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- Cisco MDS and Emulex Virtual HBA Solutions for VMware Infrastructure 3: A Technology Overview for SAN Connectivity Using NPIV in a VMware ESX Server 3.5 Environment
- Virtualization. This one word speaks volumes and is first on the minds and the agendas of most IT professionals today - and it has to be. For the ever increasing service and resource demands placed on IT departments by users to remain manageable - or to become manageable - the...
- White papers 2007-10-08
- BMC Recovery Manager for Databases: Benchmark Study Performed at Sun Laboratories
- IT organizations are faced with backing up an increasing amount of data from an environment that is growing rapidly in complexity and these backups have to perform in ever-shrinking windows. Finally, organization needs to recover data quickly, whenever users need it. BMC Recovery Manager for Databases provides blazing speed in...
- White papers 2007-09-24
- Financing IT Improvements
- The average IT organization is being squeezed in the vice-like grip of maintenance and support of ongoing operations. As much as 80% of the IT budget is being consumed by these activities, leaving only 20% for strategic initiatives and innovation. This is an untenable situation, yet there is no easy...
- Research reports 2007-08-29
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services: Secure, Scalable, and Simple Central Management
- IT organizations are challenged with conflicting requirements: to consolidate costly remote-office infrastructure and to maintain adequate service levels for remote-office users. Cisco Wide Area Application Services WAAS provides the technologies necessary to consolidate infrastructure in the data center while also providing application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities that achieve application...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- SAN/iQ: Enabling Technology for Effective VMware Deployments
- IT organizations are recognizing the benefits of virtualizing their datacenters, and many of them are enabling server virtualization with VMware Infrastructure 3. VMware Infrastructure 3 allows IT organizations to manage their server infra-structure as a single pool of resources on which applications can be deployed and then moved dynamically from...
- White papers 2007-04-25
- IT re-org
- Hello,I am plan a IT re-org plan now, besdie effectiveness and efficiency, i want to put more "statistic" data to support re org objective. such like "IT system roadmap",or benchmark generic industry would some expert help ? thanks a lot
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- 20 things to consider when deciding on the structure of your IT organization.
- At some point in most organizations, the decision is made to centralize and/or standardize Information Technology Services. This need for centralization and standardization arises from the complexity that comes with increasing size and the difficulty of managing an environment that has multiple moving parts—many in different directions.The desire to take...
- Blog posts 2006-10-15
- Staffing levels for technical specialists
- As much as possible we like to spread around knowledge so even the deepest and most valuable technical specialists on staff get to take an occasional vacation or go on a course. I am often taken to task by business areas as to why we do not have more...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
- Regulation or Advocacy?
- In this world of worms, viruses, security vulnerabilities,hardware and software non-interoperability, and just plain old malfunction, it'sa wonder sometimes that IT organizations can remember that they are serviceproviders.Instead, because of the constant bombardment of threats andmalfunctions mentioned above, IT finds itself, almost by design, as ITregulators rather than enablers, finding...
- Blog posts 2006-01-15
- Designing for high availability: measurement
- By Floyd Piedad in conjunctionwith the Enterprise Computing InstituteAvailability: a user metricAvailability is measured from the user's point of view. Asystem is considered available if the user can use the application he or she needs.Accordingly, availability must be measured end-to-end - all components neededto run the application are available. Many...
- Technical articles 2005-06-30
- 3 Questions: Keeping IT focused during restructuring
- By Loraine LawsonWith Ronald G. Roberts, vice president and chief information officer of Agere Systems, a $2 billion semiconductor companyThis interview originally appeared in the IT Business Edge weekly report on Aligning IT and Business Goals. To see a complete listing of IT Business Edge weekly reports or sign up...
- Technical articles 2003-12-10
- Download our policy on ethical conduct between IT employees and vendors
- When you need to purchase a product or service from a vendor, you’re wise to consult with the employees who have the most experience with that product. For example, it only makes sense to talk it over with your network administrator if you’re planning to switch from one operating system...
- Technical articles 2003-09-12
- Download our revised tuition and training reimbursement policy
- It wasn't too many years ago that employers were offering seemingly everything to enhance their employees' work experience and keep them from hopping from job to job. Companies brought in massage therapists to help employees decompress, offered free breakfasts, allowed workers to bring pets into the office, or even sponsored...
- Technical articles 2003-08-01
- Plan your benchmarking approach before starting to collect metrics
- Let’s say you're an IT manager with several years of management experience in your organization. Your CEO comes to you and asks about the productivity of your IT staff. You reply that you think your staff is productive and your internal metrics all show improvement. However, your CEO has an...
- Technical articles 2003-07-08
- The CIO's first 90 days: Laying the foundation
- By Ralph Boethling IIThe most important period in a CIO’s career is the first 90 days. This is a honeymoon period during which executive management and the board of directors may be most receptive to the CIO’s needs and concerns, including requests for special resources such as staff and funds...
- Technical articles 2003-03-21
- Measuring the results of an acquisition
- In the final part of his due diligence series, Mike Sisco explains how to best measure the results of an acquisition or merger success. He also offers a simple chart template that you can use to provide data results to corporate leaders.The only real way to determine whether you’re successful...
- Technical articles 2002-12-23
- IT should establish realistic availability requirements
- Before you can determine your availability requirements, you must find out what your users really need and expect. These suggestions can help you determine the best availability definition for your organization.Too many IT organizations focus on providing "high availability" according to the IT department's definition. Instead, it's the end user...
- Technical articles 2002-12-10
- Introducing ITIL standards for service to your clients
- The Information Technology Infrastructure Library can offer your clients a best practices framework for IT projects and processes. Here are some advantages of ITIL, how you can learn more about it, and how you can introduce it to your clients.An effective IT organization aligns itself with the business that it...
- Technical articles 2002-09-23
- The new CIO management strategy: Consultants 'R' Us
- Revamping IT into an internal services organization--aka a consulting firm--won't be easy, but it will afford IT new respect and provide unexpected payoffs, including better expertise and a new revenue approach.It’s a bad time to be a consulting company. First, the Internet bubble burst, driving several notable consulting firms out...
- Technical articles 2002-04-25
- IT's responsiveness tied to agility
- Despite the lull time provided by a down economy, most CIOs today aren't primed to respond quickly when market conditions improve. We'll tell you how to prepare so that the IT unit can be ready when the need for tech solutions spikes.As the economy slowly steers out of a recession,...
- Technical articles 2002-03-25
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