Lockheed Martin opts for more flexible
data centre management
Aperture Technologies is providing design, development, manufacture According to Yellen, “VISTA Data
Lockheed Martin with its and integration of an extensive range Centre Configuration Management
comprehensive Aperture VISTA Data of IT infrastructure services for will be used by Lockheed Martin to
Centre Configuration Management numerous commercial clients and improve asset tracking functionality
technology to update and enhance its federal agencies. and to reduce support costs by
current data centre operations and to having more people trained at basic
make data centre management Steve Yellen, Vice President of troubleshooting with VISTA Data
accessible to more Lockheed Martin Market Strategy said: “With Aperture Centre Configuration Management
teams. VISTA Data Centre Configuration onsite and thus reducing travel and
Management deployed, Lockheed training costs.”
Lockheed Martin employs about Martin’s data centre, administration
140,000 men and women worldwide and facilities teams will now be able This latest deployment will see the
and has a long history of working to proactively track infrastructure, company migrate from previous
with Aperture Technologies to data capacity and other resources installations of Aperture software to
manage the physical infrastructure across multiple sites via intelligent roll out the very latest version of
of its data centre environments portal-based access from any Aperture VISTA Data Centre
through years of rapid growth, location within the business. No Configuration Management, enabling
change and increasing complexity. other solution has the management visual management and automation
The $42 billion Corporation is capabilities of VISTA Data Centre of critical processes across all the
currently engaged in the research, Configuration Management.” company’s data centre sites.
Email Will Lead the Charge Into Mainstream
Adoption of Cloud Computing
Driven by falling prices and new been the domain of small suppliers, licensing and operational costs
vendors, the percentage of commercial but it has been rapidly transformed improve enterprise cloud-based e-
mailboxes using a cloud-provisioned into a market where the largest IT mail economics.
model will grow from 1 per cent of companies are aggressively
enterprise seats in 2007 to 20 percent competing. He said that vendors such Gartner predicts that the uptake of
in 2012, according to Gartner Inc. . as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have cloud e-mail will start with small
consumer mail platforms that serve companies (the only area where it is
“Events during the past year have millions of users and that the successful now) and move to midsize
created the conditions for the rapid opportunity and the challenge is to companies, and by 2012, the cloud
growth of the cloud delivery model for transfer the economies of consumer model will serve the largest firms,
enterprise e-mail, with companies mail to enterprises. with more than 50,000 seats.
such as Google, Yahoo, Dell and
Microsoft all making major Gartner believes the biggest expenses “As large suppliers push into the cloud
investments in cloud computing,” said for the providers of cloud-provisioned e-mail market we’ll see a fundamental
Matthew Cain, research vice president consumer mail are currently electricity restructuring of the e-mail market,”
at Gartner. and storage and that the biggest cost said Mr Cain. “Traditional e-mail
for enterprise e-mail operations software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors
Mr Cain said that until recently, the during the next 10 years will be level- will come under tremendous price
cloud computing market has largely one help desk support as reduced pressure from mega-scale vendors. ”
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