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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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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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Tags: Tags: Cisco, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT infrastructure, ROI, UCS, unified computing
Posted on July 14th, 2010
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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
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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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Tags: Tags: Aware 360 v2, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT infrastructure, managed infrastructure, SLAs
Posted on July 5th, 2010
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IT directors and CIOs are always looking at the total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise-wide technology. The goal, of course, is to keep TCO as low as possible while maximizing the services and capabilities delivered to the business areas. Virtualization provides a variety of cost-containment advantages, making it possible to manage IT expenses without degrading service to end users.
Here are five ways that virtualization can help you lower your infrastructure TCO:
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Tags: Tags: infrastructure, power, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization
Posted on June 30th, 2010
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The in-house versus outsourcing decision shouldn’t be an easy one. After all, you’re infrastructure is at stake … which puts your company’s ability to operate in play. The risks don’t mean that you should choose one option over another, but they do suggest that you should treat this decision with the appropriate gravity.
If you’re thinking about moving to a managed infrastructure, which can come with many advantages, think about the IT resources that your company consumes, as well as how heavily you want to commit to operating and maintaining your own infrastructure. Variable system demand and a desire to focus on your core business while maintaining a lean IT department usually indicate that a managed services approach to your IT infrastructure is prudent.
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Tags: Tags: Aware 360 v2, infrastructure, IT infrastructure, IT outsourcing, managed infrastructure, outsourcing
Posted on June 14th, 2010
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The problem with “best of breed” platform selections is that you wind up with a heterogeneous infrastructure that can be difficult and costly to manage. When it’s time to add to a particular platform’s footprint, you need to write another check, even if there are under-utilized solutions elsewhere in your environment. Unless you have commensurate equipment available, there’s no choice but to invest more. With server and storage virtualization technologies, you can break out of this rut, and extract more value from investments you’ve already made.
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Tags: Tags: capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, IT infrastructure, performance, ROI, Server Virtualization, storage virtualization
Posted on June 10th, 2010
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There’s a reason why AppSense was named the Citrix Ready Solution Partner of the Year back at Citrix Synergy. The solution drives end-user adoption and satisfaction in XenDesktop and XenApp environments, ultimately driving more ROI for your investment in desktop and application virtualization.
Specifically, according to a recent article in InfoWorld:
“The AppSense solution provides what is known as user virtualization, a technology that is still in its infancy; because of that, it doesn’t get a lot of airplay in the media. User virtualization isn’t discussed very often, so people may not have heard of the technology yet, let alone fully understand it or how it is used.”
With the AppSense Virtualized User Infrastructure, you can manage “everything specific to a user” – from user-based corporate policies to rights management and user-introduced applications.
Read the original article for a substantial review of how AppSense can help.
[Source: InfoWorld]
Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: application management, application virtualization, applications, AppSense, Citrix, Citrix Synergy, desktop management, Desktop Virtualization, infrastructure, IT infrastructure, ROI, virtual desktops, XenApp, XenDesktop
Posted on June 2nd, 2010
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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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Tags: Tags: infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT operations, managed infrastructure, operations
Posted on May 26th, 2010
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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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Tags: Tags: Aware 360 v2, capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, managed infrastructure
