1) SMBs can reduce IT costs by consolidating and virtualizing servers to increase hardware utilization and staff productivity, simplify disaster recovery, and reduce real estate and power costs.
2) Old or underutilized hardware freed up through server consolidation can be repurposed for testing, disaster recovery sites, or additional application hosting capacity.
3) Regular audits of software licenses can eliminate unused or redundant applications to reduce software costs.
4) Automating labor-intensive IT processes can reduce labor costs and human errors.
5) Outsourcing IT solutions to managed service providers can reduce costs while ensuring solutions are well-designed, implemented and maintained.
1) The document describes IBM's Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure on the IBM Cloud, which provides virtual server instances that customers can use to help reduce costs, increase business agility, and improve security.
2) It allows customers to quickly provision virtual servers on demand and only pay for resources when needed, helping reduce capital and operational expenses compared to owning physical infrastructure.
3) Customers can choose from various operating system and software images and have tools to automate server provisioning, helping speed application development and deployment cycles.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Constructive Disruption with Cloud TechnologiesIntergen
What is cloud computing and what does it mean for your business today?
Microsoft New Zealand will share insights into cloud computing including:
• Beyond the hype - what really is cloud computing?
• The business case for cloud
• Showcases of what cloud computing is doing for New Zealand companies
• Economics of cloud computing and cost considerations
• Implementation tips and recommendations to get started
• Demonstration of Microsoft’s leading cloud productivity suite – Office365
Learn about Microsoft Office365 - a set of cloud-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendars from virtually anywhere, on almost any device. Office 365 brings together our best communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service, for a low flexible monthly subscription. And we’ll show you this works and how to assess whether or not cloud computing makes sense for your organisation and what it takes to get there.
IBM offers server optimization and integration services to help companies reduce complexity in their server environments through a server consolidation efficiency study. The study helps define how to lower total IT costs, identifies opportunities to improve infrastructure flexibility, and supports moving forward with an optimization project. It creates a server strategy and roadmap to prepare for future needs while lowering hardware, maintenance, support and energy costs.
IT Cost Management software provides visibility into the total costs of server ownership. It identifies which business units have high server utilization and costs, where overall server costs are over budget and why, and the right server configurations to optimize utilization, capacity and costs. It delivers metrics to recommend cost-effective configurations, report on actual server usage, reduce service levels for servers with high costs but low usage, and reduce support costs. The software establishes cost-effective server offerings and can begin saving an organization money within weeks by identifying cost savings opportunities through server virtualization, eliminating underutilized capacity, and optimizing server usage.
Virtualising your mission-critical applicationsguest24ab95c
1) The document outlines seven key things that must be considered for successful virtualization of mission-critical applications. These include aligning projects with business goals, creating a full inventory, monitoring pre-virtualization performance, thinking beyond just consolidation, right-sizing virtual resources, decoupling hypervisors from management tools, and monitoring the end-user experience.
2) It emphasizes the importance of understanding current infrastructure, workloads, and licensing before virtualizing. Performance monitoring of applications pre-virtualization can identify suitable candidates.
3) The document recommends using third-party management tools that provide a unified view of both physical and virtual environments and can monitor from an end-user perspective across systems.
The document discusses server virtualization and its benefits. It promotes virtualizing servers to reduce costs through server consolidation, improve resource utilization, simplify management, and increase availability. The document provides tips for planning a successful virtualization project such as establishing goals, choosing the right tools, testing conversions, and managing virtual machines ongoing. It also introduces CDW's server virtualization solutions and services.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources like servers and applications without long term commitments. It allows users to access services from any device, and pay only for what they use. Moving systems and applications to the cloud can provide benefits like flexibility, scalability, lower costs, increased productivity and mobility.
Organizations are looking to cloud computing solutions to improve the flexibility of their IT. But in today’s marketplace you still need to control operating expense, improve performance and maintain reliability. You need a cloud infrastructure solution that can help you manage costs and risk.
As information technology evolves, your data center faces a range of pressures from growing complexity. Energy usage and costs are rising; keeping your systems reliable is becoming more difficult; managing the whole system is time-consuming and expensive. You need your IT environment to be simple to manage, responsive to changing needs and cost effective.
