Monday - April 27, 2009
The concept of five nines availability has its roots in server deployment. That standard demands that the IT department or the service provider hired by an enterprise deliver access to applications and data 99.999 percent of the time. Even with today's migration to cloud storage and SaaS product delivery, much can happen to extend downtime to more than the remaining 5.26 minutes of every year. Is that small window of downtime a pie in the sky for small and medium-sized businesses, whether or not they rely on cloud computing?
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Wednesday - April 15, 2009
Whether server, storage or virtual, migrations have never been easy. The difficulty has always been the downtime required to move physical or virtual workloads from one platform to another. Virtualization technology from VMware VMotion to Microsoft Hyper-V live migration has significantly helped because they can move live workloads between virtual infrastructures, greatly reducing the impact to production systems.
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Tuesday - March 31, 2009
Small- to medium-sized enterprises require that inventory, customer relationship management, sales and accounting applications be available beyond the LAN via the Internet. Local employees, telecommuters, business partners and customers must have unhindered access to critical applications or a company risks adversely affecting productivity and profitability.
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Monday - March 23, 2009
Talk is cheap when it comes to going green. It's one thing for IT managers to remind a company's workers to throttle back on wasteful energy use now and then and recycle old equipment effectively; it's quite another to implement real energy-saving procedures. More times than not, companies do more talking about being green than actually working to greenify their operations.
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Thursday - March 19, 2009
As organizations are reducing their budgets due to the current economic climate, they are looking to maximize their return on investment, and a recent Aberdeen Group study shows that technology solutions that would allow these organizations to experience improvements in end-user experience without adding more bandwidth capacity would resonate with their needs.
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Thursday - March 5, 2009
As mobile services become increasingly complicated and businesses look to find extra money, there is a technological solution that can offer companies peace-of-mind. The solution is known simply as wireless expense management, which has allowed some companies to save upwards of $5 million in their yearly wireless expenses by making wireless bills less cumbersome.
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Wednesday - March 4, 2009
Many large enterprises still run critical applications on legacy Linux and Unix platforms. Much like the fabled Energizer Bunny, these old computing OSes keep going and going and going. Some of these are not even in production any more. Upgrading these systems is no simple matter, partly because the organizations using them cannot simply turn off servers containing customer or financial data.
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Wednesday - February 25, 2009
Though "everyone knows" the threat and consequences of insider attacks, it was still shocking to read the headlines that a former Unix engineer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae was charged in federal court with allegedly planting a logic bomb that would have effectively shut down all 4,000 servers at Fannie.
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Thursday - February 19, 2009
As the handheld mobile device has evolved from pager to cell phone to smartphone to mobile computing asset, enterprise mobility has become increasingly vital to conducting tactical, operational, and strategic business transactions. On top of this, the growth in enterprise mobile adoption, combined with increased device complexity, demands greater IT management and support.
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Tuesday - February 17, 2009
Working hard at being inefficient is not a path to success. Sometimes the difference between success and failure is having the courage to walk away from the "busy work" and take the steps to make that process better. It's a lesson that we in IT -- and particularly in security -- all too often fail to heed.
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Sunday - February 1, 2009
When large businesses need to change fast, the IT systems need to do more than keep up with change -- they need to manage, define and secure it. IT repositories are now effectively orchestrating multiple enterprise systems of record that must quickly operate together as result of massive mergers and acquisitions.
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