We know that 75 percent of mid size organizations in the U. S. have branch offices, and the average number of locations per company is six. It's critical for these customers to have better manageability and efficiency, as most midsize organizations have limited IT staff.
Quotes about manageability (10 Quotes)
The SG-4 meets the key IT requirements of small and mid-size branch offices without compromise it minimizes downtime, reduces the total cost of ownership, and improves overall service availability and manageability. Like the SG-8, the new SG-4 provides a wide range of services on one easy-to-manage platform, and our modular, always-accessible architecture provides a key advantage for handling the growing number of services required at today's branch offices. Other single-box solutions can't begin to compete with these benefits because they don't truly unify services at the operating system, processing, and management levels they simply put several independent technologies into the same box.
The heart of what it is -- the file system, the data model, the schema -- is basically in place. What I think will change, based on developer feedback, is some of the schemas will evolve, and some of the manageability functionality won't be in the product yet.
We are aggressively driving the transformation to an entire new generation of multi-core servers. As the most widely-deployed 64bit platform in the industry, Xeon is the clear server and workstation workhorse for business. And as we support the transition to multi-core enterprise computing, Intel is already sampling next-generation processors and platforms that will consume orders of magnitude less power and incorporate new platform technologies that deliver leadership manageability, virtualization and IO efficiency.
Ultimately, Microsoft has the resources and market power to become a prominent player over time, but I don't think they're going to be much of a player this year. They're still considerably behind where they need to be in terms of such things a security and manageability.
In Moyle's opinion, a balancing act of sorts is required. Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely, ... Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.
For over a decade, IT professionals have trusted mission-critical data to Brocade storage network infrastructure. Now, we are expanding our portfolio in response to the requirement for extended consolidation and manageability across all classes of servers and applications.
With today's introduction of the Gateway E-1500 and E-2600, professional IT managers don't have to compromise when it comes to outfitting employees with powerful new PCs. The combination of Intel processors with ATI's chipset enables us to offer systems with feature sets unheard of at these price points, while still meeting professional customers' demands for manageability and stability.
For too long, special interest groups have attacked the manageability of Linux, and fueled the F.U.D. that Linux environments are somehow more difficult or labor-intensive to manage than Windows environments. In fact, Linux system management tools are in many cases outpacing Windows management tools.
Whether for entertainment, business or personal communications, video is becoming a crucial application for our customers, and distance learning and video conferencing are natural extensions of our expertise in transporting video as part of the triple play to cable subscribers. We've built our video transport market leadership on carrier-grade optical Ethernet platforms that ensure reliability, performance and manageability - because best-effort is not good enough in the video world.