1) The document describes IBM's Enterprise virtual machine infrastructure on the IBM Cloud, which provides virtual server instances that customers can use to help reduce costs, increase business agility, and improve security.
2) It allows customers to quickly provision virtual servers on demand and only pay for resources when needed, helping reduce capital and operational expenses compared to owning physical infrastructure.
3) Customers can choose from various operating system and software images and have tools to automate server provisioning, helping speed application development and deployment cycles.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Constructive Disruption with Cloud TechnologiesIntergen
What is cloud computing and what does it mean for your business today?
Microsoft New Zealand will share insights into cloud computing including:
• Beyond the hype - what really is cloud computing?
• The business case for cloud
• Showcases of what cloud computing is doing for New Zealand companies
• Economics of cloud computing and cost considerations
• Implementation tips and recommendations to get started
• Demonstration of Microsoft’s leading cloud productivity suite – Office365
Learn about Microsoft Office365 - a set of cloud-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendars from virtually anywhere, on almost any device. Office 365 brings together our best communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service, for a low flexible monthly subscription. And we’ll show you this works and how to assess whether or not cloud computing makes sense for your organisation and what it takes to get there.
IBM offers server optimization and integration services to help companies reduce complexity in their server environments through a server consolidation efficiency study. The study helps define how to lower total IT costs, identifies opportunities to improve infrastructure flexibility, and supports moving forward with an optimization project. It creates a server strategy and roadmap to prepare for future needs while lowering hardware, maintenance, support and energy costs.
IT Cost Management software provides visibility into the total costs of server ownership. It identifies which business units have high server utilization and costs, where overall server costs are over budget and why, and the right server configurations to optimize utilization, capacity and costs. It delivers metrics to recommend cost-effective configurations, report on actual server usage, reduce service levels for servers with high costs but low usage, and reduce support costs. The software establishes cost-effective server offerings and can begin saving an organization money within weeks by identifying cost savings opportunities through server virtualization, eliminating underutilized capacity, and optimizing server usage.
Virtualising your mission-critical applicationsguest24ab95c
1) The document outlines seven key things that must be considered for successful virtualization of mission-critical applications. These include aligning projects with business goals, creating a full inventory, monitoring pre-virtualization performance, thinking beyond just consolidation, right-sizing virtual resources, decoupling hypervisors from management tools, and monitoring the end-user experience.
2) It emphasizes the importance of understanding current infrastructure, workloads, and licensing before virtualizing. Performance monitoring of applications pre-virtualization can identify suitable candidates.
3) The document recommends using third-party management tools that provide a unified view of both physical and virtual environments and can monitor from an end-user perspective across systems.
The document discusses server virtualization and its benefits. It promotes virtualizing servers to reduce costs through server consolidation, improve resource utilization, simplify management, and increase availability. The document provides tips for planning a successful virtualization project such as establishing goals, choosing the right tools, testing conversions, and managing virtual machines ongoing. It also introduces CDW's server virtualization solutions and services.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources like servers and applications without long term commitments. It allows users to access services from any device, and pay only for what they use. Moving systems and applications to the cloud can provide benefits like flexibility, scalability, lower costs, increased productivity and mobility.
Organizations are looking to cloud computing solutions to improve the flexibility of their IT. But in today’s marketplace you still need to control operating expense, improve performance and maintain reliability. You need a cloud infrastructure solution that can help you manage costs and risk.
As information technology evolves, your data center faces a range of pressures from growing complexity. Energy usage and costs are rising; keeping your systems reliable is becoming more difficult; managing the whole system is time-consuming and expensive. You need your IT environment to be simple to manage, responsive to changing needs and cost effective.
Transforming Your Business Through Cloud ComputingAMD
The document discusses how AMD transformed its business through cloud computing. It implemented a private cloud to centralize its data centers, provide connectivity tools for users, and gain agility. AMD saw significant performance and economic benefits from its cloud, including supporting thousands of engineers, executing millions of tasks per month, and achieving high resource utilization. Virtualization was a key part of AMD's cloud strategy and it virtualized over 75% of servers, averaging 10 virtual servers per physical server.
