Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transi...
Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is bein...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only 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...
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...
The irony about cloud computing in the higher education environment is that most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even realize it.
Gmail is one example. Yahoo Mail is another. The fact is web-based applications, which many schools rely on for daily commun...
Cloud has dramatically changed how we think about and utilize services. Cloud facilitates rapid deployments due to quick availability of scalable services. It provides the high service velocity to manage changes incrementally and less time for provisioning storage and applications. Clo...
A recent article in Government Computer News raised the topic of FISMA reporting, specifically describing the “pessimism” of many USG agencies over meeting the September 2012 deadline for “using continuous monitoring to meet Federal Information Security Management Act reporting require...
Today, with enterprises migrating to the cloud, the security challenge around protecting data is greater than ever before. Keeping data private and secure has always been a business imperative. But for many companies and organizations, it has also become a compliance requirement and a ...
When an aircraft crashes, investigators are able to retrieve useful information about what went wrong from the flight data recorder, more commonly known as the black box. (The data recorder itself is actually not black, not until it’s retrieved from charred remains.) Statistically spea...
Myron Steves, a small- to medium-sized business, developed and implemented a modern disaster recovery and business continuity strategy based on a high-degree of server and clients virtualization.
When Hurricane Ike struck Texas in 2008, it became the second costliest hurricane ever to...
With an estimated $200 million bet on Cloud.com, if nothing else, executing an all-in open source strategy proves that Citrix doesn’t shrink in the face of high-stakes decisions. Cynics call this recent move an act of desperation – a Hail Mary in the absence of a better play. Others se...
Anybody who is considering a move to the Cloud knows that the greatest economic motivation for Cloud Computing is the pay-as-you-go, pay-for-what-you-need utility computing benefit, right? Deal with spikes in demand much more cost-effectively, the public Cloud service providers gush, s...
Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...
Key issues can make or break an organization’s strategic cloud adoption. The intersection of cloud computing with business strategy, Big Data, vendor lock-in, globalization, collaboration, security, licensing, virtualization, confidence, and the ‘new normal’ can act as huge points of c...
NIST has released a major revision to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). The public draft of the Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations provides a set of security standards that are meant to help protect government agencies...
Make complex enterprise applications moveable – encapsulate them for travel without the burden of a VM or OS. It makes so much sense to send an application-centric tool to do the application-centric job of moving applications. Yet, we are frequently in conversations that are dominated ...
Back in 2009, when I started the Green IT Practice for EcomNets, I was optimistic that every company would adopt the top 10 strategies for Green IT immediately. After gaining no visible business, I realized that I was the consummate early-adopter. Back then, nobody knew there was a c...
The cloud computing model of services-based computing has changed the way we not only ‘architect,’ ‘structure’ and ‘plan’ software applications, it has also changed the way we, subsequently, need to ‘deploy,’ ‘test,’ ‘monitor’ and ‘manage’ cloud-based applications.
Now that’s a lot of...
What do you call a tool for moving complex enterprise applications to the cloud? That's what we wanted to know. So we ran a contest, kicking it off at Cloud Expo. (AppZero announces contest to name tool that automates the movement of Windows applications to and from any clouds.)
First...
When it comes to procurement, any technology or service should be evaluated with a good set of criteria. Executive decisions should not be weighted solely on a single selection criterion such as price. This applies to any cloud computing service as well.
The twelve criteria listed bel...
Convened by Exist, a software firm that develops enterprise healthcare applications with key clients in the local market, and HP, renowned global technology company, the forum gathered PhilHealth representatives, CIOs from metro hospitals, and IT leaders of health maintenance organizat...
I've been working on Enterprise Cloud Strategy and in the course of this work identified some interesting and non-obvious opportunities in the Cloud.
One solution I’ve examined is the well-crafted solution that is enStratus. enStratus has built a SaaS Cloud Management / Governance p...
"Having been in the IT field for many years, I believe the cloud computing chapter in the industry is an exciting one and I am proud to be a part of it," said National Reconaissance Office (NRO) Chief Information Officer Jill T. Singer Tuesday, as it was announced that she was one of 1...
If cloud computing is going to spread to more mission-critical type applications, it needs to get more accurate when it comes to transaction-based applications. Trying to keep everything in a structured framework is going to require a more rigorous network infrastructure that includes ...
If you are a corporate executive contemplating adding some applications in a cloud computing network, be very aware of the vendors as well as your own internal system architects and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) when they start talking about cost-effective networks, cheaper componen...
Interest in cloud-based applications continues apace, but hosting can be a complicated endeavor for ISVs.
The enduring popularity of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) isn't accidental. Whether you're a technology reseller or a traditional enterprise, there's a lot to like about the use of...
