC predictions. It finds that data is exploding due to more connected devices and digital content creation. Survey results show organizations prioritizing IT security and cost reduction. IDC predicts that in 2012, storage virtualization will go mainstream, SSDs will be integrated into ROI strategies, unified storage will be standard, and cloud storage services will provide more sophisticated features to help organizations manage big data.
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.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
Modernizing the Enterprise Monolith: EQengineered Consulting Green PaperMark Hewitt
Are you an enterprise that recognizes the business liability inherent in the monolithic or otherwise dated enterprise software applications you have built? Does your technology represent an impediment to the needed agility and flexibility required to meet the needs of today’s business environment?
Historically, enterprise software development focused on an approach that incorporated all functionality into a single process, and replicated it across servers as additional capacity was required. Today, these large applications have become bloated and unmanageable as new features and functionality are added. And, as small changes are made to existing functionality, the requirements to update and redeploy the server-side application becomes an intractable juggernaut.
Forward-thinking organizations like Amazon and Netflix led the way toward agile processes, deconstructed software stacks, and efficient APIs. Both large and small organizations serious about embracing modern practices have followed by decoupling the front and back end of their enterprise applications, employing microservices and cloud technologies, and adopting agile methodologies. These very steps can serve to highlight additional technical deficits in old solutions and codebases, which in turn become stumbling blocks to modern development practices.
As these technology trends continue to evolve, how can your company keep pace and remain viable?
In this green paper, we discuss how CIOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering can lead the needed modernization with their counterparts in marketing and the business to ensure that their organizations remain competitive in today’s customer-driven and technology-led economy.
Key questions addressed include:
• Why is technical modernization vital for the business?
• What types of modernization projects are there?
• How does modernization fit into your organization?
The document summarizes an IDC white paper on converged infrastructure. The key points are:
1) IT infrastructure has become highly complex over time, leading to rising management costs as organizations have had to integrate different systems. Server virtualization has helped contain hardware costs but not management overhead.
2) Converged infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking and management tools into a single system. This simplifies deployment and lowers management costs through automation.
3) Converged systems represent the natural evolution of IT infrastructure as different technologies gradually integrate over multiple technology cycles. Convergence enables more dynamic, efficient "private cloud" environments within organizations.
How Intelligent Operations Enables Proactive Data Center ManagementITOutcomes
This document discusses how intelligent operations with VMware vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management can enable proactive data center management and help IT transform into a strategic partner for businesses. It outlines three strategic imperatives for IT: 1) quickly and flexibly serve business needs, 2) ensure high performance and availability, and 3) act as a strategic partner rather than cost center. vSphere with Operations Management provides intelligent operations, consistent management, automation and control, and tangible results that help IT achieve these imperatives and transformation.
This document debunks several myths about software-defined infrastructure (SDI). It summarizes that SDI is not the same as virtualization alone, but rather is a full infrastructure ecosystem that includes virtualization. It also explains that SDI can improve security through custom policies based on workload parameters rather than network components. Additionally, SDI does not leave legacy infrastructure behind but rather incorporates both legacy and virtualized resources under one manageable system. SDI also does not replace hardware entirely but rather virtualizes hardware capabilities to improve flexibility and lower costs.
The cumulative effect of decades of IT infrastructure investment around a diverse set of technologies and processes has stifled innovation at organizations around the globe. Layer upon layer of complexity to accommodate a staggering array of applications has created hardened processes that make changes to systems difficult and cumbersome.
The data center impact of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security rlw03...Diego Alberto Tamayo
Introduction
The consumerization of IT continues to have a major impact
on business. Technology forces have emerged that are
challenging organizations’ ability to respond. Cloud computing,
mobility, social business, big data and analytics and IT security
technologies are evolving very rapidly, putting an organization’s
IT agility, speed and resilience to the test. As these technologies
mature and converge, they are demanding a total reexamination
of the underlying enterprise infrastructure: its strategy and
design, its operation and its management framework.
The document discusses how hybrid IT infrastructure solutions, which utilize a mix of colocated data centers, managed services, and cloud computing, allow organizations to balance IT agility demands with cost constraints. It notes that a recent survey found most companies will rely on a hybrid model for the next 5 years. The hybrid approach allows companies to select the right infrastructure type for each application based on factors like risk, cost, and agility needs. Colocation is often the initial step as it provides control and quick deployment, while managed services and cloud use will grow over time.
