- Power Architecture zone editors’ notebook: New group to clock virtualization
- Computing: CMDB creates the vital link
- The McKinsey Quarterly: Splitting demand from supply in IT
- evergreen: Top
- SLAs undermine business alignment | The IT Skeptic – a skeptical view of IT
- Network World: Good NAC vs. Bad NAC
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Power Architecture zone editors’ notebook: New group to clock virtualization
“SPEC has calved a subgroup to develop standard methods of comparing virtualization performance for data centers. The subgroup (which hopes to grow up into a real group) is investigating the use of heterogeneous workloads spread across multiple virtual machines on a single server in order to define a methodology to model the dynamic nature of customer workloads in this type of environment. And the group would like to hear from IT managers and anyone else who may potentially use virtualization techniques, in order to get the customer’s POV on the subject.”
Computing: CMDB creates the vital link
Bridging the gap between IT and business is moving closer to reality for UK organisations wanting to gain a competitive edge. Recent research shows that more organisations are implementing a configuration management database (CMDB) to gain a better understanding of their own IT systems.
The McKinsey Quarterly: Splitting demand from supply in IT
“Companies can get more productivity from their IT investments by setting up demand organizations that coordinate development requests between businesses and IT suppliers.” (Registration required)
evergreen: Top Ten Reasons Why Companies Develop Service Catalogs
“A recent engagement on developing a service catalog for a client gave me pause to think about the importance of service catalogs and why companies need to develop them….”
SLAs undermine business alignment | The IT Skeptic – a skeptical view of IT
“Do SLAs do damage as well as good? Are SLAs culturally inappropriate in some organizations?”
Network World: Good NAC vs. Bad NAC
“One – using system health to grant or deny access privileges – is just a bad idea. The other – applying network-level controls to user access – is an idea whose time has come. I have written often enough about the absurdity of deploying the infrastructure to check the state of a device.”
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