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Customer Service making a difference and changing the way I travel to Europe

Robert Stroud — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:09:00 GMT

For the next two weeks I will be traveling Europe hosting a series of executive round tables on Application Portfolio Management based on the Nordea case study where they saved 3.5 million Euro's. (Download the Nordea case study.) Now, I love the interaction with senior business and IT representatives, but European travel in February can be challenging and with little margin for error....

What Does "Rationalize" Mean?

Mark Lukianchuk — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:09:00 GMT

I've been looking into the concept of "rationalize" recently given the work I'm doing related to our new CA Cloud 360 solution. In this new offering, we even have a stage called "Rationalize" where we help our customers examine and understand their portfolio of existing applications and look at suitable candidates for migration to cloud computing platforms. But all of...

Innovation: Is it how you manage, or what you manage?

Lisa Sass — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:39:00 GMT

Rolling over to a new year brings changes to benefit plans affecting millions of healthcare consumers. Managing how those changes go into effect is the year-round challenge for my friend, a senior IT executive for a large benefits provider. Over a recent dinner, he brought up how his company is investing many millions in projects designed to improve patient safety and system security, along with...

Thinking about reporting to the CDP ? Just Do It!

Cynthia Curtis — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:00 GMT

I often have discussions with colleagues from other businesses about the fact that they would like to start reporting on their carbon emissions and energy usage, but it seems like a daunting challenge. My advice to them is always the same: Just Do It! CA Technologies has been reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) on our energy usage since 2006 (CDP reporting questionnaire...

WYDSIWYN is Back!

Jackie Kahle — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:28:00 GMT

In the 1980's, companies like Aldus and Interleaf revolutionized the electronic publishing industry by offering software which took advantage of a new generation of graphical workstations. Enabling users to layout their publications and see on the screen exactly how the document would look when printed, the solutions were dubbed "WYSIWYG" (pronounced wizzy-wig), which stood...

Application Portfolio Management: The first step in transforming the business of IT

Robert Stroud — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:26:00 GMT

Every CIO I speak to faces similar pressures - business demand is increasing, especially with the millennials and the consumerization of IT, and at the same time budget increases cannot keep up with inflation. Being a glass half-full person I see this as a wonderful opportunity for the IT organization to focus on its primary charter: driving business value by transforming the business. Last...

Does Cloud Computing Really Make Things Greener?

Dhesikan Ananchaperumal — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:53:00 GMT

Today in The CA Cloud Storm Chasers Blog, George Watt, Vice President, for the Enterprise and Cloud solutions group at CA Technologies, discusses the company’s progression through three levels of green awareness and maturity in its early cloud years. The levels included are: 1. Collateral Greenage 2. Deliberately Green 3. A Measured Approach To find out more about each of these...

Pragmatic Cloud: Peeling the Cloud's Green Onion

George Watt — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:56:00 GMT

Does cloud computing really make things greener? The Green Onion's Three Layers Recently my colleague Dhesi Ananchaperumal and I were invited to speak at several conferences on the topics of energy management and consumption, and cost reduction. During those sessions I was asked to share some of our experiences in our journey to providing a private cloud and to discuss whether the cloud...

Don’t Ignore Capacity Planning in the Cloud

CA Community — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Karen J. Bannan is a prolific writer, editor, blogger, and moderator. She is also the executive editor of Smart Enterprise. Karen has been writing about technology for more than a decade, first for PC Magazine and then eWeek, where she covered servers, workstations, and storage. Follow her on Twitter: @KarenBannan. Karen shares her insights on the importance of capacity planning – a vital...

The DB2 reference Guide is back!!

Marcel den Hartog — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:54:00 GMT

For decades, the CA DB2 Reference Guide (originally started by Platinum Technologies) has been THE source of wisdom for DB2 DBA’s working on the IBM mainframe. The format, the content and the structure somehow was exactly right, 1 source of information replacing many different manuals simply helps people to do their job more efficient… Now, some of you might ask; “a DB2 reference Guide, on...

Service Catalog - The Driving Force to Deliver the Cloud

Eric Feldman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:33:00 GMT

With the widespread adoption of cloud services, there is enormous effort to define offerings and align to market based pricing. Let's face it. If you are going through a cloud transformation initiative, one of your business drivers is to reduce expenditures. In order to calculate your savings, you must have at least some basis of comparison of the service cost or value. And to calculate...

Consumer Driven IT in Review – 9th edition

Jackie Kahle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:00 GMT

Now What? Consumer Driven IT encompasses a variety of technologies and the issues are varied and daunting - supporting many different devices, securing data and access across private and public clouds, ensuring 24/7 service delivery, developing mobile-friendly apps and shortening application lifecycles to meet increasing demands. It is no surprise that our customers often ask "What do I do...

