Apr
13
Weekly IT Highlights on Cloud, DevOps, Big Data and More
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By A Website Design |
As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff we read this week on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, IT Analytics, DevOps and IT Management. Enjoy!
3 Truths About Cloud Software SLAsBy Beth Stackpole |
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| Unlike the rigorous SLAs of traditional enterprise IT services, today's cloud software SLAs don't offer much room for customization and tend to cover only the basics. Read More |
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IaaS making slow headwayBy Christine Burns (Network World) |
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| When it comes to Infrastructure as a Service - renting on-demand compute, storage and network resources that live in a multitenant virtualized public cloud - midsized businesses are jumping in with both feet. The overall usage of public cloud IaaS is certainly on the rise, according to industry analysts. But many large enterprises are moving at a very deliberate pace, one workload at a time. Read More |
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OneOps, TwoOps … Exploring Cloud opsBy James Urquhart |
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| As the nature of IT operations shifts to meet new demands enabled by cloud computing, recent discussions about new operations methods have focused on these changes. The most common terms in these discussions include DevOps and it's controversial sibling, NoOps. Here is a walk through of these key new operations concepts being adopted by the most cloud-savvy organizations. This article tries to help you look past the label and see the incredible value the new models of development and operations bring to businesses and institutions of all sizes. Read More |
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Ecosystems in conflict – Amazon vs. VMware, and OpenStackBy Lydia Leong, Research VP at Gartner |
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| There are two primary ecosystems developing in the world: VMware and Amazon. Other possibilities, like Microsoft and OpenStack, are completely secondary to those two. You can think of VMware as "cloud-out" and Amazon as "cloud-in" approaches. Read More |
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Can Your Cloud Impede Your Agility?By Bernd Harzog (Virtualization Practice) |
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| Cloud services are for the most part extremely attractive because they let the provider (vendor) of the cloud service focus upon what they do best, and let you focus upon what you do best. Two very well known issues with cloud services have to do with the security of your data and the performance management of systems in the case where it is your applications running on the cloud vendor's infrastructure. This article is about the Cloud Services Management Challenge. Read More |
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10 Predictions From Experts On Big Data that Will Impact Business In 2012 |
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| Businesses will be increasingly challenged for how to access, transform, and integrate unstructured data - Big Data - from a variety of sources and convert this data into actionable information for competitive advantage. Here are 10 Big Data predictions from experts at Forrester, Gartner, Ovum, O'Reilly, and more on how the Big Data realm will develop and impact business. Read More |
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Cloud Computing: Bigger and Better -- But Still FlawedBy Robert McGarvey |
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| What's more real, cloud computing or unicorns? Given the hype surrounding the cloud, perhaps unicorns are a less fanciful notion. Read More |
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10 most powerful IaaS companiesBy Christine Burns, Network World |
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| A list assembled with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. Read More |
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Events For IT Pros |
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| As IT trends like Big Data, Cloud, and DevOps take shape, this year's many IT industry events are the focus for the latest developments and insights in these areas. While this list isn't exhaustive, check out the events that will make a difference for the world of IT. Read More |
Your Turn
Did you see something this week worth sharing? We'd like to hear about them.
By A Website Design
