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So why do you need a data center? There needs to be a good business case for having a data center today. If your business is not running data centers, why do you have one - when you can rent computing for cheap. This is the same thing that a hundred years ago, if you were a manufacturing company you wanted to have your power plant, then came along the utility companies and turned the whole

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In past seven years I have come across (directly and indirectly) five large companies that have embraced Plan Build and Run model. I think much has to be said about that. The attraction of the process is its simplicity, closeness to Demings quality cycle and ITIL framework to some extent. Its graphical elegance has many a companies flocking towards it. In my experience I have seen that execution

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Reading Ram Charan's "Know-How" I started thinking in terms of what is needed to lead an IT organization in twenty first century. The economy is still stuck in the low gear (Cisco forecast send shudders down the wall street), but innovation in IT seems to be in overdrive. So how do CIOs respond to this new normal? Agility is expected (and is a threshold requirement for IT team), social network

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Cloud-Based Infrastructure as a Service Comes to Government From Apps.gov agencies can access "on demand self service to utilize and discontinue use of products when and as needed. Unlimited storage, monitoring of resource utilization, rapid elasticity, customizable scaling of service, automatic provisioning of virtual machines, storage, chargeback, order management through measured services."

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FCC to float cloud computing - Alex Byers - POLITICO.com How big is this news? Per the news article "this will be the first major federal agency to use cloud computing technology to completely power its main web presence". The website would be hosted on cloud early 2011, to be followed by cloud based storage and email. For security of data the route they are taking is encrypted laptops and VDI.

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Tight integration and sharing of IO resources - data, network, interprocessor, to create virtualized infrastructure in a nutshell is fabric based computing. Cisco UCS is the most publicized example. Obvious benefits "wire once", integrated management, rapid provisioning of compute resources, increased capacity utilization, integration with legacy SAN and LAN infrastructure. High speed network

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IBM buys XIV, HP snatches 3Par, Dell acquires EqualLogic, IBM buys Netezza, Isilon is part of EMC. All these changes in a short span of 3 - 6 months. If as a storage manager you are scratching your head, you are not alone. This is a hot segment of IT industry. The silver lining in all this is - more options. Technology upheavals from such upstarts have brought breath of fresh air for storage

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The social network browser. The skin has buttons for facebook, twitter et al. What about mobile devices?

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Recently I had an opportunity to visit Forsythe Technology Evaluation Center in Skokie, IL. A fabulous facility, a technologist's playground. Equipment from who's who of IT space, which Forsythe maintains and allows its clients to assess before making a decision. I belive the model is neat - companies evaluating technology options can come to the data center, present their test matrix to Forsythe

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A great article addressing authentication challenges on web and especially cloud. Strong User Authentication on the Web

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Information is the asset that enterprises harness for creating competitive differentiation. The development of an EIA should be managed as a formal program by an Enterprise Information Architecture Department with strong participation of business users and clear accountability measures for its success. The EIA must provide the flexibility to accommodate the changes that result from the changing

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Recently I read "The art of enterprise information architecture: A systems based approach for unlocking business insight". There is a trend that most progressive companies are going through for defining their strategies for enterprise architecture. Enterprise architecture is tossed around so much, that it makes sense that before getting into a meaningful conversation to settle on a common meaning

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Pareto's popular theory holds true.80 percent time spent on 20 percent problems20 percent time spent on things that would generate 80 percent problems20 percent employees would produce 80 percent results80 percent time would be spent with 20 percent of employees who need attention80 percent time would be spent on things that generate 20 percent results It is not a bad thing, it is just a

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Companies can have private clouds if they can provide elasticity, accountability and economies of scale. The challenge is not technical as much as it is financial. Companies can choose to invest in large scale infrastructure deployments to create an infinitely elastic environment - but wait before you do that, what is the cost of doing that? Servers are getting cheapers, hard disks are getting

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World economic forum

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