Posts Tagged ‘Infrastructure’

In my last post, I wrote about trends in IT Management, SDDC, DCIM and the business itself that are creating a new approach to IT operating models and the building process itself.  (You can read that article here.) As infrastructure becomes increasingly consolidated, standardized and virtualized, converged devices such as Vblock, FlexPod, VSPEX, vStartNutanix,Calxeda and the Open Compute Project consolidate incumbent Server, Storage…

What high performing organizations know about cloud-based DevOps  Are you inadvertently robbing your organization of agility? If I were to make the following statement to people from across a variety of corporate business units, I really think there would be negligible debate. “Accelerating the speed at which the business delivers new applications and services is…

We are excited to announce today that ServiceMesh has joined the EMC Select Program.  As the title of this post indicates, we are focused on unlocking XaaS (everything as a service) IT, and the partnership with EMC is an enabler to this mission as ourAgility Platform™ is now available for purchase through EMC® Select, a…

IT Transformation is becoming a top priority for most enterprise organizations. The goals are driven at the executive level, and tied directly back to shareholder value. In the past, such bold initiatives would suffer an inevitable and often deliberate death--succumbing to corporate anti-bodies, bureaucratic roadblocks and shortsighted execution. Today enterprise CEO's recognize that the processes…

You’ve decided to create your first private cloud. This can be both an exciting and complex endeavor. Since you’re asking about hardware and software, let’s assume you’ve already evaluated the business drivers and uses cases: Your use case(s) are not a fit for public cloud. You have internal staff capable of managing and supporting your…

The hero culture is alive and well in IT. They’re sometimes known as the “Firefighters”. These are the heroes who come in at all hours of the day and night to put water on the latest IT fire.  In many organizations a “good” fire fighter is admired and appreciated more than a good developer or…

Although we’re still in the early stages of cloud adoption, it is already having a profound effect on the IT organization and how it approaches doing business. To effectively utilize cloud capabilities, you need to adapt your human and software processes for the new paradigm of “just-in-time-IT”. If you can deliver a new application or…

Agile IT unlocks and enables tremendous business value.  That, plain and simple, is the “why.” In other parts of this site, we have explored the what, the how, and the why of Agile IT. Each of these dimensions is equally fascinating and complex. Agile IT has a dramatic impact on the people, processes, and technology…