November 9th, 2009
LIVE WEBCAST WITH SURGIENT VP OF SERVICES BRIAN WILSON | November 12, 1PM Central
While the debate on whether private clouds should be onsite or a hosted solution is increasing, IT organizations are searching for best practices to implement a successful private cloud. Surgient enables over 70 world-class organizations to successfully deploy and manage private and internal clouds. In this live webcast, Brian Wilson will highlight concrete examples of successful private clouds and clearly outline actionable next steps for immediate implementation.
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Tags: private cloud
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November 2nd, 2009
In this article on Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right, Bernard Golden discusses how to improve dev/test through the cloud. “…it makes sense to consider using a cloud management tool to enable version control and release.” One solution mentioned to provide cloud management is Surgient.
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October 16th, 2009
In this CTO Edge Corner podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Surgient CTO Dave Malcolm talks about what it take in terms of IT automation to stay ahead of potential virtual machine chaos.
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October 9th, 2009
There has been a lot of discussion around the importance of self-service to CIOs. A recent global study conducted by IBM, titled “The New Voice of the CIO”, show that analytics and self-service top the list for midmarket CIOs.
So why is self-service bubbling to the top of the list? Dave Malcolm, Surgient CTO addresses this in the webcast, “Self-Service is Coming to IT Service Delivery…What You Need to Know.” He outlines the need to fill the IT Service Delivery Gap – the issues surrounding a growing IT backlog of user-centric service requests and the ongoing need to meet delivery SLAs.
During the webcast, Malcolm explains the difference between different types of self-service models (first-come first-served, request queue, scheduling system, and reservation-based) and the importance of reservations when it comes to IT self-service.
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Tags: on-demand, reservations, Self Service
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October 1st, 2009
In preparation for the upcoming Gartner Data Center Summit on October 5-6 in London, the Gartner team has released their thoughts on enterprise investement in the private cloud over the next three years. Specifically, the Gartner team believes that large enterprise organizations are likely to use a combination of public and private cloud offerings, with private clouds being, “required for many years, as public cloud offerings mature.”
Gartner describes private cloud computing as, “a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to internal customers using internet technologies.” This is clearly similar to common definitions of the public cloud - the big differences are a.) who can access the resources, and b.) who owns the infrastructure.
The patented Surgient virtual automation platform offers a unique and powerful way to achieve a truly elastic, self-service, and automated private cloud within the enterprise. To learn more about Surgient’s offerings for the private cloud, click here.
Read the full press release on Gartner.com >
Tags: Gartner, private cloud
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September 23rd, 2009
LIVE WEBCAST WITH SURGIENT CTO DAVE MALCOLM | October 7, 1PM Central
With the growing adoption of virtualization, enterprise IT organizations are seeking solutions that streamline the management of dynamic, mixed virtual / physical infrastructure while reducing capital and operating costs. One of the most promising solutions to this challenge is the implementation of a true self-service infrastructure delivery model. In this live webcast, Dave Malcolm will discuss the foundation for a successful, scalable self-service infrastructure delivery model that materially increases utilization and drives operational efficiency: policy-based guaranteed infrastructure reservations.
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Tags: on-demand, reservations, Self Service
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September 23rd, 2009
In addition to its ranking on the Inc. 5000 list, Surgient is pleased to announce that we’ve also been included as company #372 on the Software 500 ranking.
Tags: fast 500, software 500
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September 23rd, 2009
We are pleased to announce that Surgient has been named to the 2009 Inc. 5000 list as company #1,215. Additionally, Surgient was ranked #22 in the Austin/Round Rock area and #79 overall in Software.
Tags: award, growth, inc 5000
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August 27th, 2009
With features on the promise of cloud computing and evergreen IT, and a wide range industry interviews, the Technology Forecast is a valuable forward-looking resource for IT professionals in the virtualization space. As part of the “Enabling Evergreen IT” feature article, an industry vendor overview of key automation vendors is included, highlighting some of Surgient’s core capabilities.
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Tags: growth, software
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August 24th, 2009
The latest release of the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform, version 7, addresses key service delivery challenges of global 2000 IT. Version 7 extends Surgient’s patented self-service provisioning platform with an extended HP Data Center Automation integration, high availability with VMware vSphere 4, and industry-unique elastic IT services.
The platform will be demonstrated at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco August 31 - September 3, and will be generally available before the end of the year.
Learn more and view the Intro to Surgient Platform 7 webcast.
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