In this issue: Save the Date - Rockies vs. Red Sox Baseball Game, Save the Date - Bon Jovi "Because We Can" World Tour, STA In Touch - Featuring team member Mike Jarett, Big Data Power Consumption
How much power do very large data centers use? According to Facebook’s disclosures the company consumed 704 million kilowatt hours in 2012.
Will cloud hosted infrastructure and applications save us money? This is a question mulled over by thousands of CFOs and IT managers on a daily basis. Of course the answer is “it depends”.
A useful and valid business case is a collaborative effort between business sponsors, the CFO, and IT. In order to assist our clients with building business cases and cost analyses for IT investments, STA is providing a service called Smart-IT.
This analysis tool compares the costs and benefits of continuing to purchase stand-alone desktop PCs with the costs of replacing them with server based virtual desktops.
STA Smart IT to Release VDI Cost Analysis & ROI Tool in April
Webcast - SAP HANA demonstration
In this issue:
• STA Announces New Partnership With Cisco UCS
• STA's Online Tools Are Now Available!
• Webcast - Forrester and IT Execs Discuss Big Workloads
• Dell Deal - Good or Bad for Customers?
Industry surveys suggest that a large percentage of organizations are deploying or will deploy mobile apps on smartphones this year. Prototypes are being developed that target a future in which mobile devices, business applications, supply chains, warehouses, e-commerce sites, and business intelligence systems coalesce in one ecosystem.
In an increasing number of organizations, the CIO is not the person who decides what IT projects should get investment. That job now belongs to the CFO.
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