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Posted on November 15th, 2011
by Bill Kleyman |
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Monitoring datacenter activities has evolved into a proactive task that must be efficiently managed. Administrators must monitor and watch over virtual workloads, physical hosts, system performance and other datacenter variables.
With this evolution of management tasks modern data centers need a more holistic monitoring strategy. The key here is a plan that embraces environmental factors like temperature and humidity – not just within the room – but at a granular level within racks and servers.
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Bill Kleyman
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: Datacenter Management, infrastructure management, monitoring, workflow automation
Posted on September 20th, 2010
by Chris Chrobocinski |
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When you adopt a managed infrastructure, you want to know that your systems will be available even if the worst of catastrophes strikes. There is no substitute for system access, and lost time translates to lost money. So, you need to be completely satisfied that your managed services provider has the capabilities in place to meet your specific requirements. Ask questions – a lot of them. Make sure your company is comfortable with what is provided.
Here are five questions about managed services disaster recovery and business continuity processes to get you started:
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: business continuity, datacenter, disaster recovery, infrastructure, infrastructure management, managed infrastructure
Posted on September 13th, 2010
by Chris Chrobocinski |
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Security is always top of mind when a companies considering the adoption of an externally managed infrastructure. Especially if you’ll be using it for systems with sensitive information or if you operate in a highly regulated industry, you need to know at a detailed level how your systems and data will be safeguarded. Don’t be shy: ask every question that is on your mind, and don’t stop asking until you are completely satisfied with the answers. The risks around malicious access and data use are too high – and the implications far too severe – for you to take anything on faith.
To get you started, here are five questions you should ask any prospective managed infrastructure services partner:
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: data security, infrastructure, infrastructure management, managed infrastructure, security
Posted on July 21st, 2010
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Are you ready to make your datacenter a little easier to manage? For most IT professionals, the answer to that question is pretty obvious. There’s always room for improvement … in ways that cut overhead, make workloads a bit more manageable and increase the quality of service you provide to your end users. Cisco’s Unified Computing System can streamline your datacenter, making your team – and your entire enterprise – more productive at a fraction of the cost.
Here are five ways that Cisco UCS makes infrastructure management easier:
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: Cisco, Cisco UCS, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, UCS, unified computing
Posted on July 19th, 2010
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Are you spending too much time managing your infrastructure? It’s not like you have a choice, of course. When you need to tend to your datacenter, you do it, and it’s your other IT initiatives that suffer. A simplified, straightforward approach not only cures the headaches associated with IT management, it frees up your team to focus on the projects that will drive ROI and company growth.
Chances are you’re overspending on your infrastructure. Research from Cisco estimates that infrastructure management ties up 70 percent of your budget. So, that only gives you 30 percent to allocate for the future. Simplifying your infrastructure could tip those scales a bit – making your department far more effective.
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: Cisco, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT infrastructure, ROI, UCS, unified computing
Posted on July 14th, 2010
by Chris Chrobocinski |
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Disaster recovery and business continuity can be a challenge to manage effectively. In addition to investing considerable amounts of capital into robust, reliable solutions, you’re stuck with the nagging thought that you’re putting your budget into something you hope you never actually have to use. Anything you can do to simplify your D/R framework comes with an inherent cost advantage, particularly through a reduction in complexity and resource-hours committed to planning and managing the environment.
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: business continuity, disaster recover, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT infrastructure, IT operations, managed infrastructure, operations, ROI
Posted on July 12th, 2010
by Chris Chrobocinski |
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Once you’ve made the decision to adopt a managed infrastructure, you need to identify the factors that matter most to your company. Quite simply, you want to know that your infrastructure will be there for you when you need it.
While service-level agreements (SLAs) provide procedures and remedies for downtime, performance degradation and other potential problems, they are inherently retrospective: SLAs talk about how a problem can be fixed. When choosing a managed services provider, you should take a look at the measures in place that will keep problems from arising.
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: Aware 360 v2, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT infrastructure, managed infrastructure, SLAs
Posted on June 2nd, 2010
by Chris Chrobocinski |
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In this series, we’ll focus on the implications of specific technology solutions for CFOs. Though they are the keepers of a company’s financial health, they don’t always understand the advantages that come with certain technology solutions, and IT professionals sometimes take a suboptimal approach when explaining these concepts to the finance team. This series is intended to help make those conversations easier and more effective.
You know the drill: the CFO needs to keep costs contained. Meanwhile, the IT department always seems like it’s running too lean. Demands are always increasing, especially as new systems are introduced to increase business efficiency. Every new opportunity to streamline operations across the company seems to come with an incremental burden on the infrastructure. So, what happens to the infrastructure team?
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT operations, managed infrastructure, operations
Posted on May 26th, 2010
by Chris Chrobocinski |
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Have you ever had to deviate from your capacity plan to add equipment? When this happens, you have to do more than dip into your budget and get the requisite approvals. You also need to divert resources from your infrastructure team to plan, execute, test and monitor the change to your server environment, which can cause other projects to fall behind. Expenses increase not only for your datacenter team but for all the IT and business areas affected. Your budget assumes a certain amount of predictability, but real life doesn’t always cooperate.
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: Aware 360 v2, capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, managed infrastructure
Posted on May 12th, 2010
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How much of your datacenter is dark? At any given time, you have systems that aren’t being used. Oddly, this is often intentional. Your capacity planning exercises are designed to show how much you need under a variety of circumstances, and the need to handle peak usage means there will be occasions when servers and storage are under-utilized. In fact, this will generally be the case – you’ll have dormant systems more often than you have heavily utilized systems. This translates to lost potential. Unlock the potential of under-utilized systems, and you can defer IT investments, gain more value from existing equipment and streamline your IT operation.
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT operations, processor, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization, utilization, workload
