September 2007
In this issue

√ Managed Services
√ Virtualized Enterprise
 √ How to Circumvent IT
 √ Instant Search
 

 Did The Wall Street Journal sabotage businesses by publishing tips
on how to circumvent IT?

In the Monday, July 30 edition of The Wall Street Journal, there was a special section on technology that led with the article "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You" by Vauhini Vara. If you haven't read the article, you should take a look because some of your users may have have already seen it, and as a result they may be engaging in activities that put themselves and your IT department at risk.

Here is the list of the 10 items in Vara's article:

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Do You Need Managed Services?

Are managed services a better choice than the way you are doing things now? Like everything else in your office, the answer will depend on how you want to measure it.

Your first step is to answer these four questions.

  • Do your employees need to regularly enter data or retrieve information from a centralized server or database? The more they rely on this, the stronger the case for managed services.
  • Do your employees rely primarily on e-mail communication with important clients, vendors and partners? Again, the higher the impact on your bottom line, the more you should consider managed services.
  • Do you use e-commerce? You don't want that capability lost for a minute - period.
  • Does your network go south occasionally? And, consequently, are your employees unable to use e-mail or access network data? One of the ways to justify managed services is to calculate the cost of your people sitting on their hands.

If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, you now need to talk to someone who can help you identify the specific issues related to your company. The difficult part is deciding who to talk to. These are the five points you should consider:
Building the Virtualized Enterprise

Executive Summary

IT organizations are still grappling with the legacy of the IT explosion of the 1990s, which left many of them with high costs, slow response times, and an inconsistently managed infrastructure. Today, IT organizations that want to give their enterprise a sustainable competitive advantage need to:
  • Reduce infrastructure costs through more efficient use of resources.
  • Respond faster to business needs so projects get deployed more rapidly.
  • Increase the consistency and predictability of operations.

This paper will clarify how adopting VMware infrastructure – the combination of server, storage and networking virtualization technologies — as a fundamental IT strategy helps organizations to achieve these goals.

VMware Infrastructure allows IT teams to continuously consolidate workloads to maximize server utilization and decrease operational costs. It allows system administrators to manage a higher number of servers, and it delivers more flexibility and responsiveness in provisioning new software services and maintaining existing ones. Most importantly, it standardizes and simplifies the management of diverse x86-based environments across Microsoft Windows®, Linux, Sun Solaris x86 and Novell NetWare® operating systems. Read more


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