This week’s article "Virtualization Management: Time to Get Serious" on Information Week is a great read. It covers many important topics, raises key questions, and provides good background data that any IT Management executive building virtualization tools will find useful. Here are some interesting points to consider –

First a few words on MarketPlane. The last year has been great, but 2010 promises to be even better. We have worked across multiple markets and dimensions - commercial and open source software, SMB and Enterprise, traditional media and new Social media, and  from strategy to demand generation. No doubt we have learnt a lot of new things on the way [...]

Circa 2008-2009 has clearly been a challenging time for most companies across all sectors of the economy. While the performance of financial stocks have oscillated wildly in response to governmental action, tech companies have seen lesser volatility (at least from a Apr 08 – Mar 09 perspective). Note that all financial terms used here have [...]

In our last post we looked at the drivers behind the growth in datacenter power consumption and the efforts by some of the major IT players to rein that in. In this post we will take a look at the innovative new startups that are at the forefront of the greening of IT management. Notable [...]

Traditionally, IT management has focused on optimizing the use of hardware equipment and software while paying little attention to the cost of facilities, power and cooling. Understandably so, as funding for facilities came from a different part of the IT budget and did not directly impact application or systems teams. Likewise, none of the major IT management applications possess [...]

We are seeing a number of recent announcements on enabling IT management products for MSP’s. While software sales at the top of the heap are getting squeezed given the shrinkage in capex budgets, small and mid size businesses and enterprises are outsourcing the management of their infrastructure to MSP’s as an exercise in cost-cutting. In fact, according [...]

The news of the week has certainly been the announcement by Oracle of its agreement to purchase Sun for $7.4B. After the much publicized negotiations with IBM that fell through last week, this was surprising - yet, much in the character of Oracle’s bold and big acquisition style. Oracle has acquired around 50 technology companies worth more than $40B [...]

With Super Bowl XLIII just days away and an amazing run by the Arizona Cardinals, perhaps it’s an appropriate time to examine the parallels between the players on an NFL football team and the Pros responsible for IT management.
Much has been written about IT organizations, as they evolve from unplanned and unmanaged chaos, to an [...]