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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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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

Tech and tech-adjacent expenditures, including categories like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), cloud and data services, billing, software, network storage, business process outsourcing, telecommunications services, and data center technology, represent significant expenses.

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. There’s a demand for skills such as cybersecurity, cloud, IT project management, UX/UI design, change management, and business analysis.

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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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What legacy tech teaches IT leaders about projects that last

CIO Business Intelligence

I’ve had a number of servers fail in my data centers, and then there’s our mainframe, running code that was written over 30 years ago,” he said. “It And if a system can process and book revenue for transactions faster and more reliably than other systems, why change? It has never failed.”

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Fountainhead: Act Now! Top Opportunities for IT Transformation.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IMO there is a massive opportunity for leading change-management organizations to work with IT organizations to help them assess and execute this transition. Perhaps they have IT change management practices. Fountainhead.