The document discusses the business case for virtualization using an HP and VMware solution. It outlines how virtualization can help reduce capital costs through server hardware consolidation and savings on storage, network hardware, and data center space. Virtualization also provides operational cost savings through reduced power and cooling costs, lower management costs from faster server provisioning, and reduced costs associated with disaster recovery and unplanned downtime. The document provides an example scenario showing how a company could realize over 60% savings over 3 years by consolidating 100 physical servers onto 13 physical servers using virtualization.
Cervalis offers managed hosting services that take over the day-to-day management of a company's IT infrastructure so they can focus on their core business. As a managed hosting provider, Cervalis assumes responsibility for administration, management, hardware, software, and support of a scalable, high-availability hosting environment. Cervalis' managed hosting solutions are tailored to each business and aim to speed time to market while improving reliability, availability, and reducing costs compared to in-house hosting.
Gateway TechnoLabs provides application development and IT outsourcing services to reduce clients' costs and improve productivity. With over 12 years of experience and 1000+ IT professionals, Gateway offers remote infrastructure management (RIM) to design, deploy, manage, and maintain clients' IT infrastructure globally. Gateway's RIM division aims to be an end-to-end provider of outsourced IT infrastructure management services covering servers, networks, security, desktops and more through flexible pricing models and global delivery.
InTechnology's Virtual Server Hosting service allows customers to create virtual server resources on demand within their secure cloud infrastructure. This eliminates the need for expensive on-premise hardware and allows customers to leverage InTechnology's storage, network, and computing resources more flexibly and cost-effectively. The service provides scalable capacity, high availability, improved responsiveness for applications, and enhanced business continuity through replication to a secondary data center.
This document discusses virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions using IBM Flex System and virtualization partners VMware and Citrix. It provides an overview of key benefits of VDI such as simplified management, increased security and mobility. The document also presents IBM's solution approach, including reference architectures for deploying VDI on Flex System with various hardware configurations depending on the number of users. IBM services are available to help plan and deploy an optimized VDI environment.
Informix 11.7 delivers smarter data management through three key capabilities:
1) Informix Flexible Grid provides high availability, scalability and workload management.
2) The Informix Warehouse Accelerator delivers unprecedented query response times.
3) Informix Genero enables faster development of mobile and cloud applications.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
Broadview Networks offers cloud computing services that allow businesses to:
- Deliver a corporate desktop from anywhere in minutes while maintaining control
- Outsource selected functions to a scalable cloud environment
- Publish and manage business applications with few mouse clicks
Cloud computing provides benefits like mobility, lower costs, disaster avoidance and increased security compared to traditional on-premise IT systems. Broadview can customize a cloud strategy and services to meet specific business needs.
This document discusses how IBM can help organizations strengthen business continuity and resiliency through cloud computing services. It begins by outlining the benefits of cloud computing, such as scalability, cost savings, and simplified IT management. It then describes IBM's information protection services which use a cloud-based model to provide on-demand data protection, email management, and data recovery capabilities. These services aim to help organizations reduce costs while improving availability, managing growing data volumes, and ensuring compliance. The document argues that a cloud-based strategy can help businesses weather disruptions and adapt quickly to changes through dynamic, globally accessible IT resources delivered as a service.
- CtrlS is the fastest growing company in the growth category, featuring in the top 10. It has designed a highly efficient data center with a PUE of just 1.42, one of the most power efficient in the country.
- The data center features redundant electric power sources, a WAR room, customer office space, and typical floor plans. It provides on-demand disaster recovery services using cloud, virtualization, and backup solutions to reduce CAPEX and offer unmatched flexibility with pay-as-you-use pricing.
- CtrlS claims to deliver up to 40% savings on infrastructure costs through its 600+ worldwide implementations and advantages such as no large capital outlays or long term contracts, security
This document discusses intelligent workload management for virtualized infrastructures. It notes that determining what workloads to run where and when is important to assure application performance efficiently utilizing infrastructure. Traditional management tools are reactive rather than preventative. VMTurbo Operations Manager provides intelligent workload management through an economic scheduling engine that abstracts infrastructure as a marketplace and drives automated actions to maintain optimal performance.
