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The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market is still in its nascent form with a large and diverse set of vendors. This size ensures that there is an IaaS option for all sizes and types of enterprise.

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There is real and growing interest in cloud computing despite the overuse and overhype of the term cloud. One of the fastest growing areas of the cloud is cloud-based development. Enterprises of all sizes are evalutating the potential of...

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There is real and growing interest in cloud computing despite the overuse and overhype of the term cloud. One of the fastest growing areas of the cloud is cloud-based development. Enterprises of all sizes are evalutating the potential of...

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This template will help you build a business plan for the enterprise as well as document business justifications and cautions for developing in the cloud.

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A key advantage of the cloud is that there are no up front capital costs. There is also a significant time savings, as there is no need to acquire, configure, test, and deploy servers. However, be aware that the cumulative TCO will approach (and...

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Enterprises must take care to assess the right fit of any new technology. Platform as a Service is one such technology that has garnered a lot of interest and excitement, but care should be taken not to move too quickly.

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"The Cloud" has become major hype area as cost conscious enterprises explore the potential of renting IT services (infrastructure, applications, development platforms) to save costs over internal provisioning (i.e. buying and maintaining...

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Info-Tech developed these three rules of utility infrastructure investment as a way of establishing what matters to the business in increasingly abstracted infrastructures. Though cloud buzz calls both internal and external utility...

Small enterprises are often able to make higher risk investments in emerging technology for lower costs, and to take advantage of large enterprise capabilities, such as security and flexibility. Cloud computing is one such technology that can...

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Cloud computing offers a compelling opportunity for small businesses to reduce IT costs. Cloud costs are orders of magnitude lower than the per unit costs of internally developed IT resources.

While cloud computing hype can be overblown, actual benefits are out there. Start by understanding the types of cloud service and what they can do for you. This note cuts through the cloud hype so you can start reaping tangible results.

Solution Set

Take virtualization to the next level (internal cloud). Bring the management and resiliency of server virtualization to 80 to 100% of server workloads by building and managing appropriate compute, network, and storage capacity.

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Most enterprises have already seen success in virtualizing the low-hanging fruit in the data center. As the percentage of the data center that is virtualized increases, IT must focus on building an internal cloud that leverages virtualization...

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Lead Analyst John Sloan and Info-Tech client George Neill of Organic Valley Family of Farms talk about the strategic and practical implications of building an internal cloud.

How will cloud computing impact enterprise IT? In answering this question, references to water wheels and modern electric utilities will sometimes come up. This is a useful, though deeply flawed, historical analogy. Don't think hydro turbines....

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Virtualization heavyweights, such as VMware and Citrix, would like their software to be the foundation for both internal and external compute clouds. In vCloud Express, VMware and hosting partners are tackling the fast and inexpensive...

The internal cloud - a term increasingly used by datacenter infrastructure vendors - is only the most recent name for a converged utility infrastructure. Understanding private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake, with hardware layers...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. As the icing on the cake,...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. Blades, and particularly blades...

Convergence in the "internal cloud" (formerly utility infrastructure) means that IT will no longer be able to compartmentalize data center infrastructure or vendor relationships into neat categories like servers, storage, and networks. Before...