Articles in category: "Shared Storage"
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