Hyper-convergence – The only way to the software-defined data center? - Gerno...Fujitsu Middle East
The document discusses hyper-converged infrastructures and their benefits and use cases compared to traditional data center architectures. Hyper-converged infrastructures integrate compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources into commodity x86 servers to improve scalability, flexibility and efficiency. However, use cases matter and both hyper-converged and traditional architectures may be suitable depending on the workload requirements. Fujitsu's PRIMEFLEX integrated systems provide hyper-converged and converged solutions to help customers select the optimal approach for their needs.
Data Center Operational Efficiency RoundtableHerb Hernandez
Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
Integrating Private Cloud into Your Enterprise SessionMelissa Maheux
This document discusses strategies for integrating private cloud into an enterprise. It recommends a 3 step approach: 1) Perform an IT health check, 2) Adopt new IBM offerings to enhance the private cloud, and 3) Use cloud terminology to increase adoption. Implementing a hybrid cloud model with SoftLayer is presented as an effective way to build a private cloud infrastructure while achieving benefits of elastic scaling, faster time to value, and resiliency. Customer examples are provided that demonstrate cost savings through hybrid cloud solutions.
Glassbeam moved their SaaS application from hosted physical servers to virtual servers on OpSource Cloud to improve flexibility and lower costs. This allowed Glassbeam to dynamically scale resources up and down quickly instead of waiting weeks to commission new physical servers. Glassbeam now only pays for cloud resources when needed, reducing infrastructure costs dramatically while maintaining excellent support from OpSource.
It infrastructure cost reduction vision v5 customerddeschenes99
1) The document discusses reducing IT infrastructure management costs through new approaches to service delivery such as externalizing more functions to managed service providers and cloud computing.
2) It provides an overview of the traditional IT environment versus cloud environments and examples of workloads that are good candidates for different cloud deployment models.
3) IBM's cloud and managed services offerings are presented including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and specific application services for areas like SAP, mobile, and security that can be delivered using cloud technologies.
Pitch template by DealFlowFinder (how to create a pitch)David Espitallier
This document provides tips for creating an effective pitch presentation to raise funds. It recommends including 10-12 slides that cover: 1) company name and logo, tagline, and quote; 2) vision and problem to be solved; 3) product description and market details; 4) competitors; 5) timing and opportunity; 6) traction and customers; 7) business model; 8) team; 9) summary; 10) fundraising need and budget; and 11) contact information. The key is to be concise, highlight the vision, product, market opportunity, and team's ability to execute on the vision.
Transforming Your Business Through Cloud ComputingAMD
The document discusses how AMD transformed its business through cloud computing. It implemented a private cloud to centralize its data centers, provide connectivity tools for users, and gain agility. AMD saw significant performance and economic benefits from its cloud, including supporting thousands of engineers, executing millions of tasks per month, and achieving high resource utilization. Virtualization was a key part of AMD's cloud strategy and it virtualized over 75% of servers, averaging 10 virtual servers per physical server.
The document discusses the business case for virtualization using an HP and VMware solution. It outlines how virtualization can help reduce capital costs through server hardware consolidation and savings on storage, network hardware, and data center space. Virtualization also provides operational cost savings through reduced power and cooling costs, lower management costs from faster server provisioning, and reduced costs associated with disaster recovery and unplanned downtime. The document provides an example scenario showing how a company could realize over 60% savings over 3 years by consolidating 100 physical servers onto 13 physical servers using virtualization.
Cervalis offers managed hosting services that take over the day-to-day management of a company's IT infrastructure so they can focus on their core business. As a managed hosting provider, Cervalis assumes responsibility for administration, management, hardware, software, and support of a scalable, high-availability hosting environment. Cervalis' managed hosting solutions are tailored to each business and aim to speed time to market while improving reliability, availability, and reducing costs compared to in-house hosting.
Gateway TechnoLabs provides application development and IT outsourcing services to reduce clients' costs and improve productivity. With over 12 years of experience and 1000+ IT professionals, Gateway offers remote infrastructure management (RIM) to design, deploy, manage, and maintain clients' IT infrastructure globally. Gateway's RIM division aims to be an end-to-end provider of outsourced IT infrastructure management services covering servers, networks, security, desktops and more through flexible pricing models and global delivery.
