Not your Daddy’s Blade Servers anymore

Blade Servers

The old days of proprietary, incompatible hardware are giving way to a new, much more efficient model based on Blade servers: inexpensive, standards-based and highly scalable. In this first installment, guest experts Peter Burris of Simpler IT and Dave Vellante of Barometrix quantify in specific terms the value Blades bring to organizations both large and small.

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Dynamic Utility Hosting Services

IT should be simpler, cheaper and more available. That’s the theory at least but it isn’t reality – yet. Join a panel of experts and find out why this emerging technology is a $400 million segment that is up 100 percent year-over-year.

Analyst Spotlight

Mark Nicolett,Vice President, Gartner Research

Mr. Nicolett’s research in the security and privacy area focuses on vulnerability management, patch management, security information and event management and network access control.Mr. Nicolett's 17 years of experience in IT has been focused on IT operations, systems management, security management and storage management.

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Reduce Security Threats with Automated Patch & Vulnerability Management

Today, the process of eliminating system vulnerabilities and patching software is rapidly shifting from a “should do” to a “must do or pay the price.” Without a security patch management strategy in place, you will not be able to continually and automatically address these critical network vulnerabilities.