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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO Business Intelligence

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises today require the robust networks and infrastructure required to effectively manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of data. Industry-leading SLAs also guarantee that applications and the data within and used by them – the very lifeblood of the enterprise – is always accessible and protected.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says. Some storage will likely stay on-prem while more is pushed into the public cloud, he says.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

Hard costs include: Setting up the infrastructure (servers, connectivity, storage, gateways, sensors/input devices, and hardware) and integrating the edge deployment with it. The hardware required alone ranges from very basic to enterprise-class rack-based systems that consist of standalone, converged, or hyperconverged infrastructure.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s simple fact that threats are evolving and changing, requiring enterprises to pivot quickly in how they protect their organizations and respond to threats. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. But are more security tools always the answer?

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Thriving in a Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Security World

Cloud Musings

Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics - Analytics will take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data inside and outside the enterprise are analyzed. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing.

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IDG Contributor Network: Why the best work tools play nicely together

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The idea of “unified communications” sounds good in theory. I mean, who wouldn't want to have only one vendor to worry about for email, phone, instant messaging, calendar, contacts, office software and storage. This is increasingly the case as we’ve seen innovation in enterprise technology accelerate over the last decade.