The past two decades have seen dramatic shifts in data center design. As application complexity grew, server sprawl pushed out the walls of the data center, expanding both the physical square footage as well as consumption of the most expensive part of the data center—energy.
So the focus turned to high density...
Published: Apr 17, 2014
The Promise of Business Intelligence, Delivered at Last
Every business trying to compete and win needs intelligence – about their customers, suppliers, products, partners, and markets. Over the decades, the pursuit of that intelligence has gone by different names, including Decision Support Systems,...
Published: Sep 27, 2019
Security teams have a difficult task to perform, and it’s not getting any easier. IT environments are becoming more complex, threats are becoming more sophisticated, and the number of known vulnerabilities is dramatically increasing. In addition, there is a critical shortage of skilled IT security specialists, and...
Published: May 29, 2019
The modern data center is no longer a singular location. Rather, new demands require the data center to be a geographically distributed network of resources. As new services, cloud components and users find their way into the data center model – there will be more reliance around the services that the data center...
Published: Aug 19, 2014
Enterprise mobility management suites are the glue that connects mobile devices to their enterprise workflow. End-user computing leaders must consider short-term and long-term objectives amid rapid market changes.
The mobile device management market has evolved into the enterprise mobility management suites market....
Published: Apr 20, 2016
This Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) research summary, sponsored by Riverbed®, highlights some of the key findings of EMA’s landmark report, “Network Management Megatrends 2016: Managing Networks in the Era of the Internet of Things, Hybrid Cloud, and Advanced Network Analytics....
Published: Jan 31, 2017
The benefts of a mobile-enabled workforce are undeniable and far-reaching. For business owners, increasing operational and business velocity is no longer tethered by time and place. The untethering benefts of mobility extend to employees, too, both in their personal productivity and in balancing their personal and work...
Published: Apr 20, 2016
When apps run efficiently, employees are more likely to use them.
The promise of unified communications (UC) is that it is supposed to increase efficiencies and make internal operations more seamless. But that only happens when it’s working properly.
According to Robin Gareiss, president and founder of...
Published: Jan 31, 2017
Cybersecurity is an unavoidable part of daily business operations for organizations of all sizes and industries. As reliance on information technology expands, so does an organization’s exposure to malicious actors. Hackers with sufficient capability and motivation can exploit vulnerabilities to breach the confidentiality...
Published: Aug 02, 2019
Securely improving employee productivity and mobility is a growing importance for businesses.
The way employees do work is changing and IT Adminstrators are finding ways to support them. With a modern enterprise web browser, businesses are able to support a fast, secure and productive infrastructure .
Find out...
Published: Aug 07, 2018
The adoption of ITIL is widespread and tens of thousands of companies are already reaping its benefits. But, as with any process, there are a number of common ITIL adoption mistakes to avoid.
When creating your ITIL vision and planning for integrating ITIL into your organization, you can learn by those who have gone...
Published: Oct 10, 2016
The demand for more power in the computer cabinet has led many data centers to upgrade to three phase power distribution. Proper three phase power distribution has traditionally meant dividing power into multiple branches within the rack PDU (Power Distribution Unit).
In this paper we will explore the advantages of...
Published: Aug 19, 2014
Informed by extensive EMA research and two compelling deployment narratives, this report examines what EMA calls “next-generation ITSM” and its contributions toward optimising changing IT and business requirements.
We will also contrast these advances with the risks of staying with legacy ITSM models and...
Published: Mar 13, 2017
With Windows 10, Microsoft introduces a consolidated operating system (OS) platform that changes how organizations treat the management of End-User Computing (EUC) environments. This new way of managing Windows is more closely aligned to the enterprise mobile management (EMM) based approaches found in mobile management...
Published: Apr 20, 2016