Briefs
Published on Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 6:05 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Brian Babineau | John McKnight |
IT is the group responsible for collecting all data as directed by in-house and external counsel. What many IT staffs do not realize is that some general e-mail management decisions, namely the use of mailbox quotas, actually make discovery tasks more complex and costly. An investment in an e-mail archive ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Brian Babineau | John McKnight |
IT budgets remain flat, yet businesses demand higher service levels for application availability in a 24/7 global economy. For this reason, organizations require a cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) business continuity plan that is suitably fast, flexible, adaptable, and automated. Pressures for economic efficiencies are causing ...
Sending large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. Unfortunately, it's also necessary for a myriad of IT functions including remote office backup, outsourcing, data center moves, and cloud computing models. Increasingly cost sensitive business models are forcing more and more companies to find ways to ...
Is cloud computing real? Yes. When you sort through the hype and evaluate collective industry R&D efforts, cloud computing options may arrive sooner than most believe. In fact, smart CIOs are already assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each workload should run—locally or in the ...
On July 27, Juniper Networks announced plans to acquire SMobile Systems, a leader in mobile device security, for $70 million. This seemingly small acquisition could be extremely strategic as it has the potential to vault Juniper into the emerging mobile device market, build its client software business around SMobile and ...
Server virtualization adopters have made tremendous strides and even improved their IT staffs’ quality of life. Once the flywheel builds inertia, virtualization initiatives can move into the spotlight and prove themselves to be a brilliant strategic move for many businesses. Virtualization technology, however, has matured beyond existing deployments; the focus ...
Business executives want to know their company has a cloud strategy and they want the assurance that IT is executing against its goals and objectives. This, in turn, is putting added pressure to IT operations, application owners, and developers. Will the cloud deliver on its promises? Will businesses take the ...
As the enterprise data center has grown in size and importance, the minimum unit of deployment has moved from the individual server to the blade frame—and now to a whole rack. To support this move to rack-level deployment, pre-provisioned racks and scale-out networking architectures have become imperative. Top of rack ...
As scale-up technologies makes way for scale-out, Fibre Channel makes way for Ethernet, and block structured data makes way for file, edge-to-core network traffic is rapidly becoming edge-to-edge. As such, network architectures are also adopting a scale-out approach, moving network intelligence to the edge.
Overview
Computer hardware used to be an expensive ...
ESG Research indicates widespread IT spending on data center transformation, IT consolidation, and server virtualization. This will help reduce costs and streamline operations, right? Yes, in theory, but many IT consolidation projects suffer through planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity—especially for remote ...
