Cloud Computing
In a period of intense application renewal the traditional suppliers of hardware appliances are being forced to re-evaluate strategies for growth. On the one hand mega technology vendors such as IBM, Oracle, and HP are consolidating solutions across all aspects of information, applications and technology stacks.
The arrival of cloud computing comes none too soon. The model for the modern data center, having served the information technology needs of organisations so well for so many years, is facing challenges.
Despite all the hype around it, cloud computing sits somewhere between the 'next big thing' and a craze that will fizzle out before it has much impact.
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Conclusion: There is still more hype in the media about cloud computing than uptake. Advocates promise dramatically improved ease of use, lowered costs driven by economies of scale, and much greater flexibility in sourcing and adapting to change. Nicholas Carr in his latest book2, predicts that cloud computing will put most IT departments out of business.
A cost-cutting mentality is reigniting interest in one of the most misunderstood tools in the IT arena, the benchmark, creating an extraordinary difference of opinion between those who espouse its benefits, those who are forced to use it and uncompromising doubters. The risk, especially for the vendor, is that benchmarking can substantially influence pricing models associated with a multi-million dollar, multi-year deal.
Cloud computing is a new mode of sourcing and delivering ICT services via the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. It provides exciting new alternatives to on-premises ICT infrastructure and applications for some workloads. OVUM In this webinar, Dr. Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director of Ovum Public Sector, explores the potential of cloud computing for enterprise CIOs and provide guidance on how, and why, enterprises should be paying attention to the cloud.
Choosing a colocation provider is a vital decision that, if not properly made, can leave a company in a potentially long-term, discontented situation. There are five critical areas to evaluate when choosing a colocation provider.
It is all the rage for many small to medium sized businesses these days. No, this is not a discussion of the latest iPhone or application that runs on it, but rather the implementation of cloud computing and what it means to businesses. Taking a leap that assumes that you are familiar with the topic, the question that is being asked is: "what services are more appropriate for the cloud, and what is best to keep in-house?"
Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.
There is a lot of buzz in the media about 'Cloud Computing' and how it will – or is, dependent on your viewpoint – transforming large scale enterprise systems in the private sector.
However to date very little has been written about the Clouds usefulness to government. Before we can address this we really need to understand what Cloud computing is all about, after all we have the Internet isn't that the Cloud?
However to date very little has been written about the Clouds usefulness to government. Before we can address this we really need to understand what Cloud computing is all about, after all we have the Internet isn't that the Cloud?
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is now being talked about everywhere and for many organisations the question has changed from 'whether' to 'how' SOA should be adopted. But does SOA actually mean anything tangible? Global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks believes it does, and has developed a unique approach to understanding SOA.
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