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 "The State of Cloud Computing June 2012" was the topic under discussion in the traditional SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded in our Times Square studio yesterday - the Sunday before today's Cloud Expo New York opening, kicking off 4 days of Keynotes, General Sessions technical and strate...Jun. 11, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 833 |
 To learn more about Cloud IaaS offerings, I painlessly setup Cloudstack, from Citrix, on two (outdated and defunct) DELL Optiplex 740 desktop computers.
Each desktop is configured with 8GB of memory and the processors are VT compatible (meaning they can run virtualization technology s...Jun. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 881 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) due to kick off this coming Monday for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy se...Jun. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,071 |
 Cloud Security has been one of the top challenges reported by organizations that want to migrate to the Cloud. This is a challenge since the organization’s data may now be stored externally that can pose greater challenges to data integrity and compliance. Even though the data may be i...Jun. 7, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 900 |
 If Cloud Computing is going to be part of the critical network infrastructure of an enterprise, senior executives better realize that no technology runs by itself. You need people that are very skilled in all aspects of planning, designing, implementing and managing these systems. Ther...Jun. 6, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,153 |
 For years, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets in an enterprise. The current wave of cloud services can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT, with the potential for significant cost savin...Jun. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,173 |
 Customers must find innovative ways to leverage cloud technologies that suits their requirements.
A couple of weeks ago, I attended IBM's Cloud Innovation Analyst Forum in Chicago. The event kicked off with a panel discussion where company customers, including the University of Wiscon...Jun. 3, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,497 |
 The more you focus on the business benefits of Cloud, the more likely you’ll be leaning toward public over private deployment models. Furthermore, this mind shift isn’t all about security risks. Once you work through the issues, you’ll likely come to the same conclusion: there’s genera...Jun. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,529 |
 The longer you put off providing features and services offered in the cloud, the worse off you'll be, according to an article in Network Computing.
The post by Define the Cloud's Joe Onisick offers a stark take on falling behind cloud adoption:
"Every day that goes by that IT isn't m...Jun. 1, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,130 |
 Effective integration of Cloud software services to existing in-house applications is an important element of leveraging the Cloud. It is not sufficient to be content with procuring software as a service and deploying the product. A solid integration strategy and plan can support the c...May. 31, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,162 |
 Some people might think of cloud adoption as a marathon: a set distance to a clear goal, where keeping focus and maintaining a steady pace will ensure a winning outcome. While there is an element of truth to that, I consider the implementation process more of an obstacle course, with t...May. 29, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,466 |
 The cloud discussions have been changing rapidly over the last months, focusing away from infrastructure to applications, services and industry requirements.
I’ve spent the last several weeks addressing some of the business aspects of cloud and why/how companies move to the cloud. It’...May. 28, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,806 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...May. 27, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,974 |
 There is great excitement about the cloud; however, it is important to conduct a full assessment as part of the Cloud Transition. It is very important to decide which applications will be moving to the cloud based on factors such as alignment with business requirements, cost savings, l...May. 27, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,610 |
 There's a "tipping point" for cloud adoption, according to the CIO at Google, and it's fast approaching.
Once that point arrives and companies enter the world of cloud computing, there's no going back – it will become the standard for IT, according to Google CIO Ben Fried.
An article...May. 25, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,309 |
 This is Part 3 of the 12 routines for a Windows Server 2008 user to accelerate the learning and adoption of Windows Server 2012 without the need of a touch device. It is intended for those who are familiar with the administration of Windows Server 2008 (or later) to become comfortable ...May. 25, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 914 |
 The world changed. A boy was born in White Plains, New York, in 1984 and 28 years later he would float his social networking company on the stock exchange at a point at which most people in the English-speaking world had at least heard of Facebook – if they were not in fact a personal ...May. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 961 |
 Before embarking on using open source cloud technology for your web property, a basic understanding of cloud, as it’s used in the industry, is essential. While there might be exceptions, here are the definitions.