This document discusses the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for integrating operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems using a modern PI System. It notes that while OT systems have traditionally provided valuable operational data, barriers between OT and IT have prevented leveraging this data across the entire enterprise. The modern PI System can help overcome these barriers by unifying fragmented OT environments, enhancing data governance, and automating connections to IT systems and analytics platforms. This integration of OT and IT can generate benefits like improved bottom line, governance, and risk reduction by providing a more holistic view of enterprise performance.
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, increased staff productivity, reduced downtime, and accelerated application development cycles. [/SUMMARY]
When Worlds Collide: Intelligence, Analytics and OperationsInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Shawn Rogers and Composite Software
Slides from the Live Webcast on May 15, 2012
Everyone wants more data these days, though often for different reasons. Business analysts, data scientists and front-line workers all know the value of having that extra piece of information. The big question remains -- how can all these needs be supported without taxing IT and without breaking the bank? And how can the worlds of traditional Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Transaction Systems combine to improve business outcomes?
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates explains what is needed to take advantage from today's hybrid data ecosystem. He'll be briefed by Bob Eve of Composite Software who will explain how innovative enterprises are using data virtualization to gain insight across these worlds and doing so with greater agility and lower costs.
For more information visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
Watch us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5EE76E2EEEC8CF9E
White Paper: The Business Case for IT Governance in the Age of Digital Transf...SDI Presence LLC
Why is strong #ITGovernance a strategic mandate in light of business’ use of evolving digital technologies throughout their organization?
SDI Presence assesses the management challenges of legacy and emerging IT throughout an organization and effective processes establishing for #ITGovernance framework in the first of our new “Building Smarter Organizations” white paper series: “The Business Case for an IT Governance in the Age of Digital Transformation”
Digital Transformation - Is Your Enterprise Prepared☁Jake Weaver ☁
- Enterprises are undergoing digital transformation to better utilize technologies like cloud, mobile, social and big data. This requires IT organizations to take on new strategic initiatives while still handling daily operations.
- IT leaders will need to partner with managed service providers that can take over routine tasks and support advanced technologies. This will allow internal IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business value, like using big data analytics for fraud detection.
- A survey found that IT teams expect to devote more time to strategic initiatives in the next two years. They will likely rely more on managed service providers with skills in areas like cloud, data analytics, hybrid IT and security. Partnering in this way can help IT support the business needs of digital
The document provides an interview with Gartner analyst Ronni Colville on configuration management and configuration management databases (CMDBs). Some key points:
- Colville states that configuration management is critical for IT service management as it involves understanding relationships between IT components that make up services.
- Historical configuration management efforts often failed due to information being in many places and not able to be pulled together in real-time.
- New tools can discover and document relationships between components that make up IT services, focused on servers and applications.
- Drivers for CMDBs include audit/compliance, aligning with ITIL processes, and improving asset management to understand financial and configuration aspects.
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, improved productivity, and more time spent on strategic initiatives rather than infrastructure maintenance. [/SUMMARY]
Research in the performance of business intelligence tools finds that most deployments serve less than 15% of the enterprise population requiring insights to make better decisions. Surprising then that corporations on average employ more than 15 different BI tools. The high cost and complexity to change means that many Enterprise BI software suites focus on answering questions that are already well understood. Learning lessons from previous deployments suggest the future of business intelligence lies in nimble tools that extend collaborative workspaces with ‘instant insight’.
The document discusses how Analytix On Demand provides business intelligence solutions as a cloud-based service, addressing the historically high costs and complexities of traditional on-premise BI systems. It outlines key advantages like rapid deployment within 30 days, monthly subscription pricing versus large upfront fees, and pre-built solutions for common business needs like marketing, sales, finance. The service provides consolidated insights across departments using tools like dashboards, reports, and data analysis in an easy to use platform with strong security features.
