To fully take advantage of cloud computing, IT must transform organizations, operational processes and software technology. To optimize for the cloud, IT should follow these steps: Implement a cloud infrastructure center of excellence deploy and operate cloud infrastructure to meet service-level agreements
Implement a cloud tenant operations organization engage the CIO, financial governance and business units in the process
Develop symbiotic relationship collaboration between infrastructure and tenant organizations
Monthly Archives: March 2014
IT organizations must provide an enterprise-wide view of system health to avoid downtime of customer-facing systems.
Ops Management: 7 Features IT Needs
As virtual environments grow, IT organizations need management that delivers monitoring, performance and capacity information at a glance.
Virtualization Management: 10 Tech Tips
Lack of budget, tech expertise or a long-term strategy can prevent IT organizations from realizing the full potential of virtualization-driven IT as a Service (ITaaS) strategies. Business that have reached the ITaaS level of performance follow these best practices: Get executive backing of ITaaS
Develop an inclusive tech roadmap
Shift IT's focus to service delivery
Reinvent IT to align with virtualization, cloud
Replace manual IT processes with automated ones
Create a catalog of IT services
Give IT control over third-party and internal services
Virtualization Rollout: Advance Consistently
Business managers love tablets for portability and productivity benefits, but companies have nonetheless struggled with application access, business usability and security concerns.
Enterprise Requirements For Tablets Webinar
For higher education IT departments, bring your own device (BYOD) is already a reality, whether or not they have specific BYOD policies in place. While in some ways, colleges and universities are better prepared to deal with the BYOD trend than other organizations, the ability to offer device choice without sacrificing control or increasing security risks has become the new measure of success for higher education IT organizations