Julian Goldsmith wrote last week on a recent Silicon.com survey of CIOs about whether cloud computing is “part of their IT strategy to cut costs.” The majority of those surveyed said no, they are not looking to cloud computing to cut costs today. This resistance is to be expected and really comes as no surprise. [...]
David Linthicum wrote an interesting piece the other day about “What SOA Can Learn from Cloud Computing and Vice Versa.” He includes some valid points about what companies need to address when building out services for the cloud and how they can learn from SOA.
I agree with the need for what David calls “service expandability,” [...]
The cloud conversation today often centers on how cloud computing can benefit the enterprise. However, it’s really those mid-sized companies and departments within larger companies that have the needs and capabilities to cloud compute.
Mid-sized companies are just trying to survive today’s shaky economic climate and they need the capability to scale with their needs quickly [...]
A few months ago, we had the opportunity to speak with Jeff Kaplan – a leading influencer in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing and managed services and managing director of THINKstrategies Inc. You can read his personal work on the Thinkstrategies blog. This week, I reconnected with him and heard more of his specific [...]
Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems announcement is a sonic boom that recognizes how customers will benefit from simplifying operations from two different operations teams for servers and networking, down to one. This unified solution translates to a lower total cost of ownership. UCS also gives customers a choice of talking to a new vendor. So is [...]
We recently had the chance to talk to Richard Ptak, a systems product management analyst who works closely with Fortune 50 companies at Ptak, Noel & Associates – an analyst firm focused on converging IT trends and how best to leverage them. We had a long discussion about the “mixed bag” cloud computing presents to [...]
In talking to companies that are at various stages of making the leap to the cloud, invariably the biggest concern is trust. They want to know that their transactions and interactions with customers will be secure, in compliance and performing at optimal speeds with zero disruption. These are big issues and they’re not to be [...]