Cisco Connect 2018 Malaysia - It transformation-an imperative for driving bus...NetworkCollaborators
The document discusses how technology is transforming industries and how business outcomes now rely on digital strategies. It outlines five key tenets of IT transformation: hybrid cloud, virtualized network, future-ready storage, analytics and big data, and multi-layered security. The Intel Xeon Scalable Platform is presented as providing performance, security, agility and lower total cost of ownership. Cisco and Intel are positioned as trusted partners for organizations undergoing IT transformation.
If you are a senior IT leader, you need to make the same kinds of disciplined choices for your department that the CEO and top leadership team are making about the strategic direction of the enterprise. Here's how to develop a sophisticated, more strategically oriented information technology approach--based on six ways to create value for the enterprise, and five archetypes that resolve the tension among those six value drivers.
The document discusses top storage trends that will reshape datacenters in 2012 according to IDC predictions. It finds that data is exploding due to more connected devices and digital content creation. Survey results show organizations prioritizing IT security and cost reduction. IDC predicts that in 2012, storage virtualization will go mainstream, SSDs will be integrated into ROI strategies, unified storage will be standard, and cloud storage services will provide more sophisticated features to help organizations manage big data.
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.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
Modernizing the Enterprise Monolith: EQengineered Consulting Green PaperMark Hewitt
Are you an enterprise that recognizes the business liability inherent in the monolithic or otherwise dated enterprise software applications you have built? Does your technology represent an impediment to the needed agility and flexibility required to meet the needs of today’s business environment?
Historically, enterprise software development focused on an approach that incorporated all functionality into a single process, and replicated it across servers as additional capacity was required. Today, these large applications have become bloated and unmanageable as new features and functionality are added. And, as small changes are made to existing functionality, the requirements to update and redeploy the server-side application becomes an intractable juggernaut.
Forward-thinking organizations like Amazon and Netflix led the way toward agile processes, deconstructed software stacks, and efficient APIs. Both large and small organizations serious about embracing modern practices have followed by decoupling the front and back end of their enterprise applications, employing microservices and cloud technologies, and adopting agile methodologies. These very steps can serve to highlight additional technical deficits in old solutions and codebases, which in turn become stumbling blocks to modern development practices.
As these technology trends continue to evolve, how can your company keep pace and remain viable?
In this green paper, we discuss how CIOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering can lead the needed modernization with their counterparts in marketing and the business to ensure that their organizations remain competitive in today’s customer-driven and technology-led economy.
Key questions addressed include:
• Why is technical modernization vital for the business?
• What types of modernization projects are there?
• How does modernization fit into your organization?
The document summarizes an IDC white paper on converged infrastructure. The key points are:
1) IT infrastructure has become highly complex over time, leading to rising management costs as organizations have had to integrate different systems. Server virtualization has helped contain hardware costs but not management overhead.
2) Converged infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking and management tools into a single system. This simplifies deployment and lowers management costs through automation.
3) Converged systems represent the natural evolution of IT infrastructure as different technologies gradually integrate over multiple technology cycles. Convergence enables more dynamic, efficient "private cloud" environments within organizations.
How Intelligent Operations Enables Proactive Data Center ManagementITOutcomes
This document discusses how intelligent operations with VMware vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management can enable proactive data center management and help IT transform into a strategic partner for businesses. It outlines three strategic imperatives for IT: 1) quickly and flexibly serve business needs, 2) ensure high performance and availability, and 3) act as a strategic partner rather than cost center. vSphere with Operations Management provides intelligent operations, consistent management, automation and control, and tangible results that help IT achieve these imperatives and transformation.
This document debunks several myths about software-defined infrastructure (SDI). It summarizes that SDI is not the same as virtualization alone, but rather is a full infrastructure ecosystem that includes virtualization. It also explains that SDI can improve security through custom policies based on workload parameters rather than network components. Additionally, SDI does not leave legacy infrastructure behind but rather incorporates both legacy and virtualized resources under one manageable system. SDI also does not replace hardware entirely but rather virtualizes hardware capabilities to improve flexibility and lower costs.
The cumulative effect of decades of IT infrastructure investment around a diverse set of technologies and processes has stifled innovation at organizations around the globe. Layer upon layer of complexity to accommodate a staggering array of applications has created hardened processes that make changes to systems difficult and cumbersome.
