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Author: Team Glasshouse

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Virtualisation boost in the year of doing ‘more with less’

So last year’s economic and financial events have established ’09 as the year of doing ‘more with less’ as I mentioned pre-Christmas.

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2009: The Year for Doing More With Less

In these times of economic hardship the mantra of doing more with less has never been further to the forefront of the IT department’s mind.  As we move into 2009 reduced sales and cash-flow will begin to bite and some budgets will be cut drastically.  

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Managed Services: Providing A Way Through Tricky Economic Times

As capital budgets are slashed and operating budgets are subjected to deep analysis over the next two years we have to ask ourselves: Are we using our IT spend to its greatest capability? Indeed, are we best positioned to provide this IT service to our business?

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The Benefits of Virtual Tape Libraries

Buying a tape library is similar to ordering a new company car; there’s a huge of choice of vendors and devices, and now IT managers also have to consider wider pressures such as environmental impact and additional costs

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Managed Services for Virtual Environments

Do you really need another tool to tell you what's going on? How much has your organisation already spent on developing tools to meet their needs?

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VMWorld 2008 Round Up

As usual there’s been a lot going on in the world of virtualisation and VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas a few weeks ago gave us all a lot to think about

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Managing the virtualisation transition

Virtualisation is now a mature, mainstream technology, with widely accepted cost savings and cost avoidance opportunities. So why do many virtualisation projects fail to achieve the goals or results they set out to achieve

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Storage Virtualisation: A Virtual Necessity Or Yet Another Passing Fad?

Many of my last blog posts have talked generically about virtualisation and how to make it really work for your organisation and how to achieve the best ROI

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Uncovering the ROI of virtualisation (Part 2)

Return on investment (ROI) is all about getting your money’s worth and perhaps more importantly, helping justify future investments

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Uncovering the ROI of virtualisation

Some customers who implement virtualisation solutions are not realising the ROI that they originally anticipated, and in many ways they are finding management of their virtualised environment more complex than they originally envisioned