Cloud Infrastructure Matters [ Source: Red Hat ]

September 2012- New IT technologies and abstractions, such as cloud computing, layer on top of existing ones.This may make the foundational layers less visible, but they remain just as important (or even more so).

The capabilities of a specific operating system aside, the operating system as a technology layer remains highly relevant in a cloud computing world. It insulates the application from lower-level technology (such as hardware) changes, provides a rich set of services ...

Why the Future of Cloud is Open [ Source: Red Hat ]

September 2012- Choosing how to build a hybrid cloud is perhaps the most strategic decision IT leaders will make this decade. It's a choice that will determine their organization's competitiveness, flexibility, and IT economics for the next ten years. That's because, done right, a cloud delivers strategic advantages to the business by redirecting resources from lights-on to innovation. Only an open cloud can deliver on the full strategic business value and promise of cloud computing.

HP Converged Storage: Storage for the next era of IT [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

September 2012- As the amount of information we generate grows, and as our relationship with information grows more complex, there is a race to innovate new products and services to help us harness information, manage it, and tap into it more easily.

These new innovations allow us to connect more simply and effectively, when and how we like. This paper discusses these dynamics and explains how you can leverage technology to better capitalize on information ...

Cloud Computing for CIOs: Getting Inside the Mind of Your CFO [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

September 2012- Information Technology is now at the top of the CFOs agenda according to Gartner, 26 percent of IT investments require the direct authorization of the CFO and 42 percent of IT organizations now report to the CFO. Cloud computing, like the emergence of the internet, has the potential to radically change the IT and business landscape.

And while the CIO community has become well versed in the concept over the past few years, cloud computing ...

Scale-Out Storage Market Forecast 2010-2015 [ Source: Red Hat ]

August 2012- The core architecture of external storage solutions have gone largely unchanged for the past 20 years. Until recently, scale-out storage was a solution for niche markets. It has been tucked away in an IT corner, mostly used in HPC, scientific computing, and media and entertainment environments. A good deal of data center spending was put on hold, recently there has been uptake in scale-out storage, but adoption was clearly hampered by IT budget pressures. Now, with ...

The Economics of Scale-Out Storage [ Source: Red Hat ]

August 2012- Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. As this shift occurs, an increasing number of enterprises are seeking to understand the advantages of the newer technology when it comes to the storage of exploding amounts of unstructured data.

While many sources have investigated the advantages of scale-out storage from a technology perspective, few have taken on this ...

Optimizing data storage in federal government data centers [ Source: IBM ]

August 2012- Federal IT and data center managers face an unprecedented and inescapable perfect storm of requirements related to the management and security of mission-critical and mission essential data. The trite expression of having to"do more with less" is reality, not rhetoric.

Finding the right balance of security and agility along with the ability to adapt to changes that include consolidation, virtualization and modernization is a daunting challenge - one that is compounded by ...

From Virtualization To Cloud: A Worthwhile Journey [ Source: IBM ]

August 2012- Thirty-six percent of enterprise IT leaders surveyed said that implementing a private cloud is a high or critical priority for 2012, but Forrester research suggests that most of these companies aren't operationally ready to make this transition and need to take key operational improvement steps to get there.

Survey data suggests the main challenges are: 1)understanding the stark differences between traditional virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and 2)overcoming internal resistance to change.

This ...

Government by design - Using strategic planning to design the business of government [ Source: IBM ]

May 2012- Government by design is the concept of applying strategic planning for government in a form that gives a comprehensive view of your entire organization and the services your organization provides. With repeatable and analytical strategic planning capabilities, your government organization can analyze capabilities and resources to achieve goals consistent with your strategy and priorities.

This white paper introduces the IBM Rational? solution for government by design and describes how it can address growing ...

IBM Rational solutions for smarter government services [ Source: IBM ]

February 2012- Leading in the face of global challenges in our tumultuous time, where many governments face budget shortfalls and looming devicits and where governments in emerging economies are expanding services to improve the quality of life for citizens, services organizations are facing intense challenges.

Many government agencies serve as the frontline response to citizen needs and are experiencing significant increases in the demand for services. At the same time, agencies are generally operating with ...

K-12 and the Cloud - A Catalyst for Transformational Change [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

March 2012- You've seen the benefits that technology brings to education, not only for teaching and learning but also for management and administration. Yet given today's troubled economy, chances are you're also concerned about the cost.

As applications proliferate, how will you keep up with the constant need to replace or upgrade software, servers and high-performance desktops and notebooks? Maybe it's time to consider moving some or all of your district's computing to the cloud.<...

Getting Started with Cloud: Selection Process Revealed [ Source: IBM ]

August 2011- CIOs everywhere recognize the potential that cloud computing brings, but often are not sure about how to get started. This challenge is magnified by an economic environment that is putting increasing pressure on IT to deliver more business value at lower cost.

Do you consider cloud to be all about IT infrastructure? Think again. Cloud applications and services enable business innovation and IT transformation. Cloud enables innovation and transformation by lowering business and ...

The power of analytics for public sector [ Source: IBM ]

August 2011- Complex societal, economic, political and environmental pressures are placing intense demands on public sector organizations to make smarter decisions, deliver results and demonstrate accountability.

An unprecedented "information explosion" both facilitates and complicates the ability of governments to achieve desirable outcomes. A tremendous opportunity exists to use the growing mountain of data to make better, fact-based decisions. Yet, the volume of data and its increasingly diverse nature can also paralyze organizations.

Analytics ...