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The Business Value of Cloud Computing: Collaboration

— Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating costs: when combined with a collaborative approa...

Feb 04 04:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Micro Servers, Maximum Benefits

— What began as an oddity is poised to become a major factor in data center infrastructure. If the projections are correct, micro servers will be in great demand going forward as enterprises seek to streamline footprints and cut energy costs. According to

Feb 03 08:37:21 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

Cloud Storage Accelerates into 2012 IT Priorities

— Every year, our friends at ESG post results of their annual Spending Intentions Survey, indicating where many businesses are likely to spend their IT dollars over the coming year. Recently Steve Duplessie posted an article on his blog entitled Cloud – The Cost Containment Strategy that concludes cloud has finally “...

Feb 03 10:15:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Criteria for Choosing a Business Email Solution

— Recently, the General Services Administration (GSA) solicited bids to take care of their massive email system. They embarked on a process many businesses are familiar with – finding the right fit of features, security, and cost to support their users. The GSA selected hosted email to serve remote offices, streamline ...

Feb 02 02:00:28 pm GMT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

Storage Efficiencies Redefined

— If you Google storage efficiencies, eventually you will get a Wikipedia definition, which describes storage efficiency as “the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little or no impact on performance, resulting in a lower total operational cost.” Wikipedia also references t...

Feb 01 09:25:35 pm GMT / Hu Yoshida»

Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing

— Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core fun...

Feb 01 12:27:25 pm GMT / Cloud Computing - Infoworld»

Amazon Announces Trusted Advisor

— When considering using cloud computing services, one of the major factors is the level of support that can be provided by the cloud vendor. In particular, when using Infrastructure as a Service, it is vital to ensure that cloud resources are not only appropriately secured but are also running at their most cost effecti...

Jan 31 11:55:25 am GMT / Cloud Computing»

High-Capacity SSDs Pushing to Tier 1 and Beyond

— Five Data Storage Predictions for 2012 Flash storage has taken a kind of top-down approach when it comes to the enterprise. From the beginning, its chief benefits were transfer speed and lower operating costs, which made it an ideal solution for Web

Jan 30 08:47:11 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

37signals Still Happily Scaling on Moore RAM and SSDs

— There are so many architectural ideas swirling in the bit wind these days. Two of the biggest battles are cloud vs. bare metal and RAM vs. disk vs. SSD. 37signals has published two solid articles that are counter hype cycle in their message: Technologists who grew up when RAM cost $1,000 per megabyte can have a ha...

Jan 30 04:28:43 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

MetaFlows launches low-cost SaaS product that unifies network security

— Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monitor network traffic flow, detect possible intrusions and analyze event logs.

Jan 30 02:59:00 pm GMT / Computerworld SaaS News»

Studying the Costa Concordia Grounding

— Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. I first heard the latter part of this famous quote made by US Airmail Pilot E. Hamilton Lee back when I raced cars. At that time, one of the better drivers in town, Gordon Monroe, used a v...

Jan 29 07:24:25 pm GMT / Perspectives»

Virtual Desktops and Security–Leverage, Control, Enable

— First, IMHO, VDI is not like the virtualization of servers where I consolidate 100 servers into 10 boxes and come out being a hero to finance because I saved $70k in A/C and electricity. The cost savings are not as blatant (and easy) as that. Instead, in my view, VDI is an enabling technology f...

Jan 27 05:48:55 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper: Paper Clarifies the Confusion Surrounding PaaS for Federal IT Buyers—Why It Is Important and How It Can Cut Development Costs by 50 Percent

— VIENNA, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 —NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Virtual Global, a premier provider of software and cloud computing platform solutions for a variety of industry and federal customers, announce the release of a joint ...

Jan 27 02:51:00 am GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

Remember the workers when building a cloud platform

— Last week, I discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. CFOs and their IT directors must understand the importance of hard costs, but they should not forget their employees who will ultimately be impacted by these changes.

Jan 24 10:30:00 am GMT / Techworld.com Virtualisation»

Intel and InfiniBand: Pure HPC Play, or Is There a Fabric in the Works?

— InfiniBand has long suffered from the problem of having to serve two masters at once. On the one hand, it excels at high-end switching environments. On the other, its cost and limited industry support make it an expensive proposition. And now that

Jan 23 09:15:18 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

Bluelock Portfolio gives you the vCloud Forecast

— Portfolio, Bluelock's vCloud portal and decision support tool just learned a new skill: Cost Projection! Bluelock already excels in providing predictable costs in the cloud, but what about those months you need to burst by adding additional resources to your capacity? Portfolio is now outfitted with helpful run rate ca...

Jan 23 01:03:00 pm GMT / BlueLock»

Atlantis diskless appliance cuts VDI costs

— Virtual Desktop storage provider Altantis Computing has announced a new product that runs nonpersistent virtual desktop environments using only server memory.

