Archive for July, 2010
Data Center Transformation Part 4: Dynamic Provisioning
Posted in IT Transformation on July 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
This is the fourth part in my series on data center transformation. My last post was on storage transformation and the impact of storage virtualization on the data center. In this post I will address the impact of Dynamic Provisioning on the Data Center.
Data Center Transformation Part 3: Storage Transformation
Posted in Best Practices, IT Transformation, Virtualization on July 19th, 2010 1 Comment »
This is the third part in my series on data center transformations. My last post was on server transformation and the impact of virtual servers on the data center. In this post I will address the impact of storage transformation on the data center.
Data Center Transformation Part 2: Server Transformation
Posted in IT Transformation, Virtualization on July 13th, 2010 7 Comments »
This is the second post in my series on data center transformation. In my first post, I offered up several warning signs that indicate why it is time to take action and transform your data center to be agile, sustainable, and business-oriented. We believe achieving a meaningful level of responsiveness to changing business and economic [...]
To BIN or not to BIN, that is the question
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Industry Talk on July 7th, 2010 8 Comments »
Hamlet was depressed when he posed the question, “to be to not to be”. There was no questions in Barry Burk’s mind when StorageNerve asked Michael Hay “ Where is the Hitachi BINfile” and Michael answered “Hitachi doesn’t have the concept of a ‘BINfile’.”
Data Center Transformation Part 1
Posted in Best Practices, IT Transformation on July 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
Andy Kyte from Gartner was been sounding the alarm for data center modernization for a number of years. He warns that the data center is headed for a train wreck. and he provides the following warning signs which I am paraphrasing here:
