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In This
Edition
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Taos unveils
new
Architecture
Solutions
service line
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Understanding
the
economics of
cloud
computing
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The final
installment
of the Data
Center
article
series
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A variety of
features
highlighting
Taos'
presence in
the Bay
Area's IT
landscape
New
Clients
We're pleased to
welcome these
new clients to
the Taos Family:
Citi Apartments
MLS Listings
Siperian
Featured
Consultant
Colin Mayne: Sr.
Architecture
Consultant
Colin Mayne is
an accomplished
senior
architecture
consultant who
joined Taos in
March 2009. He
leverages over
25 years of
experience in
the technology
industry across
multiple
disciplines,
including
systems
management,
enterprise
architecture,
applications
architecture,
data
warehousing,
business
intelligence,
business
continuity,
facilities
management, data
center
management/design,
infrastructure
management/design,
configuration
management,
CMDB, database
management and
systems solution
design/automation.
Read more...
Enterprise
Architects
Collaborate at
Taos
By
Carrina
Cappadona,
Director of IT
Management
Consulting
After much
encouragement
from our valued
clients, Taos
hosted the
founding meeting
of the Taos
Architecture
Consortium (TAC)
on August 19th.
The TAC is a
membership-based
networking group
that brings
together IT
infrastructure
and applications
architects from
a wide variety
of industries
and disciplines.
Read more...
Case Study
Architected
Database Upgrade
& Platform
Migration
Success
Highlights:
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Upgraded one
of the
world's
largest OLTP
databases
(and the
company's
most
essential
database) to
a new
operating
system in
only six
months time
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Increased
computing
capacity by
75%
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 Dear
Reader,
School
is back
in
session,
and
summer
is
almost
officially
over.
While
everyone
is
getting
settled
back
into the
swing of
things,
now may
be a
good
time to
examine
your
organization's
architecture
and how
it's
positioned
to help
your
company
achieve
its
business
objectives.
Our new
Fractional
Architecture
as a
Service
Team
(FAST)
solution
can
provide
you with
the
expertise
you need
to get
your
architecture
where it
needs to
be. Read
about
the
creation
of this
solution
and its
features
and
benefits
in
Carrina
Cappadona's
article
below.
Also in
this
edition,
you can
find out
how we
helped a
client
complete
a
database
upgrade,
read the
last
installment
of our
data
center
series
and
learn
about
the
economics
of cloud
computing.
We hope
you
enjoy
this
issue
and, as
always,
we
welcome
any
feedback
- we're
always
interested
in
hearing
from
you!
Warm
regards,
The
Executive
Leadership
Team at
Taos
 Taos Architecture
Solutions
By
Carrina
Cappadona,
Director
IT
Management
Consulting,
Taos
Fall is
a great
time of
year.
It is
the
season
when our
attention
turns to
school
and
business.
In some
ways,
fall can
be seen
as the
start of
the next
season
of new
growth
and
learning.
Here at
Taos,
we've
been
working
all year
to make
this
fall a
great
season
of
change
and
value
for our
clients.
That's
why
we're
excited
to
announce
the
launch
of the
new Taos
Architecture
Solutions
service
line!
Read
more...
 Location,
Location,
Location:
Where
Should
You
Place
Your
Precious
Equipment?
The
Final
Installment
in a
4-Part
Series
on Data
Centers
By
Bruce
Whetstone,
Executive
IT
Management
Consultant
with
Taos'
Office
of the
CIO
Practice
Whether
you plan
to build
your own
data
center,
or
source
it to a
co-lo,
"ping-power-pipe"
data
center
or
managed
services
provider,
one of
the most
important
questions
to
answer
is,
"Where
on the
planet
should
you
place
the
equipment?"
There
are a
number
of
critical
things
to
consider
in
selecting
a
location
for your
company's
data
center.
There
will
inevitably
be
issues
and
trade-offs
around
the need
for
global
applications
performance
vs.
network
latency.
You
should
also
consider
the
effect
of
natural
disasters
(seismic
and
weather-related
events)
and
energy
costs in
your
selection
process.
Read
more...
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 The
Dollars
and
Sense of
Cloud
Computing
By
Andy
Barkett,
Architecture
and
Technical
Management
Consultant
On
October
8, 2009,
cloud
computing
will be
celebrating
its
second
birthday.
It was
in 2007
that the
headline
"Google
and
I.B.M.
Join in
'Cloud
Computing'
Research"
first
appeared.
Two
years
later,
cloud
computing
is still
a big
buzzword
-
everyone
seems to
be
talking
about it
- and
yet no
large IT
department
I know
of has
truly
altered
how they
deliver
services
to
leverage
the
cloud.
Startups
are in
the
cloud,
but does
cloud
computing
make
sense
for
Corporate
IT?
Update:
What
Does
'Cloud
Computing'
Mean
Today?
Cloud
computing
is used
to
describe
everything
from
"off-site
hosting"
to
"commodity
hardware
supercomputing."
Now that
the term
is two
years
old, can
we
finally
settle
on a
meaning
for it?
Read
more...
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