Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Ending the day on a GOOD note!

03/31: Signed on two fantastic minds in the world of ERP and ERP/BI. This month's newsletters are going to be quite juicy. ERP & BI have to be my two favorite topics thus far.

Still looking for a general IT article that is fun yet informative as well as something for the Virtualization newsletter. Tick Tock...Tick Tock..

Monday, March 30, 2009

Taking a crack at this...

03/30/09:
Today I am searching for ERP and (storage) Virtualization bloggers. The pressure is on to find content but I can't find the right content unless I understand the solution.

ERP
For the last four months, I have been educating myself on the ERP industry and doing well. Also, I've been talking to bloggers and small business folk whose specialty is ERP. Generally, they report that they are looking for content that will educate these IT Professionals on cost, implemenation, best practices, training, resource planning, etc.

Virtualization
As for Virtualization, I understand that there are three hot topics under this:
- Network Virtualization: splitting up bandwidth into independant pieces, like partitioning a drive.
- Storage Virtualization: SANs - haven't grasped this entirely yet.
- Server Virtualziation: taking many servers and reducing them onto virtual machines.

My focus is on storage virtualization but I seem to be crossing my understanding across all three.