Sustainable business thru Virtualization and Clouds

How to increase competitiveness of business while improving its sustainability? Think of Virtualization and Clouds.

Real savings can be achieved through server consolidation. Virtual environment can be used to consolidate the workloads of several low-utilized servers to fewer machines. Which translates into savings on hardware, environmental and energy costs, management and administration of the IT infrastructure.

Not all outsourcing created equal: managed networks

While I am not a big fan of outsourcing to other countries, I am definitely a proponent of local outsourcing of non-core IT functions, e.g. network management. It is win-win situation: jobs stay in community and the business has an access to a top-notch expertise, while controlling costs and increasing competitiveness.