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ISVs, SaaS and Intelligent Workload Management

About five years back I was thrown into a ‘business strategy off site’ session with my present employer having just joined them the previous week. Not knowing all the players around the table in a conference room at a suburban office park...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 11:51 AM by PaulScripko

Filed under: Intelligent Workload Management
Moving Beyond Virtualization

People often ask what the difference is between virtualization and private clouds. Private clouds allow us to add capacity into our existing environment in an intelligent manner. A major sports organization, for example, experienced huge surges in ecommerce...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 10:20 AM by RichardWhitehead

Filed under: Virtualization
Playing it Safe: 10 Tips to Consider when Moving to the Cloud

Many managers are understandably cautious about moving to the cloud, yet it doesn’t have to be a daunting endeavor. Here are ten easy steps to mitigate risk as you begin leveraging cloud applications. 1/ Move applications in a reverse risk order...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 10:07 AM by RossChevalier

Filed under: Security, Cloud Computing
Will Public Cloud Open up a Can of Worms?

IT and risk managers want to know, if they take advantage of cloud opportunities, what are the real impacts to their business for security, compliance and manageability? Will my applications perform the same way? Will I need to hire or retrain people...

Published Sat, Aug 21 2010 11:55 AM by BobBentley

Filed under: Cloud Computing
Quenching the Thirst for Private Cloud

Private clouds are catching fire. It’s a way for security conscious or highly regulated organizations to take their first steps into cloud computing. The U.S. Army, for example, is moving to consolidate servers via compute clouds in select data...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2010 10:53 AM by PhilSchwartz

Filed under: Cloud Computing
Hybrid Clouds: Playing a Matching Game

“The whole concept of hybrid cloud being a thing is probably not right. It’s really more about an architecture, about a deployment model or a data center model, than it is to say, ‘This cloud is hybrid.’ That doesn’t make...

Published Fri, Aug 13 2010 10:28 AM by RossChevalier

Filed under: Cloud Computing
Bringing back the chargeback

Columnist Mike Vizard pointed out a fundamental flaw in today’s IT models in his recent article The Need for Transparency in IT . “When people don’t realize how much something truly costs, they generally don’t appreciate it.”...

Published Wed, Aug 11 2010 10:06 AM by JohnStetic

Filed under: Data Center, Virtualization
Protecting Identities in the Cloud

Last month, an AT&T security loophole allowed the e-mail addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G subscribers, including those of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, journalist Diane Sawyer and Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, to be exposed. How can such a blatant...

Published Thu, Aug 05 2010 9:57 AM by BaberAmin

Filed under: Security
The Missing Ingredient: What’s Holding Government Agencies Back from Virtualization Benefits?

Despite a dire need for belt tightening among government agencies, the public sector still lags well behind the private sector when it comes to virtualization. In fact, more than 80 percent of public agencies surveyed said they aren’t using virtualization...

Published Tue, Aug 03 2010 9:45 AM by DiptoChakravarty

Filed under: Virtualization, Dipto Chakravarty