VMware CTO: How the software-defined datacenter benefits enterprises
The next generation of foundational IT innovation is largely being implemented above the hardware.
The next generation of foundational IT innovation is largely being implemented above the hardware.
The advent of big data has companies scrambling to find data scientists
If the cloud computing platform is not continuously available, then the business justification as to why you went there in the first place is significantly mooted.
Disaster recovery is critical for us. Our publishing business feels that their website needs to be available 99.999%. When we showed them what DR is capable of doing, they really jumped on board and supported it. They put DR as high importance for them.
We were ahead of schedule on our time-frames and ahead on all of our budget numbers. Once we got everything in our physical production environment virtualized, then we could start building new virtual servers to replace the ones that we had converted, just for better performance.
The demand for data-intensive and transactional workloads such as data warehousing, real-time analytics, and virtualized environments is expanding dramatically.
One way to keep the interest high -- and those operating and investment budgets in place -- is to show fast results, and then use that to prime the pump for even more improvement -- and even more funding -- with perhaps even growing budgets.
We now have nearly about 100 percent virtualization. ... So it's about 99 percent virtualization. ... So the data is under our control in the data center, and important company information is not left in an office out there. Security is a big thing.
You really see an opportunity for a company like McKesson to continue to deliver on its mission to improve the health of the businesses that we serve in healthcare.
It's time that agile integration become a feature of more applications, rather than a hand-crafted after-market exercise at the complex database and middleware tiers.