The growth of server blade technology has increased rapidly over the last couple of years. There are many reasons as to why this is so, not least among them the financial (savings) gains that can be made.
Cutting edge techniques such as virtualisation can help IT departments make the most out of their IT estate. But there’s an assumption here that the estates in question will be continuously available to users.
Feedback from ComputerWeekly readers has suggested that there are two key management issues affecting the working lives of CIOs, heads of IT and IT Directors: aligning IT with the business and reacting to downward financial pressure.
Such factors are keenly felt when senior ITR management has to manage large PC estates that reside in all enterprises.
There is no doubt that one of the key topics in the IT industry right now is virtualisation.
In short, virtualisation is a technique that enables organisations to pool their essential IT resources into one flexible and manageable entity.
Research from Computer Weekly in 2005 displayed some alarming trends regarding the security worthiness of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK: only 18% reported never to have been hacked or attacked.
IT directors and heads of IT are under more pressure than ever. They are invariably being tasked with having to do more for the business they work for but with less resources. Such downward financial pressure is also being felt by the IT managers who will be tasked with making sure the plans of IT directors happen.