|
 Dear
Reader,
While
summer
is a
great
time for
rejuvenation,
it's
also a
good
time to
begin
looking
ahead at
your
organization's
technology
initiatives
and
plans
for the
upcoming
year.
Many of
you may
be
enjoying
time off
during
these
next few
weeks,
and
we're
here to
help you
stay on
top of
what's
going on
in the
technology
world
this
summer.
In this
edition
of the
Trusted
Advisor
,
our
President
and COO,
Coco
Brown,
shares
Taos'
perspective
on
Gartner's
"10 IT
Trends
That
Need
Your
Attention
Now" and
how Taos
is
prepared
to help
your
organization
create a
strategy
to
address
these
critical
areas.
We're
also
taking a
closer
look at
the
basics
of one
of the
top
trends,
virtualization,
how
capacity
drives
your
data
center
strategy
and how
Taos has
successfully
been
contributing
support
to an
engineering
environment.
We hope
you
enjoy
this
issue
wherever
you may
be - on
a beach,
backpacking
through
the
countryside
or just
relaxing
at home
- and
that it
provides
some
food for
thought
on how
to keep
propelling
your
organization
forward.
Warm
regards,
The
Executive
Leadership
Team at
Taos
Off the
Beaten
Path:
Strategies
for
Tackling
Data,
Green IT
& Social
Media
By
Coco Brown,
Taos
President
and COO
Recently,
Gartner
released
its
Ten IT
Trends
that
Need
Your
Attention
Now.
As the
leader
of an IT
consulting
company,
I am
well
positioned
to share
perspective
on a few
of the
top ten
I find
most
interesting.
I'm also
going to
give you
some
"off the
beaten
path"
suggestions
to
tackling
these
issues.
(When I
refer to
"you" I
generally
mean the
CIO or
equivalent
leadership
role in
IT).
The
three
trends I
choose
to look
at are
Data
Deluge,
Energy
and
Green
IT, and
Consumerization
and
Social
Software.
Read
More...
How
Capacity
Drives
Your
Data
Center
Strategy:
Build
Your
Own,
Move to
a Co-lo
Facility,
Outsource
it All?
Part 3
in a
4-Part
Series
on Data
Centers
By
Bruce
Whetstone,
Executive
IT
Management
Consultant
with
Taos'
Office
of the
CIO
Practice
"We are
rationalizing,
virtualizing,
standardizing
and
consolidating,
but
we're
still
out of
capacity
in our
existing
data
center,
and we
need a
plan for
growth."
Not too
many IT
leaders
are in a
position
to make
the
above
statement.
Most
have
additional
capacity
that can
be found
in their
existing
facilities
(with,
of
course,
some
input of
time and
effort
to
reconfigure
systems
and to invest
in the
tools to
manage
virtualized
systems,
which
offsets
some of
the
savings).
They
just
don't
have the
processes
in place
(to
apply
the
rigor
needed)
to
squeeze
the last
ounce of
juice
out of
their
existing
facilities.
Read
more...
|
