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Jeanne Ross, Director and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research says adoption of enterprise architecture (EA) leads to greater efficiencies and better business agility. Ross explains how enterprise architects have helped lead the way to success...Jan. 13, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,059
Enterprises that have added data virtualization to their IT infrastructure are gaining significant business decision agility, time-to-solution agility and resource agility benefits as they address their business agility challenges.
While the importance of business agility is well und...
Data Virtualization Platforms promise to bring order to the chaos of today’s data landscape through a range of agility, flexibility, as well as the potential for reduced cost and risk benefits. These benefits are the drivers behind the exploding industry demand, which in turn, is attr...
SAP is the most widely deployed ERP solution in the world today. Yet many organizations find gaining business insight from SAP’s huge repositories a daunting challenge. Data virtualization simplifies access and integration of SAP data.
SAP’s creation of SAP BW and its acquisition of ...
As competition accelerates, the business case for gaining a 360 degre view of your customers, products, and employees is compelling. Data Virtualization can help by enabling fast, easy federation of complementary transactional and historical data.
Master data management applications m...
NoSQL is increasingly being adopted with the expansion of “big data” use cases as well as other data stores. The challenge to enterprises is to integrate disparate NoSQL systems, each with its unique and non-standard API. Today’s evolved data virtualization platforms provide access to ...
In the first two articles in this series I provided details as to the problems with legacy datacenter models & started laying out a proven method to attack the legacy problems by implementing a day in the life approach to get the truth of what is happening from the business to the data...
In the first article in this series I stated that there is not silver bullet or single strategy
that solves all. There is however, proven methods and successful strategies that
multiple firms have employed to attack the legacy problems in their existing
datacenter infrastructures an...
One of the fundamental barriers to business today is the intersection of the “day
in the life” of the business and how that executes across the IT supply chain. The
barriers caused by this Business-IT Chasm, include limits placed on customer
interaction, ineffective & inconsistent d...
The Hebei Cloud datacenter, being built by IBM about 35 miles from Beijing's center for the Chinese company Range Technology, will encompass 600,000 square feet in its first phase, to be housed in seven buildings. This would rank it among or near the top 10 largest datacenters in the w...
IBM is putting a $42 million cloud computing data center in Canada. It’s supposed to meet Canadian privacy rules. The market is estimated to grow by 40% over the next three years according to IDC. Meanwhile, HP is going to build a data center in Georgia in the Caucasus that will provid...
HP announced a $120 million datacenter in Australia, to be completed in the Western Sydney area (30-40 miles west of Sydney's central business district) this year. In making the announcement, the company noted that Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) initiative was “the incent...
Virtualization has the power to transform the way business runs IT, and it’s the most important transition happening in IT today. It promotes flexible utilization of IT resources, reduced capital and operating costs, high energy efficiency, highly available applications, and better bus...
What Cloud Computing “Stuff” Will You Sell to China?
President Obama told Chinese Premier Hu Jintao, perhaps a little too casually, that the US wanted to sell him “stuff.”
“We want to sell you airplanes. We want to sell you cars. We want to sell you software,” the president opin...
China Intelligence Information Systems, Inc. (CIISI) has won new virtualization business through one of its subsidiaries and several of its system integration partners. The software will be delivered to the Hai Nan Power Grid, the Heyuan Power Supply Bureau, the Chongqing Entry Exit I...
An Enterprise Cloud-oriented datacenter is a top-down, demand driven datacenter design that maximizes
efficiency and minimizes traditional IT waste of power, cooling, space, and capacity under-utilization while
providing enhanced levels of service and control. The following design pr...
Organizations embracing Cloud Computing are quickly realizing how Data Grid technology can solve many of the challenges associated from running applications on distributed shared infrastructure across the globe. From hosting data as a service, sharing application state across applicati...
Economic forces are putting pressure on CIOs and enterprise IT managers to reduce the complexity and cost of the technology within their data centers. Cloud computing has become the most talked-about solution to these problems, but not without the right approach and the right platform....
Sentilla Corporation has come up with the first software-only real-time way to track the power utilization of every single asset in a data center from the switchgear down to each and every server, storage and networking device, be they metered or unmetered.
CEO Bob Davis says, “In ...
The top modernization objective cited by respondents was to move to Web-enabled systems (54 percent), with Windows cited as their systems’ most likely platform (38 percent) after modernization. Long-term cost savings was noted as the most important benefit of modernization, with ease-o...
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, data centers across the United States accounted for 1.5 percent of total US electricity demand in 2006 — equivalent to the annual electric consumption of the state of Florida — and have become one of the fastest growing users of energy....
The message from the VC community is clear – "don't waste our seed money on network and server equipment." The message from the US Government CIO was clear – the US Government will consolidate data centers and start moving towards cloud computing. The message from the software and hard...
The Copenhagen Summit may not have achieved what was hoped for. However, SECUDE, in its own modest way, has taken the initiative to tackle energy consumption effectively. SECUDE maintains two large server facilities: the primary server in Switzerland with over 70 servers plus auxiliary...
Green IT and virtual data centers are no fad nor are they limited to large scale environments. Paying attention to how resources are used to deliver information services in a flexible, adaptable, energy efficient, environmentally, and economically friendly manner to boost efficiency an...
Data center selection is an exercise in compromise. Everybody would like to have the best of all worlds, with a highly connected facility offering 24x7 smart hands support, impenetrable security, protection from all natural and man-made disasters, in addition to service level agreemen...
The data center industry continues to evolve with mergers, acquisitions, and a healthy crop of emerging companies. New data center products and services are hitting the street, an aggressive debate on the model of selling space vs. power, and alternatives to physical data center space...
What is a cloud computing platform? Is it simply automated provisioning systems coupled with a resource virtualization, where the workload is policy driven, and resources over committed and any resource contention handled by policy driven resolution? As it turns out technologies that p...
Data Center "X" just announced a 2 MegaWatt expansion to their facility in Northern California. A major increase in data center capacity, and a source of great joy for the company. And the source of potentially 714 additional tons of carbon introduced each month into the environment. 
Too many think of cloud storage as just another or the next type of storage. As usual with this view, it is associated with a view that the "next" storage type is bigger, faster and cheaper. Because each generation of storage is always bigger, faster and cheaper. As such, proponents...
As cloud computing becomes more commonplace, creating a secure method to bridge the gap between existing data centers and remote sources of compute capacity is being more and more important. The ability to efficiently and securely tap into remote cloud resources is one of the most impo...