Rolling forecasts allow finance executives and key decision makers to see both a financial and operational vision of the future, by projecting four to six quarters or twelve to eighteen months ahead. It also helps them assess next steps in their execution of their plan, understand crit...
“Cloud computing is the major approach that most organizations should be adapting for their applications in this new era of mobile computing.” You have all read the ads and the articles that hype it, along with all the overnight experts that tout how they know that Cloud Computing is t...
We won’t be that far into 2012 before most people’s New Year’s resolutions start to fall apart. That new running routine sounded great on January 1, but the reality is that getting up early to jog in the cold, dark dawn is no fun. And that diet? It’s easy to maintain until doughnuts st...
Judging by the customer demand we’ve experienced at Virtustream, with many enterprises moving infrastructure and mission-critical applications into the cloud, it’s safe to assume that we are nearing a true tipping point for cloud adoption. But with adoption comes demand for superior pe...
For the past few weeks I have been reading different articles, publications, blog postings and so on regarding the generic software architectural model for cloud-based applications, and I am very interested in hearing other ideas about this as well.
Through my reading, I have found th...
Budgeting for an IT expansion is a grappling issue for CIOs and other IT pros today. The industry dynamics for IT consumption are vastly changing, although fundamental principles and requirements remain a fact. Organizations require a dependable, scalable and cost-effective platform ...
How is Microsoft using Office 365 internally? How can a Hybrid Cloud combined with Office 365 work to your advantage.
In part 2 of this 30 part series we introduced the topic of Hybrid Cloud. That is the combining of Public, Private, and or traditional IT into a system that works for ...
In an era of cut throat competition and diminishing revenues because of the gloomy economic scenario, the competition between technology start-ups and established brands has reached a stage where the former need to innovate and reconfigure their business models if they have to face the...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
While there are many benefits to cloud computing, one group particularly well served by this technology are marketers. When it comes to engaging with audiences over the web, there are a number of attributes of cloud-based services that make them a natural fit for the technical marketer...
As we head into Thanksgiving Weekend, we bring a brief round-up of some of the many follow-up comments we have been receiving since November's 9th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Thanks for your thanks, and see you on the other side...when the countdown steadily begins to New York's meg...
With the explosion of smartphones and mobile devices in the enterprise, mobile device management (MDM) has become one of the biggest challenges for IT departments. As a company grows and expands globally, the issues surrounding MDM only become more complicated. A well-thought-out strat...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) beginning its final two days at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
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In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transi...
Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is bein...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only 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...
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...
The irony about cloud computing in the higher education environment is that most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even realize it.
Gmail is one example. Yahoo Mail is another. The fact is web-based applications, which many schools rely on for daily commun...
Cloud has dramatically changed how we think about and utilize services. Cloud facilitates rapid deployments due to quick availability of scalable services. It provides the high service velocity to manage changes incrementally and less time for provisioning storage and applications. Clo...
A recent article in Government Computer News raised the topic of FISMA reporting, specifically describing the “pessimism” of many USG agencies over meeting the September 2012 deadline for “using continuous monitoring to meet Federal Information Security Management Act reporting require...
Today, with enterprises migrating to the cloud, the security challenge around protecting data is greater than ever before. Keeping data private and secure has always been a business imperative. But for many companies and organizations, it has also become a compliance requirement and a ...
When an aircraft crashes, investigators are able to retrieve useful information about what went wrong from the flight data recorder, more commonly known as the black box. (The data recorder itself is actually not black, not until it’s retrieved from charred remains.) Statistically spea...
Myron Steves, a small- to medium-sized business, developed and implemented a modern disaster recovery and business continuity strategy based on a high-degree of server and clients virtualization.
When Hurricane Ike struck Texas in 2008, it became the second costliest hurricane ever to...
With an estimated $200 million bet on Cloud.com, if nothing else, executing an all-in open source strategy proves that Citrix doesn’t shrink in the face of high-stakes decisions. Cynics call this recent move an act of desperation – a Hail Mary in the absence of a better play. Others se...
Anybody who is considering a move to the Cloud knows that the greatest economic motivation for Cloud Computing is the pay-as-you-go, pay-for-what-you-need utility computing benefit, right? Deal with spikes in demand much more cost-effectively, the public Cloud service providers gush, s...
Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...
The most recent “Megatest” was initiated by Light Reading to assess our CloudVerse architecture. In the second part of the [...]
Key issues can make or break an organization’s strategic cloud adoption. The intersection of cloud computing with business strategy, Big Data, vendor lock-in, globalization, collaboration, security, licensing, virtualization, confidence, and the ‘new normal’ can act as huge points of c...
NIST has released a major revision to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). The public draft of the Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations provides a set of security standards that are meant to help protect government agencies...
Make complex enterprise applications moveable – encapsulate them for travel without the burden of a VM or OS. It makes so much sense to send an application-centric tool to do the application-centric job of moving applications. Yet, we are frequently in conversations that are dominated ...
