There was a recent article on Mark Hurd in Fortune Magazine . It focuses on his obsession with numbers and execution. While the article does not mention infrastructure management software, readers of this blog will immediately recognize how important consolidated event management, server virtualization...
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 in this down economy, data center virtualization...
I bought my copy of TurboTax over the weekend. While waiting in the long checkout line, it occurred to me that the United States tax code has several similarities to IT infrastructure management. Let me explain. At the beginning, there was a needs assessment, planning process, growth forecast, and then...
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 working on strategic projects and less on keeping...
As I travel and speak with customers, partners and analysts firms, I keep hearing that ownership for virtualization management is fragmented within the IT organization. Some companies have even created a new role called the Virtualization Administrator. Why? If virtual servers are just like the legacy...