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One of the key problems contributing to failed attempts at private cloud is the assumption that IT has a better understanding of user needs than users themselves. This legacy mindset is one of the biggest reasons for user dissatisfaction with internal IT, initial cloud service deployment failure, and why public cloud services increasingly encroach on the territory of IT. The good news is that just a small amount of collaboration will go a long way toward increasing satisfaction and success rates. Business-driven initiatives, best-of-breed technologies and the inclusion of service consumers and key stakeholders are all recipes for success in cloud service deployment. With that in mind, here are seven proven strategies for CIOs to employ that will launch companies past legacy shortcomings and into a brand new world of cloud innovation.
Read this whitepaper to explore options for your modern data center – in-house, colocation, or cloud services – and how to leverage the benefits of each while maintaining costs and control.
Implementing a multi-tiered cloud strategy offers flexibility for the level of protection required for critical workloads and the cost-savings of inexpensive cloud services. Learn how to execute a unified, on-demand infrastructure to enable organizations to make the best of cloud technology.
In the fourth of seven articles, learn more about how IT must develop simple Ts and Cs for an SLA to be delivered with each service delivery in order to measure/ensure consumer satisfaction against empirical criteria.
Directors and CIOs face many challenges when attempting to reduce a company's IT footprint. Read this article to understand the issues that can impact the success of an IT project, and how to look beyond the technology and address the more difficult policy, process, and organisational issues faced by a company.
Read this article to explore GlassHouse’s Accelerated Cloud Enablement (ACE) - and the possibility of deploying a fully operational private cloud in around 45 days
Learn how eBay's recent initiative to build the next phase of their datacentre using renewable energy could inspire other online retailers to assess their current data storage strategies and consider renewable energy as a means of improving energy efficiency and ROI.
Cloud computing is an IT strategy that holds great opportunity for businesses to increase IT agility and at the same time reduce its unit cost. However, for IT Executives looking to realize its potential, it raises as many questions as it answers. In this webcast, Anthony Dickinson GlassHouse Cloud Computing Service Director discusses: -The characteristics of a cloud, its service and deployment modes, as well as the key and emerging roles within the cloud ecosystem -Why cloud is simply an evolution for IT, yet has the potential to revolutionize a business - The nature of the risks that need to be overcome in order to effectively begin the transition
When making the decision to move ahead with a desktop virtualization initiative, there are several key issues you need to recognize and manage for a successful deployment. Consideration and understanding of these issues now can streamline the process and accelerate your realization of benefits and potential ROI. In this webcast Erwin Vollering will discuss the seven top issues to explore prior to a desktop virtualization deployment, including: Use Cases and User Profiles Anticipating “unanticipated” costs The storage implication of deploying VDI
Storage tiering automatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.
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