Project Management Organization - A necessity for Corporate Success

Project Management Organization(PMO), irrespective of the discipline, is a necessity for Corporate Success since it helps organizations to achieve their corporate goals and objectives. To this end, one must establish the need for one, assess its maturity, measure and benchmark to realize the full potential of its existence.

PMO's maturity can be broadly classified into 5 and they are,

1. Ad hoc processes with reactive response
2. Repeatable processes with reactive response
3. Standardized processes with proactive response
4. Optimized processes with measurable/proactive response
5. Agile/Optimized Processes with predictable/proactive response

The best performing PMO should maximize business value and minimize business risks!

Cloud Storage comes of age with IBM's new offering !

IBM recently unraveled a new disk-based archive array called the IBM Information Appliance that can scale to 300TB and offers retention rules and customized policies. The SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization appliance now supports solid state disk drives, greatly increasing the throughput of the device. IBM's new Smart Business Storage Cloud private cloud service uses commodity components such as x86 servers in IBM's BladeCenter rack, and a scaled-down version of the IBM's high-performance General Parallel File System to offer a preconfigured rack-mountable file-based cloud storage offering.

IBM plans to ship its Information Archive appliance that uses the XIV management software, its Enhanced Tamper Protection tool and IBM's BladeCenter seBrvers to offer users a pre-configured, rack-mountable disk-based archive system in the first quarter of 2010.