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IT costs accounting

Wai-Kit — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:45:07 +0000

So often, I have heard skeptics who would criticize and cynically discard away the concept of measuring, accounting, and charging for IT services within an organization. “Why would you want…

Data Centre Asset Planning

Wai-Kit — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:19:33 +0000

A recent Quocirca Insight report which was derived from 301 interviews with senior IT influencers and decision makers shows what we have already experiencing in most data centres: Crisis point…

How do you lead with all the bad news?

Wai-Kit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:47:50 +0000

This has not been a good year. Numbers aren’t looking good. Weakening demand. Customer churn. Reduction in force. Those who were not affected by layoffs will have a much heavier…

IT Shared Services & Modeling Chargebacks

Wai-Kit — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:00:22 +0000

In most organization, the IT function is almost always a key enabler for an effective and efficient running of the business. With the recent credit crunch and economic downturn, many…

Virtualization – why you cannot ignore Storage?

Wai-Kit — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:17:17 +0000

There are many ways to optimize the data center. But as with all things good, it is necessary to take each step in moderation. Consolidation and virtualization is one way…

Planning for a new Data Center?

Wai-Kit — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:48:12 +0000

Every data center project begins with the business plan and business requirements in mind. This is fundamentally the starting point and the first building blocks of a data center project.…

Virtualization in the real world

Wai-Kit — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:47:37 +0000

One of the benefits of virtualization technology is to enable rapid provisioning of a new operating system virtual environment. With this ease and rapid speed which new virtual environment can…

Asia Pacific’s IT spend

Wai-Kit — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:51:57 +0000

A recent report from Forrester, which surveyed 774 senior IT executives at enterprises with more than 500 employees across ANZ, Japan, South Korea, India, China, Singapore and Vietnam, shows that…

Is it really “low cost”?

Wai-Kit — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:03:05 +0000

Someone once remarked that corporations are jumping on to the Cloud Computing bandwagon because they perceive it to be “low cost”. A recent survey of 502 respondents (C-level…