No One Home Nights or Weekends at Vermont Data Center
The IT manager for the State of Vermont saved money and improved security by moving to a "lights out" data center, where doors are locked for the graveyard shift and weekends. Here's a look at the project and five key lessons he's learned to date.
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How is your business adapting to changing economic circumstances?
Easy ways to cut IT costs you may have overlooked
Now's the time to try something new to save costs that don't compromise the systems you manage and the capabilities you deliver. Here are seven options.
Reduce Costs: 5 Reasons to Start Managing Your Software Assets Today
If cutting IT costs is at the top of your list, then managing software assets should be, too. It’s rare to see an IT program with an ROI of 6 months to a year, but an effective Software Asset Management (SAM) program can do just that and a whole lot more.
Cut Costs - Not Common Sense
As Voltaire once said; "Common sense is not so common". To that end, we're reminded of the actions of many firms in the downsizing of the 80's and again during the dot-com bust. And in our current economic climate, we're seeing lots of articles with advice that seems to mirror the mistakes of the past. So here are a couple of suggestions from our experiences:
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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No One Home Nights or Weekends at Vermont Data Center