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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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What legacy tech teaches IT leaders about projects that last

CIO Business Intelligence

Rationalizing applications, reinventing business processes, capitalizing on the cloud — all point to legacy systems as the dead weight and sunk costs modern day IT organizations must move beyond to reach their digital potential. Even in an era of constant change, the downsides of change must be taken into consideration.

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Cloud hosting: Look beyond cost savings and weigh pros, cons

Cloud Musings

An organization’s decision to move to the cloud is, above all else, a cultural change that could affect much more than the IT department. First, using either cloud computing or traditional data center hosting comes with a decision to outsource all or a portion of your organization’s IT infrastructure. See Table 2.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Fountainhead.

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the biggest changes in the last few years has been the approach to the workforce, with many organizations adopting new approaches to what is an organization’s most valuable asset: the workforce. Activate business continuity plans and applicable strategies.

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Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

CIO Business Intelligence

He has people from infrastructure, cloud, cyber security, and application development on his team. What is the overall IT ecosystem—infrastructure, architecture, integrations, disaster recovery, data management, helpdesk, etc.? What legal entities are providing/contracting/owning hardware, software and/or facilities?

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Fountainhead: Predictions: What You WON'T See in IT For 2012

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Simply implementing a tool (BTW, most of which are still only tenuously integrated with each other, as well as with hardware and networking platforms) wont solve the problem for you. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).