In 1906, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto created a mathematical formula to describe the unequal distribution of wealth in his country, observing that 20% of the people owned 80% of the wealth. If you think about it, that 80/20 rule applies to just about everything. Likely you wear 20% of the clothes in your closet 80% [...]
Even with the latest infrastructure technology, IT departments must continue to support applications running in both bare-metal and virtualized environments. This causes a few problems for IT managers including: Staggering growth means complex infrastructures need to become more efficient to adapt dynamically to workload demands and use servers, storage, networking and power optimally. Manual assembly requires [...]
Jumbo jets have autopilot so advanced that they can take off or land a plane full of passengers on their own. Why does it work so well and why is it so reliable? Because it’s completely integrated with the critical systems of the plane, and it’s been tested over and over again. Unfortunately, most data [...]
Two technology leaders team up to make virtual desktops as secure as physical ones. Fresh off the success of server virtualization, organizations everywhere are taking the next big step to cloud computing migration, pulling the OS and applications off their physical desktops and managing OS, applications and data virtually. Like other virtualization before it, desktop [...]
Picture all of the parts that make up your IT foundation. Much like an automobile, each year manufacturers produce new models and update parts to make the latest data center faster and more efficient than the last. Preparing your car for the open highway is much like updating your IT foundation: there are many interacting [...]
Over the next five years, a billion more people will be using the internet with an estimated 15 billion connected devices and untold more visual and interactive content, increasing the internet’s data footprint to over 1,000 Exabytes – or (get used to hearing this term a lot more) – 1 Zettabyte. This trifecta of more [...]
Out of many, one. The history of enterprise computing has been marked by compromises between scale and simplicity. As systems increased in scale, they also increased in complexity, and as complexity increased, so did the expense of deployment and ongoing management. That’s why it’s hardly surprising that today more than 70 percent of IT budgets [...]
Oracle’s new Database Appliance is a game changer in its ability to accommodate and support growing organizations in their uncertainty. For most organizations, all signs point to growth and expansion in 2012. But the great recession has left budgets slashed, staffing resources limited, and the scope and pace of that growth uncertain. IT directors are faced with sourcing [...]
As IT organizations shift to providing services through an elastic, self-service, pay-as-you-go cloud computing model, they must still continue to support applications running in bare-metal and virtualized environments. We have identified three major problems that are key to overcoming data center infrastructure challenges. 1.) Too many devices need setting up, management, power, cooling, and cabling Rack-mount [...]
Inundated by the variety, velocity and volume of data? Now your small or midsized business has an all-in-one solution to help you rise above it. Emails, webpages, documents, multimedia and now social media – organizations are struggling to maintain, manage and mine all that data. And it’s only going to get more challenging. In [...]
