What is Colocation? From the days of the first big mainframes, computers have required specialized facilities. But as computers have gotten smaller, the challenges of housing them have actually grown larger. Ever since the advent of servers, the Internet and ecommerce in the 1980s and ‘90s, technology managers have wrestled with the logistical challenges of
Running a successful business is about empowerment – both empowering your employees and empowering your customers. In today’s world, technology has become an integral part of that mission, giving adaptable businesses a critical edge over their slower-changing competitors – and never before has this been quite as evident as in the current transition to cloud
IT today is challenged by the need to proactively manage the IT infrastructure and have the agility to keep systems up and running. Without an unified approach, IT has a very difficult time seeing the true infrastructure picture and making sens of the data. In a dynamic and increasingly complex environment, only fully armed IT
In the application economy, the businesses that can deliver software innovation the fastest will win. As they seek to boost the pace of application innovation and optimize performance, organizations will only get as far as their supporting IT infrastructure will allow. This paper looks at the key challenges that keep IT organizations from optimizing their
Recently, Datamation and CIO Insight surveyed 223 IT decision makers from large organizations, to hear what they had to say about managing data with a single, cloud-based platform. Download the whitepaper to learn more about this survey.
It can be difficult to simplify and centralise the amount of data needed in today’s successful enterprise. That’s why CommVault has developed a new single platform to help avoid this painful issue facing the IT world. CommVault’s Intelligence Platform allows you to not only meet your present data needs, but also your future ones. The
In today’s marketplace, almost every employee is now a content contributor. This influx of new content, however, brings about new risks: Legal systems and government regulators worldwide are clamping down and demanding greater compliance, particularly on IT systems, making it essential that organizations quickly implement risk management protocols.
With Windows Server 2003 EOS fast approaching, we surveyed IT professionals in EMEA about their migration plans and their related power management strategies. According to the survey, there’s a huge move toward virtualised environments underway… yet many respondents still rely on traditional power protection. Given today’s highly complex IT environments, perhaps it’s time to consider
Smartphones are a fad. Tablets? Simply an unruly smartphone that got too big for its britches. Who needs them? Didn’t we do just fine all of these years without them and without all of this crazy untethered connectivity? And the idea of using smartphones and tablets for work, so users can be more mobile and
Remedying complex application performance problems often requires IT server, networking, and application administrators to assemble into a “war room” to troubleshoot the source of performance issues. Since each administrative team typically relies on its own discrete set of tools to monitor performance, these troubleshooting sessions can often be time consuming, contentious, and unproductive.