Ensuring that your IT infrastructure is protected against the myriad of different threats is a vastly complicated process; requiring the management and coordination of hardware, software and outsourced services.
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) have gained much attention as a unifying technical architecture that can be concretely embodied with Web service technologies.
IT has been a critical part of the production of running a business since the early days of the IBM 360. IT supports every aspect of the business from human resources to operations - yet it has primarily been perceived to be a part of the backstage crew.
According to IDC, nearly 70% of IT server spending in 2010 will be on x86 servers. Once, there was a perception in the industry that these servers were suitable primarily for filling low-end computing niches, such as file-and-print, e-mail and departmental serving.
After a brief day in the sun in the late ’90s, concerns about power and cooling as critical limitations in the enterprise datacentre and corporate IT strategy faded into obscurity along with the dot-com economy.
New levels of management complexity of core IT infrastructure and applications will continue to attract many firms to investigate services offered by third-party hosts