Tag Archives: Cloud
VMware’s Recent Moves—and the Implications for Service Providers
VMware has made some substantive moves recently. If you are an MSP, hosting provider, cloud provider or outsourcing organization, you would be well advised to think long and hard about where your business will fit given the company’s … Continue reading
ROI in the cloud? Does it matter? Indeed and here’s why…
What is your customers’ ROI when they move to the cloud? How do you measure it? In the grand scheme of things, does ROI even matter? I posed the latter question to the Cloud Computing, … Continue reading
Adopting a Cloud Mindset, What it Means for ISVs, Service Providers and Enterprises
Much has been written here, and in many blogs, about Cloud Adoption. However, most of this has focused on the tangible and critical pieces like technical architecture and operational considerations. This can’t be minimized … Continue reading
Cloud Bursting? Here’s How to Monitor Your Applications
Today, many organization’s IT teams are considering the use of “cloud bursting”—the process of scaling production Web applications by leveraging added capacity in the cloud when local resources are maxed. When employing cloud bursting, companies typically use IaaS … Continue reading
Networking for the Clouds – new opportunities and challenges
Cloud computing today is beyond myth or hype, facing the architectural and implementation challenges before adoption takes the form of a hockey stick. Last week at CiscoLive, Cisco’s push for intelligent networking was seen at … Continue reading
Report from Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: The Cloud’s the Limit
Even after working with cloud solutions and vendors for some time, the massive scale of the move to this delivery model can still take you by surprise. The recent Ingram Micro Cloud Summit event, held … Continue reading
May Day Parade in Union Square
May 1st, May Day, is a special day for many people across the world. In times gone by, it would have been a day to parade technological power and military might in front of thousands in Red Square, … Continue reading
Three Trends Empowering the IT Revolution
There is an IT Revolution happening and the most unlikely person made it all clear to me. In 2007 I persuaded my wife (a lawyer by trade and not into technology) to switch to the iPhone from what … Continue reading
The Simpler Service Desk Part 4: Why SaaS and Service Management Make Sense
If you look at the history of computing in large organizations over the past 30 or so years, it’s hard to find a paradigm shift that’s been anywhere near as profound, or as fast. In just a few years, the cloud has become a de facto approach for many business and technology services. Continue reading
Moving to the Cloud? Here are Two Key Implications
What’s the difference between managing your infrastructure in the cloud and managing it on site? There are many fundamental implications of moving services from on premise to the cloud, following are two of the biggest: Continue reading
