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Virtual Possibilities 02/10/2007 11:58:28
Smart CIOs are using virtualization for more than data centre consolidation. They’re becoming masters of flexibility — delivering results for the business like lightning-fast provisioning and greatly improved disaster recoveryThere isn't much about Tom Sanzone that bespeaks drama. The CIO of Credit Suisse is direct, meticulous and practical, and it doesn't seem as if he'd suffer fools gladly, an impression partly informed by his New York accent, nearly shaven head and confident demeanour - +
Process Trip 04/02/2008 13:07:03
Why Maritz Travel revamped key business processes — and how business and IT came together to make it workWhen Rich Phillips became COO OF Maritz Travel about two and-a-half years ago, he sat down and took a hard look at the big industry picture - +
What Price Innovation? 05/11/2007 13:44:31
CIOs say they want more than the traditional “your mess for less” relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn’t it happening?CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening? - +
Doing Your Sums on . . . Build, Buy or Rent 05/11/2007 13:32:30
You’re trying to build a world-class IT team, but everyone’s going after the same talent pool. What mix works best? Should you grow your own, draft your players or barter your way to the line-up you want to field?CIOs should never forget that while new technologies have a maturity cycle, the maturity cycle for human beings in IT is even longer - +
Order Takers to Innovators 02/10/2007 15:20:08
How four CIOs energized their staffs to take risks with new technology and generate fresh value for their businessesWhen David Behen became IT director for Washtenaw County, Michigan, the department was little more than an order-taker. And not a very good one. It was kind of like the waiter who makes you wait, then brings the entree with the mains and brings you a bottle of Grange when you asked for a carafe of the house red
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A self-service Web-based TCO calculator was released today which estimates the return on investment of VMware infrastructure including a detailed report on potential cost savings.
The calculator is free of charge and available today at www.vmware.com/go/calculator.
IT decision makers can use the calculator to find ways to address escalating data centre infrastructure and administrative costs from hardware acquisitions, management, power and cooling, real estate and disaster recovery.
Virtualization is designed to allow entire server, storage and network farms to be managed as a shared utility and dynamically allocated to different business units or projects.
Using the VMware TCO calculator, customers now can quickly estimate the potential savings of implementing VMware Infrastructure as a core element of their IT architecture.
International Truck and Engine Corporation technology manager, Barry Naber, said the calculator allows customers to make decisions faster.
"We estimate that VMware infrastructure enables us to avoid $7,500 in hardware and maintenance costs for each server virtualized," Naber said.
"With 230 virtual machines now running our business-critical applications on only 18 physical servers in our data centre, the savings add up to approximately $1.7 million."
The calculator uses a methodology based on VMware customer surveys and experience in the field from working on production deployments.
VMWare's vice president of product and solutions marketing, Raghu Raghuram, said virtualization is an effective initiative companies can undertake to reign in the spiraling costs of maintaining an enterprise data centre.
He said the calculator can help customers to visualize the potential benefits of virtualization and assists them in creating a roadmap for getting started.
A 2006 VMware survey of more than 1,800 customers found virtualization technology can reduce hardware acquisition and energy costs by at least 30 percent, improved staff productivity by more than 30 percent and decreased server provisioning times by at least 40 percent.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
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CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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