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Building the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

Systems and applications were continuously added to the data center to the point where many data centers were completely full with no room for add new hardware to support growing needs for processing, storage and network capabilities. This post is brought to you by Symantec and The Transition To The Agile Data Center.

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A Primary Goal of an Agile Data Center – Portability

Eric D. Brown

If you ask one hundred people (or companies) what it means to have an agile data center , you’ll most likely get a large number of diverse answers. In that article, I wrote that having an agile data center means that organizations are capable of “delivering the right services at the right time in the right way to the right user.”.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

“It’s about optimizing the cloud workload, rewriting some of the applications, and, [as] ESG comes into the big picture, how we can be more efficient to reduce Co2 emissions.” Finetuning for agility For Cathay, security is a key concern, but cybersecurity can be a roadblock to agility if not designed effectively, Nair points out.

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Everything As A Service

Eric D. Brown

If an organization can decide they need a new platform or a new application they don’t have to undergo a long, drawn-out technology selection project and subsequent implementation project to get the right technology within their data center. Additionally, the XaaS model allows organizations to build agility into everything they do.

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The Right Services in the Right Way

Eric D. Brown

I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to efficiently and effectively add, remove and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.”. Information Technology The New CIO Agile Data center'

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A Question of Identity: The Evolution of Identity & Access Management

SecureWorld News

The cloud is the de facto platform for delivery of applications and services in the modern digital era. Zero Trust transforms conventional network-based security by changing the focusing security centered on users, applications, and data. ZTNA enhances business agility via a more scalable and secure identity architecture.

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. And while Vitality serves the mainframe market, I was able to share with customers that we intend to expand our existing training programmes in other core security and agile operations market segments as well.