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Kevin Patterson
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Thanks to everyone who shared their IT best practices through the Intel Premier IT Knowledge Award program.  Judges from Intel and CXO Media poured over the very qualified submissions and had the hard job of narrowing to a handful of finalists.  Two awards (one for management of client fleet, one for data center) will be chosen by a panel of judges from Intel and CXO Media.  One additional award winner will be chosen by the IT community members of Intel Premier IT Professional via online voting.

So it's your turn. 

Users can find the link to vote on http://ipip.intel.com. 

For those who are not program members, membership is free and takes just a few minutes. You'll also stay up-to-date with best practices and technology insights online, in publications and local events.

The Intel Premier IT Knowledge Awards program was designed to recognize and reward North American IT managers/groups who have generated best practices, driving business value and innovation.   

The finalists represent diversity of business size, type, and solutions deployed using Intel architecture.

 

Data Center Management

Applied Materials

HD Supply

RichRelevance

Toyota Motor Sales, Inc.

Client Fleet Management

Hay Group

Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc. 

Polycom, Inc.

Raleigh Pediatrics Associates

 

Award winners will receive industry recognition in an upcoming issue of CIO magazine as well as invited guest at either the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards or the CIO: The Year Ahead event. 

 

Let us know who your favorite IT hero is. 

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Enrique Castro-Leon
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You may recall Nicholas G Carr for his classic Harvard Business Review article about the commoditization of IT.

 

 

In his recent book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google quoted in Bill Snyder's CIO Magazine article he claims data centers will become obsolete with the adoption of cloud computing.

 

 

Looking beyond the hyperbole, my thought is that as the cloud is adopted in the industry, patterns of ownership for data centers will change. The situation won't be black and white, that is, either corporate owned data centers or everything in the cloud.

 

 

To the extent that corporate applications have a modular architecture, what we'll see is a gradual outsourcing of non-critical application components to cloud resources. Corporate owned data centers may become smaller, but servers that otherwise would have been there will be purchased by the outsourcing provider. This is consistent with of efficient markets. Coase argues that an optimizing process is at work where the size of an organization (or a data center in this case) is the result of finding the balance between competing tendencies ("transaction costs").

 

 

It is hard to believe that data centers will disappear. Companies may decide that their crown jewel applications and data are better run in house. However, to the extent that these applications are modular and federated, non-critical components or components not associated with LOB will be outsourced. Fewer servers will be needed to run the applications, leading to smaller data centers.

 

 

The servers needed to run the non-critical functions will not go away; the will be owned (or leased) by the outsourcing provider. These servers will run in a highly optimized, multi-tenant and virtualized environment. The overal effect is that resource usage is optimized over the whole ecosystem.

 

 

In this outsourced, multi-tenant environment, manageability and monitoring capabilities become paramount, including the conveyance of metadata across multiple logical levels and the ability to provide multiple logical views to support iron clad SLAs.

 

Virtualization as an essential ingredient to make the cloud work because it allows applications and their hosts to be scheduled independently. The article also brings issues of security and transparency standing in the way of the cloud. More than a fundamental roadblock, these issues are a function of industry maturity, and it is reasonable to expect that they will be eventually addressed once the outsourced resources become quantifiable with respect to the businesses served.

 

 

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Enrique Castro-Leon
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Present day enterprise computing may involve thousands of interconnected computers. Users benefiting from the operation of these machines may not even be aware of the vast scale of this infrastructure; the system just "works". This is computing in the large, the enterprise IT equivalent of the cosmological superclusters.

 

These enterprise computing superclusters exhibit certain patterns and behaviors that can be understood through the integration of three very well established technologies, virtualization, service orientation and grid computing. We call the collective representation of these superclusters "virtual service oriented grids" or VSGs for short.

 

 

If you take this trio of technologies one at a time, they're old news. Research on virtualization goes back to the early 1960s and the same holds true for SOA if we go back to its roots in object oriented programming. Grids were started in the late 80s, but if we take their high performance computing context, they go back to the dawn of electronic computing in the early 1940s.

 

 

Together these three powerful technologies define a new information technology model that will fundamentally change the way we do business. It is not because we'll be able to bring up wonderful new applications to market. That's only the beginning. These technologies allow the development of applications in a federated fashion using service modules that we call "servicelets". The difference is that these federated or composite applications can be built orders of magnitude faster than traditional, single-vendor applications. This new environment will open opportunities for thousands of smaller players worldwide.

 

 

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Kevin Patterson
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This week, we'll have guest Intel blogger Enrique Castro-Leon, Enterprise and Data Center Architect and Technology Strategist. As a preface I'd like to share the preface from the forthcoming Intel Press book Enrique has co-authored, "The Business Value of Service Oriented Grids." The preface (also in our resources area) tees up the history that brought us to service oriented grids and an industry example of how using virtualization and service orientation can help a mature business. If you'd like more, let us know you're reading and give us a shout.

 

And don't forget our other guest blogging by the Intel Business Exchange managers this week.

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