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Understanding What IT Costs
The cost of providing the IT services necessary for a business is always a prime concern for the management responsible, especially in times of economic difficulty. Understanding these factors is important if an accurate determination is to be made.
What is SOA and Why Does it Matter?
Developing IT applications that keep pace with business requirements has always been a challenge to IT providers. Building such structures depends on working within a coherent framework of patterns, rules and standards. SOA has emerged as the leading framework.
What is an Open System?
‘Openness’ is widely regarded as a positive attribute of a system. But its not the only desirable attribute of a system. Attributes such as reliability, efficiency, responsiveness to rapidly changing conditions, and security are essential.
What is a Mission-Critical System?
Mission-critical systems share common attributes. Problems in one area may affect others. So, even the best systems have to be deployed correctly.
It’s all action in Lapland…
SantaSystems CEO describes annual demand at Lapland. In a seasonal business such as this, the load builds up for a couple of months, reaching a peak about now. Having systems that can respond to these peaks, while maintaining performance, reliability and security, is absolutely crucial.
Planning for the unplanned – traffic surges
Traffic surges are a bitter reality. Though companies employ multiple strategies to predict such surges, and build IT capabilities to absorb these shocks, it is the unplanned surges that define the robustness of an IT system. Pay-for-use is one way handle this problem and still control costs.
Expansion or resilience?
The recent Blackberry outage got me thinking more about why organisations are not as thorough as necessary when it comes to planning for the unplanned. There seems to be a tendency to focus on the provision of new and expanded services while paying insufficient attention to the consequences for resilience.
Planning for the unplanned – disasters
Those responsible for providing IT must have comprehensive recovery plans for maintaining them in the event of any disaster, or so you would think. Here are three recommendations on what to do.
The Benefits of Integrated Stacks
When CIOs are procuring new IT systems, they naturally look for those that are the most cost/effective. But how do we make the most cost/effective choice?
