Customers worldwide are facing up to the twin challenges of continued data growth and increased pressure on IT budgets, with many choosing to incorporate deduplication into their technology infrastructure. But before we jump into the deep end on deduplication, let’s take a moment and add some perspective.
We’ve all heard the old adage, “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” While that has generally proven true over the years, there are notable exceptions.
Like a Massachusetts company that is at the forefront of the movement to Carrier Ethernet. The company was building a system for managing Carrier Ethernet networks, the kind that any of the large telecommunications companies would develop. Carrier Ethernet refers to the extensions to Ethernet necessary to enable telecommunications network providers -- “common carriers” in industry terms -- to provide Ethernet services to customers and to utilize Ethernet technology in their networks.
Aligning Tactical Decisions with Strategic Goals
IT Modernization is the process of evolving IT such that it is aligned with and able to support the ever changing needs of the business. Modernizing legacy systems can literally transform a business by enabling it to be more agile, competitive and profitable.
IT organizations dwell in the realm of computation, not prose. So why was Accenture Corporation’s CIO Frank Modruson quoting Mark Twain on a recent Wednesday afternoon?
"If I'd had more time, I'd have written a shorter letter,” he said in a telephone interview.
Modruson, working from Chicago in his seventh year as CIO, was underscoring IT’s need for succinct written communications aimed at internal and external audiences -- including the IT organization itself. He was also submitting that the job isn’t so simple.
IDC estimated the amount of data stored worldwide in 2007 was nearly 300 exabytes, and that this number will grow ten-fold by 2011. Meanwhile, this research shows ninety percent of all data created in the next five years will be digital content, namely video, audio and image objects.