The data center impact of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security rlw03...Diego Alberto Tamayo
Introduction
The consumerization of IT continues to have a major impact
on business. Technology forces have emerged that are
challenging organizations’ ability to respond. Cloud computing,
mobility, social business, big data and analytics and IT security
technologies are evolving very rapidly, putting an organization’s
IT agility, speed and resilience to the test. As these technologies
mature and converge, they are demanding a total reexamination
of the underlying enterprise infrastructure: its strategy and
design, its operation and its management framework.
The document discusses how hybrid IT infrastructure solutions, which utilize a mix of colocated data centers, managed services, and cloud computing, allow organizations to balance IT agility demands with cost constraints. It notes that a recent survey found most companies will rely on a hybrid model for the next 5 years. The hybrid approach allows companies to select the right infrastructure type for each application based on factors like risk, cost, and agility needs. Colocation is often the initial step as it provides control and quick deployment, while managed services and cloud use will grow over time.
This document discusses the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for integrating operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems using a modern PI System. It notes that while OT systems have traditionally provided valuable operational data, barriers between OT and IT have prevented leveraging this data across the entire enterprise. The modern PI System can help overcome these barriers by unifying fragmented OT environments, enhancing data governance, and automating connections to IT systems and analytics platforms. This integration of OT and IT can generate benefits like improved bottom line, governance, and risk reduction by providing a more holistic view of enterprise performance.
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, increased staff productivity, reduced downtime, and accelerated application development cycles. [/SUMMARY]
This document discusses how standardization can help financial institutions become leaner, smarter, and more competitive. It outlines an 8-point strategy for standardizing business processes, consolidating applications and information, and simplifying infrastructure. This allows companies to free up capital spent on costly infrastructure and redirect it towards strategic initiatives. Standardization improves information sharing, flexibility, lowers risks, and reduces costs by eliminating redundant systems and fragmented data from acquisitions and decentralized decision making over time. The benefits of standardization include better competitive positioning, improved productivity, and a foundation for future growth.
Hu Yoshida's Point of View: Competing In An Always On WorldHitachi Vantara
The document discusses how businesses need to adapt to constant and rapid changes in technology by embracing a "continuous cloud infrastructure" and "business-defined IT" approach. This involves having an automated, scalable IT infrastructure that is software-defined, virtualized and optimized to meet changing business needs. A continuous cloud infrastructure provides increased agility, automation, security and reliability to help businesses innovate faster, improve productivity and gain a competitive advantage in an "always-on" world of data growth, new technologies and changing customer demands.
This whitepaper discusses how cloud adoption provides benefits beyond just financial return on investment (ROI). Moving to the cloud allows IT teams to focus less on managing infrastructure and more on innovation and strategic initiatives that can improve business operations. The cloud enables quicker application delivery and increased employee productivity, leading to greater business agility and competitive advantage over time. While cost savings are important, cloud computing allows for continuous business transformation through new ideas implemented by a more creative IT organization.
Ib Ms Vision For A Dynamic Infrastructuresimonarden
The document discusses IBM's vision for a Dynamic Infrastructure and what it means for CIOs. It outlines several issues driving the need for data center transformation, including rising costs and complexity that prevent quick innovation. It also explains how new technologies are driving exponential growth in data. IBM believes this calls for a recentralized approach to IT service delivery with more efficient computing that better aligns IT with business goals and allows organizations to take advantage of new opportunities.
How to Better Manage Your IT InfrastructureEdarat Group
1) Businesses are implementing infrastructure management strategies to keep their IT functioning effectively as business acceleration requires better management of information and resources.
2) For IT organizations, better infrastructure management results in high performance, seamless configuration, and strong security.
3) Non-IT companies can also benefit from effective infrastructure management through meeting business needs, ensuring operational efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and adopting new technologies.
Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation DashboardsFindWhitePapers
Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow.
Next generation dashboards provide concise yet comprehensive business intelligence to both executives and operational staff. They visualize data from multiple sources in an intuitive format, and allow users to interact with and explore the information. This helps users make faster, more informed decisions. Next generation dashboards also bridge gaps between IT and business users by empowering non-technical staff to build and customize dashboards aligned with business needs.
