The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance efficiency gains with flexibility to enable new initiatives. Datacenters of the future will require automation and standardized infrastructure that can adapt to changing workload demands. Many IT organizations currently lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and achieve this level of optimization, and may require external assistance to successfully transform their datacenters.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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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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We live in an increasingly social world, where advancements in
technology are changing how we buy, how we work and how
we connect with others. Expanding and overlapping social
networks are enabling individuals to express opinions, share
expertise with a greater audience and shape decision-making
processes on a global scale. Can an organization that chooses
to ignore the insights of employees, customers and business
partners expect to thrive?
Mobile technology is fueling economic growth in Africa, with annual GDP growth averaging 7% over the next 20 years. Nearly 90% of phones in Africa are mobile, and there will be 735 million mobile subscribers by 2012. Mobile money transfers in Africa are expected to exceed $200 billion in 2015, accounting for 18% of the continent's GDP. Bharti Airtel is working with IBM to deliver next-generation mobile services across 16 African countries, providing not just voice and data but digital services through a smarter mobile infrastructure. This is helping to improve communication, empower farmers and businesses, and make banking more accessible, connecting people to health information as well.
The document discusses using social media to build a company by creating a blog and using sites like Twitter to raise awareness as an opinion leader with knowledge. It recommends sites like Digg, Reddit, Newsvine and YouTube to place content and build traffic, and suggests monitoring Technorati and comments on those sites to understand public opinions on products. Finally, it proposes using networking tools like LinkedIn and Facebook to create business opportunities and find new employees.
This document provides a summary of major social media sites in 2011 and how they can be leveraged by companies for customer communication, brand exposure, traffic generation, and search engine optimization. Each site is rated as good, okay, or bad for these categories. Sites summarized include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube, Digg, and StumbleUpon.
McKinsey\'s fifth annual survey on the way organisations use social tools and technologies finds that they continue to seep into many organisations, transforming business processes and raising perforamnce.
Why are you paying for wasted energy in IT?
Energy costs continue to climb and yet up to a third of the money that companies spend on power could be wasted(1) owing to inefficient IT infrastructure. Power demands are predicted to outstrip supply in the next few years, so those costs won’t comedown. Energy regulations and carbon reduction targets are adding to the pressure. So why aren’t you taking a serious look at your IT energy use?
The document summarizes the findings of a survey of 110 cloud computing implementation projects conducted by IBM. Key findings include:
1) Primary motivations for cloud implementations were IT efficiencies, ease of use consumer interfaces, and new charging models, while security concerns, pricing strategies, complexity, lack of standardization, and unclear value propositions were biggest inhibitors.
2) Integrated vendor offerings and ongoing support were in high demand. Service design was the most important ITIL discipline.
3) Current cloud usage focused on development/test and non-critical workloads, but respondents expected to deploy clouds across all workloads in two years. There was a 30/70 split between public and private clouds currently.
This white paper discusses how cloud computing can drive value for enterprises by lowering IT costs and enabling innovation. Some key points:
1) Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable access to computing resources and enables a pay-per-use model that can significantly lower both capital and operating costs for IT compared to maintaining physical infrastructure.
2) Standardizing applications and infrastructure on cloud platforms further drives down costs through improved efficiency and reduced complexity.
3) In addition to cost savings, cloud also allows organizations to innovate faster, access new markets more easily, and optimize existing IT investments through an elastic, globally available environment.
The document summarizes the key findings of IBM's 2011 Global CMO Study, which involved interviews with over 1,700 CMOs from around the world. The study found that CMOs see four main challenges facing marketing: the explosion of data, social media, proliferation of new channels and devices, and shifting demographics. However, CMOs from high-performing companies address these challenges differently than others by focusing on customer intimacy, mining new digital data sources, and fostering relationships over just transactions. They also aim to develop a clear corporate character for their organization.
The document summarizes findings from a study of over 3,000 CIOs across 71 countries and 18 industries. It identifies four distinct "CIO Mandates" that CIOs operate under based on their organization's business needs and goals. The mandates are Expand, Leverage, Transform, and Pioneer. The summary describes the typical responsibilities and focus areas for CIOs working under each mandate. It also provides examples of initiatives and priorities for CIOs depending on their assigned mandate.
Help you innovate business processes to differentiate your enterprise
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Superb high level presentation of the capabilities of the IBM software portfolio. From information, collaboration, integration, optimisation to security, compliance and innovation.
The document summarizes IBM's business strategy and objectives over the past decade and outlines its roadmap for continued growth through 2015. Some key points are: IBM has achieved record earnings per share and cash flow since 2000 by shifting resources toward high-value areas. Its 2015 roadmap aims to generate $20 EPS, $100B in cash flow, and increase software/growth market revenue. IBM's investments in areas like analytics, cloud, and smarter systems are expected to drive $20B in additional revenue and position the company for continued leadership in the digital era.
IBM Watson Jeopardy! white paper which explains Watson’s workload optimised system design based on IBM DeepQA architecture and POWER7® processor-based servers
IBM offers a wide range of IT services to help organizations transform their businesses through new technologies. These services include infrastructure outsourcing, cloud computing, data center optimization, server and storage optimization, network optimization, communications and collaboration services, and mobile enterprise services. IBM's services are designed to help clients reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and drive business value through IT transformations.
White Paper conducted by an independent research firm of Technology Business Research. The paper highlights IBM\'s x86 servers have been rated No 1 by its clients in customer satisfaction survey based on quality and services for the last 5 consecutive quarters.
This document discusses how organizations can scale up their computing by making better use of existing infrastructure and reducing waste. It notes that most organizations only utilize 15% of their computing capacity on average. The document advocates assessing current IT systems to identify optimization opportunities like server virtualization, which can reduce servers by 50% and lower costs by over 30%. Reducing waste and improving efficiency of computing infrastructure can enable organizations to do more with less by cutting costs while boosting productivity and capacity.
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The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services
Sponsored by: IBM
Michelle Bailey Rob Brothers
Katherine Broderick
May 2011
IDC OPINION
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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.