InTechnology's Virtual Server Hosting service allows customers to create virtual server resources on demand within their secure cloud infrastructure. This eliminates the need for expensive on-premise hardware and allows customers to leverage InTechnology's storage, network, and computing resources more flexibly and cost-effectively. The service provides scalable capacity, high availability, improved responsiveness for applications, and enhanced business continuity through replication to a secondary data center.
This document discusses virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions using IBM Flex System and virtualization partners VMware and Citrix. It provides an overview of key benefits of VDI such as simplified management, increased security and mobility. The document also presents IBM's solution approach, including reference architectures for deploying VDI on Flex System with various hardware configurations depending on the number of users. IBM services are available to help plan and deploy an optimized VDI environment.
Informix 11.7 delivers smarter data management through three key capabilities:
1) Informix Flexible Grid provides high availability, scalability and workload management.
2) The Informix Warehouse Accelerator delivers unprecedented query response times.
3) Informix Genero enables faster development of mobile and cloud applications.
The IBM zEnterprise platform delivers an integrated approach that reaches across platforms to provide intelligent support on a single system for business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and industry-specific core applications
Broadview Networks offers cloud computing services that allow businesses to:
- Deliver a corporate desktop from anywhere in minutes while maintaining control
- Outsource selected functions to a scalable cloud environment
- Publish and manage business applications with few mouse clicks
Cloud computing provides benefits like mobility, lower costs, disaster avoidance and increased security compared to traditional on-premise IT systems. Broadview can customize a cloud strategy and services to meet specific business needs.
This document discusses how IBM can help organizations strengthen business continuity and resiliency through cloud computing services. It begins by outlining the benefits of cloud computing, such as scalability, cost savings, and simplified IT management. It then describes IBM's information protection services which use a cloud-based model to provide on-demand data protection, email management, and data recovery capabilities. These services aim to help organizations reduce costs while improving availability, managing growing data volumes, and ensuring compliance. The document argues that a cloud-based strategy can help businesses weather disruptions and adapt quickly to changes through dynamic, globally accessible IT resources delivered as a service.
- CtrlS is the fastest growing company in the growth category, featuring in the top 10. It has designed a highly efficient data center with a PUE of just 1.42, one of the most power efficient in the country.
- The data center features redundant electric power sources, a WAR room, customer office space, and typical floor plans. It provides on-demand disaster recovery services using cloud, virtualization, and backup solutions to reduce CAPEX and offer unmatched flexibility with pay-as-you-use pricing.
- CtrlS claims to deliver up to 40% savings on infrastructure costs through its 600+ worldwide implementations and advantages such as no large capital outlays or long term contracts, security
This document discusses intelligent workload management for virtualized infrastructures. It notes that determining what workloads to run where and when is important to assure application performance efficiently utilizing infrastructure. Traditional management tools are reactive rather than preventative. VMTurbo Operations Manager provides intelligent workload management through an economic scheduling engine that abstracts infrastructure as a marketplace and drives automated actions to maintain optimal performance.
Hyper-convergence – The only way to the software-defined data center? - Gerno...Fujitsu Middle East
The document discusses hyper-converged infrastructures and their benefits and use cases compared to traditional data center architectures. Hyper-converged infrastructures integrate compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources into commodity x86 servers to improve scalability, flexibility and efficiency. However, use cases matter and both hyper-converged and traditional architectures may be suitable depending on the workload requirements. Fujitsu's PRIMEFLEX integrated systems provide hyper-converged and converged solutions to help customers select the optimal approach for their needs.
Data Center Operational Efficiency RoundtableHerb Hernandez
Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
Integrating Private Cloud into Your Enterprise SessionMelissa Maheux
This document discusses strategies for integrating private cloud into an enterprise. It recommends a 3 step approach: 1) Perform an IT health check, 2) Adopt new IBM offerings to enhance the private cloud, and 3) Use cloud terminology to increase adoption. Implementing a hybrid cloud model with SoftLayer is presented as an effective way to build a private cloud infrastructure while achieving benefits of elastic scaling, faster time to value, and resiliency. Customer examples are provided that demonstrate cost savings through hybrid cloud solutions.
