Open Solutions Canada - Mitigating Risk with INETCO Insight
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
June 2009-
Open Solutions Inc. provides cutting-edge banking technologies and payment transaction processing solutions that help customers compete in the international financial services marketplace. As Open Solutions' service offerings expand, they have identified the need to track financial
transactions from beginning to end, so that any service problems or potential cost-saving efficiencies could be proactively detected. They need to monitor financial transaction quality in a passive way
that required little service disruption for their customers and does ...
Next Generation Datacenter Transformation Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Today’s IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on" while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time the very business model of IT is changing —how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered.
These demands and changes must account for the fact that external facing customer experience and corporate branding, as well as internal operational systems, depends heavily on ...
Automating the Virtual IT Lifecycle: Delivering Compliance, Command and Control with Process Automation
[ Source: Enigmatec ]
September 2008-
There is a shift occurring in the way many organizations view their IT operations. The new focus is on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business, whether the customer is a development team, internal business unit, or external customer or partner. This shift is significant for IT organizations, as it forces them to think of themselves more as service providers than support teams. This discipline is termed IT Service Management (ITSM), and it's ...
DR Capacity Harvesting Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Every day IT is being challenged to do more with less. IT needs to eliminate waste wherever it is identified so precious resources can be invested into developing revenue streams and not merely supporting standard operations. To accomplish this, every ounce of compute power needs to be wrung from existing infrastructure.
The largest area of untapped potential remains off limits for exploitation; the resources set aside for Disaster Recover (DR). Entire datacenters filled with equipment, ...
Automated Disaster Recovery for the Virtualized Datacenter - Delivering a Real-Time Infrastructure with Process Automation
[ Source: Enigmatec ]
July 2008-
According to process improvement guru Geary Rummler, any "organization is only as good as its processes." This is particularly true in the rapidly-changing and mission critical area of run-time IT operations, where even short-term failures can mean big-ticket business losses.
As the data center becomes highly virtualized, and more and more business applications require near-continuous availability, the demand for faster, easier, and less expensive recovery solutions has never been greater. Can you respond ...
Conefessions of a Speed Junkie
[ Source: XCodeMonkeys ]
July 2009-
This is our attempt to shed some light on what we believe is a rapidly approaching paradigm shift in parallel computing; General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit computing (GPGPU). Recent advances from GPU vendors have paved the way for significant performance gains in the area of financial modeling. Our site will quickly get the reader up to speed with these advances by explaining the basic concepts, providing code examples, and providing links to additional information.