Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
At some point cloud services will be as reliable as the electricity in our homes and offices. Now, I am not an old man by any stretch, but I remember as a child in the UK, expecting to have power cuts in the winter. We took candles and matches or flashlights to bed. Wood was…
Cloud has been at the forefront of every IT discussion in 2011 and will continue to be due to the potential system optimization and cost savings that are associated with it. However, industry-wide motivation and business impact behind cloud implementation remains unclear. To better understand the top end-user business requirements for cloud computing and determine…
Editor’s Note: Datapipe is a global provider of mission critical IT solutions. The company’s offerings include Datapipe Managed Cloud for Amazon Web Services. This service helps clients manage their AWS environments. The effects of the recent outages at Amazon Web Services (AWS) have reverberated through the cloud community and the IT community at large. For…
There are often a few white elephants lurking in the corners of the corporate data center; they need to be addressed. This article looks at how to keep legacy systems from standing in your way to a converged infrastructure. The logical place to start a converged RISC/x86 infrastructure initiative is with the easy stuff: those…
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…
As Cloud computing begins to move beyond the pure hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption, Gartner has identified the five attributes of Cloud computing. By using these attributes, it is possible to see how strongly a Cloud solution (or service) adheres to the Cloud computing model. Gartner defines Cloud computing as a…
Those clicks you hear: that’s the sound of IT shutting off in-house servers because the data they once held has been moved to the Cloud. No, we’re not exaggerating. “Cloud is the next solution in computing platforms,” said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of Voke, a San Francisco-based analyst firm. Right now, we are at the start…
Cloud computing is “buzz” concept of the year for 2009. It has its place, especially for high-risk/low-capital applications like startups or small business or websites, but for enterprise computing and―especially for improving existing core applications―I have a more jaundiced view. As a concept, Cloud computing is a pointer to the future, but there is much…
The year 2008 saw economic turmoil all across the world as developed countries are gripped by recession. Even the fast growing countries like India and China slowed down significantly. The year 2009 is not going to be any better as pundits predict that it will take at least the first nine months to recover. Though…
A few months ago I wrote about 2009 being theyear of doing more with less and referred to some broad ITSM/ITIL-based initiatives that can help you to prioritize your work and contain costs. Well, here are five more ways to identify and cut specific costs within your organization. As an added bonus, some of these…