Take 2: From an Ancient Scottish Castle to the Gartner Data Center Conference...
Time flies! I’m off to the Gartner Data Center conference in London again. And as per last year , I’ll drive my [...]
View ArticleNavigating Your OpenStack Roadmap: Why You Should Run a “Pilot”
The road in my picture below – the A82 that winds through Glencoe in Scotland – was used in the James Bond “Skyfall” movie in one of the [...]
View ArticleCloud-based ITaaS: Transforming IT from Support to Service Brokerage
Cloud computing is more mainstream today than ever before, but it’s important to note that there are still significant opportunities [...]
View ArticleYour Design Engineers Need Support and ‘Expertise on Tap’ Too!
If you are involved in designing, supporting or managing a data center, you will undoubtedly rely on technical support services from one or more vendors. Running your data center, there is always the...
View ArticleDiscovering Application-Server-Network Dependencies to Facilitate ACI and...
Earlier this month, I blogged about the challenges of Cloud Sprawl . Let’s now turn to the challenges of “Application Sprawl”!If you are planning migration of applications inside or between data...
View ArticleWhy not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center? (Part 1)
As a Scot, I have a natural predisposition – almost a gene – for money saving initiatives! As I’ve been researching new initiatives in my work for Cisco Services over the past few months, I’ve become...
View ArticlePart 2: Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center?
Two weeks ago, in my previous blog , I invited you to consider ways in which you could initiate a “Save to Invest” program for your data center. That is, how can you save money from your current data...
View ArticleTop 5 Takeaways from the London Gartner Data Center Conference 2016
Over the past few years, I’ve attended Gartner’s Data Center Conference in London (see 2013, 2014, and 2015 !). As always, it was a very informative couple of days with some surprises, and one or two...
View ArticleThere’s Never Been a Better Time …. to Reduce Your Data Center Software Costs...
Enterprise software licensing is complex, costly and easy to lose track of, especially in these days of servers on demand via infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and rapid setup and movement of virtual...
View ArticleThere’s Never Been a Better Time for Cisco ACI-Enabled Data Center Providers...
Cisco ACI is a core enabler for the cloud-enabled DataVita data center in central Scotland. Developed with innovation, quality and agility in mind, the energy efficiency - including certified renewable...
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