Biggest Cloud Mistakes to Avoid

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Maximizing IT Investments August 29, 2011 Five Mistakes Companies Make in Their Cloud Strategies The term "cloud" has become one of the most commonly used and most often misunderstood words in IT today. When a company doesn't fully define what the cloud can do for it, it leads to a less-than-optimized strategy that underserves the organization. To help IT pros avoid common pitfalls, Logicalis has identified five mistakes companies make in their cloud strategies. Read more > One Dashboard — Thousands of Servers Download this software trial to simplify your management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of virtual and physical applications and servers with a single tool that scales to over 5,000 servers. Try It Now > Blogs Ann All Business of Tech Cost Reduction Only Tip of Cloud Iceberg John Storts What's New Make a Better Case of MDM with These Research Notes Loraine Lawson Integration Why Business Users Should Do Data Profiling Plan Now for Your IPv6 Migration   Check out this white paper for the best practices to plan and implement for your company's transition to IPv6. Download now > Millennials Are Here, Whether IT Likes It or Not The emergence of powerful devices and networks is throwing multiple challenges at IT departments. For one thing, millennial workers are crashing the gates and using these tools — whether the IT department signs off on it or not. The question is how proactively IT adapts to secure them and optimize their value. When Is a Desktop Not a Desktop? For the cost of some unused floor space, a couple of commodity PCs and some security software and monitoring, you can significantly reduce your IT risk both financially and operationally. Assuring Quality in Third-party Code Integrations In a nutshell, third-party code integrations are becoming the need of the day to enhance your core product's functionality. Do not be intimidated by the challenges it poses. Be aware of them and attack them at the very early stages to fully benefit from such external code. Latest White Papers Cloud First IT: The Rise of the Cloud Services Network How to Estimate the Total Value of Your MDM Project Database Performance Imperatives: Monitor, Analyze, Optimize The Art of Integrating Mobility into Your Phone System Featured White Papers The Art of Integrating Mobility into Your Phone System This technical brief provides an overview of mobile integration solutions for comparing mobile integration solutions and finding the one that meets your communications needs. •  Got iOS Devices? Mobility Management Made Simple •  Business in a Box: Extending VoIP to Satellite Offices •  Virtualization's Bottom Line — How to Reduce Backup Requirements by 95% "The appeal of a pre-fab data center is easy to understand.... enterprises gain a quick shot of formidable computing power at relatively low cost and on a footprint that is dramatically smaller than traditional bricks-and-mortar facilities." Excerpt from Arthur Cole Infrastructure Premium Tools Cloud Computing Foundation Certification Kit Cloud computing is a topic you need to be well versed at iif you want your IT management career to advance. This downloadable resource will step you through the services available, deployment models and security risks associated with Cloud Computing. Use this 185 page eBook and access to a unique eLearning experience to grow your career. •  The Complete IT Policy Kit •  The Strategic IT Planning Bundle •  The ITIL V3 Foundation Certification Kit IT Marketplace This e-mail is sent by: NarrowCast Group, LLC, 10400 Linn Station Road, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40223 Copyright ©2003-2011 NarrowCast Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  CTO Edge Update •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise