For example, a customer using normalized compliance data harvested from their enVision and Ionix systems (data center o perations and storage resource management) wo uld be able to g lean that a series of seemingly innocuous operatio nal and security events are sympto ms of a potentially catastrophic IT failure. Better and more dynamic transp arency would drive the appropriate response to non-compliant incidents.
Microsoft and Nokia entered an alliance in February that makes Windows Phone 7 Nokia’s primary smartphone platform. That deal also includes crossovers for Microsoft products like Xbox Live, Office and Bing. A few days previously, a leaked memo from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was made public. The memo referred to Nokia as “standing on a burning platform” amid competition from Google and Apple.
“With Cascade, we wanted to tie performance closer to the business, with new executive dashboards, giving them a view of essential information, how its performing from an IT perspective,” Rouda said. “That information was there before, but it was presented from an IT perspective. Now it’s presented in a way without the IT noise, that makes it clear to executives, so they can make intelligent decisions about where they need to invest from it.”