Glassbeam moved their SaaS application from hosted physical servers to virtual servers on OpSource Cloud to improve flexibility and lower costs. This allowed Glassbeam to dynamically scale resources up and down quickly instead of waiting weeks to commission new physical servers. Glassbeam now only pays for cloud resources when needed, reducing infrastructure costs dramatically while maintaining excellent support from OpSource.
It infrastructure cost reduction vision v5 customerddeschenes99
1) The document discusses reducing IT infrastructure management costs through new approaches to service delivery such as externalizing more functions to managed service providers and cloud computing.
2) It provides an overview of the traditional IT environment versus cloud environments and examples of workloads that are good candidates for different cloud deployment models.
3) IBM's cloud and managed services offerings are presented including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and specific application services for areas like SAP, mobile, and security that can be delivered using cloud technologies.
Pitch template by DealFlowFinder (how to create a pitch)David Espitallier
This document provides tips for creating an effective pitch presentation to raise funds. It recommends including 10-12 slides that cover: 1) company name and logo, tagline, and quote; 2) vision and problem to be solved; 3) product description and market details; 4) competitors; 5) timing and opportunity; 6) traction and customers; 7) business model; 8) team; 9) summary; 10) fundraising need and budget; and 11) contact information. The key is to be concise, highlight the vision, product, market opportunity, and team's ability to execute on the vision.
The document provides a color-coded key for different staffing statuses of report lists from February 2009. The colors indicate whether lists are staffed and on track, staffed but need replacement, taken down at late notice but still staffed, replaced at late notice, or not allocated/funded. One list status means it was taken down appropriately with over two weeks notice and staff were reallocated.
Germt Gringhuis has experience leading technical projects, managing incidents, and coordinating change and problem management. He has strong communication skills, can troubleshoot issues, and understands how to translate business needs into technical solutions. His education includes an MBO in Informatics and he aspires to be a technical process lead focusing on ITIL service management.
TXU Electric Delivery invested heavily in transmission and distribution infrastructure from 2003 to 2006, achieving top quartile reliability benchmarks. It has a large customer base and infrastructure in a high growth region. TXU aims to provide the lowest costs through efficient operations and maintenance expenses and monthly customer charges. It is undertaking major transmission upgrades to reduce grid congestion and support reliability in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. These initiatives have improved TXU's financial performance with growing EPS and EBITDA from 2003 to 2005 estimates.
تناولنا في آخر الحلقات "مثيرات الابتكار"، ونبدأ هذه الحلقات تناول "طرق الابتكار" التي تعتبر لب البحث في قضية الابتكار:
1 الاقتداء:
القدوة هو من تميز عن الآخرين بأخلاقه أو بملكاته الأدبية أو العلمية أو الشرعية، وذلك التميز ناشئ من ممارسة عميقة في المجال الذي تميز فيه، أو ربَّى نفسه عليه، وبالتالي فهي مجموعة من الخبرات الأخلاقية أو العلمية أو الشرعية، فالمقتدي بمثل هؤلاء يختصر الكثير من الوقت والجهد، ويصل إلى الهدف بأقصر طريق، ولكن عليه ألا يكون عبداً لذلك المقتدى به، يأخذ منه الصواب والخطأ، بل يأخذ صوابه، ويتجنب أخطاءه، ويحذر ألا يتعصب له في كل شيء، بل يتخذه مساعداً ومعيناً على بداية الطريق في عالم الابتكار بمعرفة ودراسة طرق التفكير واتخاذ القرار.
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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 .
Finding The Right Cloud Solution Wp111455Erik Ginalick
This document discusses finding the right cloud solution for businesses' needs. It defines cloud computing as having four categories: Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Managed Services. Good cloud solutions give small and medium businesses access to technology capabilities without large upfront costs. They can pay for the level of service needed and easily upgrade resources. This allows SMBs to streamline operations and scale in a cost effective manner.
Cloud computing allows organizations to access computing resources on an elastic, pay-per-use basis rather than investing in their own IT infrastructure. Adopting cloud computing can improve efficiency by providing the exact capacity needed, reducing unused capacity from 85% to as low as 15%, and lowering costs such as support costs by 60% and IT labor costs by 50%. IBM can help organizations implement private or community clouds to realize these benefits through optimized infrastructure and pay-for-use pricing models.
