Cloud Computing
As business operations become more complex, the demand for change in IT increases accordingly, complete with associated risks that must be mitigated. Today's IT professionals are being asked to manage more information, and deliver that information to their users, with ever increasing quality of service, in a timely manner. And, in today's economic climate, IT is additionally tasked with reducing budgets and deriving greater value out of their existing investments.
It is all the rage for many small to medium sized businesses these days. No, this is not a discussion of the latest iPhone or application that runs on it, but rather the implementation of cloud computing and what it means to businesses. Presuming that you are familiar with the topic, the question that is being asked is: “what services are more appropriate for the cloud, and what is best to keep in-house?”
Conclusion: There is still more hype in the media about cloud computing than uptake. Advocates promise dramatically improved ease of use, lowered costs driven by economies of scale, and much greater flexibility in sourcing and adapting to change. Nicholas Carr in his latest book2, predicts that cloud computing will put most IT departments out of business.
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Why must you move to the cloud? What levels are there?
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An Oracle White Paper in Enterprise Architecture – download your copy now!
How do you architect your systems? What are the building blocks?
Organizational considerations and how to implement Clouds?
An Oracle White Paper in Enterprise Architecture – download your copy now!
Despite all the hype around it, cloud computing sits somewhere between the 'next big thing' and a craze that will fizzle out before it has much impact. The noise is deafening, but it's running far ahead of actual implementations. However, that hasn't stopped global IT services providers from ramping up their cloud-based offerings and including grand cloud visions in their future strategies.
Cloud computing is a new mode of sourcing and delivering ICT services via the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. It provides exciting new alternatives to on-premises ICT infrastructure and applications for some workloads. OVUM In this webinar, Dr. Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director of Ovum Public Sector, explores the potential of cloud computing for enterprise CIOs and provide guidance on how, and why, enterprises should be paying attention to the cloud.
Choosing a colocation provider is a vital decision that, if not properly made, can leave a company in a potentially long-term, discontented situation. There are five critical areas to evaluate when choosing a colocation provider.
There is a lot of buzz in the media about 'Cloud Computing' and how it will – or is, dependent on your viewpoint – transforming large scale enterprise systems in the private sector.
However to date very little has been written about the Clouds usefulness to government. Before we can address this we really need to understand what Cloud computing is all about, after all we have the Internet isn't that the Cloud?
However to date very little has been written about the Clouds usefulness to government. Before we can address this we really need to understand what Cloud computing is all about, after all we have the Internet isn't that the Cloud?
Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.
A cost-cutting mentality is reigniting interest in one of the most misunderstood tools in the IT arena, the benchmark, creating an extraordinary difference of opinion between those who espouse its benefits, those who are forced to use it and uncompromising doubters. The risk, especially for the vendor, is that benchmarking can substantially influence pricing models associated with a multi-million dollar, multi-year deal.
On May 27th and 28th, Springboard Research held the first annual SaaS Asia and Cloud Computing Conference in Singapore. The 220+ attendees included end-user organizations (including both business and IT decision-makers), channel partners (VARs, ISVs), System Integrators (SIs) and entrepeneurs. This document summarizes the key findings from the event as well as predictions for the SaaS and Cloud Computing markets in Asia Pacific moving forward.
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