Published: March 22 2010, 05:06 PM | 1 Comment(s)
by David Resnic

My colleague Stephen Elliot recently wrote an article for CIO.com in which he describes the top eight requirements for successful deployments of private clouds. Stephen does a great job explaining how the following considerations enable IT to deliver business growth and contain costs, getting more from people, processes, and technologies.

1. Virtual Plus Physical Scalable Management
2. Next Generation Architectures
3. Policy-Based Management
4. Process Standardization
5. Value Justification Analysis
6. Mainframe Virtualization
7. Increased Automation
8. Self-Service

 You can read the article by visiting http://www.cio.com/article/541663/Private_Cloud_Deployments_Top_8_Planning_Requirements.

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Published: March 08 2010, 09:30 AM | no comments
by David Resnic

Do you want to learn how to better support the goals of your business with Data Center Automation? Whether you are just starting to leverage automation, moving quickly toward virtualization, or building an internal cloud, check out our new On-Demand Webcast featuring Glenn O'Donnell, senior analyst, Forrester Research, and Richard Anderson, senior principal consultant, CA. The Webcast explains how automation and virtualization can help you address operational considerations today and in the future. You will learn the four key steps you can take today to advance your data center operational maturity in order to increase efficiency, lower your costs, and bring greater value to the business while preparing for future innovation.

Some highlights of the discussion include:

• Introduction of the Automation Maturity Model
• Overview of IT challenges faced today and the role of virtualization and cloud computing moving forward
• Key steps companies can take today and pitfalls to avoid

To watch the Webcast, please visit https://www.ca.com/us/register/activity.aspx?cid=86203.

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