Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 23rd February
Very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older. It's now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use -- and misuse -- in these enterprise data centers.
Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 22nd February
This latest BriefingsDirect discussion explores how converged infrastructure provides more business results productivity and offers a stepping stone to private cloud implementations.
The ongoing tiff between Google and the Internet control authorities in China have uncorked a Pandora's Box of security, free speech and corporate espionage issues. But there are also larger issues around security and Internet governance.
Enterprises are looking for ways to save on costs, and are constantly looking for different ways to more efficiently manage their distributed PC environments. All of these things are driving the high level of interest in virtualizing PCs.
With a commodity productivity application, the most effective delivery is on the lowest-cost platform or from a provider. The problem is that 20 or 30 years ago, people put everything on mainframes. They wrote it all in code.
Like a lot of big, old industries, the banking function is essentially a function nowadays of software, standard protocols, high-performance (yet standard) IT systems ... and soon impeccable cloud computing credentials.
