Kennedy Research Identifies Ongoing Client Concern for Meeting Regulatory Challenges

Any data center with a virtualized environment has a real need for effective capacity management. This article discusses the reasons why capacity management is critical to achieving the benefits of server virtualization and outlines the three key requirements to consider when evaluating capacity management systems. A major advantage of virtualized environments is their ability to improve resource utilization by running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on the physical servers in a shared infrastructure. With such an architecture, utilization can increase from as low as 10% for dedicated servers to 60% or more for virtualized servers. The enhanced resource efficiencies make it ...

Aternity announced today that it has received prestigious market and technology recognition in a newly published report by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm. The report is EMA’s newest Radar Report™: “Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services: 18 Cloud-Ready APM Solutions Available TODAY”. Specifically, Aternity has been recognized as the top vendor providing an APM point solution earning EMA’s “Value Leader” distinction, while also being recognized as an APM elite vendor providing the market’s “Most Comprehensive Endpoint Diagnostics.” To read Aternity’s complete profile and download the summary ...

Mobile is the hottest trend going today in business intelligence. asked a group of business intelligence experts to share their tips on how to optimize mobile BI. Whether you are considering a mobile business intelligence (BI) strategy or recently deployed a mobile solution, the following 11 tips from leading business intelligence experts can help you get a better return on your mobile business intelligence investment. Create a use case. Before you invest in a mobile busine

Topics include cloud optimization for service delivery, application performance management, CMDB/CMS, and unified security (PRWeb January 31, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9151991.htm

CA Technologies Strategic Solutions VP, Andi Mann, looks into his crystal ball for 2012

Gartner identified three major drivers for the adoption of cloud/SaaS offerings for BI, analytics and performance management. - Nearly one third of organizations either already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner, Inc. According to a survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of B...

Debunking myths about the consumerization of IT, a new survey shows companies embracing consumer gadgets. One shocking discovery: More than half of companies already have had a security breach. read more

When IT and business staff clash, things can get ugly quick. Everyone has experienced some measure of tension across the business/IT divide. But is that tension a simple clash of personalities -- or is it a clash of cultures? Solve the wrong problem, and tensions are likely to escalate. At many organizations, this environment of conflict between business and IT is commonplace. It hinders daily operations and interferes with ongoing projects. Worse, it can prevent IT from evolving to meet the expectations of next-generation IT.

Home arrow IT Management arrow IT Management Slideshow: By Don Reisinger on 2012-01-24 CIOs will be expected to do more with less once again in 2012, according to a new study from research firm Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The 2012 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey gathered responses from 2,335 CIOs, representing more than $321 billion in CIO IT budgets and covering 37 industries in 45 countries, during the fourth quarter of 2

The MDM market continues to grow because it focuses on specific business drivers and business-led initiatives. - Master data management (MDM) is critical to achieving effective information governance, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner, which noted failure to manage information accurately has been the root cause of several incidents, including the leak of sensitive information to WikiLeaks, an...

CIOs increasingly see technologies such as business intelligence, mobility, cloud and social in combination rather than isolation to address business priorities. - IT organizations will have to deliver on multiple priorities without an increase in their IT budget, as CIO IT budgets are expected to be flat, increasing just 0.5 percent, with declining IT budgets in North America and Europe, according to a global survey of CIOs by tech industry research firm Gart...

Forrester Research recently published a report on the application performance management (APM) market, titled “Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011.” Led by Principal Analyst and Forrester Vice President Jean-Pierre Garbani, the research proposes an APM reference model that customers can use to plan their APM strategies. The report goes on to evaluate 26 APM vendors, including ExtraHop Networks, in the context of the Forrester APM reference model. Read more on Forrester A

Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.'s annual survey of IT executives. The second most important technology in the survey is mobile, said Gartner, which asked 2,335 CIOs globally about their business and technology priorities for the year ahead. The CIOs, who were surveyed in the fourth quarter of 2011, control $321 billion worth of IT spending in 45 countries.

The Unisys 2012 Predictions for Cloud Computing explore the growing business adoption of Private Cloud and SaaS solutions while recognizing that certain security, integration and management challenges remain.