VMware
VMware the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware accelerates an organisation’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organisations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s.
Griffin IT is a VMware Enterprise Partner specialising in IT Management Solutions that enable organisations to maximise the operational expenditure savings from their data center virtualisation and consolidation projects.
Transform ICT Alliance
Transform ICT is an international alliance of IT Service Management specialists focused on improving IT operational performance. Virtualisation and cloud computing will have a big impact on over the next few years on internal IT organisations. Traditional approaches to service management must evolve to harness the benefits of this paradigm shift.
Transform ICT Alliance partners have an in depth knowledge of IT Service Management best practice and delivering increased IT value through better business process. We also understand the technology and have an enviable implementation track record. Transform ICT Alliance partners will work with you to achieve your service management goals on the transformation journey to IT as a Service.
IT Service Management Forum (itSMF)
The IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) is the only internationally recognized and independent organization dedicated to IT Service Management. It is a not-for-profit organization, wholly owned, and principally operated, by its membership.
The itSMF is a major influence on, and contributor to, industry best practice and standards worldwide. It works in partnership with a wide range of governmental and standards bodies worldwide.
Griffin IT is an active member of the itSMF in Australia.
EMC IT Virtualisation Journey Blog
EMC IT, the internal support organisation for EMC is providing a blog on their journey toward a virtualized IT infrastructure. EMC have been talking about private clouds from the perspective of an IT vendor for quite some time. EMC is also an IT consumer. EMC IT supports over 40,000 internal users in 61 countries (and 20 languages), and many hundreds of business applications on over 6,000 server instances spanning five data centers worldwide. This means thousands of terabytes of storage, tens of thousands of devices, and hundreds of thousands of network ports used to conduct business every day.
Discover how EMC is saving more than $23 million in just five years with virtualization.