A software application delivered on the web instead of installing standa...May. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,226 |
 Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations and technology businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus is built as an open source cloud product and is uniquely suited for enterprise-class private cloud ...May. 24, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,408 |
 Vegas to Boston, with a nice glass of scotch in my hand, I settled in for yet another red eye flight (I am getting way too old for this). There was plenty of time to reflect on what had been a jam packed couple of days at the IBM Impact 2012 global conference themed, “Innovate, Transf...May. 23, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,285 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and stra...May. 23, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,600 |
 Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service offer us easy scaling of services. However, scaling is not as easy as it seems to be in the Cloud. If your software architecture isn’t done right, your services and applications might not scale as expected, even if you add new insta...May. 20, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,788 |
 Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the IT ecosystem in many ways, forcing related changes in business models. Other than customers (who are always “king” and make buying decisions), the IT ecosystem players being affected by cloud includes technology providers, independent softw...May. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,228 |
 When I used to go to London often and ride the Underground, the constant refrain seen was "Mind The Gap". Mind the Gap or you could suffer some unmentionable and clearly gruesome fate. As Online software service providers of all flavors try to create high velocity sales and marketing b...May. 17, 2012 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,007 |
 On the surface, everything seems fine. If you do a search, you’ll see lots of people offering support for cloud-centric application frameworks. But, when I speak with companies actually moving Java applications into the Cloud or trying to create new Cloud services based on Java, I get ...May. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,456 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...May. 17, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,844 |
 Remember the heady dot.com days circa 1999? We thought we were reinventing business, forming a New Economy, revolutionizing the essential nature of commerce. In our dreams! By late 2001 the bubble had burst, and what we thought was a new paradigm for business—the World Wide Web—turned ...May. 16, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 805 |
 Fascinating new findings from a recent survey uncovers what distinguishes leaders from laggards among businesses, and identify which IT approaches and solutions are driving the most powerful business results these days.May. 15, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,025 |
 Talk of so-called “sea change developments” and “paradigm shifts” has long been rife among the IT media and the web’s wider technology commentary channels.
Right now we’re all talking about cloud, mobile empowerment (let’s not forget the Bring Your Own Device tagline here) and virtual...May. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,285 |
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 With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, large enterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloud providers has y...May. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,632 |
 IT exists to support the business - and in best-of-class IT departments, this truism is embedded deeply into the departmental culture.
Yet in so many cases, this self-evident truth gets lost in the mayhem of building, maintaining and supporting the myriad of complicated and brittle le...May. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,787 |
 Mediafly, a startup company, delivers cloud-based applications for content management and distribution on mobile devices for Fortune 500 companies.
Mediafly is the leader in the presentation platform market. What that means is that we’re the company that helps bridge the gap between l...May. 10, 2012 12:35 PM EDT Reads: 675 |
 A Chief Technology Officer for a Midwest banking holding company made a very interesting observation. In commenting about the needed increase in fraud fighting resources, he warned about the perils of overemphasizing technology while ignoring training staff in using manual fraud-detect...May. 10, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 893 |
 I talk to a lot of CIOs. I met with one recently who oversees the IT operation of a $6 Billion yearly entertainment-related company with about 7,000 employees. This top-notch exec was all about transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible...May. 10, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,073 |
 The growing use of Infrastructure as a Service to run custom applications, SaaS, and PaaS offerings is increasing the demand of management solutions to leverage the automation offered by IaaS. One of the biggest advantages of IaaS is the ability to automate tasks which were not possib...May. 10, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 942 |
 Cloud computing has clearly sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages.
It now falls to CIOs to not only rapidly adapt to cloud computing, but to find the ways to protect their employees and customers ...May. 9, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now five weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strategy ses...May. 9, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,118 |
 In today’s business world, data is the lifeblood of most organizations. As such, it has become a prime target for both external and internal threats. Data breaches made plenty of headlines in 2011 and don’t show any signs of slowing down. In fact, a recent report from Privacy Rights Cl...May. 9, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,488 |
 After OpenStack was announced at OSCON in the summer of 2010, the degree of momentum behind this new open source platform has been nothing short of spectacular. Startups and enterprises alike have placed their strategic bets to monetize the OpenStack wave in various ways. As an ecosyst...May. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,726 |
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