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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...

What would a 5 billion share trading day look like?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:19:01 -0700

The current volatility of the financial markets is an example of why understanding demand is so important. The inter-connections across all aspects of our global village, Insurance, Capital Markets, commodity supplies such as energy, forces questions about the characteristics of demand to be answered. Example: How would a financial services company answer "What does a 5 billion share day look like?"...

Top 4 datacenter design mistakes

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

Tailoring the right set of network solutions- the Network Ensemble

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:37:10 -0700

A complex system such as an enterprise network is subjected to many kinds of stresses from a large variety of business applications that have different demand profiles. Dig deeper into any large network and you will see that one solution doesn't solve all problems. Pockets of point solutions are installed to solve problems as they arise, this is rarely efficient in a large network. The big question...

9 design principles of a service-oriented datacenter

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

Virtual Dynamic Datacenter - Business Aligned Approach

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:51:59 -0700

Business Driven Virtual Data Center Strategy

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:22:40 -0700

Virtualization has many advocates and is the latest IT bandwagon rallying cry. The approaches to virtualization have taken two distinct paths. The supply side path is usually undertaken by IT operations in an attempt to mask hardware differences and minimize complexity; this approach does not go far enough. The other path involves a business demand driven approach. The demand driven approach needs...

Drowning in Data, Thirsting for Knowledge.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:06:07 -0700

This metaphor about executives seeing all the data but not being able to use it is a very old battle cry in IT. Data comes in faster than ever, has greater density every year and the crisis only deepens. As stated in a previous blog,the network is the nervous system of the enterprise, and as such it must help the stimuli flow. Everyone uses the network to pass information, so what’s the problem?...

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