Businesses and public sector organisations alike face increasingly complex IT operations, as they aim to do more with less, improve service levels, and drive up efficiency through initiatives such as mobility, flexible working and collaboration.
IT departments are under huge pressures right now. Not only do they have to cope with supporting more business enabling systems in different forms in different places, the economic downturn has meant that they have to do so with increasingly cut-down resources.
These days firms’ IT departments not only have to support the business, they also have to make a recognised contribution to it by enabling improved agility and speed giving the business the ability to move in and out of new markets quickly.
After years of uncontrolled growth, many datacentres face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. Even though remedies to the problems exist, current typical business practices concerning datacentres do not encourage the prioritisation of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business.
The credit crunch is starting to bite. So what can you do to make sure your business survives – or even thrives? Now’s your chance to find out. On 22 April HSBC and RBI gathered a panel of industry experts together to tackle the issues
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SOA is an effective way in which a company can integrate not only its diverse applications suite but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. The result is a more streamlined, flexible, adaptable, and hence competitive and effective organisation.
Over the course of 2007, the challenges facing IT departments and the servers that they deploy throughout their businesses has changed subtly. No longer is it enough for IT departments to deploy the best or most appropriate technological server solution; they also have to look at the wider business context of server technology deployment.