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Curbing Database Sprawl

December 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Database software (alone or as the back-end to critical business apps like ERP, CRM, SFA, etc.) is essential to many operational areas of all businesses. Due to mergers and acquisitions, as well as letting business units operate independently, many companies database deployments have evolved in a heterogeneous and inefficient manner, leading to database sprawl. A highly siloed environment and a patchwork approach to database deployment and management take their toll on the bottom line, increasing server sprawl and operational expenses. Join Deeper Thinking host Tyler Pyburn, as he sits down with Eric Lundquist, Vice President of content for Ziff Davis Enterprise and Sal Salamone, Executive Editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise as they discuss the factors that contribute to database sprawl, the negative impact of database sprawl, and what can be done to reduce the sprawl.
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10 Things You Should Know Before VMs Take Over Your Data Center

October 16th, 2009 | No Comments

The tech equivalent of urban sprawl is virtual machine sprawl. As cloud computing begins to get a real, day-to-day foothold in enterprise IT systems, ad hoc cloud services are being deployed more and more frequently for short-term results. Many times these are used by employees without company sanction to get a short-term result, and the services are kept around longer than is necessary. Without a comprehensive strategy or formal program in place and without anyone having a handle on what exactly is going on or where corporate data resides, this can lead to big problems. In this slide show, Accenture’s Chief Technology Architect, Paul Daugherty, shows how this sprawl takes root and what a CIO or data center managers can do to ward off these potential problems.By Chris Preimesberger
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Hyper9 VOS Helps Battle Virtual Machine Sprawl

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Hyper9 is rolling out the second version of its flagship Virtualization Optimization Suite, which is designed to give businesses improved insight into their virtualized environments and better ways to manage their VMs. While many business embraced virtualization to save money in such areas as hardware, space and power, the result has been a virtualization environ-ment that is not always easy to manage. Hyper9 VOS offers a host of new features tied together by an intuitive user interface.
– Hyper9 officials want to give businesses better insight into their virtual environments.
The company July 29 rolled out the second generation of its flagship Virtualization Optimization Suite for VOS which is designed to help businesses create virtual environments that are suitable to their busines…