Controlling spiraling IT infrastructure cost and complexity is what drives interest in cloud automation. But what exactly is the return on investment on cloud automation technology? Based on a wide range of customer case studies, automating private cloud infrastructure management can improve the e ciency of cloud operations, resource management, accelerated virtualization and deliver enormous CapEx
Consolidating your datacenter through server virtualization with VMware® vSphere® has provided you with many benefits, including saving physical space, reducing power and cooling costs, lowering management costs and more. Now, you can apply the same basic strategy to dealing with end-user systems by virtualizing desktops— and reap many benefits. With the quantity and growing variety
End-user computing is changing. Gone are the days when IT provided a single, locked-down, corporate desktop to each user to primarily run Windows applications. Today, end-users expect to: • Move between endpoint devices throughout the day (desktops, laptops, tablets and cell phones) • Stay connected to their professional and personal networks via mobile electronic devices
We’re on the move more than ever before: from increased global travel, to our escalating use of mobile devices on a daily basis. Let’s face it, tweeting on smartphones and browsing on tablets have become as much a part of our day-to-day routines as brushing our teeth and getting dressed. This increasingly mobile world has
Cloud platforms are increasingly a viable option for a growing set of enterprise workloads. Business-aligned developers are aggressively leveraging public cloud platforms to build and deploy new elastic applications and to extend legacy capabilities. They have come to expect speed, choice, and cost transparency. Meanwhile, nearly half of enterprise IT shops claim to be building
At enterprises everywhere, private clouds are catching on. And increasingly, businesses are finding that an open hybrid approach to building private clouds is the best way to maximize their benefits—cost-effective, flexible computing and storage capacity without single-vendor limitations. That conclusion is causing IT leaders to seek out alternative providers of virtualization technology as well as
Enterprise IT infrastructures are being transformed into dynamic, virtual infrastructures to enable increased agility, lower costs, and higher service levels. However, while these new shared infrastructures combine virtualization, resource aggregation, logical allocation, dynamic workload relocation, and settings reconfiguration, they also introduce significant complexities to resource management and capacity planning.
Enterprise applications are changing. Traditionally, they could take years to write and they could live for decades. They were monoliths that had to be protected against failure at all costs. The decades of research and development that went into technologies such as failover clustering was ultimately in service of protecting the running state of this
If you’re like most organizations, your users and even your CEO are demanding “a cloud like Amazon” where they can instantly spin up servers through a self-service portal. And you may have given them something that looks like that. However, delivering a portal with scripted provisioning in a first-generation “cloud” isn’t going to deliver the
We wanted to show how SSL technology can help a start-up build its business online. So in the tradition of a Harvard Business School case study, we created a fictional company that uses real Symantec technology to tell the story. “Selling gadgets online was an obvious move,” says Gadget World1 founder Peter Hunter, “and there