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February 25 2011, 01:54 PM
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David Resnic
My colleague Pam Snaith recently wrote a Service Assurance Daily blog post about how the combination of Cisco UCS and CA Technologies can help customers build next-generation data centers that are more scaleable and sustainable. Pam explains that embedded management and a flexible API in Cisco UCS make the data center platform accessible to partners to extend its manageability. For example, she says, " CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager , CA eHealth Performance Manager and CA Automation Suite for Data Centers share a direct integration with Cisco UCS that results in an integrated fault, performance and configuration management solution that customers can use to assure their entire physical and virtual infrastructure. It also addresses the...
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Tags: Automation, Cisco, Cisco UCS, Configuration Management, Data Center, Fault Management, Performance Management, Service Assurance, Service Automation, Virtual Assurance, Virtualization, virtualization management
By: David Resnic
David is senior principal of communications at CA, working with the Virtualization and Service Automation teams. He has more than 18 years of B2B and B2C public relations experience, working with dozens of companies such as Arsenal Digital Solutions, E Ink, Hasbro, MobileAccess, and Spalding Sports Worldwide...
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February 15 2011, 02:43 PM
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David Resnic
Virtualization demonstrates substantial benefits - in agility, availability and cost reduction, among many others - but it is not all clear sailing. Most organizations struggle, sooner or later, with added complexity, staffing requirements, SLA management, departmental politics and more. In fact, most organizations face one (or more) clear management ‘tipping points', where virtualization deployments stall as they stop to deal with these new challenges. This virtual stall tends to happen as a virtualization deployment reaches around 30-40% of servers and coincides with different stages in the virtualization maturity lifecycle. In an effort to help mid-market enterprises, those with revenues between $300 million and $2 billion, overcome virtual...
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By: David Resnic
David is senior principal of communications at CA, working with the Virtualization and Service Automation teams. He has more than 18 years of B2B and B2C public relations experience, working with dozens of companies such as Arsenal Digital Solutions, E Ink, Hasbro, MobileAccess, and Spalding Sports Worldwide...
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February 14 2011, 07:35 AM
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Mike Odusami
The 5 th and final installment in the Go Beyond Job Scheduling Webcast series by Jim Anderson, VP of Product Management, CA Technologies, painted a very fascinating picture of the business challenges driving the current transformation in IT and the role of workload automation as one of the key enablers of that transformation. The emerging reality of IT as a revenue driver in most industries is without a doubt. But current economic and budgetary constraints are forcing a rethink on IT investments with many organizations undergoing zero or paltry budget increase. As demand on IT outpaces its resources, the mantra to do more with less has never been more apt. Thanks to innovations in virtualization and cloud computing the savvy IT organization...
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By: Mike Odusami
Mike is a senior product marketing manager and cloud automation evangelist at CA Technologies. Prior to this role, he was a market strategist for the CA Service Automation and CA Service Management solutions, providing strategic and tactical market analysis to help formulate product and marketing directions...
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February 10 2011, 12:51 PM
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David Resnic
Without doubt, in 2011 leading organizations will look to virtualization not just for server consolidation, but also for IT efficiency & business agility through faster cycle times, rapid service delivery, user self-service, improved workforce mobility, greater staff productivity, more effective partnering, and much more. These challenges, plus the inevitable business demands to deliver a ‘private cloud', will require new approaches to operational staffing, audit controls, resource efficiency, service delivery, and resource scalability. IT simply must improve its technology approach to enable this new era of business agility. In the following deep-dive presentation at last week's IT Management Symposium Africa 2011 , Andi Mann, vice...
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By: David Resnic
David is senior principal of communications at CA, working with the Virtualization and Service Automation teams. He has more than 18 years of B2B and B2C public relations experience, working with dozens of companies such as Arsenal Digital Solutions, E Ink, Hasbro, MobileAccess, and Spalding Sports Worldwide...
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February 10 2011, 07:49 AM
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David Resnic
Virtualization has become a critical element of today's IT fabric. The benefits are clear - from initial CapEx reduction, through OpEx reaction, to providing not just IT flexibility but also business agility. However, the benefits of the dynamic data center are not always easy to achieve, as server consolidation projects stall, and organizations face new barriers to transforming IT success into business success. In a keynote at last week's IT Management Symposium Africa 2011 , Andi Mann, vice president of product marketing, Virtualization and Automation, CA Technologies, described critical strategies to leverage virtualization investment, expand virtualization success, and deliver the promise of business agility. The following slides...
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By: David Resnic
David is senior principal of communications at CA, working with the Virtualization and Service Automation teams. He has more than 18 years of B2B and B2C public relations experience, working with dozens of companies such as Arsenal Digital Solutions, E Ink, Hasbro, MobileAccess, and Spalding Sports Worldwide...
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