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Converged Infrastructures: The Solution for Shadow IT

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Apr 21, 2015 | Converged Infrastructure |

Reading Time: 2 minutesForrester Research predicts 83 percent of enterprises will expand or implement a converged infrastructure in the next 12 months. This comes as no surprise to tech-savvy CIOs—they have always known that converged infrastructures offer a myriad of technical and business advantages. But what is changing is how converged infrastructures are being used—in ways that that literally spell relief for the shadow IT woes faced by many CIOs. Deploying converged infrastructures to run mission-critical applications and workloads like virtual desktops and mobility are perfect examples: The organization gets the benefits of a converged infrastructure where it’s needed...

Evaluating Your SaaS Platform Provider

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Apr 16, 2015 | SaaS |

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo improve profit margins and ensure application performance, software providers with multi-tenant SaaS environments should periodically evaluate their platform providers. With new technologies and best practices constantly evolving—both from your perspective and the perspective of your platform provider—a partner that was a good fit at the beginning of the relationship may no longer be the ideal partner today. Here are three key areas to consider: As you compare the cost and performance of your platform to others, analyze the set-up. While RAM, CPUs and storage may be the same from platform-to-platform, how each partner builds out...

Eliminating CIO Relevancy Concerns

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Apr 15, 2015 | Managed Services |

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a world where as-a-service technology now makes on-demand experiences the norm among internal users, many CIOs find themselves struggling to remain relevant. The solution to answering this challenge lies in the service defined enterprise. By using this new paradigm, CIOs can become both a business partner to the organization and a service provider to internal users. The serviced defined enterprise also helps CIOs create a portfolio of user services and experiences, and an agile and responsive IT operation—as well as a more affordable and sustainable technology consumption model. It’s a transformation journey that requires a...

6 Benefits to Modernizing Storage and Backup Infrastructures

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Apr 8, 2015 | Disaster Recovery as a Service, Storage |

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to a 2014 FEMA-US Chamber of Commerce study, 40 percent of businesses fail to reopen after a disaster. Another 25 percent fail entirely within the first post-disaster year. One of the chief reasons for these failures is the loss of business-critical data. If an organization’s backup system was designed before data volumes began to grow exponentially—or before IT infrastructures became highly virtualized—the company may find itself in a tight spot. Modernization is the key. Here are six benefits you can realize by updating your organization’s data storage and backup infrastructures: Stop Wasting Time: Modernization...

7 Ways Security Acts as a Business Enabler

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Apr 7, 2015 | Security |

Reading Time: 1 minuteSecurity is more than just an insurance policy against data breaches—business leaders also need to consider the benefits. When people hear the word “security,” they most likely think about breaches, firewalls or governance policies that strictly allow or deny access to business information. But security tools also provide deep visibility into a company’s IT infrastructure and a better understanding of how corporate compute resources are used. Here are seven specific business-enabler benefits that advance security solutions provide: Investment prioritization: Gain a better understanding of who and how many people use applications within your data center to...

The Three SaaS-Enablement Challenges Software Providers Must Solve

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Mar 26, 2015 | SaaS |

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether transitioning from a traditional license model or building a pure SaaS application, software providers generally encounter three enablement challenges: Architecture Enablement: Software development is significantly different for SaaS compared to traditional models. On-premise products that run on dedicated servers may not scale well when run with dozens or hundreds of other tenants simultaneously. Latency issues can cause poor performance if proper optimization is not done. Operational Enablement: Faced with the relentless challenges of developing and marketing core offerings, many software providers question whether it makes sense to build and operate their own cloud platform. The...

4 Tips for Implementing Patient-Centric Healthcare Analytic Solutions

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Mar 24, 2015 | Healthcare |

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere are four tips for implementing and managing data analytic solutions that give healthcare executives the ability to make informed decisions leading to improved patient care and greater efficiencies across clinical, operational and financial business units: Identify the kind of data to target and create a strategic analytics plan: This includes determining what business and clinical questions need to be answered and then assessing what types of analytics are required. Certain types of analytics are expensive and more difficult to implement. Weigh the benefit of each desired analytics use-case against the cost and the complexity...

Windows Migrations: The Perfect Time for Infrastructure Convergence

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Mar 18, 2015 | Converged Infrastructure |

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Microsoft ends support for Windows Server 2003/R2 in July, more than nine million servers running on this operating system will become vulnerable, and according to Forrester Research, more than half of Windows Server 2003 customers are currently unprepared. Transitioning to Windows Server 2012 R2 removes the risks of a legacy infrastructure that uses unsupported, unsecure, and non-compliant software. But the migration process can be complicated—with many issues to address: Active Directory and system configuration as well as security and application validation just to name a few. As CIOs evaluate their infrastructure, it makes sense to...

Compressing Application Time-to-Value

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Mar 17, 2015 | SaaS |

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter initial success in migrating from an on-premise delivery model to the SaaS delivery model, a key aspect for software providers to assess is the time-to-value that SaaS delivers. While SaaS inherently accelerates the process significantly compared to an on-premise solution, compressing time-to-value as much as possible remains critical in generating positive cash flows. When measuring time-to-value, consider both critical perspectives: How quickly does your app deliver value to your customers, and do you set their expectations accordingly? This requires a deep understanding into your customer ROI timelines and communicating that information clearly. Your app...

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Converged Infrastructures: The Solution for Shadow IT

Evaluating Your SaaS Platform Provider

Eliminating CIO Relevancy Concerns

6 Benefits to Modernizing Storage and Backup Infrastructures

7 Ways Security Acts as a Business Enabler

The Three SaaS-Enablement Challenges Software Providers Must Solve

4 Tips for Implementing Patient-Centric Healthcare Analytic Solutions

Windows Migrations: The Perfect Time for Infrastructure Convergence

Compressing Application Time-to-Value

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