Data Center

Thu, October 13, 2011 - Many cloud applications focus on declarative programming, but let's face it -- code happens. How should you evaluate the code that runs in the cloud?

Thu, September 15, 2011 - Storing, managing and extracting value from data consumes a great deal of energy, and though the increase in data and energy consumption is somewhat manageable now, at the pace it is evolving it soon won't be. The solution is in the cloud.

Wed, September 14, 2011 - CIOs and data center managers are hesitant to place important data and applications in the public cloud. As a result, turnkey, ready to go, cloud solutions have become very popular. Here are the three essential elements that should constitute any turnkey private and/or hybrid cloud solution.

Wed, July 27, 2011 - Captive center models have been in play since the early 1980's, and since then, they've changed and evolved. As captive centers become an increasingly important part of offshore work, sourcing and vendor management professionals must work with the rest of IT to showcase the benefits of a hybrid approach, here are four common offshore captive center models in use today.

Thu, June 30, 2011 - New virtualization technologies make it possible to corral and organize the myriad network appliances in the data center that monitor network performance and usage as well as provide security.

Thu, June 23, 2011 - Capacity planning is no longer just a process aimed at forecasting hardware needs; it's the key to understanding and optimizing the cost of running business services through platform selection. Forrester recommends updating today's capacity planning process with three new steps to account for cost-value analysis, governance, and global planning.

Tue, June 07, 2011 - Error handling and trace logs are as old as the hills. Of course this is handled in the clouds, right?? Keep laughing...

Thu, May 19, 2011 - Take this updated quiz to see how many of the Top 10 corruption mistakes you and your CRM team have made this year.

Tue, May 10, 2011 - Even the best cloud applications offer only one native development language for business logic. What if you really need to leverage software assets in another language? It's not as simple as just using another cloud's code.

Tue, May 03, 2011 - How will the hybrid cloud fit into your future infrastructure architecture? Forrester Research's Galen Schreck explains why he envisions three possible scenarios and shares advice on how to prepare.