My team is responsible for automation tooling and monitoring of our hybrid multicloud platform within NetApp. When it comes to cloud automation, the first question asked is how fast we can provision an entire application stack with little or no human effort. This is quickly followed by a discussion around the “exit strategy” and the […]
This post is part 5 of a five-part series that explains how infrastructure analytics can be used to improve IT service delivery and reduce costs in a hybrid cloud environment. For a deeper dive, take the OnCommand Insight Product Tour. Many of the customers I talk to have both on-premises and public cloud infrastructures and […]
This post is part 4 of a five-part series that explains how infrastructure analytics can be used to improve IT service delivery and reduce costs in a hybrid cloud environment. For a deeper dive, download the white paper “Data Insights and Control for the Service Provider Business Model.” Are you tired of how long […]
According to industry research from RightScale, companies worldwide are wasting, on average, a staggering 35% of their cloud spend. Or, to put it in monetary terms, globally over $10 billion is being misspent in the provisioning of cloud resources each year! One of the benefits of the cloud is that you pay for what […]
This post is part 3 of a five-part series that explains how you can use infrastructure analytics to improve IT service delivery and reduce costs in a hybrid cloud environment. For a deeper dive, download the white paper “Data Insights and Control for the Service Provider Business Model Founded in 1864, Société Générale has […]
NetApp IT has integrated the storage performance data and capacity metrics from NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) into a real-time, self-service portal in their Configuration Management Database (CMDB) within ServiceNow. The result has been a fully integrated configuration mapping of assets from business services down to the exact storage volume. The integration between the NetApp […]
Digital transformation is the key imperative in the corporate suite of most forward-thinking enterprises. IDC coined the term Digital Darwinism to reflect the impact of digital transformation on businesses of all sizes and across industries. According to IDC, organizations are moving away from business as usual and embracing digital transformation to become more competitive. […]
Know what you have before you buy more. Free up unused infrastructure and boost utilization of what you have to reap real savings. It makes sense, but how do you do it? In today’s IT world, with resources in play from your on-premises data centers to multiple public clouds, it’s hard to know […]
This post is part 1 of a five-part series that explains how infrastructure analytics can be used to improve IT service delivery and reduce costs in a hybrid cloud environment. For a deeper dive, download the white paper “Data Insights and Control for the Service Provider Business Model.” […]
Every CIO wants to deliver more transparency into the costs of IT services, but the reality is that few have accomplished it. This issue has been around since the early days when multiple departments shared a mainframe and tried to figure out how to distribute the costs fairly. So why all the hype about chargeback […]
This post is part 3 of a three-part series that explains how infrastructure analytics can be used to improve IT service delivery and reduce costs in a hybrid cloud environment. For a deeper dive, download the white paper “Data Insights and Control for the Service Provider Business Model.” Over the past year, I’ve noticed […]
This post is part 2 of a three-part series that explains how infrastructure analytics can be used to improve IT service delivery and reduce costs in a hybrid cloud environment. For a deeper dive, download the white paper “Data Insights and Control for the Service Provider Business Model.” Business-level metadata is absolutely critical for […]
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