Think of virtualisation as a strategy rather than a technology. When considering the benefits, don’t look just at the hardware and energy cost savings, but consider business uptime particularly as downtime is virtually eliminated. With these types of benefits, most companies find it easy to justify the cost.
Small and midsize businesses are making virtualisation 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.
Every IT manager knows the importance of having an effective disaster recovery (DR) plan. Hopefully your business will never have to experience a major disaster. But having an effective disaster recovery plan with sufficient documentation, adequate testing, and well trained staff will increase your chances of survival when faced with a minor or major catastrophe.
It’s not a question of “if” you should virtualise your servers; it’s a question of “when.” In this paper we outline five steps you should take to determine when to virtualise your servers. So, if you haven’t started using virtualisation or you haven’t fully virtualised your IT environment, following these five steps to determine when
Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels — Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other smart touches — has often occurred in a piecemeal way. That has resulted in three potential mishaps: 1) inconsistent brand experiences; 2) poorly
Why does a leading online retailer invest in the most powerful general purpose mainframe in the world only to turn it into an image and video server? Yet that is exactly what JD Williams did. The company is a leading UK-based online retailer, selling products through more than 50 websites and 30 catalogs. The company
In 2000, the United States had nearly 135 million Internet users. As dramatic as that number seemed 10 years ago, the number of Internet users has grown exponentially: as of June 30, 2010, roughly two billion people are using the web. This adoption rate is even more strikinggiven the penetration of Internet use in Australia,
The What, Where and How of Application Security Why is application security such a hot issue moving into 2010 and beyond? Applications are becoming more pervasive, organizations are growing and implementing smarter software to support business process, product development and daily operations. The way businesses are dealing with their customers, their partners and their own
Software has driven corporate value like no other businesscapability for the past decade. As the planet continues tobecome more technically instrumented and interconnected,software will allow businesses of all types to derive intelligencefrom innumerable data sources in new, innovative and smarter ways.
Historically, the design of IT infrastructure did not always account forthe importance of security. System qualities such as “fast, cost-efficientor highly scalable” were prized ahead of “secure”. However, as our world has become increasingly more instrumented and interconnected,the incidence of cyber crime and data theft have only increased. Now, customer trust has intangible business value,