Traditional server consolidation achieves cost reduction through consolidation of hardware and software but often compromises performance, availability and agility. Server consolidation using virtualization technology offers simplified architecture while reducing...
costs and enhancing agility and flexibility of an enterprise. This paper showcases the benefits of virtualization using Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors to consolidate servers and reduce total cost of ownership.
Organizations with a large number of IT assets have complex relationships that undergo frequent changes. Asset information continues to be recorded in individual non-interlinked sources, which creates the risk of being unable to accurately report on IT assets.
IT Service Management (ITSM) is evolving as a crucial component in aligning business with technology. Implementing ITSM successfully requires appropriate technology support. Selecting the toolset appropriate to your specific requirements...
and building a case to justify the investment is a fairly challenging exercise.
Increasingly, enterprises are exploring novel approaches to sourcing IT services. More often than not, multi-sourcing is the chosen model . Multi-sourcing requires strong governance...
If implemented judiciously, operational level agreements can be the comprehensive methodology for promoting cross-vendor cooperation.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the 'new face' of enterprise computing and IT services. There is much debate over SOA issues such as application models, service granularity, interfaces, re-use economics, etc...
What is not known is how some of the so-called esoteric technologies such as grid and virtualization make true SOA realizable in practice.
In the wake of threats from viruses and terrorism, information security is vital in an IT-dependent environment. Organizations need to view the components of an information security program as services and apply IT service...
management principles to change stakeholder outlook and deliver value through information security.
Organizations face a unique challenge in implementing Business Service Management (BSM) - the 'Information Conundrum'. What information to track? When do the costs of tracking information outweigh its benefits?...
These issues, if not addressed, may affect BSM implementation adversely. This paper addresses these issues and explains the pitfalls that need to be avoided in BSM implementations.
The need in this era of information overload is mature metrics that are indispensable in accelerating Business Service Management implementations.
Linux has come to represent the Open Source movement. The core of the Linux OS is the Linux kernel. It supports a wide variety of hardware with excellent support for clustering and virtualization technologies Further, its open source nature has led to excellent security features.
There is a need for a clear and strictly enforced security policy, employee awareness and the implementation of a mobile security solution. Infosys elucidates.
Organizations face several challenges in improving customer experience. IT service management, though an evolving area, helps align complex and diverse IT services delivery and operations with business needs by focusing on an integrated process-based approach.
Application provisioning on dedicated servers and over-provisioning hardware for peak loads have led to server proliferation and low utilization.
Hardware over-provisioning has led to high TCO and low ROI on IT infrastructure. Virtualization helps address these issues.
Enterprises are witnessing server sprawl as low cost x86 boxes make their way into datacenters. Application provisioning on dedicated servers and provisioning hardware for peak loads have led to abysmally low server...
utilization. Xen, based on para-virtualization, is an ideal solution for server consolidation, enabling higher utilization and better management of hardware