Institutional shareholders, frequently under pressure to perform from their clients and to maintain their own performance rankings, seek short-term performance from their investments, not always to the longer term strategic advantage.
They point out that outsourcing services providers are often required to make sizeable upfront investments in IT equipment and personnel. IBM reported that payment from Zurich Financial will be made using a "pay per use" system for desktops...
CIOs should consider using sophisticated portfolio management software with embedded processes to facilitate decision-making, provide empirical data and automate the timely tracking of investments. The benefits of this structured discipline include...
Intel Virtualization Technology - code-named Vanderpool and now emerging in server processors - accelerates some operations and makes it possible to run Windows on Xen without modifications to Windows that otherwise would be necessary.
In addition, the company said today it has now made Virtual Server 2005 R2 - which the company had charged either $99 for up to four physical processors or $199 for an unlimited number of processors - a free download.
Atlanta-based Invirtus is perhaps best known for its VM Optimizer technology which automatically reduces virtual machines to the smallest size possible and optimises them for speed and efficiency. The investments by Cisco and Intel in VMware buys...