Cloud
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Cloud computing provides computation, software applications, data access,data management and storage resources without requiring cloud users to know the location and other details of the computing infrastructure.Article: 10 Expert Predictions that will Impact Cloud in 2012
Cloud issues include security, privacy and governance risks of moving their data and applications 'off-premise', as well as dealing with cloud vendors and even job security. So here are 10 of the top predictions that experts are expecting to see on...
Article: 10 Views on how IT Consumerization Will Take Shape in 2012
IT's consumerization challenge will be to balance end user demands for using personal mobile devices and apps with the enterprise's requirements for manageability, reliability, security and availability. Here are 10 views from experts at Gartner,...
Article: 3 Painful Real World Private Cloud Challenges
Private cloud presents an opportunity to tremendously increase the agility of IT, allowing the IT organization to rapidly and efficiently respond to changing business requirements. However, at the same time, private cloud introduces new management...
Article: 6 Illuminating Private Cloud Infographics
Some called private cloud a fad, expecting private clouds to disappear with companies coming to a realization that building private clouds that can compete with public clouds was challenging. Now enterprise CIOs are investing more than ever in...
Article: 7 Excellent Virtualization Infographics
More and more companies have discovered the advantages that virtualization can bring to their businesses. Check out the selection of virtualization infographics we've compiled, for some surprising facts and insights about virtualization and how it...
Article: 8 Cloud Building Conditions You Need for Taking your Data Center to the Next Level
Implementing cloud-based services involves a complex integration of software and hardware components from various vendors, and can often result in an expensive development. So it is important for all players, from service providers to...
Article: 8 Excellent Cloud Infographics
Despite the enthusiasm for cloud computing, Enterprise IT shops are still concerned about using the cloud. When moving data and applications outside the physical data center, issues like security, privacy, risks to governance are on many of our minds....
Article: Big Data Predictions and Opportunities for 2012 from the Experts
Big Data grabbed headlines in 2011 around the definition of "Big Data" and the emerging tools for Big Data. Now many are expecting 2012 to be the year that Big Data transitions from tech buzz into a real-life implementation for the enterprise, as seen...
Article: Cloud Configuration Management is Critical for Leveraging Cloud Advantages
To realize the benefits of cloud, IT still needs to invest in cloud configuration management and make it a critical part of cloud-based operations.
Article: Cloud-Ops: The Reinvented IT Ops
Cloud has changed the IT Ops game. Developers can bypass IT with cloud access and setup their own cloud-based servers to deploy to. Cloud based infrastructure should not replace IT operations. IT Ops needs to transform and become a more innovative...
Article: CM Crossroads: Analytics-powered IT Operations for Taking on the Cloud
A new approach is clearly needed to handle the complexity and dynamics introduced by today's virtualization and cloud...
Article: IT Analytics Rise Up, Take On Cloud Mantle
Internet Evolution's ThinkerNet editor, Mary Jander, raises the issue of how analytics has led to better business decision-making and applying this approach to the IT landscape to improve the management of the modern datacenter.
Article: IT Data Center Forecast: Cloudy With a Serious Chance of Failure
Moving to a cloud environment, requires that you first invest in a full planning process. Central to this is the process of gathering configuration information, which is huge task, with literally thousands of configuration parameters per...
Article: IT Departments Cite Current Configuration Management as Ineffective for Running the Modern Data Center and Cloud
Nearly 70% of a recently surveyed audience of IT professionals cited that their current configuration management approach is inadequate for meeting the needs of today's ever changing IT operations.
Article: IT Skills Trends and Opportunities from the Experts
Prospective job seekers in IT will need to upgrade their own knowledge-base and skillset. Here we present insights and career advice on which skills to develop and what's looking hot in IT from IT industry experts and editors at InformationWeek,...
Article: Multi-complexity of Multi-cloud Migrations Means More Complexity and Risk
Leveraging the cloud infrastructure of different cloud providers can allow organizations to benefit from various capabilities provided by different providers, and improve reliability and performance. Using a multi-cloud platform approach adds...
Article: No-Ops? New-Ops? Cloud-Ops!
NoOps has certainly created a new wave of heated discussion. Yet the NoOps vision is really easier said than done. Rather than get caught up in the excitement around NoOps, we would say that we are really looking at a state of NewOps, or better...
Article: POWER100 - Top IT Management Analysts
Check out our POWER100, a handpicked list of analysts focused on IT Management. These analysts have a tremendous influence on the IT Management segment and on IT in general.
Article: Private Cloud Initiatives are Gaining Strong Momentum, I&O Management Say
Over 60% of a recently surveyed audience of IT professionals responded that their organization has either launched at least one private cloud project (34%) or is planning to launch a private cloud initiative in 2011.
Article: Rollout and Rollback – a Viable Strategy?
Rollout and rollback doesn't appear to be a viable approach in large environments. With the ability to roll back in the cloud, you can recover rapidly from the deployment issues. However in large environments, we’ve found that the management of...
