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10 Expectations for IT Spending from Experts

10 IT Spending predictions from experts at Gartner, Forrester, Ovum, Information Week, and more sharing where they see the IT dollars (and Euros) go in 2012. Read more...

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 building private clouds, moving both existing and new solutions to the private cloud to gain efficiencies and improve operations in their data centers. Take a look at these infographics that explain and clarify the cloud computing field and where private cloud is positioned. Read more...

Weekly IT Highlights on Cloud, DevOps, Big Data and More

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, IT Analytics, DevOps and IT Management, and any other topics that found interesting and shared over the week. See these articles worth taking a look at from the past week. Read more...

10 Predictions from Experts on Big Data will Impact Business in 2012

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...

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 put: CloudOps. Read more...

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 the cloud front. Read more...

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. Still many experts are saying this year will be a turning point for cloud. If you're still sitting on the fence or you've already taken the plunge, here are some insightful infographics dramatizing where cloud is going and the impact cloud is having on operations. Read more...

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, ComputerWorld, O’Reilly, CIO, and more. Read more...

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 complexity to IT operations, presenting an integration challenge to overcome. Read more...

Hey, Big Data is Actually 11 Years Old!

Thought Big Data is a brand new concept? Actually the foundations for Big Data were set over 10 years ago by Gartner analyst Doug Laney in an analyst report he wrote. As Big Data catches momentum across the business and technology landscape, how are you staying on top of the variety of sources of data in your organization? Read more...