Summer 2019

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: How Users See the IT4IT Standard Building Competitive Business Advantage

Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re reading BriefingsDirect. Our next IT operations strategy panel discussion explores how the IT4IT™️ Reference Architecture for IT management creates demonstrated business benefits – in many ways, across many types of organizations. Since its delivery in 2015…

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The Data-centric World of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

[Compute-centric] In the early days of High-Performance Computing (HPC) the concept of solving complex problems was driven by how much processing power was available to achieve a goal within a reasonable amount of time. At the same time, the algorithms that made up the HPC applications were designed to…

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Pay as you grow with flexible IT services

Companies can save significant time and money by monitoring and paying for only the computing power they use. Here’s how that can work. Ever since the cloud became a major force in enterprise computing, IT leaders have been confronted with a choice: maintain data, applications, systems, and networks in-house…

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Hyperconvergence Delivers Unexpected Results for VDI Users

The self-help industry is steadily growing, due to a basic human desire for improvement. Consumers can find a plethora of books, podcasts, and seminars, not to mention products and services that promise positive change. IT organizations that want to experience similar improvements can find them by implementing some less-than-urgent…

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