Published: August 10 2011, 09:00 AM | no comments
by Bill Talbot

The need for effective IT automation tools has never been higher. IT budgets continue to be squeezed and the constant edict echoed from the boardroom on down is "do more with less." However, in this new age of cloud computing, IT is also being asked and expected to deliver services on demand to the business. And, of course, IT environments continue to become more complex and difficult to manage with the introduction and adoption of new enterprise applications (ERP, CRM, SFA, etc.), virtualization platforms and external cloud-based technologies. Add them all up and you have a perfect storm for IT: do more with less, deliver services faster, and manage increasing complexity. Without automation tools, IT is left feeling like they are...
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Published: August 01 2011, 04:22 PM | no comments
by Subo Guha

Over the last decade we have seen tremendous progress in corporate IT's transition to virtualization to enable resource consolidation, to reduce capital expenditures, and to towards more automated shared resource pools to deliver IT services. We have seen a tremendous rise in the service provider market, providing ease of new services on demand as customers are looking at alternative options to deliver their business services. All this has led to the tremendous growth, interest and hype in cloud computing as the nirvana to achieve a centralized means to deliver many services to end users. We are at a crossroads in the industry where the desire and intent to leverage cloud computing is on every CIO's lips but the challenge that keeps...
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