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IT Infrastructure Management

IT Infrastructure Management : From a higher-level perspective, the remote infrastructure management process goes beyond support and management services, however. The entire IT infrastructure can be monitored by a RIM service provider to ensure a level of general fault tolerance should any portion of the infrastructure fail for some reason. (Source: www.wisegeek.com)

The Future of Cloud Computing: Unified Management and Automation

Section: Research

Tight budgets, outages in services and competitive pressures are leading to increasing numbers of organisations to adopt agile IT environments, namely deploying and managing resources more flexibly and cost effectively. This tension is creating a demand for highly automated unified management solutions to manage consolidated and increasingly dynamic IT operations in a unified way. Unified Manage ... read more

Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Centre

Section: Research

Today’s demands on the data centre have created an environment of escalating complexity and cost. As a result the simplification of data centre management has become the mantra of every organisation. Concurrently, with the advent of the cloud, requirements for business continuity through disaster recovery and high availability are increasingly becoming business critical requirements. As such, customers desire open software solutions that simplify IT, enable th ... read more

Better Together - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployment with Egenera

Section: Articles

The rewards of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment naturally start with, from the point of view of the end user, increased mobility between, better access to information, and more flexibility in access device type (PC’s, notebooks, Mac, Smartphones and Tablets). From the perspective of IT, VDI promises reduced costs thus boosting the bottom line and making IT look like heroes. This is the nirvana of virtually every corporation in the world. And while the ben ... read more

Ensuring SLA compliance and disaster recovery in the cloud

Section: Articles

A strategic move to the cloud is often driven by two or three key considerations, most often, these include the ability to reduce capital expense and establish more predictable operating expense, and establishing a more scalable and more easily manageable infrastructure. [ Unified Managemen ... read more

Is your IT budget innovating, or just keeping the lights on?

Section: Articles

Purveyors of information technology, particularly nimble start-ups created by still-idealistic innovators and entrepreneurs, tell us that their new inventions hold great promise for changing the way we do things. Although that message typically comes from their PR consultants, it nonetheless rings true, and many technological innovations such as cloud computing, virtualisation, and converged infrastructure models do indeed bring about disruptive change. And i ... read more

Cloud computing 'is an opportunity'

Section: News

Cloud computing presents a huge array of opportunities to businesses and governments, but organisations need to be acutely aware of the risks as well, it has been claimed. According to Dr Steve Hodgkinson, an Ovum research director, organisations need to look past the hype surrounding the technology and figure out exactly what it can offer them. Placeholder0He claimed that it is vital that firms and government departments "see the reality of both the opportunities and read more

Cloud computing 'shifts focus away from infrastructure management'

Section: News

One of the key benefits of cloud computing adoption is the fact that firms can shift their focus away from IT infrastructure management and toward their core business aims - i.e. their bottom lines. According to EuroCloud, businesses benefit by overcoming implementation and maintenance hurdles that often bog companies down.Phil Wainewright, vice-president ... read more

Data centre automation is becoming the norm

Section: News

Data centre automation is quickly becoming the cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure and more than a third of the businesses that Information Week recently surveyed claimed they are already using automation technology. The news provider also found that of the 345 companies it quizzed about virtualization and read more

Desktop virtualization 'needs to mature'

Section: News

A former Citrix employee has claimed that desktop virtualization is still some way off maturity and requires a certain level of technical expertise if it is to be implemented effectively. This could point to an increasing demand for outsourced infrastructure solutions that leave management and maintenance to a third party.Speaking to CRN, Simon Crosby, who used ... read more