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Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) October 6, 2009 — SensorLogic announces that John McNulty has been appointed Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Product Development. McNulty brings more than twenty years experience in creating innovative products for the Web, mobile network operators and end users of highly personalized mobile applications. McNulty’s appointment comes as SensorLogic launches the latest version of Cirrus, its Cloud Computing platform for the rapid creation and deployment of asset tracking and monitoring applications.

I was interested to see this release talking about cloud computing around the asset management/monitoring space, something I’ve been talking to a few people about, the concept of a managed service around the asset space in response to avoiding the cost of a formal CMDB/asset inventory system and the cost of having someone audit your data center(s) manually. One CIO had told me how un-impressed he was with the last data he got from his data center audit because “..it was just an Excel spreadsheet with barcodes and whatever label was on the server..when we gave it to the IT teams, they spent days tracking back to server names…. server19 was rebuilt as server182 and that disk shelf should have gone years ago..” Interestingly, it’s something I do believe in, if we understand what we have, what’s connected to what, we are then in the position to make informed decisions and reduce our costs at the same time, but for that to happen “you need to own the infrastructure”, by that I mean the Windows guys need to know as much about every server as they can from the hardware to the application, but as we break up the IT function, where Front Office run their servers, Back Office run there ones, do we not loose this? Does the decision maker not get about seventeen spreadsheets, and get hidden from the secret arguments, “seriously, that really isn’t Back Office, it’s Shared between Back Office and Settlements, but who’s budget pays for it?” Before, it would have been Fixed Income/Investment Banking division, now it’s compartmentalized – how much does this contribute and detract from our operations, our costs?

Only with the right level of information about your assets can you:

• Decide what’s in scope or not in scope for a project/refresh
• Establish what applications represent which elements of the infrastructure
• Understand what’s in support or not, and what needs included in our support contract
• What could be virtualized/outsourced or moved to cloud, or to another data center
• Ensure that you’re billing/pay for what you use and compare with your costs

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