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Change and Configuration: Critical Piece of the Private Cloud Picture

Private cloud infrastructure enables IT to serve the business by allowing new services to be quickly provisioned. Yet in transitioning to a private cloud-computing infrastructure, There are many configuration management challenges introduced, exacerbated by the pace of dynamic change. Read more...

10 Expert Insights on the future of the CIO

As disruptive technologies like virtualization and cloud impact how the data center is run, and the amount of information processed grows exponentially, see views from experts at IDC, Gartner, Forrester, Financial Times, CIO.com and more on how they see the role of the CIO changing and developing. Read more...

6 Terrific Infographics Showing IT and Cloud Related Job Growth

Aside from the typical benefits of cloud computing adoption, businesses are also going to improve how they work. Among the interesting trends in IT is the fact that many jobs related to cloud computing will be created in the next few years. Read more...

Weekly IT Highlights on Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, BYOD and More

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Cloud Computing, Hybrid Cloud, BYOD and IT Consumerization, and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week. Read more...

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 configuration based on the rollout and rollback approach of the entire server images not very effective and problematic. Read more...

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, Forrester, Accenture, Aberdeen, CIO.com and more on how they see IT consumerization shaping up in 2012. Read more...

The First Private Cloud Decision You Got To Make

Very few organizations are running fully operational private cloud platforms today. So to make this leap, one of the first decisions that organizations must consider about private cloud is: what is the scope of private cloud services that should be offered? Read more...

Weekly IT Highlights on Cloud, IT Ops, Virtualization and More

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Cloud Computing, Virtualization, IT Ops and IT Spending, and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week. Read more...

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 challenges to IT operations. Read more...

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 IT, so this reinvented IT Ops will play its crucial role in cloud. Read more...