Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I participated in the #DataCtrChat Twitter chat last week to join in on the conversation about the Agile Data Center. The question was: What differentiates an Agile Data Center from a traditional data center? That said, we can easily talk about the concept of ‘agility’ within a data center.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A few of these benefits include more flexibility within the data center, closer integration with cloud systems and vendors and easier change management when changes are needed within the data center. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled The Agile Data Center that touches on the subject of the agility in the data center.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Broadcom wasn’t originally a software company – it started in the early 1960s as the processor-making division of HP – but we got into the software business when we acquired CA Technologies and the Symantec Enterprise business. So by having a more modern software stack, you can easily add in newer technologies — which introduces innovations.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 29, 2015

Thankfully, CIO’s have had the good fortune that cloud computing and virtualization were available to help transform IT operations and the data center. Similarly, the cloud has given organizations access to an almost limitless amount of processing and storage power with low costs, relatively high reliability and a great deal of agility.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 24, 2015

In fact, in “The Data Center of Tomorrow” I wrote that the: “data center will be a combination of internal and external systems that combine to create an agile, efficient and effective technology delivery platform.”. Either way, complexity has the potential to be an agility killer if it isn’t managed or planned for correctly.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 9, 2015

If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. To do this, the key driving factor for IT and disaster recovery must be agility. An effective disaster recovery plan requires an agile data center requires and an agile IT group.

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