Back in 2009, when I started the Green IT Practice for EcomNets, I was optimistic that every company would adopt the top 10 strategies for Green IT immediately. After gaining no visible business, I realized that I was the consummate early-adopter. Back then, nobody knew there was a c...
The cloud computing model of services-based computing has changed the way we not only ‘architect,’ ‘structure’ and ‘plan’ software applications, it has also changed the way we, subsequently, need to ‘deploy,’ ‘test,’ ‘monitor’ and ‘manage’ cloud-based applications.
Now that’s a lot of...
What do you call a tool for moving complex enterprise applications to the cloud? That's what we wanted to know. So we ran a contest, kicking it off at Cloud Expo. (AppZero announces contest to name tool that automates the movement of Windows applications to and from any clouds.)
First...
When it comes to procurement, any technology or service should be evaluated with a good set of criteria. Executive decisions should not be weighted solely on a single selection criterion such as price. This applies to any cloud computing service as well.
The twelve criteria listed bel...
Convened by Exist, a software firm that develops enterprise healthcare applications with key clients in the local market, and HP, renowned global technology company, the forum gathered PhilHealth representatives, CIOs from metro hospitals, and IT leaders of health maintenance organizat...
I've been working on Enterprise Cloud Strategy and in the course of this work identified some interesting and non-obvious opportunities in the Cloud.
One solution I’ve examined is the well-crafted solution that is enStratus. enStratus has built a SaaS Cloud Management / Governance p...
"Having been in the IT field for many years, I believe the cloud computing chapter in the industry is an exciting one and I am proud to be a part of it," said National Reconaissance Office (NRO) Chief Information Officer Jill T. Singer Tuesday, as it was announced that she was one of 1...
If cloud computing is going to spread to more mission-critical type applications, it needs to get more accurate when it comes to transaction-based applications. Trying to keep everything in a structured framework is going to require a more rigorous network infrastructure that includes ...
If you are a corporate executive contemplating adding some applications in a cloud computing network, be very aware of the vendors as well as your own internal system architects and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) when they start talking about cost-effective networks, cheaper componen...
Interest in cloud-based applications continues apace, but hosting can be a complicated endeavor for ISVs.
The enduring popularity of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) isn't accidental. Whether you're a technology reseller or a traditional enterprise, there's a lot to like about the use of...
Rolling forecasts allow finance executives and key decision makers to see both a financial and operational vision of the future, by projecting four to six quarters or twelve to eighteen months ahead. It also helps them assess next steps in their execution of their plan, understand crit...
“Cloud computing is the major approach that most organizations should be adapting for their applications in this new era of mobile computing.” You have all read the ads and the articles that hype it, along with all the overnight experts that tout how they know that Cloud Computing is t...
We won’t be that far into 2012 before most people’s New Year’s resolutions start to fall apart. That new running routine sounded great on January 1, but the reality is that getting up early to jog in the cold, dark dawn is no fun. And that diet? It’s easy to maintain until doughnuts st...
Judging by the customer demand we’ve experienced at Virtustream, with many enterprises moving infrastructure and mission-critical applications into the cloud, it’s safe to assume that we are nearing a true tipping point for cloud adoption. But with adoption comes demand for superior pe...
For the past few weeks I have been reading different articles, publications, blog postings and so on regarding the generic software architectural model for cloud-based applications, and I am very interested in hearing other ideas about this as well.
Through my reading, I have found th...
Budgeting for an IT expansion is a grappling issue for CIOs and other IT pros today. The industry dynamics for IT consumption are vastly changing, although fundamental principles and requirements remain a fact. Organizations require a dependable, scalable and cost-effective platform ...
How is Microsoft using Office 365 internally? How can a Hybrid Cloud combined with Office 365 work to your advantage.
In part 2 of this 30 part series we introduced the topic of Hybrid Cloud. That is the combining of Public, Private, and or traditional IT into a system that works for ...
In an era of cut throat competition and diminishing revenues because of the gloomy economic scenario, the competition between technology start-ups and established brands has reached a stage where the former need to innovate and reconfigure their business models if they have to face the...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
While there are many benefits to cloud computing, one group particularly well served by this technology are marketers. When it comes to engaging with audiences over the web, there are a number of attributes of cloud-based services that make them a natural fit for the technical marketer...
As we head into Thanksgiving Weekend, we bring a brief round-up of some of the many follow-up comments we have been receiving since November's 9th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Thanks for your thanks, and see you on the other side...when the countdown steadily begins to New York's meg...
With the explosion of smartphones and mobile devices in the enterprise, mobile device management (MDM) has become one of the biggest challenges for IT departments. As a company grows and expands globally, the issues surrounding MDM only become more complicated. A well-thought-out strat...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) beginning its final two days at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
