Todays IT infrastructure is complex. The number of IT
assets in the infrastructure that an enterprise level organisation must manage
can be overwhelming – different platforms, devices, servers, applications
databases and more. And the sheer volume of activity that occurs in this
infrastructure is almost too large to imagine. Many organisations have
technology located in different places around the world. [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by admin
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Complex security policies
can be difficult for employees to follow, it is unrealistic to leave
security in the hands of mobile employees. An effective enterprise security plan should
provide for simple, automated, scalable, and comprehensive ways to protect IT
investments and maintain worker productivity. Organizations must approach
security from a comprehensive perspective that ranges from the desktop to the
data center, [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2010 by admin
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3scale Networks, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of API management solutions, has raised $800.000 in equity and loans from Spanish VC Inveready Seed Capital and public entities like NEOTEC and CIDEM / ACC1Ó.
3scale essentially provides a SaaS API management infrastructure solution that enabled Internet-based companies to secure, control, monitor and generate revenue from the distribution [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by admin
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Many of the largest IT budget
problems can be traced back to five big money drains:
Storage
expansion – IT departments are already
stretching their budgets for storage, and the demand is only going to grow.
The volume of data an average business collects and stores actually doubles
every 18-24 [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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NASA has issued a final request for proposal for a menu
of information technology services such as e-mail, security management, instant
messaging and mobile communications. Estimates have pegged the work as worth
$2.5 billion. The project, Agency Consolidated End User Services (ACES), is
designed to consolidate services across NASA into one agencywide solution. The
requirements are currently met through the [...]
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VA infrastructure is
changed and projects are cut.
To improve management of ongoing projects, as of Feb. 15 every IT
project in the department, and about 250 IT projects overall, are being managed
through the Program Management Accountability System introduced in July. The
system requires IT projects to deliver new functionality within six months and
to meet project milestones. The VA [...]
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Often a departmental business manager submits a request to the
IT organization for a new server to host a critical business-intelligence
application. The request itself is unremarkable; after all, it is common for a
business unit to ask IT to deploy additional hardware infrastructure to
support their application requirements.
However the company may have multiple similar requests in queue,
and [...]
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The CIO struggles to manage Infrastructure as they
prepare for change
While the business faces changes that require more agility, IT
is seen as lagging behind - even when CIOs carefully manage business and IT
alignment:
IT objectives still include only cost reduction and quality.
IT objectives rarely reflect enterprise agility objectives. CEOs want greater
agility but do [...]
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