Why buy a plane when you can just reserve a seat on a flight?rstacey51
Would you buy a plane to fly to a few places in the coming year? In the same way, why would you invest in a traditional IT model when you could be running a flexible, fully-integrated cloud infrastructure?
Your company’s computing capacity is only as valuable as it is efficient and cost effective. Its ultimate value is whether or not it enables your business to do more with less.
Download this white paper from IBM.
The document presents IBM's framework of four priorities for organizations to enhance their virtualized infrastructure and maximize business value:
1) Consolidate resources by virtualizing servers to increase utilization and reduce costs.
2) Manage workloads with centralized tools to track status, perform tasks, and ensure service level agreements are met.
3) Automate processes like provisioning and disaster recovery to improve efficiency, speed, and consistency of responses.
4) Optimize service delivery by enabling business users to directly create new services over the web using virtual infrastructure like cloud computing.
Learn about Success stories and recommendations from IBM clients and find out how organizations are taking bold, new approaches to dramatically improve economics and innovation through IT efficiency.
For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
Transforming Your Business Management with Cloud ComputingInnoTech
This document discusses how cloud computing can transform business management. It begins by defining cloud computing and outlining the key drivers, benefits, and risks of adopting cloud solutions. It then examines cloud computing trends and how to assess cloud solutions. The document provides an overview of different cloud deployment models (public, private, hybrid) and service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). It argues that cloud computing enables benefits like streamlining processes, lowering costs, and supporting distributed organizations. However, security, availability, and regulatory compliance present challenges that must be addressed when evaluating cloud providers.
The document discusses the shift in the IT industry towards cloud computing. It notes that cloud computing represents a new deployment option that offers flexible consumption of computing resources and storage on demand. While cloud computing promises potential cost savings and business agility, organizations need to carefully assess which workloads and applications are suitable for a cloud environment versus maintaining existing on-premises infrastructure. A hybrid approach that combines on-premises systems with cloud-based services may provide the optimal solution for most businesses.
Cloud hosting services allow for scaling up computing resources on demand through a pay-as-you-go model. This provides flexibility and cost savings compared to traditional hosting. Cloud hosting connects servers that can dynamically allocate resources, improving scalability for fluctuating traffic and data loads. It also reduces upfront infrastructure costs and allows companies to focus resources on their core business instead of IT maintenance.
The speed and productivity benefits of high-performance cloud computing are well documented. For numerically large engineering simulations, a flexible cloud environment typically delivers faster run times, allowing engineers to solve complex problems quickly ― and launch products more rapidly. The world's leading product development teams are already leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) resources, yet many of them remain uncertain about the costs of replacing on-premises hardware and software with cloud hosting.
To clear up the confusion and demonstrate that the cloud delivers a total cost of ownership that is lower than on-premises computing, Ansys has published “A Break in the Clouds: The Cost Benefits of Ansys Cloud.” The white paper illustrates how Ansys Cloud delivers all the speed and efficiency that customers expect from HPC in the cloud ― along with Ansys’ software ― at a cost lower than an on-premises approach.
The Cloud Computing model is replacing the traditional IT model for many organizations that have not been able to keep up with the tremendous rate at which technology is changing, the challenges of disparate IT systems inherited through acquisitions and mergers, and decreasing internal resources available for IT commitment.
Cloud Computing models range from public cloud services that bill companies for access to IT infrastructure; the private cloud provider that hosts resources for the sole use of its own organization; dedicated external hosting to non-shared resources; and hybrid hosting, a mixed solution of cloud computing and dedicated hosting.
Schneider Electric consulting experts use their Cloud Assessment Checklist to help potential clients identify the computer services needs that best meet their IT challenges. It is not uncommon to find that an organization would optimize operation with a hybrid hosting solution in which a secure, single-tenant database would be stored with a dedicated host and the front-end would be hosted in the public cloud. Similarly, cloud bursting functionality enables the organization to automatically deploy new applications within the public cloud as needed. Such hybrid hosting models allow scaling capability to accommodate an increase in the number of users in the organization and meet peak traffic demand.
Careful examination of business and security characteristics can determine the proper cloud and hosting model that meets the needs of any particular enterprise and, as a result, help increase the organization’s IT capabilities and productivity while adding value to the business.
