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Applied Research West recently tallied up surveys from over 1,700 organizations of all sizes from around the world for Symantec's annual State of the Data Center report. Unsurprisingly, the biggest priorities within these organizational nerve centers focused on availability and reliability of data, and on cost-saving measures such as virtualization, cloud migration and consolidation.
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Vivek Kundra, Sergey and Larry, and a number of others had big years in 2009. See who made our list for tech's biggest winners of 2009.
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Cloud computing and new mobility technologies gain focus as IT executives look beyond cost-cutting to new productivity and growth opportunities.
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CIOs need to build a strong business case for any new IT investment. But in this economy, it requires even more business-savvy.
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Many organizations are doing all they can to reduce the number of small or remote data centers that need to be supported. However, in some cases these cannot be consolidated into larger data centers or centralized data centers. So how can you reduce the costs of these satellite facilities?
One of the key ways to do this is to move from unique and proprietary data center physical infrastructure to standardized products. This approach provides key benefits that will save you money.
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CIOs at large companies may be bullish on cloud computing, but they’re also realistic. While they see the potential to for it transform many aspects of IT, they say the cloud’s shortcomings in critical areas such as security, compliance and monitoring are preventing them from entrusting their mission-critical assets to cloud providers. To date, large companies have, for the most part, limited their cloud computing engagements to non-critical applications, departmental deployments and temporary processing needs, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. In the meantime, CIOs will continue to monitor cloud computing’s evolution, and they’ll keep an eye out for any usage scenarios that might signal important advances it its enterprise readiness.
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Crowds gathered recently at the Moscone Center to discuss innovations in virtualization. With so many companies deploying virtualization solutions on a massive scale, this year's hot topics were around managing and optimizing virtualized platforms and systems.
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What Embarq Corp. learned during a major project.
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