As a CIO, it’s your responsibility to chart the technological course for
your organization and to do so in a way that meets business needs while
fitting inside a budget. Virtualization is one of the most significant
advancements to hit the enterprise, and it can be a tremendous boon for the
CIO who understands the technology and is willing to implement it across the
enterprise.
There are four key areas related to virtualization that CIOs need to
understand and keep on top of:
Managing your enterprise virtualization approach. Implementing virtualization
isn’t something that should be rushed. While it’s tempting to try to keep
up with other organizations and earn bragging rights for being “in the
cloud” or “75% virtualized,” the fact of the matter is that the
approach must be cautious. Your virtualization strategy will touch every
aspect of the enterprise, including... (more)
Red Hat continues to press into the cloud computing marketplace with each new
service offering. OpenShift Online, for example, is Red Hat’s
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. For more than a year and a half,
OpenShift has served literally thousands of applications running on a variety
of frameworks and languages, and reaches across through private, public as
well as hybrid cloud environments.
Yet, as is the case with any other PaaS solution, the effectiveness of
OpenShift depends greatly on your organizations capabilities with
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The ability ... (more)
2012 proved to be the year that’s been predicted for almost half a decade
now: enterprises are turning in droves to cloud computing solutions. With the
rapid growth and acceptance of robust open source solutions like Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and others, the cloud is starting to make sense in
that market sector.
Accordingly, here are some trends we think we’re likely to see over the
next three to five years in the enterprise cloud space:
The growth of the hybrid cloud. According to one study about half of all of
the new money enterprises spend on IT by 2015 will be on hyb... (more)
Open-source cloud solutions are on the rise, and Red Hat is at the forefront
of this movement. While other open-source vendors like Fedora are just now
getting into the cloud game, Red Hat is continuing to advance and expand its
cloud capabilities. One of the most visible examples of this is Red Hat
CloudForms.
CloudForms relies on over 60 open source projects in order to create a solid
and robust Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. It supplies
capabilities for managing the lifecycle, the ability to configure both
private and public clouds using the widest possible arra... (more)
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is proving itself to be a major
player in the virtualization marketplace. With each new release, the
technology offers more robust features, greater control, increased
flexibility and more. One of the key factors in how well Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization meets your organization’s needs is the physical platform on
which it runs.
HP’s line of ProLiant servers are particularly well-suited to running Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Here are some facts you need to know as you
make your decisions about whether to implement this open sour... (more)
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