Public cloud resources can augment in-house IT in many useful ways. In fact, they can be so useful and easy to consume that we see public clouds widely used in organizations without going through the usual IT processes and procedures—indeed, that’s often sort of the...
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Apr 12, 2011
SOURCE: Forbes Those who create or leverage clouds, whether private or public, need to manage those clouds while they support core business processes. Cloud management is a set of approaches and technologies that are evolving as the world of cloud computing becomes...
Mar 31, 2011
Driving IT Agility: A Transformation to Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds in the Enterprise April 15th at 2:00 pm ET Click here to register for this webcast Featured Speakers: Jake Sorofman, CMO, rPath, John Engates, CTO, Rackspace, Brett Adam, CTO, rPath Join...
Mar 16, 2011
If your head hasn’t been lost up in the cirrus or cumulus, you’ve probably heard of cloud computing over the last few years. "The cloud" has figured prominently in President Barack Obama’s technology initiatives, in the business plans of familiar tech giants such as...
Mar 7, 2011
With the advent of mobile cloud computing, increasing effort has been put into developing platforms that simplify the development of cloud-based mobile applications. Creating apps for the mobile cloud is significantly different than developing apps for a native...
Feb 28, 2011
Shifting business intelligence and analytics off-premise can make financial sense, as it does with other applications. Instead of buying servers and software licenses up front as a large, sunk capital cost, paying monthly fees from operating budgets can be less...
Feb 28, 2011
Cloud computing is clearly the latest hot topic for the IT industry. In fact, it’s hard to find a vendor or service provider that isn’t making highly positive claims about the business benefits of ‘the cloud.’ What’s all the hype about? Without a doubt, there are...
Feb 23, 2011
Trends in cloud computing indicate software may cease to become the tangible product we are used to buying in stores or through online shopping. Companies and individual users can access software that resides on their servers in the “cloud” or the “grid,” enabling...
Feb 16, 2011
The Obama Administration has no doubts about the benefits of cloud computing. They have touted the benefits of a cloud strategy that can deliver as a technology solution, including speed, flexibility and cost-efficiency. They know the decision to shift to a cloud...
Feb 7, 2011
1. Get smart Before making a move into the cloud, get educated on the principles and definitions of cloud computing, advises Johan Goossens, head of NATO's Allied Command Transformation's (ACT) Technology & Human Factors Branch in Norfolk, Va. "We started in the...
