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 Costs Out With Consolidation Automation Does Virtualization...
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 counterparts. Virtualization.info responded...
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 to learn how to: Make the best use of the tools...
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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 can drive productivity improvements. This mirrors...