Business Service Management Hub

BYOD makes the headlines, it takes just one to spoil the party. Mobility whether internally issued or personal devices all carry management and security management concerns and challenges.

The Hub Commentary_ Technology spending is up from last year, but not across the board.  Interesting observation where investments are being made in software and subscriptions as I would have expected. The competition of the service providers is heating up pushing IT organizations to think about where they invest to improve their business.  The environment […]

Often times when we speak with customers about Service Enabling their infrastructure and end-to-end visibility of services, we enter into a discussion of “nice to have” versus “must have”. So why is management “must have” today and high availability relevant with management tools. I always answer, “Do you want the pilot flying the plane blind without instruments? Why would you run your business blind?”

This is a fun article. Reminds me of “The Mainframe is Dying” and yet it is still here. I tend to agree with Arthur on this one, the data center will live on, but is under great change and the speed of change is coming fast.

Nice article summing up considerations that must be evaluated when assessing a cloud deployment option. IDC predicts that by 2013, 52% of IT budgets will be dedicated to “OUTSOURCED IT” – ASP, Public Cloud, and Enterprise/Hosted Private Cloud. There is also a shift in where the budget and where spending decisions are being made – in the business.