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Strategy

Strategy: Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations. (Source: www.tutor2u.net)

The Perfect Storm-Time to Review Client Computing Strategies

Section: Research

As different needs and issues converge on businesses and IT managers around managing costs and risk while creating an enabling environment, technology advances now mean that client-side computing can be more tightly controlled while still providing flexibility and cost effectiveness. read more

11 Points to Prepare for Cloud Adoption

Section: Articles

With cloud adoption rapidly accelerating, today’s IT leaders must learn to execute dramatic shifts in IT technology, processes and staffing, or else suffer the consequences of poor cloud integration. What steps should decision makers take to ensure their departments and organisations thrive inside the cloud? The following are eleven essential points to prepare for cloud adoption in today’s IT environment. Prepare for the shift. It can be temp ... read more

Cloud computing risk factors, and the real and imaginary bogeymen that lurk in data centres

Section: Articles

Nearly every company, from one-person startups to FTSE 100 enterprises, either has an active cloud strategy or is at least considering one. The maturity of the technology and robustness of cloud data centre offerings has overcome most irrational fears of the cloud and the technology has earned its place in the canon of acceptable business practices. Excitement abounds over the prospect of lowered or nonexistent capital expenditure, the ability to roll out a project on a ... read more

Developing a Virtualisation Strategy

Section: Articles

In all the enthusiasm generated by quick savings and speedy results, many organisations have faltered in developing a strong virtualisation strategy. By not adopting a sustainable, long-term outlook of their virtualisation technologies, these organisations are short-changing themselves in terms of long-term ROI and stability of virtualisation systems. Adopting a virtualisation maturity model can help organisations develop a strong virtualisation strategy, thus helping ensure sustainability, ... read more

Let your business goals determine your server virtualisation strategy

Section: Articles

Having a solid plan - and in so doing, avoiding common mistakes - is the first step. The key question is whether to roll out that virtualisation plan with an on-premise, in-the-cloud, or hybrid strategy, and the answer is seldom obvious. The four key elements of a virtualisation strategy include: 1. Assess your data centre. It is very likely that if you are only just s ... read more

Moving to the cloud: All-in, or a-la-carte

Section: Articles

A decision to “move to the cloud” is often described incorrectly, as an enterprise often makes that decision strategically on a case-by-case basis. The question is not whether the cloud is appropriate for business. It is. The question rather, is whether the cloud is appropriate for specific uses within the business.The resulting strategy then, is less focused on deciding whether to move to the cloud at all. The first step in a cloud strategy is to undertake a cloud assessment model, ... read more

Virtualisation - The Importance of a Clear Vision and Strategy

Section: Articles

Virtualisation, with its promise of significant cost reductions, rapid deployment and improved system availability, has seemingly come to the rescue of IT departments charged with doing more with less. But has there been too much focus on the quick savings and results of virtualisation, rather than its long-term benefits? New NCC research

Virtualisation Works, But it Requires Solid Planning

Section: Articles

Virtualisation, which encompasses a number of options that include server consolidation, storage optimisation, application and network virtualisation, and desktop provisioning, is by all accounts here to stay. Most organisations have embraced some form of virtualisation, even if it is only used in test environments.But does virtualisation work? In his incisive assessment of the challenges currently facing organisations as they adopt and manage virtual environments, Clive Longbot ... read more