Jan 18 01:20:36 pm GMT / Storage - Infoworld»

Need an agile infrastructure? Do your homework

— Companies looking for more agile data centers are increasingly turning to public (external) or private (internal) clouds with virtualized servers, storage and networks. Getting the lowest cost and the best speed and flexibility from those systems requires assessing everything from performance to control and interoperab...

Jan 17 05:31:05 pm GMT / Virtualization - Infoworld»

Lawsuit claims Epicor's two-year effort delivered 'useless' software

— Beverage distributor Major Brands is suing Epicor, alleging the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor failed to deliver a satisfactory system after years of effort and significant cost overruns, and then offered a solution that would force the company to install a new version that hadn't yet been compl...

Jan 13 09:39:00 pm GMT / Computerworld SaaS News»

30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011

— 2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs.

Dec 15 09:25:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Seattle hospital finds zero clients means better care, lower costs

— Seattle Children's Hospital has installed 2,600 zero client devices in four locations, many connected with a wireless LAN that helps doctors and nurses access patient data at the bedside within seconds.

Dec 14 01:00:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Healthcare Providers Can Control Explosive Data Growth, Curb Costs, and Deliver Improved Patient Care with Cloud Services Powered by NetApp and Iron Mountain

— Partnership Will Deliver Secure, Scalable Cloud Archiving and Improved Disaster Recovery for Medical Data

Nov 28 09:01:00 am GMT / NetApp - Press Releases»

Smaller Companies and Larger Data Centers

— For months I’ve been preoccupied with Lew’s Law, or the theory that IT expenses over time will track to the cost of electricity (versus hardware, peoplepower, etc.) authored by Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker and shared in early 2010 with the then-billowing Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group. After watching an SAP web...

Nov 19 09:24:27 pm GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

Easier to Remember URLs for TCO

— If you haven't seen them before, you should have a look at our calculators for both server and desktop virtualization. These online calculators let you experiment with different scenarios and see the total cost of ownership in real world dollars for various solutions: These tools have been available for a littl...

Nov 03 04:53:03 pm GMT / Oracle's Virtualization Blog»

IT Innovation: From Cost Centers To Sales Enhancers

— IT must innovate - it's the new clarion call in this looming recession. Given the cost pressures required just to keep the lights on, how would IT be able to convince business to let IT innovate beyond a datacenter clean-up focus? The answer lies in the basic principle for any IT investment: Intelligence is king, onl...

Aug 29 11:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Blueprint4IT»

Global Relo Redux

— Last fall I liked to say….a global move is technically just like a cross country move, only you fly to get there and it costs a lot more money. Here’s the skinny with 20-20 hindsight: Planning – you can plan to death, but it doesn’t change the workload Things – you can throw away things ...

Aug 27 12:11:44 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

Realizing Cloud for the Enterprise

— Most organizations today continue to view technology as merely a back-office cost center, a viewpoint that diminishes the breadth of Enterprise IT's impact on a firm's competitive profile. To contribute to strategic growth, IT's role has to be understood as far more than a repository of software and hardware applicatio...

May 16 10:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Blueprint4IT»

Savvis sharpens its edge in a competitive market with HP

— Savvis selects HP quad-core, quad processor servers to reduce customer costs for managed hosting services by up to 50 percent

Nov 18 10:29:11 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology

— The lowest cost, most flexible way to connect virtual servers to your networks.

Nov 18 10:22:38 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

HP Discusses Power and Cooling Fixes

— Listen in to a few quick, low cost fixes that will make a big impact to the amount of power you consume and to your bottom line.

Sep 03 06:01:36 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

New blades have arrived

— HP has introduced the industry’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, which it says delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.

Jul 17 12:00:00 am GMT / Servers/Hardware»

Learn how Nth Generation Reduced server sprawl

— Learn how Matthew Weiner, Project Manager from Nth Generation was able to reduce server sprawl and focus IT support on business critical applications while providing the flexibility to grow his business and contain future costs.

Jun 14 12:19:00 am GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

St. Luke's Hospital Manages Exploding Infrastructure and Cost

— How do you manage an exploding infrastructure and keep a handle on spiraling costs? Learn how St. Luke’s, Robbie Tomison turned to HP’s C-Class BladeSystem to build out his data center to meet St. Luke’s fast growing demands.

Jun 14 12:17:28 am GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

How did Collier County replace 7000+ scattered desk-tops in a two month period?

— What if you were challenged to replace 7000 or so geographically dispersed desktops in a short period of time? Listen to Tom Petry from Collier County School district and see how he streamlined the high cost of maintaining PC's with centralized remote administration.

Jun 14 12:12:44 am GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

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