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The Risk-Free Cloud

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:05:10 -0800

There is so much waste in the data centers of Fortune 1000 companies today that a CIO – as an officer of the company – could be considered in breach of their fiduciary duty to stockholders given the dollars in question. Of course that requires costs transparency, so sadly most are safe for now. It seems that every new technology innovation brings the promise of greater efficiencies and cost...

Fit-for-Purpose Data Center Infrastructure in the Clouds

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:22:14 -0700

The trigger for this post is a conversation I’ve had far too often with an IT executive who has an ambitious plan to leverage hypervisor virtualization to create a new data center infrastructure upon which his entire business would run. The goals are laudable; dramatic cost reductions, increased availability, decreased time to market (as measured by how long it takes to provision a VM)…all...

Enterprise-class clouds, part 1: Security and performance

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:00 -0700

The intent of the blogs is to provide the thought leadership for readers seeking to create a sound strategy for exploiting cloud computing for the enterprise.

Foundational principles of enterprise-class clouds

Stop Designing Data Centers from the Bottom Up

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:58:06 -0700

Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of swinging a hammer for a living or to pay for a semester of school knows this fundamental truth: build a solid foundation or whatever you place on top of it stands a pretty good chance of toppling over at some point in the future. This truth is perpetuated everywhere, in the Bible, in the story of the Three Little Pigs...it’s as old as time. Read more

Enterprise Clouds will fail without Dynamic Monitoring

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:34:32 -0700

Congratulations! You’ve successfully virtualized your network/server/storage environments and saved xx% (insert percentage). But who besides your CFO really cares? All you’ve done is lower the cost of an increasingly commoditized service, and anyone who’s spent a day working for a vendor knows that’s a very uncomfortable place to be. Read more

Four critical steps to datacenter transformation

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:00:00 -0700

A global 2000 Enterprise IT group is caught in a groundswell of chaos. The current economic malaise is forcing a challenge from the business to IT to cut operating expenses by 20 percent or greater while preserving capital ferociously.

IT Change Management 101: You can't change what you don't know

Mon, 04 May 2009 13:00:00 -0700

Jump Start your Diagnostic Process

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:48:52 -0700

Have you ever been pulled into a troubleshooting call, where all the support teams report their monitoring systems are reporting a ‘green’ status, but the users are reporting horrendous performance? Unfortunately, this happens more frequently than most of us would care to admit. When I get pulled into one of these situations, I avoid all the recriminations of the “could of” and “should...

For IT going green is more than just a catch phrase.

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:57:20 -0800

What does it really mean to be green in IT? Is it just decreasing a datacenter’s power consumption by making the cooling process more efficient and thus consuming less energy? Is it addressing the footprint of the data center and examining the infrastructure to ensure that the design is as efficient as possible? Is it taking a hard look at what runs across the data center in terms of applications...

Enterprise clouds: The secret is the workload

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:06:39 -0800

IT Can be the Innovation Driver

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:38:58 -0800

In a recent blog about IT and innovation, the point was made that there are numerous untapped opportunities for IT to become an enabler of the business as opposed to just a cost center to be tolerated. Read more

IT is Recession Relevant

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:29:53 -0800

A recent blog mentioned the importance of the business to consider strategic investments during this recession. IT should be a significant participant in this effort. This is an opportunity to perform strategic house cleaning, while helping the business manage costs, while establishing the premise that IT is the strategic partner to prepare for the post recession surge. IT is recession relevant, the...

Business execution and recession

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:16:29 -0800

IT innovation: Cost centers to sales enhancers

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:14:50 -0800

Wall Street as the first business infrastructure as a service

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0800

Enterprise IT as a Marketplace- Infrastructure as a Service

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:34:43 -0700

Now that the gold rush of mortgage backed securities trading has led to a severe crash, what do surviving investment banks do with all that hardware (i.e.10 million dollars plus for each institution or more)? Why not become a service marketplace, reduce the risk that comes from directly trading in such securities, and get a cut of the proceeds by being the facilitator of flow? Banks should become flexible...

SOA realized = Enterprise computing + cloud computing

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:55:40 -0700

Conquering Latency—An Incredible FEET

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:10:51 -0700

Network vendors are starting to provide 10GigE connections, switches and fabric, and given the exponentially increasing demand for bandwidth, enterprises will buy this equipment. Applications that can gobble up the bandwidth will soon follow-there is simply never enough bandwidth. It is becoming clear that those responsible for the applications in datacenters should also be concerned about the proximity...

Top 4 datacenter design mistakes

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:25:35 -0700

9 design principles of a service-oriented datacenter

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:44:43 -0700

The Consumerization of the Enterprise

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:00 -0700

Enterprise users are coming to expect the same options they get as consumers, heralding the Platform as a Service (PaaS) movement