Optimizing IT
Help businesses lower infrastructure complexity through consolidation, virtualization and even energy savings. It includes a creation of a resilient and dynamic IT environment.
Green Computing
Saving has always been a business value. With the greening of the data center comes the greening of the balance sheet. In this Executive Briefing, we provide tips and tricks to help reduce power consumption, waste and chaos.
Virtualization
As disruptive technologies always seem to do, server virtualization crept up on us quietly and then sprang. First viewed with suspicion, even dismissed as a lightweight gimmick, server virtualization quickly caught on in development and test labs and eventually earned a seal of approval for energy-saving consolidation initiatives. Today, virtualization has gone mainstream. According to The Yankee Group's 2006 Global Server Virtualization Survey of 750 businesses, 62 percent of respondents said they already had a virtualization solution in place or were in the process of migrating to one. Only 4 percent did not have plans to tap server virtualization. Companies are using virtual servers not only to make more efficient use of hardware resources but also to simplify disaster recovery and achieve new levels of automation. Read on for an inside look at these promising technologies and their implications for the enterprise.
Bigger Bang for the Buck
IT consolidation efforts, coupled with technologies such as virtualization, storage area networks, blade servers, grid computing and Linux, are coalescing into a potent mix that can help companies begin to restore the balance of capex to opex spending. A look at the core technologies making it possible.