Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
By Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting Discussions of cloud computing benefits often turn to the virtues of dynamic, usage based pricing where IT resources are delivered on-demand to customers in response to changing business requirements. Users pay only for what they consume, and don’t have to worry about insufficient capacity or idle resources. The…
I recently spent two days talking to Fortune 1000 CIOs at one of those swanky Sonoran desert summits that is probably best described as speed dating for geeks. Fifteen hours of focused conversations with a cross section of CIOs reveals a lot about the state of an industry and the state of mind for IT…
Organizations seeking to move applications into the cloud have five options: rehost on infrastructure as a service (IaaS); refactor for platform as a service (PaaS); revise for IaaS or PaaS; rebuild on PaaS; or replace with software as a service (SaaS). “When the CIO issues the simple directive: ‘Move some applications to the cloud,’ architects…
By now you have heard the hype about providing services in the cloud. You cannot ignore it — the cloud is everywhere and organizations are gathering in conference rooms to determine how they can take advantage of the shift from traditional to utility service delivery. One of the key questions relating to the cloud is…
While cloud computing can be many things to many people, two things about cloud almost universally apply: It’s a catalyst not only for IT efficiencies, but in a larger sense cloud is also forcing changes surrounding the very role of IT. This is because IT executives are being asked to account for value and broker…