Digital Fuel- Achieving IT cost visibility-Id gresearch cio_study_1009yisbat
The document discusses the challenges organizations face in achieving visibility into their IT costs. It found that while having detailed cost visibility is important, over half of respondents were less than satisfied with their current level of visibility. The biggest challenges are a lack of an explicitly defined IT cost model and difficulties obtaining detailed cost breakdowns and mapping costs to specific services. Achieving true cost visibility requires new processes and tools to capture both direct and indirect costs associated with delivering various IT services.
Four major trends - mobile, social media, big data, and cloud computing - are driving significant changes in the IT industry according to IDC. These trends are creating demand for more agile and flexible IT infrastructure that can dynamically allocate resources and provide continuous access. This will require new infrastructure capabilities around automation, virtualization, and software-defined storage to accommodate massive data growth, meet performance requirements, and reduce costs. Storage infrastructure will need to support agility, massive scaling, high availability, and improved storage efficiency through technologies like flash storage and data deduplication to deliver value in this new environment.
- Organizations are increasingly adopting enterprise cloud strategies to enable digital transformation and remain competitive in the face of demands from customers, mobile workforces, and new technologies.
- Digital transformation requires flexible IT solutions and the ability to extract value from massive new data streams through business intelligence in order to empower employees, enhance customer experiences, and improve business processes.
- Successful digital strategies require cloud deployments that are tailored to an organization's specific needs and goals in order to deliver immediate value and support the organization as needs change over time.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
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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.
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Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210739508/IBM-System-x3200-M3
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210734237/A-Comparison-of-PowerVM-and-Vmware-Virtualization-Performance
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
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
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Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
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Things to Consider When Choosing a Website Developer for your Website | FODUUFODUU
Choosing the right website developer is crucial for your business. This article covers essential factors to consider, including experience, portfolio, technical skills, communication, pricing, reputation & reviews, cost and budget considerations and post-launch support. Make an informed decision to ensure your website meets your business goals.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
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Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
1. WHITE P APER
The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services
Sponsored by: IBM
Michelle Bailey Rob Brothers
Katherine Broderick
May 2011
IDC OPINION
www.idc.com
The next five years in IT will likely be some of the most exciting and demanding
for datacenter managers and the office of the CIO. In this post-recession period,
organizations will be setting in place strategies that will expand their core business
while mining for new market opportunities. For many, this business transformation will
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include new product development, mergers and acquisitions, geographic expansion,
cross-selling opportunities, and partnerships. Technology will be a critical enabler for
these new initiatives, and a diverse and efficient datacenter strategy will be essential.
While the emphasis has been on consolidation and cost reduction during the
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economic downturn, as IT organizations look to the future, success will be built on
streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. IT
organizations will be responsible for real IT transformation in the coming years and
not simply the cost reduction of the past. They will have to strike a balance between
integrating new applications and multiple infrastructure delivery models and
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continuing to support their already substantial IT portfolio.
The future datacenter will be a highly automated set of standardized infrastructure
where applications and data will be deployed and provisioned on systems and in sites
based on workload demand. New cloud-based technologies and methodologies will
expand the options for IT organizations to source hosting or outsourcing providers for
software, platforms, infrastructure, and datacenters at varying price points and
locations. The backdrop to all of these choices is the physical backbone of the
datacenter, otherwise known as facilities. Power and cooling will need to be flexible
enough to keep up with automated, virtualized, dynamic IT while keeping in mind
capacity limitations, efficiency, and budgets.
With these new demands being placed on IT and facilities, it is not surprising that in a
recent IDC survey of over 250 IT managers, more than one in five found that
their IT staff is not skilled enough to implement a private cloud. In another IDC survey
of over 400 IT decision makers, lack of in-house IT expertise is listed as a top
challenge to virtualization by over 22% of respondents. These two data points
indicate that for many IT organizations, the journey toward adding incremental value
to the business will require external help. In addition, the large number of forthcoming
sourcing options and technology decisions will challenge IT organizations to balance
their need to maintain control without inhibiting innovation. As time to market
becomes a differentiator in the economic recovery, speed of deployment must be
balanced against security, availability, and service levels across the IT organization.