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The Data Center Services (DCS) market is at a turning point today, with both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) strategies potentially playing a pivotal role.

Apple has quietly been releasing information on now to integrate its growing list of Smart devices with Enterprise IT. While currently synonymous with consumers or perhaps less kindly termed "masses", the evidence is clear that Macs, iPads and iPhones are infiltrating corporate environments either knowingly or unknowingly.

There are no lack of articles on the subject of VMware resource pools and shares, yet I am constantly amazed by how frequently they are misused. This isn’t just a problem in the SMB either. Resource pool abuse is an equal opportunity virtual infrastructure killer and I feel the need to dredge up the tired topic again in the hope of reaching at least one more vSphere administrator.

In the first and second installments of this series, we introduced the idea of Quality of Experience (QoE) Management and explored how traditional IT Monitoring tools are excellent at providing visibility into an IT environment, but lack context – the critical difference between traditional IT monitoring and QoE Management. We explored exactly what constitutes context and broke it down into three components: Business Services, Infrastructure Mapping, and Benchmarking. So the question becomes, why isn’t everyone doing this?

There has been a lot of news coverage around the battle being played out between Microsoft SkyDrive and iCloud, and news of Google entering the fray with it’s Google Drive (aka G-Drive) competing with a Dropbox like file service. Other players include Box.net, Sugar Sync, Syncplicity, and iFolder to name but a few.

It’s so easy these days to purchase Cloud-based services. Go online, click a few times, enter your credit card info, and presto! You’re in the Clouds. There’s no question the novelty really hasn’t worn off yet. Have you ever wondered, however, what you’re really paying for? Sure, you have some expectation that the service provider will, well, provide a service...

In our last installment, we introduced the concept of Quality of Experience (QoE) Management. In this installment, we explore how QoE Management differs from traditional IT monitoring and how adding just one component can change everything.

The complexity associated with patching, service packs, hotfixes, upgrades and firmware updates, defined as general life cycle activities, are nothing new to IT professionals. This has been an ongoing effort for many years now, and we have all come to expect that vendors will provide regular updates that include bug fixes, security patches and feature enhancements.