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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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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. I’ve written a bit about the agile data center over the last few months.

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Building an Agile IT Group

Eric D. Brown

Like the data center in most organizations, IT groups have been undergoing a transformation over the last few years. Thankfully, CIO’s have had the good fortune that cloud computing and virtualization were available to help transform IT operations and the data center.

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Broadcom’s Approach Towards Delivering Customer Value

CIO Business Intelligence

Half of that investment has already been earmarked toward accelerating the deployment of VMware solutions to customers, enabling us to increase cloud competition by growing and strengthening VMware’s customer base and bringing value to the on-premises data center while advancing software-enabled workloads.

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

Prior to its acquisition by HPE, SimpliVity supported its hardware accelerator and software on servers from a variety of vendors. It also offered a hardware appliance, OmniCube, built on OEM servers from Dell. Or is it going to be more like HPE with SimpliVity, where effectively all non-HPE hardware was shut down fairly rapidly?”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Years ago, someone at Symantec told me that more and more malware was written by 9-5 criminal hackers, working monday to friday. Hypponen: And that's why we now see these groups which run their own data centers or their own IT support have their own HR department, hire lawyers and hire business analysts.