CIO decisions – Should I outsource my datacenter?
How much is too much? It’s hard to say – especially with datacenters. It’s a subject that has troubled CIOs who have over-provisioned in the face of soaring business demands and need to cut costs at the same time.
More and more frequently, the balancing act brings CIOs to one question: should they build and maintain their own datacenters or let others run it to help manage costs and enable growth? keep reading »
Filed Under IDC and Datacenter, Infrastructure Management
Migrating your datacenter – these tips could be handy
Nobody ever said datacenter migration was easy. Although moving mission critical systems and communications equipment from one site to another is no simple task, it needn’t be an overwhelming one. With careful planning, any company can organize its people, manage the communications, deploy a new design for the new site and move its datacenter equipment with confidence and ease. keep reading »
Filed Under IDC and Datacenter, Infrastructure Management
Virtualization in Manufacturing
While the benefits of server Virtualization at the corporate datacenter are receiving a great deal of attention, its ability to address lifecycle management issues may make Virtualization even more compelling at the manufacturing plant. Along with the advantages, however, come additional challenges and risks.In this post we discuss some of the best practices that can be used to benefit from server Virtualization today, while avoiding mistakes that could affect the availability and performance of mission-critical manufacturing IT. keep reading »
Filed Under IDC and Datacenter, Manufacturing, Virtualization
Electronic Design heads to the Cloud
Cloud computing is in the middle of one of the biggest build up cycles since the dot com days, and there has even been a recent flurry of interest in cloud computing for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Is this just propaganda, or is there really something of compelling value that cloud can offer for electronic designers? keep reading »
Filed Under Cloud Computing, Design
Driving through the Clouds – Cloud Computing in Automotive Industry
Global manufacturing is going through a period of transition, especially in the automotive sector. Every aspect of the automotive manufacturer’s businesses whether it is products&services or where and how they’re sold or what regulations apply across different geographies, even the fundamental business models of the industry – is going through a sea change, due to changes in the patterns of demand from the market. keep reading »
Filed Under Automotive, Cloud Computing, Virtualization
There is a life in the Cloud – Life Sciences take to the Cloud
At a leading pharmaceutical manufacturing company recently, a researcher needed to perform mission-critical clinical analysis. He estimated that he needed 50 servers to complete the work, but the pharma major’s internal IT group told him that provisioning that much hardware would take at least three months. keep reading »
Filed Under Cloud Computing, Pharmaceuticals & Life Scienes
Capitalizing on the Cloud – a case for Capital Markets
The Clouds usually make for turbulent flights and hamper perspective overall, but in many applications they can provide clarity, ease of operations and a platform for enhanced customer focus and responsiveness. Despite the issues of privacy and data sensitivity the first reports of effectiveness of Cloud networks for Capital Markets are in – and they seem very positive. keep reading »
Filed Under Cloud Computing, Financial Services
IPv6 – The future of Internet
While organizations worldwide are beginning to acknowledge their need to adopt IPv6, most are still struggling to define a workable strategy around it. In this article we analyze the challenges that companies will face when migrating to IPv6 and ways to overcome them along with migration strategies. keep reading »
Banking Applications – Is the cloud ready for it?
Although banks are attracted by the cost-efficiency and agility that the cloud brings in, the worries pertaining to the security (customized standards that banks are governed by) and the safety of storing sensitive information on the cloud hasn’t ceased. In fact while a few applications are ideal for cloud hosting, a few can still be kept away from it. keep reading »
Filed Under Application Hosting, Cloud Computing
Banks take to Cloud Computing
“We will never buy another datacenter,” said Michael Harte, CIO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to the Committee for Economic Development in Australia. “We will never buy another rack or server or storage device or network device again,” Harte continued. “I will never let any organization that I work for get locked into proprietary hardware or software again. I’ll never tell my teams in the business that it will be weeks to get them hardware provision. I’ll never pay up front for any infrastructure and certainly would never pay for any, or rent any, infrastructure that I would never use.” keep reading »
Filed Under Cloud Computing, Financial Services
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