GlassHouse Technologies, a leading independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, and InformationWeek Analytics today announced the availability of a report entitled “The Future-Proof Data Center: Using SOI To Achieve True Alignment.” The report identifies how major trends in green IT, virtualization and cloud computing can be positively impacted by the adoption of a service-oriented infrastructure (SOI). The report, authored by GlassHouse consultants Rick Hayes, Bill Peldzus and Dean Riach, also highlights how CIOs can sustain dynamic business demands through the next decade and beyond with creative and strategic IT decision making. The report is available for download on the InformationWeek Government Web siteand is the featured report for the new site launched to serve the government IT professionals.
In today’s challenging economic climate, companies are examining all functions of the data center to determine how to optimize their current and future IT infrastructures. The survey of more than 250 business technology professionals, explored how critical trends associated with the data center translate into broader business decisions. This analytics report provides guidance on how enterprises can maintain fiscal discipline and business-focused IT delivery, tackle key infrastructure challenges and move toward a true SOI model. With this model in place, organizations will be able to manage changes to the environment more proactively.
“This report is intended to help organizations make more intelligent IT infrastructure investments that will lead to improved operational efficiencies today and provide scalability and support for future growth,” said Lorna Garey, executive editor of InformationWeek Analytics. “The observations and guidance outlined by GlassHouse Technologies provides enterprises with strategies that will generate smart business decisions and result in better data center efficiencies that ultimately translate into cost savings.”
Typical challenges such as energy-slurping and heat-generating devices, capacity limitations and lack of space all lead to major inefficiencies that can be extremely expensive for businesses to mitigate. Implementing best practices, step-by-step processes and adopting a SOI to run IT infrastructure as a service in order to make business benefits possible can help companies manage these trends and help save both time and money.
“Today’s IT environment is a major business operation and is vital to the success of any organization,” said Bill Peldzus, vice president of data centers services at GlassHouse Technologies. “The report helps to identify common challenges in the data center and how companies can overcome these issues by implementing an effective SOI and taking a critical look at the people, processes and technology they currently have in place. Usually key improvements and best practices can be implemented by taking advantage of the assets you already have.”
To access the report please visit the following site:
http://informationweekanalytics.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=64
About GlassHouse
GlassHouse Technologies is a global provider of IT infrastructure services enabling organizations to consolidate, virtualize, protect and manage their IT environments. GlassHouse delivers services through TransomSM, a unique delivery framework comprised of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise. We reduce costs, decrease risk and improve service levels by providing measurable results and vendor independent solutions. GlassHouse focuses on the storage/data protection, virtualization and data center markets.
