Over the years, I have had numerous interesting discussions on IT Services Management (ITSM) with CIOs from various organizations. It gives me immense pleasure to see that many of these customers have moved forward in the ITSM continuum. It’s a positive change, both in terms of their understanding of the subject, and taking initiatives to implement it.
PTS has reached Premier Gold Reseller status with video wall manufacturer Hiperwall . Hiperwall is an innovative video wall and distributed visualization system manufacturer that lets you see the big picture in a brand new way. They ma k e a powerful video wall system that is software versus hardware driven, providing unmatched speed, flexibility and functionality in extremely high resolution.
If you could start from scratch and develop an innovative, bold new solution that could transform the way IT deploys and manages virtual workspaces with greater speed, flexibility and cost savings, what would it look like?
Project Enzo is a new hybrid cloud-scale architecture that is designed to combine the economic benefits of cloud-based VMware virtual desktops and application technology, with the simplicity of hyper-converged infrastructure to transform the IT experience.
Hyperconvergence is the ultimate in an overall trend of convergence that has hit the market in recent years.
Regardless of the size of the data center, the right mix of IT, power and cooling equipment, and how that equipment is integrated into the facilities, is key to maximizing efficiency and providing the flexibility to expand as needed. Successful integration of equipment into data centers depends on finding the right companies with site preparation,design, construction and management expertise.
Such designers and builders are often the unsung heroes of the data center. But not in CRN, as noted in the CRN 2015 Top Data Center Designers and Builders list.
So you’ve made the decision to relocate your data center operations to a new facility. Perhaps you are moving the operations to a data center colocation facility because it was going to be too expensive to upgrade your in-house data center facility, or perhaps your organization prefers an operational expense financial model over spending capital expenditures (cash) today.
In redefining our IT organization at EMC, we brought in consultants to bridge the old IT world with the new, devised a fresh strategy and workstreams to execute on our roadmap, and used added insights about our customers to define wins for IT. We still were struggling with several organizational components; we had not taken the leap fully into a services-based organizational structure. We had to address how teams worked together. Each group had its own goals and objectives, and what was important to our end customer was too often getting lost in the “interlock.”
Read the source article at EMC IT’s Journey to the Private Cloud
Your data center is a well-oiled machine processing massive amounts of user information, applications and complex workloads. You work hard to keep this machine running optimally with maintenance, powerful software tools, and knowledgeable engineers.
However, as more users connect and demand resources, your business model must evolve.
So how do you keep an eye on an ever-expanding data center platform?
