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Should I wait for Windows 8? No. No. and No!

Should I wait for Windows 8? No. No. and No! Conclusion: Organisations that are still running Windows XP fleets are debating holding off a desktop refresh (to Windows 7) until Windows 8 becomes available. There are three key considerations to this discussion: product functionality,...

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Kevin McIsaac

Kevin McIsaac

Dr. Kevin McIsaac has over 20 years of IT experience and is a recognised expert in IT infrastructure, operations and vendor management. He has indepth coverage of Server VIrtualisation, Storage and Virtual Desktops. He has worked as an analyst for over 11 years, and was the Research Director Asia-Pacific at META Group. Dr McIsaac has held leadership positions at Computer Associates and Functional Software. He is a highly sought after speaker who is regularly quoted in the global press.

Benchmarking Basics

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2006-05-28
Inexperienced organisations often see benchmarking as the process of measuring best performance and fail to achieve the real value of benchmarking which is the discovery and adoption of best practices that drive best performance. Done appropriately benchmarking can yield unexpected and significant benefits, but done inappropriately it wastes considerable time and money.

The IT Services Catalogue or "How to Avoid Being the IT Meat in the Business Sandwich"

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2006-04-28
Due to a lack of transparency in the relationship between the demand for IT services and the cost of service delivery, most IT departments find themselves constantly justifying their IT budget to the CFO while simultaneously fighting with business units about additional demand for services. The major source of this dysfunction is the typical IT cost allocation, e.g., overhead or chargeback...

Last Word: Do you need a Change of Office Vista?

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2006-03-28
With the release of Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 early next year IT organisations should take this opportunity to review their desktop strategy. Early indications are that both products are significantly different from the current versions and, as with the prior major releases, will involve significant time, effort and money to implement.

Sharpening the Blade Server Value Proposition

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2006-03-28
By the end of this decade, blade servers will have become the standard form factor within most data centres. Driven by convenience, manageability and price/performance, most IT organisations will choose blades over rack-optimised to build out a low cost, highly flexible computing infrastructure. Over 90% of these systems will be based on industry standard servers (i.e. x32/64 based systems)...

Refreshing IT Infrastructure? First Break All the Rules!

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2006-02-28
After 5 years of tight IT budgets many IT infrastructure components are reaching the end of their economic life and recent surveys suggest IT organisations intend to begin refreshing key systems this year. The path of least resistance is to replace these components with new items, staying with the “status quo”. However this may not be the best strategy! Due to significant...

Server Virtualisation Vendor Landscape

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2006-01-28
2006 will be the year that server virtualisation technology becomes mainstream on x86 based servers. IT Organisations are combining commodity x86 based servers with virtual machines and Storage Area Networks (SANs) to build agile, low cost server infrastructure. They are reporting many benefits including excellent TCO, rapid provisioning, increased resource utilisation and simple, low cost...

Winning the Web Server War

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2005-12-28
Since the beginning of the dot.com boom of the late ‘90s, there has been considerable debate over which web server should be used. By 2004 the web server wars were over with two clear victors emerging, IIS from Microsoft and Apache from the Apache Software Foundation. IT Organisations (ITOs) should move beyond debating the technical merits of various product and select an organisation...

Infrastructure Optimisation: Server Virtualisation

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2005-11-28
With the maturing of Server Virtualisation on industry standard (X86) and RISC/Unix servers, all IT organisations should evaluate its role in optimising IT infrastructure. See IBRS research note “Infrastructure Consolidation: Avoiding the vendor squeeze” October-05). The recommend strategy is to start by using server virtualisation to enable the consolidation of non-production systems...

Boston Tea Party Rebels against Microsoft's Format Tax

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2005-10-28
The US State of Massachusetts'' policy that by 2007 all Executive Department documents must be stored in Open Document Format (ODF) or PDF is a significant milestone in the ongoing migration from proprietary systems to open standards. The statement is founded in the belief that open standards are the best option for ensuring that official public records are freely and openly available for...

Infrastructure Consolidation: Avoiding the vendor squeeze

Analyst: Kevin McIsaac Date: 2005-09-28
Infrastructure Consolidation has been a hot topic since the IT downturn in 2001/2. Unfortunately, this topic has been hijacked by IT vendors and used as justification for purchasing their latest high-end technology. To date most consolidation efforts have been technology projects with poorly defined goals that rarely go beyond implementing a specific technology. As a result most consolidation...
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