Cloud Computing technology is certainly gaining worldwide acceptance rapidly and SME is one of the sector which has derived maximum benefit out of it. Due to many factors as discussed in this presentation cloud computing has become a necessity now a days for this small scale business houses.
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This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
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This document discusses serverless computing as an evolution of cloud computing that provides significant benefits for businesses. With serverless architectures, companies can develop applications without having to manage underlying infrastructure. This reduces costs and speeds development and deployment. However, serverless computing also presents some risks like loss of control over infrastructure and potential vendor lock-in. Overall, the document argues that serverless computing offers compelling opportunities for today's digital enterprises to focus on their core business.
1. Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT center, SMBs also benefit from reductions in real estate, power
and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs –
Budgets savings are estimated at $500-600 per server per year.
• Facilitating the use of low-cost storage. Native support for iSCSI
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always SAN and NAS storage enables SMBs to virtualize infrastructure
looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs, without using low-cost storage solutions at branch offices and other
affecting business output or future growth. There are the distributed locations.
customary cost-cutting strategies – including canceling or
postponing expensive projects or reducing headcount – but
#2. Repurpose or Retire Old or Underutilized Hardware
smart businesses are looking at other options that reduce
costs today and in the future. The following list contains Once an organization realizes the freedom of not being tied to one
some well known cost savings opportunities – and a few server for every application, the question then becomes what to do
you may not have explored yet! with all the servers that are freed up through consolidation. Cost
savings result from retiring some of the servers, but the real upside
comes when these underutilized servers are reallocated to drive
#1. Consolidate and Virtualize Your Servers
activities that would have normally been crossed off the list for lack
Server consolidation and virtualization solutions present the of budget. Examples include building out pre-production testing
most effective path to IT cost savings. Virtualization can help areas, hardware for replicated sites as part of a disaster recovery
SMBs save a substantial amount of time and money while plan, or extra capacity for hosting data-intensive applications.
achieving more with the computing resources they already
own. When servers are consolidated, organizations realize
#3. Audit All Software Licenses
many benefits, including:
IT departments should keep a current inventory of all software
• Increased infrastructure utilization: Virtualization
assets. Audits will reveal any software that is no longer or seldom
makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource
used. SMBs may find that they are paying licensing fees on
utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and
applications they no longer need. By eliminating redundancy
breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.
within the software portfolio, companies can consolidate their
SMBs can achieve significant cost savings by reducing the
software applications to dramatically reduce development, support
need to purchase additional hardware.
and maintenance outlays.
• Improved levels of security: By separating the OS and
applications from the server hardware and encapsulating
#4. Automate Labor-Intensive Processes
and isolating it, viruses and other security threats that have
an impact on one OS or application won’t affect the others. To contain labor costs, IT staff should automate all business
The smaller overall footprint of the hypervisor reduces the processes wherever and whenever possible. For example,
surface area open to attack. implementing a sales force or customer service automation
solution can dramatically reduce help-desk calls. By employing
• Increased the output of IT staff: By simplifying server
tools that automate processes, SMBs can reduce hands-on labor
provisioning, IT staff spends less time building servers and
costs and eliminate human error. Companies should attempt to
more time building robust IT strategies that protect and
minimize the number of IT personnel that must perform mundane
optimize the business.
tasks like server provisioning, and strive for a 24x7, always-on
• Affordable disaster recovery: By consolidating the
environment that is automatically monitored, run and controlled
number of servers, SMBs can deploy excess capacity to
remotely.
build a replication site – an additional facility that leverages
hardware freed by virtualizing the infrastructure– without
#5. Consider Service Providers/Outsourcing
incurring the costs of purchasing additional servers.
Another cost savings option for SMBs is outsourcing. Many
• Increased application availability and improved
technology solutions can be better and less expensively handled
business continuity. Using VMware virtualization, SMBs
by a managed service provider. Service providers can design,
can eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly
implement and maintain the technology solution. They offer the
from unplanned outages, and have the ability to securely
option of hosting the equipment on their premises or supporting
backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no
and maintaining the solution at the SMB’s site. As with leasing, this
service interruption.
arrangement enables SMBs to conserve precious cash reserves and
• Reduced power, cooling and space costs: By reducing
provides a more predictable line-item expense.
the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data