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If you would like to contribute an article, Please <a href="mailto:cgenerali@cutter.com?cc=smurugesan@cutter.com&subject=CITJ%20CFP%20Software%20Infrastructure%20Mgmt">send an email</a> to Christine Generali and Guest Editor San Murugesan and include an </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>extended abstract</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366;font-weight:normal'>, a short article outline showing major discussion points, and a brief bio of the author(s), by </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>11 March 2015</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366;font-weight:normal'>. Authors will receive a year's complimentary subscription to Cutter It Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></h5><h5 style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><o:p> </o:p></span></h5><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=qi-body><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=675 style='width:506.25pt;border:solid #003366 1.0pt'><tr><td style='border:none;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#003366'><img border=0 width=225 height=45 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01D04DD5.23421310" alt="Cutter Consortium"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border:none;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='color:#003366'><img border=0 width=225 height=45 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.gif@01D04DD5.23421310" alt="Cutter IT Journal"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border:none;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#003366'><img border=0 width=225 height=45 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.gif@01D04DD5.23421310" alt="Cutter IT Journal"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top style='border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=450 style='width:337.5pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><div id=qi-main-content><h3 style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.cutter.com/itjournal.html">CUTTER IT JOURNAL</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E1771F'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E1771F'>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></h3><div style='border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt'><p style='line-height:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Software Infrastructure Management Strategies</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Guest Editor:</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.cutter.com/meet-our-experts/murugesans.html">San Murugesan</a></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#003366;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Abstract </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Deadline:</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red'>11 March 2015</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#003366;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Article Deadline:</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> 17 April 2015<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>IT infrastructures are growing in size, capability and complexity as organizations take advantage of cloud computing, big data analytics, the Internet of Things, mobile computing and social media to deploy complex, integrated, and collaborative applications. As a result, the need to run several applications under varying workloads to meet different functional, nonfunctional, and performance requirements is increasing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Managing these new complex infrastructures via traditional means is challenging and inefficient. Hence, many organizations are looking for new directions and approaches to more efficiently manage their infrastructures to meet their customers' growing demands, ensure adaptability to changing business requirements, reduce duplication of efforts, and remain competitive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>One approach organizations are adopting is software defined infrastructure (SDI) or softwarization. With this approach, the elements of the infrastructure including the data center, storage, network and service functions are virtualized, enabling all requirements to be automatically derived and created. SDI promises to increase the IT infrastructure's flexibility and programmability, and to optimize processes, management and costs. As with any new technology, it comes with risks. But it could be a game-changer for infrastructure management.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Organizations need to rethink their current approaches to managing their increasingly complex infrastructures. Adopting holistic system-oriented approaches, not piecemeal solutions, is critical.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>An upcoming issue of <em><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Cutter IT Journal</span></b></em> will examine the issues and challenges in managing the ever growing and changing IT landscape and explore new approaches to infrastructure management.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt'><h5 style='line-height:12.0pt'><a name=details><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Possible topics of discussion may include, but are not limited, to the following:</span></strong></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><o:p></o:p></span></h5><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>What are the challenges in managing the increasingly complex IT landscape?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>What new strategies can help manage these challenges?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>How can SDI help manage growing infrastructures?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Is SDI poised to change, and significantly transform, infrastructure management in the coming years or is it just hype?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>How does a host of software-defined infrastructure models such as a software defined data centre (SDDC), software defined storage (SDS), software defined network (SDN), etc. work? What proprietary or open source tools are available to support them? How can they be deployed?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>How can a smooth transition be made from traditional to modern infrastructure management?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>What are the key issues, risks and challenges in adopting SDI or other new approaches and strategies, and how can they be addressed?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>What are the user experience and user interface design issues and challenges in infrastructure management?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#003366'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Are there any case studies that demonstrate successful approaches to infrastructure management?</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h5 style='line-height:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE IDEA: DEADLINE 9 MARCH 2015</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><o:p></o:p></span></h5><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Please <a href="mailto:cgenerali@cutter.com?cc=smurugesan@cutter.com&subject=CITJ%20CFP%20Software%20Infrastructure%20Mgmt">send an email</a> to Christine Generali and Guest Editor San Murugesan and include an extended abstract, a short article outline showing major discussion points, and a brief bio of the author(s). <o:p></o:p></span></p><h5 style='line-height:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>ARTICLE DEADLINE: 17 April 2015</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><o:p></o:p></span></h5><h5 style='line-height:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'><a href="http://www.cutter.com/content-and-analysis/journals-and-reports/cutter-it-journal/edguide.html">EDITORIAL/AUTHOR GUIDELINES</a></span></strong><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p></o:p></span></h5><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Most Cutter IT Journal articles are approximately 2,500-3,000 words long, plus whatever graphics are appropriate. 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