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Fountainhead: The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus

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for billing, showback and/or chargeback) - Disaster Recovery / Redundant service sources where needed. ► 2010. (10). SLA) monitoring - Cost and budget tracking (i.e. Some would call the above integration functions "Glue Logic." IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13). Marketing. (3). Mobile Work. (4).

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

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And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). ► 2010. (10). ► 2010. (10). IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13). Marketing. (3). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Predictions.

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Fountainhead: Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service.

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Another enterprise with the same email application may be operating in a Tier-III datacenter environment with a rigorously-controlled response rate, a full disaster-recovery requirement, and 2GB of storage per mailbox. ► 2010. (10). ► 2010. (10). IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13).

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

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Along with enabling server consolidation, the software is delivering superior high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (HA). August 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM. ► 2010. (10). ► 2010. (10). Panasonic chose Egenera products to consolidate servers and reduce floor-space. 1 comment: Liza. Post a Comment.

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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

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Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. ► 2010. (10). ► 2010. (10). But we also fail to notice the complexity it creates for managing I/O, storage connectivity and other physical-world management issues. Implicitly assumed in the market is that VMs are the panacea.

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Fountainhead: A real-world cloud user shares his findings

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First, since we are an SEC-registered investment adviser with lots of confidential and sensitive information on our hands, issues regarding the security of our electronic files – both in terms of disaster recovery as well the integrity of the company with whom we are entrusting to house our data – are paramount. Mobility.

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- Downtrends in City Tech

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These include budgets, staffing of IT units, disaster recovery, “big” projects, travel and training. We’ll be reducing our $59 million budget by $3 million in 2010 and reducing our staffing by 12 full-time equivalent positions to 205 jobs. Particularly troubling are reductions in disaster planning.