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Featured Content from Burton Group
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- Software as a Service and Google Apps: IT Strategy Implications
This Burton Group Perspective document summarizes Burton Group’s research on SaaS. The focus of this Perspective document is on implications and executive considerations for SaaS in any organization.
- Windows Server 2008: A Migration Perspective
Windows Server 2008 is another step in the right direction for Microsoft, and it may also be for you. There are enough significant enhancements to force consideration of the product for mission-critical enterprise use. Of course, migration is non-trivial and must be reasoned along the lines of risk and reward. Burton Group advises keeping your eyes on expiring support contracts and planning an escape route before it is too late. In the meantime, perhaps vendors like Microsoft will stop putting us through the migration gauntlet every five years and focus on enhancements to a stable platform.
- Enterprise 2.0: Collaboration and Knowledge Management Renaissance
Enterprise strategists have long been aware that the “informal organization” has tremendous influence on business success or failure. Catalyzing the informal organization is becoming a more complex challenge for business and information technology (IT) strategists as shifting employee demographics crystallize concerns regarding aging workforce trends and expectations of younger employees (e.g., new work models).
- Building a Business Case for Collaboration Initiatives
There are many approaches to creating a business case for a collaboration initiative, and pre-work is therefore critical to determining which approaches will best address the concerns of management and demonstrate the value of the initiative. A mix of quantitative and qualitative arguments should be used.
- A CIO’s View of Server Virtualization
Server virtualization is a technology that has taken hold with amazing speed and is now firmly entrenched with overwhelming success in many data centers. This perspective document recaps why you should be moving ahead quickly with virtualization (if you haven’t already done so), what the implications are for IT and the business, and what the future holds as the ramifications of virtualization become apparent. It is important that CIOs understand the technical, political, and organizational effects of this new technology so that they are better prepared to discuss virtualization plans with their technical staff.
- Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures
Increasing power demands and space limitations in the data center have begun to transition server virtualization technologies from luxuries to necessities. Server virtualization provides a path toward server consolidation that results in significant power and space savings, while also offering high availability and system portability. Today, vendors are building hardware and software platforms that can deliver virtualization solutions at near-native performance. To get the most out of virtualization technologies, keep in mind that the answer to every consolidation or availability problem may not be a single virtualization technology, but instead a combination of complementary solutions.
- OS Virtualization: Opportunities and Challenges
Operating system (OS) virtualization made significant inroads in 2007, but additional work remains in order for both Solaris and Virtuozzo Containers to remain in the enterprise virtualization landscape. OS virtualization is not a replacement for host-based server virtualization, but rather is a complement to it. Underlying OS dependencies restrict container mobility in an OS virtualized environment and OS virtualization's long-term survival may depend on its ability to reside in operating systems running in virtual machines.
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