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Less is More with Virtualization

If you think that the virtualization market is starting to mature, you may want to think again.  In fact, even though perhaps as many as 85 percent of large companies (and 67 percent of middle-sized companies) have implemented virtualization solutions to one degree or another, the market and the technology is developing rapidly and the potential ways to implement virtualization are growing. The key to understanding those trends is to think both bigger and...

Smarter Planet? Think Local

In the information technology arena, sometimes a marketing campaign can make a difference.  Intel’s Intel Inside program led consumers to actually realize that what was inside their devices counted.  Perhaps even more impressively, Apple’s Think Different fanned the embers of extreme loyalty among Macintosh users and we know where that ultimately led.

After four years, IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign has risen to the same level. When the IBM chairperson Sam Palmisano kicke...

People with their eyes peeled to the blogosphere have picked up word that IBM is ready to unveil a major new server platform at a Webcast on April 11.  It’s dubbed internally as the Next Generation Platform and externally as an “expert integrated system”.  According to the invitation to the Webcast floating around the Internet,  the system will “integrate built-in expertise, integration by design and a simplified overall experience,” that will, once again, “change the economics of computing”.

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Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) are one of the essential lynchpins in Healthcare IT. In the long run, EHR will be the comprehensive record for patient care. Even a basic EHR will contain a listing of all of a patient’s diagnoses and help prevent harmful drug interactions. And if we’re lucky, EHRs will also eliminate the need to fill in all that nasty paperwork with complete health histories, every time we go to a specialist.

The good news is that the use of electronic health records grew more...

Based on more than 3,000 interviews with CIOs around the world, in companies large and small, IBM’s 2011 research report The Essential CIO, is part of its C-Suite Studies series. This study is one of the more insightful and credible of its kind. The report provides an in-depth look at the changing role of the CIO within the enterprise and shifting demands on the IT organization.

From a 20,000 foot perspective, the report contends CIOs are faced with four different types of mandates—to leverage...

In almost stealth fashion, the last five years have been a period of incredible innovation in corporate IT. The emergence of Cloud Computing, Software As A Service, the demand for mobility, the drive towards virtualization and the recognition of the importance of Big Data are leading to profound changes in the way organizations generate, communicate, apply and store data. And while the changes may not be as flashy and in-your-face as the previous IT revolutions launched by the personal computer...

Key Information Systems - Can work out of Woodland Hills Corporate Office as well (Orange County, California Area)

Job Description
In this role, the Architect is expected to have subject matter expert knowledge in NetApp and IBM N Series storage solutions. The architect will serve as the resident go-to resource for storage projects. 

This is a technical pre-sales position with an element of post-sales support.

A typical engagement is the architect will partner with a sales account manager to...

Decision support systems and their progeny business intelligence have long been thought to be the domain of large companies, often very large companies. Even the term “data warehouse” conjures up images of vast amounts of data that has to be pulled and assembled to serve up a report.

Historically, projects geared to building business intelligence infrastructures have cost millions of dollars, taken months if not years to complete and have involved scores of people from both the IT organization...

Big Data is increasingly becoming a part of the enterprise IT vernacular and we are seeing it rapidly move through the hype cycle as a viable value creation opportunity for enterprises. In a recent report, McKinsey estimated this value to be in the order of billions of dollars and deemed it the "next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity".

The unprecedented growth and availability...

The client-provider metaphor has long characterized the relationship between the IT organization and the rest of the “business” in their enterprises. IT organizations must develop service-level agreements that they are expected to meet. Many companies have long used chargeback processes to calculate the way IT resources are consumed.

But what does the “business” really expect from the CIO and IT? IBM’s 2011 global chief information officers study The Essential CIO sheds some interesting light...

Everybody agrees that for virtualization, the future is now. The question is no longer should companies virtualize at least parts of their infrastructure. The big issue left is what should be virtualized and how quickly.

And everybody agrees that security is a critical concern for all IT infrastructures. As the old cliché goes in terms of security, it is a constant war between the good guys and the bad guys and the bad guys are winning. 

So if there is such widespread agreement that both virtuali...