Chris MacKinnon's Blog – September 2011 Archive (6)

Until now, custom enterprise applications have been accessible only to large, financially strong enterprises. Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and organizations have had to settle for packaged…

Until now, custom enterprise applications have been accessible only to large, financially strong enterprises. Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and organizations have had to settle for packaged software, which, though affordable, requires the business or organization to adapt to the software, rather than vice versa. All attempts to accelerate enterprise application delivery, including middleware, frameworks, enterprise mashups, and composite applications, have fallen…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on September 26, 2011 at 17:10 — No Comments

Simplfying Disaster Recovery

DR (disaster recovery) planning itself is the biggest challenge. Deciding where to fail over, how fast systems must be brought online to avoid business impact and what infrastructure will be bought/leased/borrowed to provide the DR platform is a large-scale project that will require the assistance of multiple persons and departments.

 

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on September 23, 2011 at 17:13 — No Comments

Meeting the Challenge of Information Overload

The amount of electronic data flowing through organizations is growing at an incredible rate. Much of this information is collected and stored. According to a whitepaper published by Osterman Research, 75 percent of the information end users need to do their jobs is stored in email. The consequences of this are numerous...


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Added by Chris MacKinnon on September 22, 2011 at 15:19 — No Comments

Reducing the Data Loss Exposure During Deduplication

In order to ensure business continuity and the ability to recover operations in a disaster, it is critical to have two copies of your company’s data located a good distance apart. Getting the data to the recovery site can be a challenge, however...

 

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on September 15, 2011 at 13:13 — No Comments

Setting Prices for Private Clouds

As more and more private clouds are deployed, organizations will face the requirement to implement chargeback or at least show back. Key to implementing chargeback is...

 

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on September 13, 2011 at 13:51 — No Comments

The Next Big Storage Hurdle: Preserving Social Media

Just as organizations faced regulatory and legal pressures to archive and discover emails over the last decade, they now face those same pressures to preserve their social media communications. Most, however, are not doing so. As a result...


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Added by Chris MacKinnon on September 7, 2011 at 13:36 — No Comments

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