The Management Challenge

Virtualization is good. But, how are you going to manage this dynamic environment?

Managing the virtual environment and its new infrastructure is critical to continuing the journey to the Cloud and to delivering IT-as-a-Service. But, there is a growing gap in IT infrastructure management cost and time spent and what needs to get done. This should come as no surprise since IT budgets have mostly gone to maintaining the old, not building the new for what seems like an eternity.

To net it out, the old silo approach to IT no longer applies. It’s now all about how to stand up services quickly. Continue reading

Managed View: a Blog About IT Transformation – From Silos To Services

It’s either a time of excitement or panic for information technology (IT) professionals.

The traditional data center is breaking through corporate walls and heading upwards and onwards to the Cloud, and from desktops to the post-PC world of mobile devices.

This transformation from silos of technology to user-services is turning data centers on their side moving the focus from vertical delivery of specific applications for lines-of-business to horizontal delivery of a catalog of services to be potentially spread across an organization. Continue reading