Server virtualization isn’t just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost, and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It’s not a question of “if” you should virtualize your servers;it’s a question of “when.” In this article, I outline five steps you should take to determine when to virtualize your
Small and midsize businesses are making virtualization one of the hottest trends in IT. The reasons? Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of technology, frees up time to make their businesses more responsive and improves their ability to rebound from disasters.
You can’t read the news on technology without engaging in speculation on what’s about to be announced, the significance of what it will mean, who will be affected, and how the marketplace will change. Since the technology is not just institutional but very personal for those of us in IT, we must try to sort
For the past few years, it seemed that mature on-premise antivirus, antispam, and Web defenses were making progress against the rising volume of malicious code aimed at businesses from the furthest corners of the Web. But a new generation of organized, well-funded, and financially-motivated online criminals are now launching attacks using social networks, exploiting consumer
In a companion paper, we show how Security as a Service (SaaS) protects small and midsize businesses from an unprecedented storm of malicious code, while escaping the tradeoff among security, performance, and cost that premise-based security forces on them. This paper looks at the business issues in SaaS: the value it unlocks, the costs—direct and
No business is an island. For every organisation, the ability to communicate effectively with employees, customers and business partners, and to provide its employees with access to information as and when they need it requires that it maintain an online presence and enable its employees to access information on the internet. However, the reality today
The Challenge To introduce new applications for major clients in the insurance and rail transport industries, Atos Origin needed be able to support large numbers of users and high transaction volumes. The company required a high-performance infrastructure that could offer 24×7 availability. The Solution Atos Origin decided to implement the new applications in Linux environments
Building on Your SAM Foundation to Contain Costs If you’re reading this paper, the chances are good that you’ve started a Software Asset Management (SAM) discipline to survive your next vendor software audit with minimum fees and penalties. At this point in your SAM journey, you’ve probably implemented a basic entitlement program that allows you
A Software Audit Looms in Your Future If you are increasingly anxious about software audits, you have good reason to be concerned: midsize and large organizations can expect at least one software audit during the next 12 months, according to Gartner Research. Software companies have made it their business to collect on revenue losses from
As we travel around the world we constantly run into a class of information technology (IT) buyer that believes that all x86-based servers are essentially the same. These buyers base their acquisition decisions almost exclusively on low-cost and simplicity (which are indeed valid buying criteria). But, we believe that they are doing themselves a disservice