AKIBIA'S PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Entries with Label: Efficiency
April 14 is Decision Day for Those Running Microsoft Exchange 2003
Thursday, March 19, 2009
April 14 is not just the day before tax day, it has an ominous meaning of its own. It's the day Microsoft Exchange 2003 goes off mainstream support. Most Microsoft-based shops face a big decision: migrate to Exchange 2007 or buy a Premium Support Contract to extend the life of their Exchange 2003 investment.
A Letter to Ralph Szygenda, the CIO of General Motors
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Dear Mr. Szygenda, I just finished reading the Q&A Mary Hayes Weir of Informationweek conducted with you regarding your responsibilities in leading GM's IT department through the bankruptcy and restructuring.
Wrest Control of Your Data Center Back From the OEM
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
In the past few weeks I've met with a number of really big, exceptionally successful companies. These companies are leading edge in nearly every way—innovative data centers that employ virtualization, and deliver high availability, mission critical services on a global scale, and yet in one specific way, they are not revolutionary at all. They are still being held hostage by the OEM when it comes to software support contracts – resulting in unrealized cost savings and under-performing service on servers and storage systems.
Take Full Advantage of System Monitoring
Thursday, August 20, 2009
According to analyst research the average hourly cost of downtime ranges from $28,000 in manufacturing to $2.5 million in banking and finance to $6.5 million in the brokerage industry. With uptime and data center performance of critical importance proactive systems monitoring needs to be a de facto element in any data center strategy. Yet, still companies are risking performance levels and business efficiency by not fully leveraging monitoring to improve their data centers.
