By Rich Bourdeau
Today, the world revolves around applications. Creating, delivering and managing those applications is a formidable challenge for both Development and IT. By virtualizing all aspects of the data center (namely, compute, networking, security and storage), VMware customers are moving to a completely virtualized infrastructure. One that can be dynamically configured to meet specific application needs.
The modern data center is getting a lot smarter. We’ve got better systems, more optimally controlled resources, and the end-user experience is continuously improving. But there’s a lot more intelligence being built into your cloud platform than ever before. The sheer number of new users and workloads accessing the cloud has forced data centers and various organizations to adopt new, powerful, methods to delivery rich content.
The linkage between technology and future growth is strong. As McKinsey & Company characterizes, for western economies the growth of GDP will only come from the “do it smarter” companies that build a better business model.
Winston Saunders has worked at Intel for nearly two decades and currently works on making the data center more secure and efficient. Winston is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of Washington. You can find him online at “Winston on Energy” on Twitter
Looking for a way to save money and make your business more efficient? Virtualization can help you with both of those goals. Here’s a look at some of the benefits and best practices:
Take Advantage of the IT You Already Own
Virtualization can help you get more out of the IT infrastructure you have right now. Instead of the standard one-to-one relationship between servers and applications, virtualization allows you to consolidate multiple server tasks onto one machine.
Data Center Infrastructure Management vendors continued the race to add features and functionality to their software with a number of announcements at last week’s Data Center World conference in Las Vegas. Companies added to what their solutions can do by both building new features themselves and integrating with partners.
Robert Jenkins is the chief executive officer of CloudSigma.
Since the dawn of cloud computing, its appeal to businesses could be summed up in three words: scalability, availability and accessibility. But, cloud computing has been around for a while now, and like any other technology, we inevitably reach the point where people start asking what’s next. We live in an age where paradigm-shifting innovations are rolled out more often than at any other point in history.
Cloud services have provided a solid alternative for enterprises to consume IT services, but most organisations use a hybrid cloud that combines private infrastructure with specific external cloud services.
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The question asked then and now is still: When is a visitor or contractor a threat, and what can be done to mitigate that threat?
It has become expected that organizations provide wireless networks for visitors and staff but increasingly questions are being asked about the threats posed by outsiders given access to wireless services and allowed beyond into an organization’s network. Aside from combating the obvious rogue element it is also important to remember that such users can have malicious effects without intending it, due to malware existing, unknown to them, on their machines.
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No one would pretend that an organization’s threats and the effectiveness of its security policy should not be measured and quantified. But what does that mean in reality?
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