Ready, Aim, Fire: The Case for Cloud Planning

Mark Lukianchuk — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:59:00 GMT

A little more than a year ago I presented a session on cloud computing at a CIO conference where I highlighted the three key issues preventing cloud computing adoption: security/privacy, availability and performance. However, in doing some research for a session I gave at CA World this past November, I realized that things have changed. Back in the mid-1990s companies were nervous about...

Employee Engagement: Green Teams Key to Early Momentum in Corporate Sustainability

Cynthia Curtis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:42:00 GMT

When CA Technologies made sustainability a driving principle of our organization we immediately got to work on some good-old-fashioned governance initiatives. We performed a competitive analysis, gathered as much information and data as possible on our current status, set up a project management office to help drive key initiatives, and developed key metrics and lenses for examining...

What specific actions can you take if you want to implement "consumerization" at your company?

CA Community — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:13:00 GMT

Brian Madden is known throughout the world as an opinionated, super technical, fiercely-independent desktop virtualization expert. He's written several books and over 2,000 articles about desktop and application virtualization. His blog receives millions of visitors per year and is a leading source for conversation, debate, and discourse about the application and desktop...

The Moral Dilemma; Invest or ....

Marcel den Hartog — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:11:00 GMT

Everybody in IT knows that most of the IT budget is spent on "keeping the lights on". This is seen as "not good" because, according to some, IT should spend more money on innovation, adding business value etc. Spending 60-80% on keeping the lights on is equivalent to "wasting money". And somehow, nobody ever seems to question statements like this. Well, I...

How IT Can Get Control over Mobile Apps

Denise Dubie — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:38:00 GMT

Consumer-driven IT will require CIOs to put policies in place, provide mobile capabilities and optimize performance to keep end users happy. Mobile devices and applications will force IT executives' hands in 2012, but the change could be for the best if CIOs and other high-tech leaders better understand what end-users want, enable an agile environment to support new technologies and minimize...

Five Global Partners Recognized for Cloud Computing Achievements at CA Technologies MSP Symposium

David Resnic — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:16:00 GMT

Today we announced the five winners of the first annual CA AppLogic Partner Awards, which were handed out at "Accelerate the Cloud Miami 2012," a CA Technologies MSP Symposium event. ScaleMatrix, DNS Europe, CorePLUS World, Cirrhus9 and Bird Hosting were recognized for their achievements in leveraging the CA AppLogic® cloud computing platform, and for their...

R.I.P. IT?

Robert Stroud — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:16:00 GMT

After being a technology geek for the last 30 years, the one thing I know for certain is that the only constant is change! I love getting a new piece of technology and learning how it can make my life better. I am not alone in this; we are breeding a generation where "geek is chic." It's a generation that doesn't think twice about adopting technology whether it's at...

R.I.P. IT?

Robert Stroud — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:06:00 GMT

Five global partners recognized in first annual CA AppLogic Partner Awards

Christine Needles — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:11:00 GMT

On Monday night at "Accelerate the Cloud Miami 2012," a CA Technologies MSP Symposium event, the team was very pleased to give out the first annual CA AppLogic Partner Awards to five very deserving partners. ScaleMatrix, DNS Europe, CorePLUS World, Cirrhus9 and Bird Hosting were recognized for their achievements with the CA AppLogic® platform - including technology innovation and...

Which is more complex: a jet airplane or a cloud data center?

Marvin Waschke — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:50:00 GMT

I am in the midst of writing a book on Cloud Standards (expected to be available on or about June 20, 2012). There are only a handful of standards that apply directly to clouds, but the number of standards that cloud computing inherently relies upon is enormous. I have lots of leeway in writing about standards in the book, mainly because it is hard to think of a computing standard that does not...

The Increasing Importance of Managing Vblock Platforms

Stephen Elliot — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:07:00 GMT

One of the hot button topics at Cisco Live in London with customers of VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms is the increasing recognition of the importance of management. Many Vblock Platform customers have neither purchased any management for the converged infrastructure nor considered how the workloads or services will be managed. To optimize the TCO, management should be at the forefront...

Mobility: Whose cost is it, anyway?

Chris O'Malley — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:37:00 GMT

We will be posting excerpts taken from blogs that Chris O’Malley, CEO of Nimsoft, writes for Computerworld on “Perspectives.” Chris O’Malley’s latest Computerworld blog "Mobility: Whose cost is it, anyway,?" explains how IT organizations can help line-of-business financial managers increase productivity through mobile devices while driving down costs....

Cloud IAM Services-Everyone’s New Punching Bag

Merritt Maxim — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:36:00 GMT

Any new product or technology is invariably accompanied by certain levels of skepticism and cynicism. Whether it is the latest smart phone lacking a certain mega-pixel camera or a new version of enterprise software not supporting a given operating system or standard, critics will always appear to question these new products' viability. As we enter 2012, cloud computing, or more...