Articles in category: "General"
ViFX Acquires Delta Software
Auckland (New Zealand) – 31 st January 2012 – VMware Premier Partner and leading Asia Pacific virtualisation specialist, ViFX, announced today it has acquired IT Service Management (ITSM) experts Delta Software. Founded in New Zealand in 2007 to focus on offering virtualisation, enterprise-storage and cloud-infrastructure services and solutions to organisations across Asia Pacific, ViFX has seen rapid growth and also maintains operations in Singapore and Australia. In addition to providing services to New Zealand's largest enterprises and public sector organisations, ViFX regularly undertakes large virtualisation, storage and cloud computing projects in Australia and Asia Pacific. ViFX Managing Director Geoff Olliff says the acquisition of Delta Software, to be executed as a buy-out of Delta Software by ViFX, is the next evolution in its strategy to become the pre-eminent virtualisation, enterprise-storage and cloud-infrastructure consultancy in the Asia Pacific ...
Posted by Derek Leitch on Wed 01 Feb 2012
Q: Troubled Infrastructure Project?
A common thread in addressing the major causes of troubled projects is the ability of the project manager to effectively deal with these issues, mitigate some of the risk in these areas, and be a strong enough leader to stand up to senior management or go to bat to manage expectations and resources. The top causes of project troubles are: 1. Requirements: Unclear, lack of agreement, lack of priority, contradictory, ambiguous, imprecise. 2. Resources: Lack of resources, resource conflicts, turnover of key resources, poor planning. 3. Schedules: Too tight, unrealistic, overly optimistic. 4. Planning: Based on insufficient data, missing items, insufficient details, poor estimates. 5. Risks: Unidentified or assumed, not managed. Your Actions to help a troubled project recover: 1. Improve communication, stakeholder management 2. Redefine the project - reducing the scope, re-justifying the project financially, etc. 3. Add and/or remove resources 4. Resolve problematic ...
Posted by Derek Leitch on Tue 19 Apr 2011
Cloud Services for SMB in Asia
Q: Types of cloud services that Asia's SMBs find acceptable? SMBs' cloud adoption patterns vary greatly in terms of types of applications and services reflecting their varying levels of comfort with the new paradigm and while a majority of SMBs are using cloud services in conjunction with their existing applications and services, a small but growing number are using them to replace their on-premise infrastructure. This is especially true for cloud services like CRM, hosted email, hosted SharePoint and others. The extent of Cloud Services for SMB from local providers in Asia today remains largely limited in our experience, with many of the service providers not possessing a definitive strategy for their Cloud offerings let alone an SMB focused Services portfolio's aimed at addressing the unique needs of this market segment. For example, SMB's in Asia are challenged by internet reliability and bandwidth, and concerned with taking of advantage of the transformative, ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Thu 10 Mar 2011
Nicholas Carr @ Atmosphere
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Posted by Derek Leitch on Tue 15 Feb 2011
VMware Unveils Zimbra 7
VMware Zimbra 7 features new data sharing capabilities, expanded calendaring and search functionality, and upgraded management features for both IT and end-users. With this update, Zimbra is further optimized for both the casual and power-user, establishing a platform for a next-generation workspace within the VMware End-User Computing vision. VMware's End-User Computing vision seeks to free users and IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing and deliver a more consumer-focused cloud experience for the enterprise. VMware Zimbra is among the largest business collaboration providers and is the largest on-premise open source collaboration suite in terms of paid mailboxes. Jim Morrisroe, vice president, Zimbra Products, VMware said, "VMware Zimbra(R) continues to be the fastest-growing enterprise collaboration solution -- now with more than 66 million paid mailboxes and more than 200,000 organizations using VMware Zimbra as their next-generation ...
Posted by Derek Leitch on Thu 10 Feb 2011
ViFX launches new look website
Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for visiting our new-look website. We hope you find the content informative and valuable. Apart from a new look and feel you'll find more information and content on VMware virtualisation solutions and Cloud Computing. Thanks for visiting and thanks to all our valued customers for their continued support.
Posted by Derek Leitch on Tue 01 Feb 2011