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How do you find the metrics that address the concerns management has? The answer involves taking an outward versus an inward perspective to IT business intelligence -- starting with service level agreements (SLAs). Many IT departments fail to get clear SLAs determined with their own organization. Partly because they can't articulate the risk -- and business can't articulate what it wants.
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Virtual infrastructures are a fantastic solution to the challenges of distributed server architecture. Yet, customers have experienced an increase in storage requirements after implementing their virtual infrastructure. While there are pitfalls involved with server and storage virtualization, be sure that your company understands the challenges before deployment.
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The push to consolidate equipment and reduce costs means companies must better monitor ROI and invest strategically. Companies involved in deploying wireless networks, VoIP communication and backbone upgrades face cost and customer-based decisions. By embracing an intelligent network platform, companies can customize network architecture and feel assured they have made a long-term investment.
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The problem is change; the solution is change. Like firefighters setting controlled burns to combat forest fires, IT managers are addressing the demands of business change by introducing change of their own. To meet new business needs, new applications are deployed on new architectures using new technologies.
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Virtualization is a hot-button issue in enterprise IT today and is living up to its initial promise. Through key strategies outlined in this white paper, virtualizing older IT systems on a few highly scalable, highly reliable, enterprise-class servers, businesses can reduce a myriad of costs related to hardware purchases, provisioning and maintenance.
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One of the most elusive challenges facing IT today is getting the right tools to run a global business on a single, integrated technical host. A new software platform involving grid computing can integrate large amounts of information and allow companies to make that fundamental and essential shift to a more global system.
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