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IT Infrastructure
IT Infrastructure : The term IT infrastructure is defined in ITIL v3 as a combined set of hardware, software, networks, facilities, etc. (including all of the information technology), in order to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control or support IT services. Associated people, processes and documentation are not part of IT Infrastructure. (Source: Wikipedia)
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The day-to-day job of fixing recurring problems with all the network end-points that constitute a business’s IT infrastructure, whether they are in the data centre, the office or out in the field, can make the lives of those in the IT department a repetitive grind. How can they get out of this break/fix cycle to the sunny uplands of creating new value for the users they serve?
This research paper covers the following topics:
- Introduction – Earth’s tens ... read more
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Most organisations deliver joined up IT services as an important and fundamental part of the business. The key challenge is to make sure IT services and systems are delivered reliably and efficiently. How well does your IT department do in this area and what are the opportunities for optimising the delivery of IT services?
Key findings discussed in this report include:
- The passive evolution ... read more
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If you want to build a platform for the future with IT Infrastructure, then start here.
This research paper is based on a workshop that reviews what matters and what doesn't to non-enterprise companies, as they look at moving their IT Infrastructures forward.
The topics covered are:
- Survey into understanding best practice
- Service de ... read more
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Today’s open source is increasingly recognised for its ease of use, high performance and affordability, especially amidst today’s turbulent economic conditions. According to CIO.com, 53% of businesses are already using open source. Another 10% plan to deploy in the next 12 months.
In this white paper you will learn:
• Why businesses are increasingly turning towards open source
• &nb ... read more
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The experience users receive when accessing IT applications is critical to the effectiveness of many business processes. That experience is affected by the application operating environment, the user’s location and the network being used for access. To understand the overall user experience requires the ability to monitor all of these aspects and provide granular enough information to fine tune the IT infrastructure and ensure the optimal experience for all users.
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King's College London is one of the world's leading universities and prides itself on its intellectual rigour and academic research. Like other universities and educational establishments however, it has been subjected to the economic turmoil that has beset the UK - and the rest of the world.
One of the key pressures facing the institution has been the steady decline in the number of professors and lecturers since 2000. A 22 per cent drop in the number of ... read more
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To help understand what makes up the Cloud, Microsoft’s Darryl Chantry in an article entitled Mapping Applications to the Cloud, describes five broad categories that are used by service providers when mapping applications in the Cloud.
Below is a quick overview.
Cloud Infrastructure
In practical terms, cloud infrastructure refers to the virtual servers that provide the horsepower t ... read more
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Cloud computing represents the next evolutionary step toward elastic IT. It promises to transform the way your IT infrastructure is constituted and managed, through consumable services for infrastructure, platform, and applications. The big picture is to convert your IT infrastructure from a "factory” into a "supply chain”.
But there are a number of concerns with adopting this model, most notably around maturity levels, security and compliance, performance and reliability, ... read more
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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 te ... read more
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As cloud computing continues its swift transition from slightly nebulous industry catchphrase to real-world business-critical solution, we are getting a clearer picture of who cloud customers are and what is driving them into the cloud. Here are five major trends in today’s emerging cloud landscape.
SMBs and micro-businesses as major adopters of cloud computing technology. The basic value proposition of the cloud means that the SMB and micro-b ... read more
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The industrialisation of IT has long commenced.
Legacy systems requiring manual management of IT structure have fallen to the wayside, one by one, as automated cloud computing systems have usurped the place of typical IT professionals and infrastructure managers. Unrest has shaken the industry since at least 2010, and the same advice has been issued over and over again, in varying tones.
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According to a Cloud.com survey of IT professionals, yes, they do. At this point in the evolution of the increasingly pervasive dotcloud boom, the discussion has changed from whether to move to the cloud, to how to implement the cloud. Among those CTOs surveyed, scalability, elasticity, and the need to accommodate fluct ... read more
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Anyone familiar with government bureaucracies is likely to acknowledge that it will generally take a government agency ten weeks and a hundred people, to accomplish what a private company could accomplish in a single afternoon with a couple of clerks and a spreadsheet. Beyond that, government agencies do have an unfortunate tendency to reinvent the wheel.
Just take a look at any government RFP—specifications tend to be highly granular and unduly speci ... read more
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It should come as no surprise that it is possible to have a private cloud within a public cloud infrastructure, in much the same way as we have virtual private networks (VPNs) over the public Internet. The most common unschooled view of the cloud is unfortunately one of confusion, with the belief that it is an amorphous collection of compute resources at an indistinct group of third party sites. That definition more closely resembles the Internet itself, however. Before addressing p ... read more
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The mortgage and lending industry has faced major challenges over the past decade, not the least of which is the mortgage crisis, increasing reliance on unstable derivative instruments, and loss of confidence in major Wall Street players. Politics and financial gaming aside though, the mortgage industry faces another major challenge, and that is the need to leverage modern technology to the greatest extent possible.
The recent "robo-signing" debacle illustr ... read more
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In an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) scenario, the cloud-based service being provided will include virtual server space, network connections, bandwidth, IP addresses and load balancers. Physically the pool of hardware resource is pulled from a multitude of servers and networks usually distributed across numerous data centres, all of which the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining. Th ... read more
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The typical internal IT infrastructure is mired in complexity; costly and cumbersome to manage; and the opposite of dynamic and agile. Any on-premise server that is not fully utilised represents a costly waste of resources. Extrapolate that across the entire company, and the inefficiencies are likely to assume staggering proportions.
It is in this context that an organisation’s interest in cloud-based systems and services will typically originate. An overwhelm ... read more
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Application developers are increasingly relying on the cost and scalability benefits of cloud computing - particularly as the infrastructure solution becomes a mainstream technology. As a result, according to Datapipe, cloud computing is a vital part of enterprise IT strategic planning and software developers are slowly adopting this mindset.Ed Laczynski, Datapipe's vice president f ... read more
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The Australian government is set to use video conferencing to slash the amount of travelling that its members do, so that it can reduce its budget and deficit. Ministers are also planning on dropping or deferring smaller IT projects as they focus on a broader, standardised IT infrastructure overhaul.Australia's finance minister Penny Wong said that adopting read more
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Leading IT analyst Gartner has claimed that chief information officers (CIOs) are expecting a second recession in the sector thanks to growing turmoil in the eurozone. The company claims that, as a result, IT budgeting in 2012 will be even more important than it has been this year. Placeholder0Speaking at its annual Symposium and IT Expo, the firm's senior vice president Peter Sondergaard was reported by the Register as saying: "The second recession is about to hit and CIOs must d ... read more
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