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The Real Time Infrastructure Ultimatum

2009-11-06T18:15:00Z

As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with the help of Google, Amazon and a host of other cloud (and not so cloud) players.

Secure Enterprise Clouds

2009-11-07T22:30:00Z

There is so much waste in the data centers of Fortune 1000 companies today that a CIO – as an officer of the company – could be considered in breach of their fiduciary duty to stockholders given the dollars in question. Of course that requires costs transparency, so sadly most are safe for now. It seems that every new technology innovation brings the promise of greater efficiencies and cost savings but in reality tends to leave a mess of ‘legacy’ infrastructure on the floor that results in a net higher TCO than the CIO had in the first place. So what does this have to do with Cloud Computing? While there is no shortage of companies trying to ply their wares as the ideal enabler for Cloud, I am surprised by the lack of attention from vendors that have the most to gain – the Cloud providers themselves. If I put on my CIO shoes here are the things I care about:

The True Costs of Virtual Server Solutions - TechRepublic

2009-11-09T12:08:17Z

The True Costs of Virtual Server Solutions
TechRepublic
Harnessing the Power of ITIL skillsoft Get the most out of ITIL, leveraging this revolutionary IT service delivery model to find the right solutions to true ...

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SOA Security Solutions: Four Patterns to Grow On

2009-11-04T22:25:00Z

How can you combine diverse products into an SOA security solution for today's needs as well as leave a path for tomorrow's demands? Forrester's Randy Heffner shares four broad solution patterns.

Using Virtualisation To Consolidate Existing IT Resources

2009-11-05T18:34:37Z

Server virtualisation is held up by most vendors as a paragon of virtue when it comes to cutting costs and simplifying an organisation's IT resources.

Information Management Platforms: The Next Generation – Cloud Plays a Part

2009-10-29T19:45:00Z

Describing today’s enterprise IT environment as “complex” would be a gross understatement all things considered. The intricate model needed to support day-to-day business operations boggles the mind, with much of the complexity attributed to evolving applications, and the way people use data.

The API Is the New CLI

2009-11-04T11:18:00Z

Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever purpose a developer might dream up. It enables providers and enterprises alike to turn infrastructure functionality into services. Need compression? Caching? Routing? Load balancing? Via service-enabled management APIs these can become services, provisioned and released through the invocation of a service. When expanded to include the sharing of actionable data – performance statistics, status, availability of application services (context!) – this integration becomes the mechanism through which a dynamic infrastructure is created. One that reacts to events and conditions in the network, storage, application network, and application infrastructure in real-time.

How to pick a server virtualization vendor

2009-10-26T23:47:56Z

Buying server virtualisation software is not easy, thanks to vendors' lock-in tactics, not-so "optional" extras and technology shifts. In this story, we help you to understand these factors to make the best choice for your organisation.

Six mistakes that make SOA implementations fail

2009-10-29T23:32:27Z

Learn the six top risk factors that can derail an SOA project.

Server virtualisation: Why CIOs should start small but think big

2009-10-27T15:19:01Z

It might not currently be as widespread as industry hype might have it - but server virtualisation is poised to grow rapidly as smaller businesses catch on to the benefits.

Server virtualisation allows multiple instances of an operating system to run simultaneously within one physical server, cutting the amount of hardware organisations have to buy and manage. And because fewer physical servers are required, virtualisation also helps to cut energy costs: no small thing for CIOs and CFOs after a recent study found that, thanks to rocketing energy prices, it now costs more to power some servers than to buy them in the first place.

Virtualisation: How to get real benefits from your virtual investment

2009-10-19T15:01:01Z

The mighty twin combination of cost-cutting (driven by the recession) and a desire to reduce IT power consumption (to tackle climate change) means virtualisation has become one of the hottest topics for the IT community, with a whole raft of associated terms such as bare metal hypervisors, virtual machines, and utilisation rates becoming standard parts of the vocabulary of the average CIO.

Virtualisation, is essentially about cutting the connection between the operating system and the underlying hardware it operates on.

Cloud computing: Winners and losers - GCN.com

2009-10-27T15:07:25Z

Cloud computing: Winners and losers
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'We will also need auditors who can learn that it's no longer about auditing a server, but a service,” he added. Soderstrom echoed concerns that a key ...

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Records and the Threat of Cloud Computing - Intelligent Enterprise

2009-10-30T13:37:10Z

Records and the Threat of Cloud Computing
Intelligent Enterprise
As readers of CMS Watch ECM research know, retention and disposition are the core principals of records management, and cloud computing brings into question ...

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Inside One Firm's Private Cloud Journey - PC World

2009-10-29T13:04:08Z

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Inside One Firm's Private Cloud Journey
PC World
Time, Cost and Compliance Benefits In early 2008, the company began implementing its private cloud, choosing VMWare for its virtualization solution and ...
Saaspoint Appointed Advisor to Irish Government Agency to Deliver Cloud ...Reuters

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Cloud Computing Benefits and Risks Discussed in New ISACA Guidance - India PRwire (press release)

2009-10-29T13:08:47Z

Cloud Computing Benefits and Risks Discussed in New ISACA Guidance
India PRwire (press release)
A new white paper from ISACA, a nonprofit association of 86000 global information technology professionals, clearly describes how enterprises can achieve ...

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The Curse of Cloud Security

2009-10-27T04:00:00Z

Seventh Annual Global Information Security Survey: Companies are clamoring for services in the cloud. But the biggest problem from a security perspective is that few understand what they're dealing with. (Second of a four-part series)

A Message Type Architecture for SOA - ebizQ

2009-10-23T15:30:38Z

A Message Type Architecture for SOA
ebizQ
SOA and data governance may have very different objectives, but they share the EDM, a set of metadata Dubray defines as "a Logical Data Model, ...

How IT can lead change management

2009-10-15T22:32:54Z

The CIO's role in organizational and IT change management is to ensure service availability and business support. Learn more about IT's role in change management.

Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level of Trust

2009-10-14T22:45:00Z

While the benefits for cloud computing are compelling, the cloud brings an additional level of security risk that must be managed and secured. In his session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Tim Brown, VP and chief architect for Security Management at CA, will address security needs for cloud computing. Security must be addressed for all aspects of the cloud paradigm – Internal, Private, Public and Hybrid cloud envvironments. The cloud must be secured by multiple organizations, and a level of trust established and verified.

Cloud Computing: Separating Hype from Reality

2009-10-16T17:21:00Z

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, according to keynote speaker, Richard Sarwal, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and long term costs of public clouds. Private clouds for the exclusive use of one enterprise can mitigate these concerns by giving the enterprise greater control.