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Building the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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3 Meaningful KPIs to Focus Agile Development, DevOps, and IT Ops to Deliver Business Outcomes

Social, Agile and Transformation

We’ve been practicing agile for twenty years since the manifesto was published and transitioning to DevOps cultures for about ten of them. And IT Ops predates these best practices going way back to the days of mainframes in pre-web data centers. So why aren’t we aligned yet? . IT is hard – really hard.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. We were going to leave our data centers, and we did,” he says. “In But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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Rationalizing the Move Toward the Software-Defined Data Center to Achieve IT as a Service

Data Center Knowledge

For IT, the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) can provide a strategic approach to support the goals of the business and provide the agility and flexibility to thrive with digital transformation. Read More.

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The Data Center of Tomorrow

Eric D. Brown

DataThe data center of tomorrow will look much differently than the data center of today. That particular sentence should not be that surprising to anyone who’s been in an organization that has internal data centers. This ‘different’ thinking has caused the data center to undergo drastic changes.