The company appears to be differentiating itself from those two by offering a more systematized method of transitioning a business to cloud computing, and taking over more of the management of corporate computing.
Sun's N1 (it stands for "Network One") is largely aimed at network management, where it figures 80% of computing budgets go.
They claim to bring the pricing and risk management strategies of the financial commodities markets to cloud computing via revenue-generating services that add convenience and value to the cloud user.
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The current paradigm of IT operations management is anything but simple and is holding customers back from achieving the promise of cloud computing.
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He had earned his CBE by 1989, long before he was snapped up by a flagging BT keen to tap his "international experience, his dedication to quality management, and his in-depth knowledge of the computing services industry".
Combine that with more sophisticated endpoint management solutions, which ease the burden of supporting a diverse computing ecosystem, and the need for identical gray desktop boxes goes away.
The high-performance systems that Lockheed Martin develops require a range of technologies, including cloud computing, biometrics, information management, modeling and simulation, precision pointing, energy management and storage, optics and electro-optics, and nanotechnology.
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So far the Crusoe chips have had only limited success in the market, but the company focused attention on power management in mobile computing, which had previously been treated as a bit of an afterthought.
Which means that the computing guys should probably have a great deal more influence over the management of the bank.
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Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.
Yet DirecTV had to buy more computing power to handle the latest release of Siebel Systems' sales-management software.
Yet DirecTV had to buy more computing power to handle the latest release of Siebel Systems' sales--management software.
These types of security and management solutions existed for the PC but now we need to create them to support the next generation of mobile and cloud computing.
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