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Hawaii Pacific Health – Data Center Transformation (download success story)

CIO magazine posted an article about “ Five Lessons for Consolidating Data Centers At Merger Time ”. It follows a case study from Hawaii Pacific Health. I have posted on data center consolidation previously on this blog. Squeeze It Management...

Published 07-23-2009 6:35 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: data center consolidation, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, automation, consolidate events, CIO magazine, Hawaii Pacific Health, virtual servers, HP Operations Manager

Virtualization Management - Only Part of the Consolidation Picture

Last week, I posted about VMware’s move toward becoming one of the major infrastructure management vendors . Since then, there has been much dialog about virtualization and the vendors that provide management consoles for virtual servers and their physical...

Published 03-11-2009 10:47 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: infrastructure management, Operations Bridge, data center consolidation, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, end-user management, service level agreements

Making the Best Use of the Tools You Have

I spent the day today at our executive briefing center with a customer that provides online spend management services. They have a number of our data center products, so we spent most of the day discussing integration. The agenda was simple. They wanted...

Published 02-26-2009 5:27 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: data center consolidation, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, Operations Orchestration, DDM, Discovery and Dependency Mapping, end user management, Configuration Management Database, Service Manager, Network Management, UCMDB

Squeeze IT Management Costs Out with Consolidation, Automation

Network World had an interesting article today called “ IT budget '09: Spending down, contingencies at the ready ”. It shows some survey results about IT professionals’ spending forecasts. Interestingly, there is some optimism that smart IT spending...

Published 02-18-2009 9:57 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Operations Center, data center consolidation, Peter Spielvogel, automation, OpenView, Operations Manager, IT spending, Operations Orchestration

Virtualization: IT Nirvana or CapEx for OpEx Tradeoff?

Today’s post is from Kalyan Ramanathan, who manages virtualization initiatives for our data center automation group. This is the first in a series of posts on how organizations use automation to improve their IT infrastructure management. - Peter Even...

Published 02-09-2009 5:34 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: server virtualization, data center consolidation, CapEx, OpEx, infrastructure, IT management, Kalyan Ramanathan

Does Virtualization Consolidate Your IT Operations Or Fragment Them?

Customers tell me constantly they are consolidating their tools sets to drive efficiency and reduce operating costs. They tell me they do not want hundreds of point tools that they have to integrate themselves. They tell me they want to spend more time...

Published 01-15-2009 2:06 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: server virtualization, HP OpenView, infrastructure management, HP Operations Center, reduce operational expenditures, data center consolidation, Dennis Corning

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