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The Future Enterprise, Part 2: A New Computing Vision September 24, 2011 
With issues such as cost, interoperability and energy usage in mind, we can now look to lay out a vision for the future of computing. The primary goals of today's sophisticated computing leaders are to manage complexity, reduce costs, and better enable organizations to reap insights from all of the new sources of information.
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Wrapping Personal Devices and Critical Data in Stale Policies September 21, 2011 
It's a myth that ostriches bury their heads when they spot danger. It sounds plausible, but in reality, they're just like us: In the face of imminent danger, they either run or attack. This makes sense when you stop to think about it. After all, one thing that seems almost painfully obvious is that ignoring signs of danger isn't an effective defense strategy.
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The Value of Architecture: Priceless September 19, 2011 
How has the definition of "business architect" matured, and why is it so important for this new role to flourish in today's dynamic business and IT landscapes? We see that CEOs around the world really are seeking fundamental change from IT. They recognize that we're at an inflection point. Why then is the role of business architect so important now?
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The Future Enterprise, Part 1: Why Businesses Need to Rethink Computing September 17, 2011 
The world of business is in the midst of a profound shift, driven by a convergence of forces -- technological, economic and social. As a result, information must be gathered and managed more efficiently and effectively than ever before, decisions have to be made at every level in an organization with more certainty and immediacy, and information technologies need to be as accessible and easy to use as a mobile phone.
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Singing in the Rain: How the Cloud Can Pour Down Money September 12, 2011 
Today's consensus is no longer around an "if" for cloud computing, but the "when" and what types of cloud models are best suited for any particular company. The present challenge, then, is about the proper transitions to leveraging cloud for improved IT and for far better business results. At VMworld, as part of the main keynote address, one company and its design and implementation of a private cloud rose above the rest.
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Hybridizing the Cloud September 06, 2011 
When we hear about cloud, especially public clouds, we often encounter one-size-fits-all services. Advanced adapters of cloud delivery models are now quickly creating more specialized hybrid clouds for certain industries. And they're looking to them as both major sources of new business and the means to bring much higher IT efficiency to their clients.
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Federal CIOs: With More Authority Comes More Accountability August 30, 2011 
A major initiative to improve federal information technology management, including IT procurement, got a boost recently, even though the person behind the reform had left federal service. Just days after taking over as federal chief information officer, Steven VanRoekel posted a blog supporting a new role for federal agency CIOs.
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VMware Floats a Global Cloud August 29, 2011 
VMware made a number of announcements at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas on Monday. Among its new projects is a global cloud offering. This is, so to speak, a network of clouds from multiple services in various countries. Customers will work with their local vCloud Datacenter service provider to get into the global cloud.
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The Automation Revelation August 29, 2011 
A UK-based managed service provider is on a journey to provide better information and services for its network, voice, VoIP, data and storage customers. The network management and productivity benefits have come from an alignment of many service management products into an automated lifecycle approach to overall network operations.
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Time to Step It Up, EAs August 22, 2011 
The Open Group Architecture Framework is maturing, and enterprise architects and business leaders are advancing and exploiting the latest Version 9. The full embrace of TOGAF, its principles and methodologies are benefiting companies in their pursuit of improved innovation, responsiveness to markets and operational governance.
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Is InfoSec Ready for Big Data? August 15, 2011 
Over the past few decades, most IT shops have followed a somewhat similar trajectory: Starting from a centralized model, computing resources, much like the cosmological Big Bang, have exploded outwards to become ever-more-distributed and decentralized. This makes sense given market dynamics.
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5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Boost Your Social Engineering Immunity July 19, 2011 
Let's face it: Social engineering -- attacking an organization through deception by "tricking" internal users into sharing inappropriate levels of access -- isn't a topic that comes up very much in most IT shops. This isn't because social engineering is ineffective or because organizations aren't susceptible to it.
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Tearing Down Silos With Holistic ALM July 18, 2011 
This enterprise case study discussion focuses on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and how they've been able to improve their applications' performance -- and even change the culture of how they test, provide and operate their applications.
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Open Source and the Democratization of IT July 12, 2011 
This podcast discussion centers on how the role and impact of integration has shifted, and how a more comprehensive and managed approach to integration is required, thanks to such major trends as cloud, hybrid computing and managing massive datasets.
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Bridging the Great Dev/Ops Divide June 30, 2011 
Under the legacy approach to software development, developers write code, which is then frozen, tested by another group, released and ultimately supported by yet another team again. Under this highly structured approach, large enterprise software applications are typically updated every 6 to 12 months, and up to several years can pass between major operating system releases.
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Breaches Everywhere: 5 Ways to Soften the Blow When It Happens to You June 21, 2011 
Is it just me, or does it seem like every day there's another breach to worry about? RSA, Epsilon, Sony, now Citibank -- it seems like a day doesn't go by where there isn't another high-profile breach in the news. It seems like everyone's getting hacked, and it seems like it's happening with increasing regularity.
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The IT Infrastructure Renaissance June 20, 2011 
This latest BriefingsDirect panel discussion on converged infrastructure and data center transformation explores the major news emerging from this month's HP Discover 2011 conference in Las Vegas. To put it all in context, a series of rapidly maturing trends around application types, cloud computing, mobility, and changing workforces is reshaping what high-performance and low-cost computing is about.
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Beyond War Room Network Management May 23, 2011
The IT news headlines are full of incidents of major cloud instances brought down for days, and unfortunately often weeks, with some of the largest of these due to network issues in association with virtualization and storage sprawl. The price in the cloud era for such disruptions is very high and very public.
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What Makes IaaS Tick? May 09, 2011 
This week's podcast provides a case study on how new forms of cloud-based integration are helping a major high-tech company build new relationships among and between extended enterprise business processes. We'll examine how Fairchild Semiconductor has been an early adopter of integration Platform as a Service.
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Brewing Data Center Superfuel May 04, 2011 
Data center Quality of Service and Total Cost of Ownership has a major impact on an enterprise's business growth and profits. IT departments and application developers seek architectures and deployments providing high service availability and resilient performance scalability to meet rising service demand while controlling capital and operating expenses. Tremendous technology advances have been made in recent years.
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