Fountainhead

AUGUST 9, 2011

Once you get a new tool, you ask: What can I build that I couldnt before? What every business craves is the ability to respond to new ideas (innovation) and to market pressures (competitive, consumers) faster and more completely - Agility. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.

Cloud 253

Cloud Data Center Enterprise Enterprise 253

Fountainhead

JULY 27, 2011

Although debate continues over what cloud computing means, clarity is beginning to take shape as public/commodity cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud models evolve. What of our IT organization, skill-sets and CIO’s? So if we now know how to build clouds, where does that leave our IT operations? Good timing. And dollars.

Data Center 160

Data Center Cloud Virtualization Mobile 160

A Screw's Loose

MAY 7, 2012

The choice that we are talking about here is not really one of beauty/simplification but of focus, and that one is focusing on what the user will actually be doing. Start by figuring out what the task(s) are that need to be accomplished. Instead, they will usually break up their tasks based upon what they are trying to accomplish.

Mobile 56

Mobile Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 56

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Everybody claimed they had it, but on closer investigation it had any number of poorly-defined meanings. Why is this important? When a new server (physical or virtual) is created, much of this infrastructure also has to be provisioned to support it. Datacenters are stove-piped, hand-crafted, tightly-controlled and reasonably delicate.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100